Respect Authority

Later today, a dozen complete losers will descend on Times Square to participate in the Netflix-sponsored Movie Watching World Championship, wherein they will be forced to watch 60 films in a row, many of which have been chosen for their sheer tedium.

Trapped in a Truman Show-esque Plexiglass theater, the participants are hoping to break the current Guinness record of endurance movie watching, which currently stands at a whopping 120 hours and 23 minutes – or approximately five days.

Among the contestants are, I expect, a bunch of people with truly dismal social lives, including New Yorker Crazy Legs Conti, who in addition to having one of the most ridiculous names in human history, also participated in Coney Island’s hot dog eating contest earlier this year. Lucky for Crazy Legs, training for the two separate events was probably easy to do simultaneously. Read More ›