According to Sal, it's time for our newest challenge!
Here are the rules this time: reviews have to be about the movie in question (well duh, otherwise they wouldn't be approved), but they should ALSO contain a hidden message of some sort that's not actually related to the film. This can be a lot of fun because it will also give us all the opportunity to try and guess what the hidden message is. So don't give it away when you post your review here!
Here's my contribution to get us started. I'm actually a little disappointed to have to give away the fact that there's a hidden message in it, but since it's never gotten a vote it's possible it was so well hidden that nobody would ever realize there WAS a hidden message if I hadn't said so.
Wow, nearly everyone's getting stumped. I like that! This is the most thought-provoking challenge yet. I propose that at a predetermined date, the authors reveal the hidden messages in the reviews they've submitted here. I was thinking sometime around Nov. 1st, or even much later...but I'll let people offer their opinions about that idea.
I think they'll have to reveal their hidden messages before that or they won't be getting any votes!
I'm not sure of the difference between using a double meaning (my standard aim for all reviewing) and actually concealing something within the review. I'm seeing double meanings, but not much concealment.
For example Bigger Boat's one is a nice play on words but I don't see the hidden meaning because the Spartans in the film aren't losing their hair.
I think there has been a lot of confusion here. When Downtown e-mailed me, I took the concept to be reviews which comment on a matter unrelated to the film (and not necessarily really 'hidden'). Thus they shouldn't be just puns on random phrases. Anyway, this is how I am going to interpret it until Downtown says otherwise.