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These are the IMDB recommendations for you if you enjoyed watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed:

Really?

Jesus Camp? A terrifying documentary about the indoctrination of children into militant right-wing X-tian groups?

Religulous? A satirical Borat-style documentary about the insane hypocrisy of religion?

Planet of the Apes? A world where apes rule, and humans are mute servile pack animals? Wait, what?

There's also a recommendation for the film Paperclips, a film about an innovative way for a middle school to learn about the Holocaust. I haven't seen it, but my guess is that they find out that the Holocaust was a bad, bad thing, and probably unrelated to the Theory of Evolution. My guess is that the Anti-Defamation League would support this film, in stark contrast to its condemnation of Expelled: "Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry."

I think IMDB needs to flip a switch or something.

Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to "Evil''.

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Stuck in a wedding rehearsal. I'm not part of the ceremony proper, so there's nothing for me to do. Reading boring hymn book.

I guess kids don't have enough to keep them stimulated these days. Some kids in Brandon, Manitoba have been caught doing a kind of 'Fight Club', modeled atter the movie. They got found out when teens started coming home with unexplained bruises and other damage to their bodies. One teen suffered a ruptured spleen, and was close to death. Man. Sure, boxing is cool, and UFC is the latest craze. But to start your own fight club?

A Winnipeg woman says her son is lucky to be alive after being seriously injured in a consensual Fight Club-style scrap in Brandon earlier this month.

Rae Saville said she was disgusted to learn her 19-year-old son Keegan Saville was allegedly part of the club called "Brandon Beat Down" -- a group possibly modelled on the 1999 movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt.

Maybe the UFC should show a little more of the behind-the-scenes training, and the recovery portion of the fights. These are trained athletes in top physical condition, getting the craaap beaten out of them. Hell, I gently spar with women in my training class, and I still get black eyes. Here, look:

Yup, that's me after getting my eye punched in. Granted, it's only a blood blister, and I didn't notice it until R asked my why I was wearing eye shadow. (And wow, why didn't anyone tell me my nose was so big?)

I do have to agree with the mother here:

"What happened to getting drunk and chasing girls on a Friday night? When did that not become fun?"

Ma'am, there's nothing wrong with that. It has always been fun.

Brandon teen seriously injured in 'Fight Club' | Manitoba | News | Winnipeg Sun

Oh, I know it's an ad, for crying out loud. And I know it might be difficult for someone from a remote country who's never heard of Canada to answer it. Or someone from the U.S. (ah, I kid).

But I bet I know how some folks from Alberta would like to answer it.

So far, this sounds like the best review I've read for Transformers 2:

Watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is marginally better than shitting your pants, but it takes a lot longer.

Topless Robot - TR Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen