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'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead
James Farentino dies at 73
White Castle Considers Offering Beer and Wine(I thought is where people went when already drunk)
America is Drunk(someone needs to slap Dr. Keith Ablow or buy him a drink or two)
Occupiers Pissing on Churches Housing Them (Literally)
Good Cop, Bad Cop
This morning I was perusing Fox News for…well, news, having heard that the two American hikers in Iran had been given 8-year sentences (why the hell haven’t we bombed this country to hell, where they want to go??), Syria has effectively told Obama that Assad is staying, so fuck off, (another country deserving of many daisies--as in daisy cutters), and Egypt is removing its ambassador from Israel. Things are coming to a head over in that sand pit. That said, something else in the site caught my eye:
Who Played the Toughest Cop?
Hm…..
I admit, I do like to watch a good cop movie, and by that, I mean a good movie about cops. Most everyone does. There is something about a good guy catching the bad guy. And when the cop is bad, you really want him to get caught and face justice, because he should know better than anyone, right?
Anyway, the list had eleven actors who portrayed police officers in film. And of course, the best cop ever was included:
But egregiously, this was NOT included:
What…The…HELL??? They include those pissants Colin Farrell and Benicio Del Toro, and even add Jake Gyllenhaal in a role that isn’t even freakin’ finished yet, but skip John “Yippee Kah Yay, Motherfucker” McClain??
What kind of a commie bastard does that?? Fucking morons, that’s who.
I may need to break my diet for this….
Movie: Drive Angry
So I saw a movie the other day…
I must warn you.. the is a bad movie. The acting is not great and some of the special effects are just horrible … but damn this movie was fun to watch. Naked women, violence, gore and language .. exactly what a movie like this is supposed to contain. Personally, I’m sick to death of Hollywood watering everything down to get a PG-13 rating. I don’t recommend you buy this movie, but you should rent it.
Here’s two reasons to watch this movie:
And here’s another:
William Fichtner easily steals the show playing The Accountant.
And since Amber Heard is in this flick, I may as well leave this here…
Two Movies: Source Code & Battle: LA
So I saw a couple of movies …
Source Code is a sort of time-travel flick about a person’s consciousness traveling back in time and occupying another person’s body. The rules are fairly simple: since the traveler is actually experiencing a parallel reality, changes do not affect the primary timeline; and second, while a traveler can make multiple trips to the same time, each trip only lasts 8 minutes.
The point of the time travel is to identify who set off a bomb on a commuter train as the train bombing is just the first of a series of attacks. On the whole, the film is well shot and visually it looks very good. The story however interesting it seemed above, is weak as shit. Some of the story’s weakness can be blamed on the movie being too short at only 93 minutes. Much more time should have been spent developing the characters to make you give a shit what happens to them. By the end of the movie you still just don’t give a damn about any of the people involved.
All of this is nothing compared to the worse offense of the movie. You have a terrorist bombing a commuter train and threatening to set of a dirty bomb in Chicago. The first suspect is a Middle Eastern looking fellow (possibly Indian) but of course, he’s not the terrorist. Next suspect is what I can only describe as the modern hipster-ish version of a dirty hippy but of course, he is also not the terrorist.
So … who is the terrorist ? I’m sure you’ve already guessed that the terrorist is a clean-cut white male who is angry at the government. Fucking Hollywood. Fuck this film.
Anyway ….
Battle: Los Angeles is a pretty damned good flick. Most of the movie is shot like a war movie. Several scenes will remind you of Blackhawk Down. A few scenes come across as sci-fi, some as scary movie scenes but the mix works well. As other conservative bloggers have mentioned about this film, it is very much pro-soldier (Marines, actually). The Marines depicted in the film are young and at times scared but they are hard-chargers and they do not run and they fight despite their fear.
“Retreat hell. We just go here.”
Aaron Eckhart’s performance stands out in this one although I’m not sure if his acting was that good, or just looked that good in comparison to the other, not-so-great actors. Most of the acting in the film is not good but the movie as a whole overcomes this.
“Shit, I’d rather be in Afghanistan.”
I recommend this movie. See it.
Observation Point Restrepo
(Guest post by LC Draco)
The unit -- 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (ABN), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
For those of you unaware of the name and the story, it is an outpost named after one of the first soldiers killed at that outpost in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan (The Korengal Valley was regarded as “the deadliest place on Earth”). The story is about the soldiers who went in and set up an outpost in the middle of the night and how they fought to keep it!
If you have not seen the movie…GET IT, WATCH IT, then WATCH IT AGAIN!! It is an emotional, fierce and in-your-face documentary. It received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. (One of the directors, Tim Hetherington, was the photojournalist killed in Libya on 20 April, 2011).
But now…to the trailer at the official web site. It is a peek into one OP of many and what some of our soldiers go through every day.
R.I.P. PFC Restrepo and your brothers that died there with you. You and your brethren display the TRUE American soldier!!
LC Draco
UPDATE:
Restrepo, A Year In Afghanistan is going to be shown on National Geographic channel Monday 25 April at 9pm, Eastern.
Movie: Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 independent dramatic film, adapted by David Mamet from his acclaimed 1984 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play of the same name. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen and how they become desperate when the corporate office sends a representative to “motivate” them by announcing that, in one week, all except the top two salesmen will be fired. The film, like the play, is notorious for its use of profanity, leading the cast to jokingly refer to the film as “Death of a Fuckin’ Salesman”. The actual title of the film comes from the names of two of the real estate developments being peddled by the salesmen characters (Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms).
This is a damned good film filled with great actors. Don’t let Alec Baldwin keep you away from this film as the above scene is the only one he’s in. Glengarry Glen Ross is more of a character piece than a plot driven story and actors like Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris and Kevin Spacey are excellent in this.
Icon of the Week
This past Sunday I was flipping through the movie channels, and found one of my favorite movies playing, Mel Brooks’ To Be or Not to Be. I love Mel Brooks. He is the irreverent king of comedy. But the best thing he ever did, was marry Anne Bancroft. She was the original Cougar:
She was sultry as the leopard-print clad Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, poetic as Helene Hanff in 84 Charing Cross Road, strong as Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, and yet, had a graceful humor and comedic turn as the magnetic Anna Bronski in To Be or Not to Be.
Every Cougar since Mrs. Robinson has been a pale whisp of smoke compared to her fire. There will never be another.
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).
Defending Your Life
I love that movie. First, I am a HUGE Albert Brooks fan, and second, the premise of the movie just tickles me. After dying, you go to Judgment City to await a trial of sorts, defending the way you lived to see if you “move forward”. Yes, just move forward. It’s a movie about facing your fears on Earth. A really interesting take on Afterlife. And lately, with the passing of a close family friend, I have wondered if I have done enough to defend my life.
Death is a frightening aspect. Some of us do not wish to face it and avoid thinking about it for the most part. Others, especially those who know when their time will come, face up to the end with great dignity. Still, I have known people who live like they are dying, to quote Tim McGraw.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSE8NJHn7ss
I have been afraid sometimes, letting the fear overtake me. And I know that, if I were to pass away and defend my life, I would not move forward. But that is why we have second chances, and why we make plans to do and see and be everything we can before the time comes. I know I’ll never see the Himalayas, or the Great Wall of China. I do know I’ll make it to the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza Plateau.
And I do know, with everything that I am, that for the rest of the life I do have, I won’t be afraid anymore. In fact, with that pronouncement I think people should start being afraid of me!
So, what are y’all’s fears? Grammar? Getting mauled by a bear? Not finding shoes in your size?? 
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. 
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