Fox's "24" = Right Wing Propaganda

C'mon, the writing is on the wall.

Think of all the rights and liberties we've lost or been threatened.

warrants? Wiretapping? Torture?

Jack Bauer breaks them for shits and giggles.

And we cheer!

Plus, it's on FOX.

(Please note: Arrested Development, which occasionally took shots at the Bush Administration, is constantly having its episode orders cut despite the fact that The War At Home and Stacked are also on the channel)

Fuck it.

I still love it though.

January 15th can't come soon enough.

Looks like the entire SNL season wasn't a waste of time

I missed this when it first aired

Movie of the Week Pt. II: Brokeback Mountain

After much thought and consideration, this was the best movie I have seen this year.

Heath Ledger is probably neck-and-neck with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote for best actor and it should be an interesting competition being that Hoffman's performance (from what I've been told) is more showy while Ledger's is extremely quiet and nuanced. It's more about how he expressed himself even though he wasn't a talker.

Anyway, it was a sad love movie. Not so much about gay cowboys but about two people who couldn't do the one thing they both they wanted to do.

Actually it's more about what happens when one person isn't willing to follow his heart and live a long repressed life.

I wonder if Ang Lee had Michelle "Dawson's Creek" Williams and Anne "The Princess Diaries" Hathaway show their breasts in some sort of "There's something for everyone" gesture.

Movie of the Week: The Ringer

It was Christmas and we wanted to see something funny.

I have never been in a theater with so much...I guess you would call it cautious laughter.

Some of the mentally challenged actors were playing for laughs but the crowd, myself included, flet bad laughing.

It was actually propaganda for the Special Olympics but it was cute.

It didn't suck.

Even if he doesn't have an arm...

...it was worth it just for this.

Welcome to New York City

Lazy Sunday

Movie of the Week (Pt. II): King Kong

Let's be honest.

If Peter Jackson did a shot-for-shot remake of that movie, it would be torn apart by critics as shallow.

Jackson and crew fleshed out Ann, fleshed out Denham and most importantly fleshed out Kong a character not just a big ape.

Naomi Watts was amazing. I am starting to believe that she doesn't know how to bad in a movie.

Jack Black was okay as Carl Denham. It was hard to get past the fact that it was Jack Black but he sold Denham's despicable nature.

The F/X on Kong were nothing short of amazing. There needs to be an award for motion capture work just so Andy Serkis can get the proper recognition.

It didn't feel like a three hour movie but it could have been cut short.

We need a leader.

"You know who l think the black leader should be?...Coach Pat Riley. No man has led more black men to the promised land...than Coach Pat Riley. He may not get us to the mountaintop, but he'll get us to the playoffs. And that's all we want."
--Chris Rock
Bigger And Blacker

Welcome back, Pat.

Good luck with Antoine Walker.

Movie of the Week: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

If I was 10 years old:


This was like The Lord of the Rings for kids.

I didn't hate it but the story had too many holes and "huhs?".*

But if recognized that if I was a young child, I would have thought it was on the level of Dark Crystal or Labyrinth.

The acting was good especially Tilda Swinton (White Witch) & Georgie Hensley (Lucy) and the whole Christian allegory was not as bad as some people made it seem.

The CGI was okay. I feel like they put all their energy making Aslan (The Lion) look realistic that everything looked bad by comparison.

Out of curiosity, I know they get a lot of cardio work but is there such a thing as a overweight centaur?

And, um, why the hell was Santa there?*

*No, I have never read any of the books.

Movie of the Week: Jarhead

This is a hard movie to judge.

Because the point of the movie was that these soliders did nothing during the first Gulf War.

They succeeded in getting that point across.

But it doesn't make for a very engaging movie experience.

It was an interesting watch.

The acting was great (Peter Sarsgaard is becoming one of my favorite actors who will never play the lead in a movie).

I don't know.

I'm glad I saw it.

But nothing happened.

And that was the point.

*Shrugs*

R.I.P. To The Funniest Motherfucker Ever

It's December so you know what that means

It means it is time for you to buy me something

I've made it easy for you.

Also, let me know what you want to and I'll see if it's in my budget.

X3

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/

Looks like Ratner is going all out on the action front.

I don't like how Beast and Juggernaut look but hey, what can you do?

Glaring Oversight

I finally sat through and watch AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All-Time.

How did this not make the cut?

"Hey, woman! Hey, woman! Listen here, since your old man ain't got no heart, maybe you'd like to see a real man! I bet you stay up late every night dreaming you had a real man, don't you? Why don't you bring your pretty little self over to my apartment tonight, and I'll show you a real man!"
--Clubber Lang from Rocky III

Seriously, what were they thinking?