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More Movie Insults
Last year I posted a video of the greatest movie insults of all time. Here’s more:
Update [ArmedGeek]: Ok, I just had to steal this from Soylent Green (and xkcd).
Movie: Thursday
This is a bit of an odd movie and one that most of you have probably never heard of. From wikipedia:
The film was released to DVD in 2002 by Polygram/USA films. A week after its release, Polygram/USA Films went bankrupt, and no more than 1,000 copies of the DVD were made.
..which pretty much explains why no one ever saw it and why a DVD of it cost me $25.
The movie centers around a guy named Casey Wells (Thomas Jane) who abandoned a life of crime and went straight. He goes to college, gets married and becomes an architect. His past catches up to him on one particularly bad Thursday.
I’m not going to suggest that anyone go track down a copy of this film and slap down $25 or more for a copy, but keep your eyes open and watch it if you ever get the chance.
If the previous scene wasn’t enough to make you want to watch this movie maybe the fact that Roger Ebert hated it is a strong enough endorsement.
“It is unhip to admit to being offended by anything in the new movies, and indeed it’s pretty hard to offend me, but a film named Thursday crossed the line….”. “Watching it, I felt outrage. I saw a movie so reprehensible I couldn’t rationalize it using the standard critical language about style, genre or irony. The people associated with it should be ashamed of themselves…. There is a “plot”, but essentially the film is a series of geek-show sequences in which characters are tortured, raped, murdered and dismembered in between passages of sexist and racist language. This movie goes out of its way to be offensive--to women, Orientals, Pakistanis and especially blacks. Thursday’s attitude towards blacks is so obscene, I’m surprised that it was made in this day and age”.
Kelly’s Heroes
I love this movie. Sure it ain’t realistic and isn’t the most patriotic “war movie” but its fun and funny.
Who Is John Galt?
By Guest Blogger LC Draco:
For those of us who have read several of Ayn Rand’s books, that is probably her most famous question. If you do not know the question, you are behind the power curve. Hint, read “Atlas Shrugged”. (Yes, it’s a long book, hence the movie, if you notice in the trailer is Part 1.) Those four words convey the thought of those who actually MAKE the country work and grow.
What if those who actually produced anything in our society basically said…”Screw you, Big Government…I am gonna make it happen DESPITE YOU!!”? Or if they said, “Ok, I am taking my ball and going home. Knock yourself out!”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM
This movie will get creamed by the critics…but I bet hailed by true conservatives and libertarians.
BTW, release date is set for April 15th, and from my research is NOT a coincidence.
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.” Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged.
LC Draco
Zombie Saturday
A discussion of bad zombie movies at the chat yesterday introduced me to a fantabulous film, The Goon:
I. Can’t. Wait. 
I *Heart* Hooters
No, not the kind this blog is famous for displaying every Monday. I meant OWLS. I love them, all kinds and sizes. From the cutest itty bitty I-want-to-keep-it-mom six inch tall Elf Owl to the gigantic takes-humans-in-the-night 33 inch tall Great Gray Owl. Lurve them all!! Admittedly, as far as exotic birds go the Quetzal is my favorite, but who the hell sees that around? Owls are awesome. Who stole the show in The Secret of NIMH? The Great Owl, when he devoured the spider, saving Mrs. Frisby, and when he stepped on the bones of his victims. Awesome scene! And when the dumb kid asks Mr. Owl how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, it’s the Owl who pwns the kid. Dumbass should have been patient and figured it out for himself, instead of giving the lollipop to the owl. SCORE!! And Harry Potter?? Kid is dumb as rocks trying to be the be-all-and-end-all of the Wizarding World. And who saves his ass? HEDWIG!! His Snow Owl!! Shit, if it weren’t for Hedwig, there wouldn’t be a series of books.
Dear Harry: Hate you. Hate Hogwarts. PS-- I'm taking the wand.
Anyway, why wax poetic about owls, and what the hell does my rambling have to do with anything? Last weekend I was watching a movie called The Fourth Kind, which I thought I was going to like because it starred Milla Jovovich (YUM!!) and Elias Koteas (DOUBLE YUM!!). As y’all know, Milla could have a hunchback and wear a sack and she would still be hawt. Most of you would recognize Elias Koteas as a character actor. I have had a crush on him since he played the skinhead in Some Kind of Wonderful. So, I figured the two in a movie, suspense and scary, should be cool, right? WRONG!!!!! The premise is about these people having the same dreams and experiences each night. And they all see these owls appearing at their windows, every night. Just looking at them. Then come to find out these people are being abducted and molested by aliens, and the owls and the representations of the aliens. WTF, OVER?? The OWLS are the BAD GUYS??? What, Hollywood couldn’t impugn a less noble bird, like a raven? Or a fucking GRACKLE??? Shit, what’s wrong with a buzzard?? And if it had to be a nocturnal bird, why not the nighthawk?? That at least would have been different. But noooooooo…. Hollywood had to ruin everything by making owls be the bad guys terrorizing a bunch of Alaskans. Way to go, Hollywood. Thanks for shitting out yet another depressingly slow movie, and for once again destroying a legend. Next thing you know, they will put out a movie about brokeback owls. GAH!!!!!!!
Icon of the Week
As some of y’all may know, Barbara Billingsley passed away this weekend. She was best known as Mrs. June Cleaver in the TV show, Leave it to Beaver. She epitomized what motherhood and feminism meant to a whole generation of women, at least until the hippie flower children found LSD. She had class, style, and grace, and I wanted to be June when I grew up. Really! I even begged my mother for a cheap string of dimestore pearls so I could pretend to be her while I washed the dishes.
And so, I present a tribute to Ms. Billingsley:
The Matador
This is probably a movie most of you have overlooked.
While the movie may not be worth running out and buying, it is certainly worth renting or keeping an eye out for on cable.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Looks “meh” to me, and I’m not a fan of the recent 3D fad, but I’m gonna watch it anyway.
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