Raging Bull
I wasn’t really into it. Deniro played the crazy boxer quite convincingly. I genuinely understood how that much pain can cause insane behaviour. The Directing was at times fascinating and then over the top and most times I just didn’t care for it.
Acting: B
Directing: B-
Plot: C+
(7.5 of 10)
Movies I Recently Watched:
Total Recall (8.5/10)
The 6th Day (7/10)
Tell No One (9.9/10)
2019 After the Fall of New York (7/10)
Cassandra’s Dream (6/10)
Night of the Comet (7.5/10)
12 Angry Men (8.5/10)
Mulholland Falls (5/10)
3:10 to Yuma (6/10)
Across the Universe (4/10)
Music I’m Listening to:
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Breakdown
Kool Moe Dee – Knowledge is King
Noir Desir – Des Visages, Des Figures
Foals – Antidotes
Recent TV Activity:
Dexter
Futurama
Family Guy
Twin Peaks
The Cure – Greatest Hits (acoustic)
Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon
The Naked Gun
One rant for today.
Why are there 4 Scary Movie movies and only 3 Naked Guns? Parody films are sooo annoying sometimes (naked gun is a parody movie, I know). but Superhero movie? that’s almost as bad as “Reference Movie” (See movie at bottom). But anyway, I love Naked Gun. and it’s humor, or lack thereof, is me. so here’s 2 interviews with David Zucker and Leslie Neilsen. and a snip-it from Wikipedia about Police Squad – the show Naked Gun was based on.
Interviewer: Any chance of you guys re-teaming for another “Naked Gun” in the future?
Zucker: We would really like to. The studio just doesn’t get the joke though. They’re not interested in the franchise. Funny thing was, Scary Movie 3 opened up against a Paramount movie at the box office on the same week of release and the Paramount movie disappeared without a trace. They still may not get it, but if they really wanted to see whether spoof movies still work they should’ve taken a look that week, even back when Scary one came out. And if they think that’s a different case because it was an R rated spoof movie, they should look at ours – it’s PG-13.
Interviewer: David mentioned that there might be a fourth Naked Gun if they can persuade the humourless folks at Paramount to do it. Would you want to do it?
Neilsen: I’d keep my fingers crossed. I would do it, are you kidding? I mean, it’s a special kind of humour and the essence of the humour is that they never try to tell the audience what’s funny. But without —
Interviewer: O.J.?
Neilsen: O.J. Well, it never crossed my mind that that would have made any difference, not to say that he wasn’t very heavy support for the film; he was a very big athlete and a big star. Very enthusiastic and very easy and wonderful to work with. But it may be that that coloured part of their consideration in choosing to not give it a run, but people have come in even after and wanted to buy the property. Paramount could have sold the property, but it’s in the archives, and you don’t sell things if you’re not going to use them yourself, because if they get sold and then become big hits, or big money maker, then somebody is responsible.
“Police Squad! was cancelled because the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it.” What Thomopoulos meant was that the viewer had to actually pay attention to the show in order to get much of the humor, while most other TV shows did not demand as much effort from the viewer. In its annual “Cheers and Jeers” issue, TV Guide magazine called the explanation for the cancellation “the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series.”
Matt Groening is quoted as saying “If Police Squad! had been made twenty years later, it would have been a smash. It was before its time. In 1982 your average viewer was unable to cope with its pace, its quick-fire jokes. But these days they’d have no problems keeping up, I think we’ve proved that.”
No, not a bear, not an ape or gorilla, not even my roommate (who even grunts when he’s fixing his hair – no hair – it’s such an effort to move a comb over no hair, but you seem to find a way to make it look hard [sound hard] [is it weird that I’m using a lot of parenthesis? and that I’m saying “close parenthesis when I do this ] ) You’d think she’s a prostitute for some of the things she says, like “ugh! ugh! UGH!” and “It feels natural to do my noise. I’m not faking it…”
But I digress…
9-year-old Lauryn Edwards (yes, the “Y” does make her cool [ not the slang term of YMCA, but the
actually replacement of “e” for that crazy “y”] was found at fault by her local tennis club for grunting too loudly. She was banned. Her father has made comments defending her daughter, saying things like: his daughter’s grunting was nowhere near Sharapova’s level and had been exaggerated and “She was in such a state that I had to bring her home mid-match.”
Here you go, a video for you, (Pedophiles)…
UPDATE: Typo on the Youtube, fuckin N00bzzzzzz
Charlie meet Charlie.
“Disney will proceed with a third installment of its hit dance franchise ‘Step Up,’ tentatively titled ‘Step Up 3-D.’ Pic will become the latest 3-D live-action film from the Mouse House, with ‘Step Up 2 the Streets’ director Jon Chu in talks to reprise.”
Let’s hope the Disney can build off the success of the “Step Up” franchise. Actually, it’s made $22,125,429 on it’s opening weekend. but who would see this? kids 12-15 because they are lame. and adults 80-dead. I’m sorry, but they would see this if they are senile and don’t know any better. (also sorry if you’re 80+ and can still read) but who’s the competition? witless protection? vantage point? fool’s good? all classics in due time, so I guess Step Up 2 the streets will be up there too with the Godfather (in hell). so anyway, watch this review of witless protection:
Obama: “I just want to take a moment to respond to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today that asks, ‘Who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it’s 3am and something has happened in the world?’ We’ve seen these ads before. They’re the kind that play on peoples’ fears to scare up votes. Well it won’t work this time. Because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is – what kind of judgment will you make when you answer? We’ve had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer.
But I stood up and said that a war in Iraq would cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat we face – and that we should take the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That’s the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, and that’s the kind of judgment I’ll show when I answer that phone in the White House as President of the United States – the judgment to keep us safe, to go after our real enemies, and to provide the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States with the equipment they need when we do send them into battle, and the respect and care they have earned when they come home. And I’ll never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it’s a threat that should rally this country around our common enemies. That’s the judgment we need at 3am. And that’s the judgment that I am running for President to provide.”
Shibani is a 15 year-old girl in India. Her father only brings in 21 US dollars a month. She lives with her brother Joydeb, 14 and sister Bani, 7. Her favorite pastime is jumping rope and she is great at drawing. All 5 family members live in one multi-use room with walls and floors made of mud, and a roof made of corrugated metal. The home is heated with a coal stove. The sleep on the floor with a mat. Although water is not miles away, it is shared with the whole community Electricity is available, but not affordable. Their sanitary facility is an open field.
Please, I’m looking for donations to send to her each month. With being at college and my income level being lower, I need your help. Each month I send 22 dollars to Children International to help Shibani go to school, have clothes and get adequate medical care. She needs your help. I hate to sound like a broken record, but you really can help. Even one dollar will help me get her closer to the comfort we all enjoy.
Love this show. Watched it about once a day for a month. this one episode. I have issues. Issues by Korn. Love that album. it’s their only album I can listen to without laughing. if you’re looking for a laugh, listen to “All in the Family” Comment below, please.
The Unheard 