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Somewhat offtopic but ... are any of the Twilight films jabootu worthy? Any chance they will find a place on the site?

Quote from Chad R. on March 8, 2012, 08:47
Ha! You fell for the old Decoy-Bad-Movie-Lineup-In-The-Suspiciously-Convenient-Location trick! You should have known Sandy would never leave such an important document out in the open next to a plate of cookies and a sign that says "Definitely the real lineup and not a decoy."

CURSES. I fell for it.

In all fairness, I have this to say in defense of what might be seen as a rookie mistake. I know Sandy to be a crafty devil. Putting the real lineup out in the open with a sign saying it was the real lineup is exactly the sort of trick I would expect him to pull. My thought process went like this.

1. It's a secret lineup that says it's real. So it's fake.
2. Except it would be obvious that I would assume it was a fake, so what better place for him to hide the real thing? Therefore it's real.
3. But Sandy would know I'd make that deductive leap, and swipe the lineup thinking it was real. So it's fake. It has to be.
4. Still, look at the lineup. All Asylum films. I would think no one would ever program a T(ween)-Fest with all Asylum films. But he'd expect me to think that. So because the lineup looks so fake, counterintuitively, it has to be real.
5. However, Sandy would know I would sneak a look at the lineup just in case it happened to be real. And then come Fest time, I'd know I had found the real McCoy, and be able to predict what was coming. So it has to be fake.
6. But there wouldn't have been so much laser security around a fake lineup. Or WOULD THERE? Nuts! I can't decide how many layers of trickery to expect!
7. Let me taste those cookies.
8. O-ho, you sneaky monkey. Those cookies smell like iocaine powder. You were expecting me to eat one and die, weren't you? So the lineup's real. Pity I've built up an immunity.
9. But wouldn't Sandy know I'd built up an immunity to iocaine powder? The man does his homework, I know that much. So it has to be fake.
10. Ah, but he would ASSUME that I would assume that he knew about my resistance to iocaine powder, and so immediately discount the lineup as fake once I caught a whiff of that unmistakable non-odor. REAL LINEUP!
11. GRAB!
12. FLEE THE DOGS AND THE TRIGGERED BOULDER!

I fail to see where my logic went awry.

Unless maybe it was that he anticipated ALL OF THAT.

Aw, crap.

I own Shredder Orpheus. It's not as bad as Harrad, but Lord it isn't good. Very 1980's post-apocalyptic nonsense.

Here's the real line-up:

Big Man Japan - Extended Director's Cut with commentary (part 1)

Lunch

Big Man Japan - Extended Director's Cut with commentary (part 2)

Dinner

Big Man Japan - Extended Director's Cut with commentary (part 3)