Matt Singer
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A spectacular thing I witnessed tonight: A woman commemorating her divorce by singing Blondie’s “The Tide Is High” at karaoke. A transcendent moment.
Yes, in my mind Bad Boys For Life as movie #3 was an egregious mistake, far greater than Beyond Thunderdome. That's one of the all-time title bungles.
Yes. But I guess it’s a very dramatic grandiose title and it does make you go whoa what the hell is a Thunderdome and how does one go way beyond it??
This movie? This ain’t your dad’s Thunderdome, oh no, this movie goes way BEYOND Thunderdome.
I created a Letterboxd list of every movie tie-in menu I have eaten, with links to all of the original articles. It works as a nice archive of all this work, and also as evidence for the eventual court inquest into my death from a sodium overdose.
Film list: Every Movie With a Restaurant Tie-In Menu That I Ate
For almost ten years, whenever a restaurant offers a promotional tie-in menu connected to a movie, I go and eat the whole thing and live-blog the experience on ScreenCrush.com. I am using this list…
letterboxd.comWell this is why I am a film critic who hates French toast, not a food critic.
I have great friends.
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.comFrench toast is what you do to old bread to make it edible for one more day.
I can understand arguing over pancakes and waffles which are essentially the same things but cooked different. French toast is a whole other animal and incredible!
The worst. The totality of all the work we did at IFC is just gone.
That was more the vibe after I ate the IHOP Grinch menu a few years ago.
I said what I said. French toast is not good! Just eat a pancake!
This was a great read, but I will not abide by french toast slander.
OH GOD I HAVE BEEN DOING THESE FOR ALMOST TEN YEARS
Next year, on the 10th anniversary of the first one of these adventures, can you rank all the menus? Maybe two rankings, one for how well it fits with the film and one by how glad you are to never eat it again. Or maybe just your just overall positive/negative of the experience.
Just imagine what the actual fake fruit is doing to my colon.
FINAL UPDATE: The star of the show. Blue’s Dazzleberry Pancakes.
Gotta say: What I was served for this one genuinely surprised me.
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.comI asked for ipecac.
My biggest question is, can “served with choice of side” include a loaded revolver?
UPDATE #4 - The Coney Island Pizza Omelette.
THE CONEY ISLAND PIZZA OMELETTE.
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.comUPDATE #3 - Blossom’s Orangesicle and Unbeieva-Blue Soda Pop. (Also, quick question: Why are my teeth vibrating?)
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.comThey can never make a movie of my life because it would just be this show.
UPDATE #2: The Magnificent French Toast Sandwich. (And a rant about French toast.) screencrush.com/ihop-if-menu/
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.comPls give me the phone number of this therapist, thank u
Therapist: what brings you here today
You: well I’ve eaten about a dozen movie tie in menus
Therapist: [picks up phone] cancel my next three appointments
Very fair. At this point, I probably should take a good hard look at myself in this context.
Given how many times you’ve done this I think your statement that you have “no evident death wish” is questionable. Like I’m pretty sure you’ve eaten more of these tie-in menus than there are Death Wish movies.
Not all heroes wear capes. They wear crumbs of French toast sandwiches.
Save that for Arby’s Furiosa menu, which I'm sure is coming soon.
UPDATE #1 - Lewis' Cinna-a-Bear Stack.
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.com
What IF ... I ate everything on IHOP’s IF menu, which includes blue pancakes, a sandwich made with French toast, a pizza omelette, and a soda with a bomb pop shoved in it?
Let’s find out. Follow along here:
I Am Eating Everything on IHOP’s ‘IF’ Menu
Inspired by the new kids movie, IHOP has new items including blue pancakes and a French toast sandwich. We ate all of it.
screencrush.com
I saw Aggro Dr1ft last night, and I thought it was very kind of Harmony Korine to make a movie that the Predator could actually watch.
The last time I did this, I had to drink this. What will I be forced to consume this time?!?
I will say... I have already had several conversations with colleagues trying to puzzle out the mechanics of the premise and plot of this movie that were far more entertaining than the experience of actually watching it. So there is that!
IF is the sort of failure only a truly successful director can make. We never get this kind of movie anymore!
‘IF’ Review: John Krasinski’s Extremely Iffy Kids Movie
The popular actor and director has a huge misfire on his hands with this excessively whimsical comic fable.
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