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Face 
"four words never backwards"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:21:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Okay, people...is there ever a worse, more heart-wrenching feeling than this...?

You've thought of the most amusing, cleverest, punniest review ever, and are virtually cumming in your pants/panties as you type it into that little box - i mean, you really are, sadly, almost reaching a crescendo of orgasm - when...oh my God!...you discover that some other similarly cerebral motherfucker has submitted...what?...exactly the same fucking thing! aaaaaargh! And also has achieved the bestest most toptastic number one mostest popular review for that flim...aaaaargh, I hate you...you clever bastard!

This recently happened to me with 'Blief Encounter' for Lost in Translation. I really did think I could be the only person who could ever have thought of such a witty, succinct review...

To recognise that you are just one of many wordy losers is SOOOOO.... depressing...

Can anyone please share similar experiences before I do the Russian Roulette scene from Deerhunter...alone...

RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:25:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Happens to me regularly. I just vote for the review. What else can you do?
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Montgomery 
"F**k!"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:27:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Can't remember specifics, because I've been through the therapy and it's working, but that has happened to me a couple of times, too.

So sympathy and empathy.

EM :)
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Warzonkey 
"Seriously Lo-Res"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:29:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know exactly what you mean...

I'm not claiming these are classics but was aghast to find "Battlefield Mirth" (M.A.S.H.) and "The dirty baker's dozen" (Ocean's 13) already taken verbatim (by EvilAndy and foxboy respectively).

Being fairly new to this site I tend to find that a lot of my ideas - especially for older and famous films - have already been used in one form or another.

Oh well. I think it makes it all the more satisfying when I do come up with something different.

PS: And like R o � k G o 1 f I always vote for one who got there first.

Edited by - Warzonkey on 06/15/2006 20:08:14
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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:54:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes...

I thought of 'Kate and Leo Cold' (Titanic) and 'Dead man Walken' (sleepy hollow) only to find they'd already gone.

I also thought of 'Michael J. Crocs' (crocodile dundee) which got accepted by the MERPS, perhaps not realizing it was already in.

Luckily nobody else had thought of 'Schwammeries' (breast men) ... so some stories have a happy ending.

Boydegg

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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  19:55:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

p.s. - I've never had an orgasm as a result of FWFR, but let me be the first to congratulate you on this extra enjoyment you get from the site.
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Tori 
"I don't get it...."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  20:05:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've had that happen many times. But without orgasms.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  20:29:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Lemmy's review of LOST IN TRANSLATION using BRIEF ENCOUNTER is one of the best on site IMHO. It inspired me to write a review the other way round... It's a remarkable coincidence that this should be possible.

And thinking of great reviews which have already been written by someone else happens a lot. I remember how pleased I was when I thought up "Custardy Battle" for Bugsy Malone, only to find it already there . As Rockgolf said, all you can do is vote for it.
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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  20:33:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tori

I've had that happen many times. But without orgasms.


Kind of added a whole new level to your "I don't get it" motto, Tori.
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  20:47:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tori

I've had that happen many times. But without orgasms.



Have we complimented your tan today?


Edited by - Sludge on 06/15/2006 20:53:21
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  20:50:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Face


Can anyone please share similar experiences before I do the Russian Roulette scene from Deerhunter...alone...



Walken and DeNiro Click is taken.

But, yes, this happens to me very often. I usually spot it right after hitting the little submit button, and then I must sheepishly delete it from my cue. Of course, as mentioned by Rockgolf, who has far more votes with Dead man Walken, it's the law that you then have to make sure you voted for the one you thought you'd just invented.


Edited by - Sludge on 06/15/2006 20:52:40
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Conan The Westy 
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  21:13:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
In situations like these two quotes pop into my mind.

"Great minds think alike" helps a bit.
"Fools seldom differ" is cruel and provocative.

Go with the first.
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  21:16:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I usually end up giving noncentz a lot of votes on these very issues - I don't think up but a fraction of what he writes but it always makes me feel good that I thikn a little like noncentz if only a month or two behind his genius.
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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  21:32:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It happens so often now that I'm usually surprised that a clever review I thought of hasn't been taken.

Two I remember:
"I'll Be Black" For Soul Man
"World According to Carp" for Big Fish.

To make matters worse, they are both in the top 100! If only I discovered this website a few years ago...

And I always give a vote to the person who had my idea.



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The General 
"Forty? What? Me? How?."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  21:37:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This has happened to me multiple times, most painfully when I had a great pun, it was approved, and then rejected when someone else had submitted the same pun 3 DAYS earlier.

I comfort myself by assuming that this kind of experience gets me FWFR karma which will pay me back with some later flash of genius.
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Tori 
"I don't get it...."

Posted - 06/15/2006 :  21:41:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f

quote:
Originally posted by Tori

I've had that happen many times. But without orgasms.


Kind of added a whole new level to your "I don't get it" motto, Tori.



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