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Get To Know An
Internet Commenter.

BY KEVIN COLLIER

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Kevin Collier searches the Internet for people who comment a lot, then copies and pastes a fair representation of their output. These are all real comments, and to the best of his knowledge they are typed in earnest.

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SIFI GUY.

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Name: SIFI GUY
Site: rottentomatoes.com
Hometown: Greenville
Movie Character He Most Identifies With: Alien
Favorite Line From a Movie: "Shut-up."
Favorite Director: James Cameron
Celebrity Crush: "Your mom."
Favorite Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Favorite Critic: "Your mom."
Best Movie Seat: Front
Favorite Movie Watching Snack: Swedish Fish, Reese's Pieces
Favorite Movie Watching Drink: Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew
Motto: "When I'm not watching movies, I'm... dead."

Review of The Fourth Kind:
"HalF TruE = Half Fake but AWESOME."

Review of She's Out of My League:
"Gay."

Review of Michael Jackson's This Is It:
"This is it is what You say after its over because it suck."

Review of 8 Mile: "You can't stop him or crop him/He's in widescreen and large/He ain't playing when he's baggin' :P."

Review of 2046:
"'Did you get it?' Guy 1 asked Guy 2 in the men's room after seeing 2046. 'Yeah...,' said Guy 2. 'I think so. ... Maybe.' :P"

Review of Greenberg:
"American 21st century post traumatic stress and economic desolation gets filtered through the mid-life crisis of Ben Stiller's troubled character Roger Greenberg in Noah Baumbach's edgy romantic comedy that puts a premium on how we treat one another. :P"

[Note: This review is similar to Cole Smithey's review: http://www.colesmithey.com/reviews/2010/03/greenberg-.html.]

Review of Armageddon:
"Not awful."

Review of Where the Wild Things Are:
Nothing at all what you would expect from the commercial but it has a few laughs and excitments but emotionaly sad that it made my sister cry for the first time since she was 5 and shes 18 now."

Review of Land of the Lost:
"Fun and Funny and Entertaining but Slows the excitment lower and lower through out the movie."

Review of Step Brothers:
"Awsome."

Review of Coraline:
"Weird."

Review of Independence Day:
"Yay space squids."

Review of Alien:
"wqer3rwrerewqrqw."

Review of Aliens:
"A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++."

Review of Happy Feet:
"Big foot."

Review of Zombieland:
"Arg."

Review of Alice in Wonderland:
"Retarded."

Review of Up:
"UP yours."

Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:
"Gay."

Review of District 9:
"Not the best movie of 09 but worth wathing."

Review of Avatar:
"The greatest movie i have seen its a little lon but really worth the wait (and i would consider 3-d it makes the experience greater)."

 

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