Congo

Does anyone remember that terrible movie Congo? The entire movie's premise revolved around some dudes and a sign language-talking gorilla that uses a speaking device going into the jungle to look for some type of treasure or some crap. There they encounter ghost-like gorillas and lasers. Lasers. Really?

The premise is too infuriating for me to go on about even if it was written by Micheal Crichton. However, I think the movie is summed by by this picture my buddy Chris sent me yesterday.

The worst part of this whole ordeal is that about a year ago I walked into Blockbuster looking for this movie as I hadn't seen it in about a decade. When I couldn't find it, I meekly asked the guy working at the store if they had the movie. He looked at me as if I were a child and asked, "Congo? You're looking for the movie Congo? . . . Umm, jeeze no one has ever asked for that, let me check." In retrospect, I should have just lowered my head and walked quickly out the door, got in my car, and avoided that place for the better part of three months. Alas, I did not. He told me that they did not have the movie, making me feel even stupider. I probably would have been better off just lying and asking for Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. All in all, I left feeling like he just witnessed me being beaten up by a girl.

Terrible.