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Let’s reverse this up - AND my 2008 summer movie ratings

Posted by The *Angriest* Pharmacist as --Not Pharmacy--, Stupid People, Work Sucks

Hey all. I have a question. How many times have you heard the following?

“I can’t take the generic. It just doesn’t work for me. Switch it back to the name brand…”
or
“The generic gives me a headache. I have to have all brand name meds…”

I’d bet we’ve all heard these on a weekly basis, if not many times a day.

I got to thinking today. How many times have you heard, “Don’t give me that brand name one, it doesn’t work!” — Sure, we’ve heard cost-cutters tell us to not dispense the brand if a generic is available because the brand is much more expensive, but I’ve never heard someone say anything about a brand name “not working” while a generic “works great” or the brand name “gives me a headache.”

I was just thinking….maybe I’m the one that’s crazy…

My summer movie ratings are on the next page…

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My 2008/Summer Movie Ratings so Far:

Knocked Up
Expected: B+ Delivered: A

Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End
Expected: A- Delivered: B

Oceans Thirteen
Expected: B+ Delivered: A-/A

Spiderman 3
Expected: A- Delivered: C+

300
Expected: A+ Delivered: A+

Bridge to Terabithia
Expected: A- Delivered: D-

Shrek 3
Expected: A+ Delivered: A-

Ratatouille (I never miss a Pixar flick) - EDITED AS OF 6/29/07
Expected: A+ Delivered: A+ (Greatness…)

1408 - Added 7/15/07
Expected: B Delivered: B-

Evan Almighty (Time says it is an unfunny flop)
Expected: C

Transformers (Best trailer I have ever seen) - EDITED AS OF 7/4/07
Expected: A- Delivered: A++
NOTE: I have never enjoyed a movie in the theatre as much as
I did this one. I rank it above LOTR (all 3), Spiderman (all 3), and
just about any other movie I have seen up to this point. OMG it
was so good. INSANE! I’m going again…I loved it…I give it a TEN!
A TEN! A FUCKING TEN! (I saw this again on 7/15/07 — it ROCKED again!)

The Simpsons Movie (been waiting for 10+ years)
Expected: A-

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I love these!)
Expected: A+ Delivered: A+ (Added 7/15/07)

Fantastic Four: The Silver Surfer (I may skip this one)
Expected: B-

If you want to discuss these,or wonder why I rated a movie the way I did, make a comment. I’ll most definitely reply.

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nikki says June 28th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

i absolutely adored knocked up. without a doubt the funniest movie of the year.

i am counting down the days til harry potter though

admin says June 28th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

It was great. I could have done without the “miracle of birth” scene…:-)

rxgirl says July 5th, 2007 at 12:34 am

In response to your brand/generic rant. I used to think the same thing about people and never complaining about brand name but always the generic. After thinking about it for a while if they were on the brand medication and it caused -insert problem here- they would be switched to a different medication before a generic came out. However, yes, patient’s who whine about generics annoy me.

FDPharmD says July 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

OMG, Transformers was AWESOME, one of the best action movies I have ever seen. I agree A

The *Angriest* Pharmacist » Many Articles of Business…Movies, Lecithin, Published(?), and my Vacation Recap says July 16th, 2007 at 1:48 am

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geena says September 11th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

I take a medication that recently became available as a generic. I happily switched to the generic (it’s a cheaper copay!). Within a few days, I had hives. I often felt a weird crawly feeling on my skin, like there were bugs on me. The hives came and went sporadically over the next few months as I tried and tried to figure out what was causing them.

I finally put 2 and 2 together and stopped taking the generic. No more hives. No more crawly feeling.

Now I get to worry about what my fuqing pharmacist thinks of me when I say I want the brand name? Screw that! The generic pill is at least TWICE as big as the name brand pill. Are you going to tell me that all that extra filler is totally benign? Obviously it isn’t.

I didn’t even suspect the generic for MONTHS. I would MUCH rather pay the lower copay instead of paying more than twice the amount.

Maybe some people are making that crap up, but some of us aren’t.

TheAngriestPharmacist says September 12th, 2007 at 1:25 am

No pharmacist would ever argue that. The ingredients that bind the tablet together are called excipients. The excipients can (and usually are) different from brand to generic. Some are very allergic to these and can take one brand and cannot take another (in terms of the generics that have multiple manufacturers).

If you explained that to him rather than just saying, “I want the brand name” he might not give you that stink eye. Unless you did, he thinks you are just being shallow and not believing/trusting him.

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