Movie Munchies

Overview

Beginnings

Movie Munchies are a series of reviews by Mario Gamer. They were started on May 1, 2005 with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since then, over 80 movies have been reviewed. One comes out generally every week. The term "Munchies" was just the first word that Mario Gamer thought of that started with M. They started out with just a few sentences but lately, have grown to several paragraphs.

Layout

The current and standard layout is the poster, the review, the score, then a quote from the movie.

Departure

During the 2006 Movie Munchie Awards, Mario Gamer announced that 2007 would be his third and final year for Munchies. His main reason was for depleting interest, rising costs and constant bickering from other members. He also promised to review a couple of films here and there for notable films in 2008.

Occurrences

Overrated Controversy

In late 2005 people started complaining on how high each score was and only one earning lower then a 6/10. In 2006 Mario Gamer introduced a tougher system to cut down on higher grades.

Wario Tamer Incident

On Decmeber 9, 2005 a member by the name of Wario Tamer bumped each movie topic and added his own "munchies". They were made to reverse what Mario Gamer had reviewed earlier. As you can tell Wario Tamer is a obvious take off of Mario Gamer. This member was later found out to be Mugenmidget during the Phishfest Fiasco.

Imitations

The only noteable Movie Munchies imitation at this time is a review system introduced in the PPP by Kaepora in summer 2005 named "Kaepora's Kinema Krunchies" (KKK). It was a sarcastic representation of Mario Gamer's review system, which although looked the same, was completey negative and vitriolic even when reviewing quality movies. This was seemingly a response to how positive Mario Gamer was with his reviews. The system Kaepora had introduced had long vanished from the PPP until June 2006, when 'Superman Returns' was released in theaters. Kaepora gave the movie a blazing '1/10', solely because Mr. Mxyzptlk did not appear as the main villain.

Lemmy has also tried doing actual reviews, but so far has only done one, that of the 2006 film "Employee of the Month."

Coded Movie Munchie

For The Da Vinci Code's movie munchie Mario Gamer decided to do something a little different then normal. The review was written in a 'code'. It was later solved by Duckboy