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5 Movies You Think are Adorable but are Really Creepy & Disturbing

  • March 28, 2011 12:01 am

The title says it all. Here are five films that everyone considers to be fun and “innocent,” but if you really examine them closely, you’ll see that they’re really fucked up.

1) BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) 

It’s a credit to director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale that they were able to make such an endearing family film where the main subject is incest. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time and meets the younger version of his own mother who falls in love with him instead of his dad (although as I’ve previously blogged, if your mom looked like Lea Thompson, well…I’m just saying). That should be creepy enough but here’s where it gets even more disturbing: when he returns to the present, shouldn’t his mom recognize him as the same guy she tried to do the nasty with back in high school? And wouldn’t that make the home situation—oh, I don’t know—really, really uncomfortable. Imagine this scenario: Mom is doing the laundry and picks up one of Marty’s Calvin Klein briefs just as Marty walks in. He sees her holding his underwear. He notices. They make eye contact. Awk-ward!

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What I Learned on YOMYOMF This Week – January 30 – February 5, 2011

  • February 5, 2011 8:55 am

So random going-on in the house of Jerome (well, technically, it’s my parents’ house but, you know, “house of Jerome’s parents” doesn’t really have the same ring and now – great! – this parenthetical has gone on too long):

I’ve been eating these protein bars for a while now before or after my workouts and they are pretty baller, even taste-wise:

The only person in the house that ever ate them was yours truly and they come in packs of 9 Peanut Butter bars and 9 Chocolate bars.  Both are rather delicious, especially considering that they aren’t just candy, but Peanut Butter – if you’re into that kind of thing – stands head and shoulders above the Chocolate variety.

My solution for finishing each pack was to switch flavors each day, so that I wouldn’t just have 9 Peanut Butter bars in a row and leave myself with 9 Chocolate bars for my mouth to trudge through.  Elegant, yes?

This week, however, there was a particularly long lull between meals for my family and they had a taste of these protein bars.  Now they have a taste for these protein bars.

But they only like the Peanut Butter ones so then after a long workout, I get stuck with the Chocolate ones!  Bummer, right?

What a hard life.

As we march into Hallmark’s favorite month, YOMYOMF verbs the adjective nouns like Suggestive Topic 1, Snarky Topic 2, and Outrageously Normal Topic 3.

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The Untold Story of the ‘Brat Pack’

  • March 4, 2010 9:09 pm

“When you grow up, your heart dies.” — from The Breakfast Club                                    

Just finished Susannah Gora’s new book You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact On A Generation. As the title implies, the book looks back on the 1980s and the particular brand of teen movies of the era pioneered by the late writer/director John Hughes (Gora focuses on the seven seminal works in this genre: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind Of Wonderful and Say Anything).

Many of us here at YOMYOMF grew up in the 1980s and these films were an important part of our youth despite their flaws (i.e. the glaring lack of diversity in them except for one infamous exception—see below). So let’s take a trip to the past with these little-known facts from Gora’s book:  Read more...

What If Marty and His Mom Had Sex in ‘Back to the Future’?

  • February 11, 2010 12:54 am

There may not be another film that we here at YOMYOMF have written about more than Back to the Future (for examples see here, here and here) as well as the film’s stars Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson. But what if Marty McFly had been unable to thwart his mother’s sexual advances? The good folks at College Humor show you what might have happened:

1,001 Reasons I Love Movies: (#8) Cheesy ‘80s Comfort Food Flicks

  • January 2, 2010 5:49 pm

My fellow Offender Alfredo recently wrote about how Jaws is one of his favorite “comfort food” flicks—those movies you can watch over and over and never get tired of. Many of my comfort food flicks come from the 1980s—the decade when I was an impressionable, young kid discovering movies for the first time. I think many of my choices—the Indiana Jones trilogy, John Hughes high school films and Ghostbusters—still hold up. So instead I’m going to write about some of my true comfort food flicks—these are the films that if I saw for the first time today, I’d probably think were god-awful (with one exception below) but because I discovered them at just the right time in my life, I’ll always love them. In no particular order:

HOWARD THE DUCK (1986)

Along with Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate, this George Lucas-produced big-screen adaptation of the classic Marvel Comics character became synonymous with the word “bomb” in the ‘80s. I’ll admit the film has its share of problems including a main character who looks exactly like what he was—a short dude in a duck costume—but there’s one reason I saw this movie at least half a dozen times when it came out…Lea Thompson:

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