# Yeah, I have a recommendation: drown your children and shoot yourself. Thanks!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 22, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729 "2007-07-22T05:29:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/41 "2007-07-23T16:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf]
Ooooh. Navy Seals.
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Grumble grumble damn you for making the joke I was gonna make grumble grumble…
Well, for more tales like the OP’s (albeit in a slightly different type of store), exit that way…[door’s to your left](http://www.actsofgord.com/).
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/42 "2007-07-23T16:26:37Z")
Gord’s a bit of a dick.
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/43 "2007-07-23T16:39:46Z")
I remember reading a story one time (Readers Digest?) where a customer stormed into the video store and loudly demanded a refund for _The King and I_ because, “I watched this whole thing, and there’s nothing about Elvis in it anywhere.”
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/44 "2007-07-23T17:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou]
Gord’s a bit of a dick.
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That’s what makes it fun!
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### Author:  [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/45 "2007-07-23T17:13:15Z")
[QUOTE=MeanJoe]
BBE: Some people just get upset that they’re not in english and have subtitles.
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My video store friends told me that several times, they had customers come in with complaints like this:
Customer: I want my money back. Half my movie’s missing.
Clerk: Oh no! Does it stop playing halfway through?
Customer: No
Clerk: Is the sound okay? The video?
Customer: yes, it’s fine
Clerk: So what do you mean, half the movie is missing?
Customer: There are big black bars on the top of the screen and the bottom. It only takes up the middle half of my TV screen. Where’s the other half? I want my money back!
Clerk: oh those are called letterboxes, you’re actually seeing MORE of your movie than you would have without them -
Customer: All I know is that I can’t see what’s on half the screen!
Clerk: it’s a premium feature, you’re actually getting the full picture like in a theatre, because normally when you play a movie on your TV they have to cut the picture down to fit - oh, never mind.
So they gave the money back, and every time someone bought a letterboxed movie in the future, they would go out of their way to explain how it worked to the customet.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/46 "2007-07-23T17:24:58Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
I believe [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/) is what you’re looking for, ma’am.
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I thought it would be [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula_%28film%29)? Aren’t they from roughly around the same time period, give or take? (Set in, I mean, not made)
This thread tells me again that I’m glad I work at the science center, with only three movies\* to reccomend. (At the Omnimax). Occassionally, we’ll get some moron who doesn’t believe we’re NOT showing _300_, _Spiderman 3_ or _Harry Potter_. Why would I lie? Do you think I’m somehow trying to LOSE business?
Or when people get mad and say-“But someone’s friend’s cousin said it was here!!!” Or “I read it in the paper!” :rolleyes: :dubious: (Still they’re fun to laugh at when we hang up.)
Or, the time my coworker got a call from some guy and when he kept asking if we played “movie-movies” and said, “WHAAAA?” Hee hee!
\*Sometimes a few more. But except for once in a blue moon, they’re all documentaries. Really good ones, though. I HIGHLY reccomend _Wired to Win_ and _Deep Sea_. _Roving Mars_ sucks.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/47 "2007-07-23T17:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=MeanJoe]
Similar happened to me two weeks ago at BlockBuster. I picked out Apocalypto, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Letters from Iwo Jima and went to the counter to check-out.
BlockBuster Employee: These are not in english.
MeanJoe: Yes, thank you.
BBE: I just thought you should know, they are all foreign films.
MJ: Yes, thank you. _inner monologue_ Apparently non-English = foreign now? I love BB drones.
BBE: They are subtitled you know.
MJ: Yes, thank you. _hands over my blockbuster card and money_
BBE: Some people just get upset that they’re not in english and have subtitles.
MJ: Yes, but lucky for me, I can read.
Sometimes I can be mean…
MeanJoe
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I worked in a movie theater one summer, and we had people complain all the time about the fact that foreign films and domestic ones with foreign language scenes were subtitled and not dubbed. People would seriously throw fits over the fact that they had to “read” the film. :rolleyes: :eek:
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/48 "2007-07-23T17:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=Annie]
In the mirror universe:
Me: _plops The Sea Inside, Pan’s Labryinth, or some other Yrup flick on the counter_.
Clerk, younger than some shoes I own: “That has subtitles, you know!”
Me: “I sure hope so, I can’t speak Spanish.” Then I get out 😃
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OK, I’ll bite. What’s “Yrup”?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/49 "2007-07-23T17:41:32Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
_Roving Mars_ sucks.
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Huh. I rather liked it. The sequence with the rocket going up was so totally awesome.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/50 "2007-07-23T17:58:00Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim]
OK, I’ll bite. What’s “Yrup”?
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Ah, Europe, of course.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/51 "2007-07-23T18:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
Me: Um… House of Games?
…
Them: Wow, what a great movie!
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Excellent recommendation, and a nice all-purpose answer for this question. Obscure enough that not a lot of people have seen it, not a lot of sex, a little bit of violence, a little bit of cursing, and a great story. Plus it’s a gateway to several other movies if the renters like it. Make a note, y’all. 🙂
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/52 "2007-07-24T04:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
I believe [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/) is what you’re looking for, ma’am.
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And here I was going to recommend [this film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336910/).
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/53 "2007-07-24T15:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
\Make a note, y’all. 🙂
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I just did. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/54 "2007-07-24T15:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=supervenusfreak]
And here I was going to recommend [this film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336910/).
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Is it FABulous?
😃
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/55 "2007-07-24T17:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Excellent recommendation, and a nice all-purpose answer for this question. Obscure enough that not a lot of people have seen it, not a lot of sex, a little bit of violence, a little bit of cursing, and a great story. Plus it’s a gateway to several other movies if the renters like it. Make a note, y’all. 🙂
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This threw me for a minute, before I realized I had _House of Games_ confused with [House of Cards](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107148/). Which sucked.
But _House of Games_ goes in my Netflix queue. Which means I should see it in about a year and a half.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/56 "2007-07-24T17:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Excellent recommendation,
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Actually, I don’t remember what the film was. But if my memory had to throw a dart, it would probably hit that movie.
In fact, it was the one thing that every clerk in the store could heartily endorse. Except Ali. His choice was always Encino Man.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/57 "2007-07-24T17:37:59Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
Huh. I rather liked it. The sequence with the rocket going up was so totally awesome.
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_snicker_
For those who didn’t see it, the shot of the rocket launching is completely, utterly phallic.
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/58 "2007-07-24T17:41:33Z")
_Berlin Alexanderplatz_.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/59 "2007-07-24T17:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
For those who didn’t see it, the shot of the rocket launching is completely, utterly phallic.
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Huh. To me it resembled not so much a penis as it did a rocket.
But you were thinking penis, you say? Interesting… 😉
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-i-have-a-recommendation-drown-your-children-and-shoot-yourself-thanks/412729/60 "2007-07-25T03:13:39Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou]
Is it FABulous?
😃
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LOL. It has all of the elements mentioned before and yes it is FABulous… 😃
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