Twitter Contest - Less Ambitious Movies!

The latest Twitter hashtag trend that caught my eye was #LessAmbitiousMovies! According to one of my readers, it originated with/was inspired by this Sporcle Exercise called "Lesser Movies." Awesome!

Not surprisingly, there were some real gems in there!

[ UHF's - Conan The Librarian ]

Some of my favorites...

- Conan The Librarian

- Raiders of the Ark That's Right Over There

- The Day Before Yesterday

- True Grits

- Attack of the 5 Foot Woman

- There's Nothing About Mary

- No County For Old Men

- Lawrence of Armenia

- Scott Pilgrim vs. A Couple of Guys

- None Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

- Slumdog Thousandaire

- The Two Commandments

- Alice in Cleveland

- Conception

- Dial M For Moviefone

- Planet of the Crepes

- Glad Max

- The B Team

- Patton (Oswalt)

- Cry Hard

- Partial Recall

- The Dark Night

- The Empire Turns The Other Cheek

- Schindler's To Do List

- Ace Ventura: Pet Owner

- The 4 Year Old Virgin

- Apocalypse Soon

- The Last Bartender

- Charisma Carpenter's: The Thingy

- Harold and Kumar Go To Burger King

- Forgetting Sarah Palin

- Tween Wolf

- Demonstration Man

- 20,000 Inches Under The Sea

- There May Be Blood

And, *drumroll*, my personal favorite...

- Dude, There's My Car!

Bonus:

- It's Not Deliverance, It's DiGiorno!

So head over to Twitter and check out the hashtag #LessAmbitiousMovies! Oh, and you can follow me on Twitter as well at http://www.twitter.com/kennhoekstra!

Update: Another "Best Of Less Ambitious Movies" List I found, plus Huffington Post's List of Favorites!

NEW Twitter Contest - Major League Baseball Themed Novels!

Along the same line as the previously posted NBA Themed Novels (hashtag #NBANovels), another (follow up) trending topic on Twitter recently was Major League Baseball themed novels! (hashtag #MLBNovels).

Once again, there were thousands of them submitted by Twitter users from all over the world!

Here are some of the best ones I saw...

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FrankenSteinbrenner

War Of The World Series

Uncle Tommy John's Cabin

The Yount of Monte Cristo**

Broke Bat Mountain

The Joy of Sexson

The Lidges of Madison County

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Pence

Green Eggs And Hamilton

Catcher Gets An RBI

Uncle Tom's Glavine

Oliva Twist

The Grapes Of Werth

The Old Man And The Selig

Braves New World

The Day The Werth Stood Still

The Joy Kruk Club

For Whom The Beltran Tolls

The Reds Badge of Courage

Hart of Darkness*

A Tale of Twin Cities

The Tell-Tale Hart

Animal Farm Team

The Invisible Manny

The Island Of Dr. Morneau

How Stella Got Hargrove Back

The Scarlet Fetters

Mein Kemp

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* Submittted By Me
** My Personal Favorite
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Fun stuff!

If you're on Twitter, come follow me at http://www.twitter.com/kennhoekstra and/or http://www.twitter.com/FilmReviewIn140

The Other "Memorial Day" (By Vince Flynn)

A friend of mine turned me on to political thriller author Vince Flynn, a novelist who is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller list. I've been working my way through his catalog over the last year or so and I have to say, so far it's been a lot more hit than miss.

In a bit of cosmic irony, I finished his novel "Memorial Day" on Memorial Day. It wasn't planned. I had no intention of doing it. But the honest truth is, I couldn't put it down. I had been reading a chapter or two a morning before work, but I blew through the last 100 pages or so on Memorial Day because I just HAD to finish it. It was that good.

If you're looking for a new author to check out, give Vince Flynn a try. His first novel, "Term Limits," is VERY good. His 2nd novel, "Transfer of Power," introduces Flynn's staple character Mitch Rapp (the cornerstone of all the subsequent books). If you like those two books, you'll enjoy all of Flynn's stuff...and his catalog will keep you buys for a while.

On a different note, if you're a fan of MY writing (lol), SixWordStories.net was kind enough to pick up one of my other entries:

- http://www.sixwordstories.net/2010/05/i'm-schizophrenic-and-so-am-i/

Thanks for stopping by.