In 2009, James Cameron released a little Sci-Fi film called Avatar. Its first day, it generated $73 million domestic. Its first week, it sold $232 million worldwide. It went on to become the number one grossing film of all time.
The number two grossing film of all time, Titanic, also belongs to Cameron. The chick flick that could have alternatively been called Romeo and Juliet on a Boat did $28 million opening weekend and an impressive $53 or so million its first week.
Considered to be the greatest of all the years in all the decades of the world by myself and countless other people that were born that year with me, 1982 was chock full of amazingness. In 1982, Olivia Newton John shrugged off her Grease-y good girl role and created one of the greatest music videos ever with her Number 1 Hit, Let’s Get Physical. It was in 1982 that Joe “I Don’t Like The Heart Warming Story of Rudy” Montana led his San Francisco 49′ers to Super Bowl Victory against the Cincinnati Bengals. In 1982, America’s greatest actor – again, according to the most credible of all sources, myself – Harrison Ford, led a small, violent rebellion against a hidden army of insidious replicants in Blade Runner.
But my friends, none of the above events listed above would hold a candle to what would quickly become the greatest fast food invention mankind would ever know. For you see, it was in 1982 (some argue 1981, but screw 1981. I wasn’t alive, so it doesn’t count.) that the McRib sandwich was first introduced into McDonald’s lineup. After several successful years, the McRib was heart-breakingly taken out of the official lineup for such shadowy, unintelligible reasons as: “poor sales,” “horrendous nutritional content,” and that “the McRib didn’t even consist of any actual ribs.” The legendary sandwich made re-emerged from oblivion last in 1994 for a very limited time. Many thought that would be the last any self-respecting person of larger carriage would see the national treasure… until now.
The image above is a screen shot of the Sears Online Department site. And no, it’s not a joke, and it’s not a humorous site hack.
Not since Dawn of the Dead (or the excellent, original Dead Rising) have zombies invaded a retail mall store in designer flannel and costume jewelery. But unlike your standard zombie apocalypse, this time, the zombies were officially invited in for a nice wholesome photo shoot.
25 years ago yesterday one of science fiction’s greatest trilogy’s was born in a darkened JC Penny’s parking lot in Twin Pines, California. Back to the Future was an absolute gem of a film that we still consider to be way ahead of its time (finding it impossible to avoid time-based puns here… this IS an anniversary article, after all…).
Hit the link for some pretty humorous Back to the Future trivia and a good old fashioned, extremely rare blooper reel. Trust me, the blooper reel is worth the trip.
That’s the trailer for the newest(?) edition in what I would have previously imagined as a solid trilogy of Scream movies for director Wes Craven. But then, there’s this, and now, trilogy not so much… unless he’s planning on pulling a Lucas and making this latest Scream movie the start of a prequel trilogy…
Big gaming site reviews EA's latest, EA's stocks take a direct hit
There are a lot of people out there that would be argue that the world has moved past being swayed by reviews for products and films. That because there are just so many opinions/blogs/twitters/facebooks/everything out there, any one review can get lost in the white noise. I’m typically one of them.
But then IGN.com’s staff review man Arthur Gies went and gave the newest EA military shooter game a 6.0 and commented: “Medal of Honor is one of the biggest disappointments of 2010.”
Less than 24 hours after that review, EA’s stock fell 6%.
Oh, and by the way, Medal of Honor was scheduled to be, hands down, one of EA’s biggest sellers heading into the holiday season.
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1982, Ladies and Gentlemen.
