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I guess it helps if your daddy is a pig? Then you can go beat anyone you want, even though you look like a 'roid raging bro douchebag? Fuck this preferential treatment; Justin the sucker-punching pussy should have gone to jail THAT NIGHT. They still haven't pressed any charges against this violent douchebag.
And if this wasn't caught on video, you can bet the pussy suckerpuncher would get away with it because of his pig daddy.
WARNING: Justin Bieber video advertisement once you finish watching the story. There's someone who needs to be punched.
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Good stuff.
December 2010
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December 31, 2010
December 30, 2010
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PS3s are almost ready to be worth buying!
December 30, 2010
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Sex Pot (2009)
Posted by Clio under Carolyn, Clint, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video[3] Comments
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] A direct-to-DVD sex/pot comedy rated 2.5 on IMDB? Brought to us by B-movie company The Asylum? I’m in! I don’t think I’ve ever watched a movie filmed by The Asylum before. They’ve filmed some 50-odd films and distributed some 180-odd films. Most with titles similar to popular movies, such as “Snakes On A Train”, “18 Year Old Virgin”, “The Da Vinci Treasure”, and “Envy” (but not the Envy with Jack Black!).
UNCOMFORTABLE PLOT SUMMARY (inspired by this): Losers get drugs and sex.
PEOPLE: An unknown (to me) director with 2 main stars that are also nobodies. Only 1 of them was even in another movie. Seriously — this movie is pretty much made exclusively by nobodies.
QUIRKS: Sex. Pot. Boobs. Getting laid. The title really says it all. You don’t really have to dig much deeper to find the core meaning to this film; it’s about as deep as Mariah Carey. (Which is not deep. Remember her quote about how at least Ethiopians are lucky to be skinny?)
Really, this movie doesn’t need much further description. It’s very much in the same vein as National Lampoon / American Pie / teen comedy movies. Except with more gratuitous nudity. The plot sometimes took a backseat to simply showing boobies on the screen.
Which, if you go in expecting that, is a pleasing reward.
The two main characters are pretty much the same two main bros from every teen comedy: The sex-starved slob (who literally wears a t-shirt saying “I love to beat my meat” during most of the movie), and the nice-guy virgin (who has sex with a bagel in one scene). These may as well be the same characters from the movie College, from Sex Drive, Miss March, or any other generic teen comedy. It’s formulaic, but it works.
There are a couple comedic twists that were pretty funny, and some other interesting characters.
VISUALS: Boobs. Lots of boobs.
MORALS: Get stoned. Get laid. This movie has no morals.
BAD STUFF: An idea that’s been done a million times ago — and it’s not done nearly as well here as in other movies. Jokes are as low brow as possible. Sex Drive was a sophisticated movie compared to this. I repeat: Sex Drive was a sophisticated movie compared to this.
CONCLUSION: Despite the fact that this is gratuitous low-brow kitsch of the absolute higher order of generic, this is a kind of generic that I can’t help enjoy. Thus, I keep watching movies like this one. Even when they aren’t memorable and have no substance, they still entertain me — though I would not recommend trying watching this sober.
RATINGS: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 6/10. Generic pass.
RECOMMENDATION: Don’t watch this sober. Don’t watch this if you think sex and pot are automatically unfunny. Don’t watch this if you have better teen comedies / sex comedies to watch. Go watch The Stoned Age instead. Watch Sex Drive instead. Watch Miss March. Don’t watch this film unless you are a low-budget comedy completionist who wants to watch EVERY movie like this movie. If THAT is your goal, then you may watch this.
SIMILAR MOVIES: College. Sex Drive. Superbad. Most post-2000 National Lampoon movies. Except pretty much everything I mentioned is better than this.
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December 29, 2010
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According to a top aide to Colin Powell, high-ranking members of the Bush Administration *KNEW* that *HUNDREDS* of innocent were sent to Guantanamo Bay prison camp, where they were tortured, treated inhumanely, and detained for years for crimes they did not commit.
Colin Powell is backing this declaration, too.
Remember when Obama promised Guantanamo would be closed? About 3 years ago he promised, then reneged and said "in a year". Now it's been about three. Innocent people are still there, and Obama lied about freeing them. Is he really that much better than Bush?
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Millions of Americans are in chronic pain because doctors are not allowed to prescribe the painkillers that medical science says they should be able to.
Why? Concerned parents and the war on drugs. Legislators and the DEA saying what medicine you can and cannot have.
And no, this isn't about illegal drugs. This is about LEGAL drugs, and doctors who get sent to prison for daring to prescribe them.
So this woman tries to protest the prosecutions of these doctors, and what happens?
The government takes away her constitutional right to free speech, places her on a gag order, and shuts her up.
And the supreme court lets this stand.
Freedom of speech, huh?
December 29, 2010
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Memories (1995) (anime) (Satoshi Kon)
Posted by Clio under Anime, Carolyn, Cartoons, Clint, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video1 Comment
PEOPLE: Part 1 is written by renowned master animator Satoshi Kon — but NOT animated by him! (What a twist!) That is how we came to watch this film; his 2010 death prompted us to watch everything with his name on it, since we loved Perfect Blue so much.
The three sequences (this is a collection of 3 30-to-40-minute ‘shorts’) are directed by Koji Morimoto (animator; director of of 1 Animatrix segment; producer of .hack//Roots), Tensai Okamura (animator:Cowboy Bebop the movie, 2 eps of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost In The Shell), and Katsuhiro Otomo (director:Steamboy; writer:Akira, Metropolis, Steamboy). Well-known Japanese voice actors were used for many of the parts in this movie, but I won’t go into too much detail there.
PLOT SUMMARY:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): It’s like Ghost Ship mixed with Planetes, but without the science, politics, or smoking chambers. And maybe with a sprinkle of Firefly and The Matrix.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): A man unwittingly becomes a living biological weapon, killing everyone around him.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): A militarized society seemingly revolves around the act of firing cannons at the enemy. But does this enemy even really exist?
UNCOMFORTABLE PLOT SUMMARIES (inspired by this): [highlight for spoilers]→
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): Garbagemen left to die in space (one exploded, one left drifting alive with limited oxygen).
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): World’s luckiest and most clueless man kills hundreds, humiliates military.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): Communism’s inefficiencies fail to protect children from night raids.
QUIRKS: Three different anime stories with three different looks and feels.
VISUALS: Three different styles. Part 1 is in space, and just looks like mostly generic anime. That is to say, better than American animation coming out at the same time. Part 2 is on earth, and has interesting painting-like backgrounds… A concept quite familiar to Samurai Jack fans. Part 3 reminds me a lot of Rene Laloux‘s unique animation style. Everybody is green and a bit inhuman looking. Plus, they used a really interesting English font, where certain letters also look a lot like runes. It’s just different enough to slow you down reading it, but just same enough to still be readable. Nice touch.
MORALS:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): Beware of mind tricks.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): Try not to be as stupid as this guy. Get a clue.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): Communism sucks.
POLITICS:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): None.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): The military-industrial complex engages in all kinds of idiotic behavior. Created to protect us, they make even more money if they endanger us. We should not trust them to work in our best interest. This is why forces like Wikileaks need to exist.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): Communism sucks. (Actually, I think every system can be run in a completely inefficient way, and a better political moral would be that authoritarianism sucks. Communism gets lots of bad rap for the fact that its leaders tend to be brutal authoritarians. However, Part 3 is most squarely aimed at communism and not authoritarianism, so this critique is more about anti-communism sentiment than Part 3 itself.) Also: The threat of war is often manufactured to be worse than it is. See also: 1984 and American Foreign Policy (especially 2000-2010).
GOOD STUFF:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): Very creepy and suspenseful, until the mind-tricks start. Space garbage collectors, like in Planetes, end up getting into a Ghost Ship level creepiness. Salvaging inside of an EPICly large spaceship combines claustrophobia and agoraphobia into one giant fearfest. But then, it stops being as good by the end.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): Very funny to watch a military humiliate itself so badly.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): This part actually isn’t nearly as good. The best thing about it is simultaneously the worst thing about it: Longest canon-launching scene EVER in any movie EVER. But it’s a commentary on communism, so people, especially in Asia, should understand this. The cannon is red; could it be any more obvious?
BAD STUFF:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose): The ending isn’t nearly as good as the beginning.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb): After all that, the only way he is saved is by [highlight for spoilers]→ Marines wearing Nasa suits? THAT’S how you win? But wait! It’s the guy! WTF! D-d-dumbass. And he’s STILL clueless?!?! . This guy has to be one of the stupidest people in existence (yes, even fictional existence!) That ending is a bit of a cop-out.
Parts 2 & 3: What did these have to do with memories, anyway?!?!?
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder): Longest and most boring cannon sequence in any movie EVER. And the ending is kind of a cop-out. Much like part 2, it’s a twist one way, and then a twist back to where you think it’s going, to create a sort of “fake twist” cop-out ending. Two twists that cancel each other out. [highlight for spoilers]→ Oh look! It turns out there’s no enemy! But oh look #2! It turns out there IS actually an enemy! And communism didn’t save its own citizens from it!
CONCLUSIONS: Even though I didn’t like them individually as much as I had hoped, I really liked the offering of several miscellaneous animated treats that were all interesting.
RATINGS:
Part 1 (Magnetic Rose):
Clint: Netflix: 4.4/5 stars. IMDB: 8.4/10.
Carolyn: Netflix: 4.4/5 stars. IMDB: 8/10.
Part 2 (Stink Bomb):
Clint: Netflix: 3.2/5 stars. IMDB: 7/10.
Carolyn: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 7/10.
Part 3 (Cannon Fodder):
Clint: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 6/10.
Carolyn: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 6.6/10 (a low 7).
OVERALL:
Clint: Netflix: 4/5 stars. IMDB: 7/10.
Carolyn: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 7/10.
The native public rating for this movie is: IMDB: 7.6/10, Netflix: 3.6/5 stars (Netflix‘s predicted rating for us was 3.5/5 stars–the exact average of our two ratings, as well as the exact average of the 3 ratings I gave individually. However, I actually scored the movie as a whole at 4/5 stars; greater than the sum of its parts).
RECOMMENDATION: Anime-lovers should definitely check this out, what with Satoshi Kon‘s name being on it.
SIMILAR MOVIES: Part 1 reminded me of Planetes meets Ghost Ship!
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Tripp loved it.
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December 28, 2010
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Battle Royale 2: Requiem aka Battle Royale 2: Revenge aka Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (2003)
Posted by Clio under Carolyn, Clint, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video[3] Comments
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Unfortunately, we did not watch the director’s cut. And wow. Battle Royale 1 was rated 8.0/10 on IMDB, barely missing the Top 250. Battle Royale 2 is only rated 4.7/10. Big difference in people’s opinions! They are more similar to each other than any other movie, so I don’t see the point of making such a huge discernment between the two.
QUIRKS: Three years after the events of Battle Royale 1, the surviving children have formed a terrorist group that has performed a 9/11 style attack on Japan, downing 7 skyscrapers. (Including 2 of equal height right next to each other, like the World Trade Centers.) In response to this, the government creates Battle Royale 2 — a program to send more students in to kill the first students. And we all know how well government regulation works, right?
This movie is on a grander scale than Battle Royale 1. It’s more of a war than a game.
PEOPLE: Director Kinji Fukasaku died while filming this, his 65th movie. He had terminal cancer. Doctors told him to remain in the hospital. He refused, and directed this instead. But he didn’t make it, so his son took over.
Quentin Tarantino was almost cast as the president of the USA, but instead they didn’t have him at all.
VISUALS: The violence plays out more like war movie violence than the random kinds of violence featured in Battle Royale 1. This is because everyone simply has guns, instead of different, unique weapons. This makes the violence more precise and less personal, and the gore a bit more generic. But boy are there a lot of action scenes! There’s even an homage to Saving Private Ryan and the D-Day Invasion (which my grandfather participated in as part of 1st Infantry); shot on similar film stock even.
The characters were a bit easier to keep track of, due to having more unique visual appearances. Not everyone had generic-Japanese-person hair. Though they did kill off the blonde girl really quickly… Overall, this has a more modern look and feel than Battle Royale 1.
MORALS/POLITICS: The basic moral is one of moral relativity. The kids in this movie are considered terrorists — and have indeed taken many innocent lives in their cause. But I would say the events of Battle Royale 1 justified them making a strike back at the adult world via any means necessary. Frankly, calling your enemy “terrorists” has been one of the greatest political hijackings of critical thought in history; only exacerbated by the real events of 9/11. In this movie, the “bad guys” — the terrorists — are the good guys. Yes, they killed innocent adults. But adults killed innocent children first in the game of Battle Royale 1.
And more importantly, outside of Japan, children all over the world are being killed due to the whims of adults. The movie starts out with a scene of a teacher listing a LONG list of countries. At the end, he explains that these are all the countries USA has bombed. 8 million dead. And you can bet a lot of children died. And why? Does our country even get attacked?
In real life, we lost a whopping 3,000 on 911, and 2,000 at Pearl Harbor. In the movie, we bombed 8 million. If you divide 8,000,000 by 5,000, you get 1,600. Yes, it’s kind of weird to compare real life numbers to hypothetical numbers in a movie, but the ratio of deaths here is 1600. If we are killing 1600 in response for every 1 of ours killed, you can bet we’re the ones killing more children than our enemies. (Plus, Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Centers aren’t exactly places where kids hangout, UNlike the many residential apartments we’ve bombed.) So children striking back at various countries, including the U.S., would be totally justified in a movie like this.
BAD STUFF: I still think they should have used the song Kids Are United (“Kids Are United! We can never be divided!”) by Atari Teenage Riot (originally by Sham 69) at some point! And I’m not sure how long that pipeline was! Kind of unrealistic to be able to [highlight for spoilers]→ escape from an island via an underground tunnel. But we shall ignore such flaws, rather than dwell on them.
CONCLUSION: A lot of people don’t like this as well as Battle Royale 1. To an extent, I agree that it’s not quite as good. The action was a bit more mindless. However, this made up for that by being more politically relevant than Battle Royale 1. The politics and point of this movie was a bit grander than the movie itself. Moreso than Battle Royale 1.
RATINGS: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 7/10, says Carolyn. I agree.
RECOMMENDATION: If you’ve seen Battle Royale 1, there’s no reason NOT to watch the sequel. While it lacks some elements of what people liked in BR1, it is more of the same on a grander scale. I also liked Saw 2 more than Saw 1 for similar reasons: The “game” has expanded and become more than it originally was.
SIMILAR MOVIES: This actually plays out like a lot of war movies.
MOVIE QUOTE: 1) Shuya Nanahara: We declare war on all adults!
2) Shuya Nanahara: How much blood has been shed? How many tears spilled? All of our friends who fought beside us are dead, killed in the last three years. But even as justice can never be vanquished, we terrorists will never vanish, however evil they deem us. Because we know, that a handful of adults, a handful of ‘nature’ selfishly define the nature of peace as freedom in this world. But our world is so much more complex that. This world has 63 Billion people living their own lives, living 63 billion different ways, 63 billion kinds of peace, 63 billion kinds of concepts of what is “good”, 63 billion kinds of war and evil. No one has achieved peace without fighting for it. … Behind every peace, there’s a river of blood, sweat and tears. But if we avert our eyes from that history and abandon it, then peace might as well be dog shit.
COINCIDENCES: (Infestation, Battle Royale 2) 2 movies within 3 nights where people who were basically going to die anyway started smoking, and coughed a lot because they didn’t know how to smoke.
(Sleep Dealer, Battle Royale 2) 2 movies 2 nights in a row with “good” guys that are “terrorists”.
And here’s the Atari Teenage Riot Sham 69 cover I mentioned earlier, which I wish they’d used at some point:
P.S. This movie takes place on 12/24-26, same time of year as this post! :) (more…)
December 27, 2010
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Sharpie: A brand name I learned from school. I guess I was lucky my teacher didn't have me arrested for having one, eh? What a bloated whale of a bitch. Nice of them to include her picture. No wonder she's so angry.
And why are they using this statute? Because they thought prohibiting students from bringing their own writing implements would prevent them from building weapons. Yes, this is about fucking WEAPONS.
The pen is mightier than the sword – so good luck letting the government let us have either, apparently. The fact that the police actually went through with an arrest and transporting this kid to juvie hall says a lot about the police state.
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Yay Obama! Hope and change! No more war! No more bad america!
Oh wait… An even larger military budget than during the Bush era? Or the Reagan era? Or any era since WW2?Yup. When you voted Democrat, you really changed things, didn't you? [/sarcasm]
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Finding out just what our tax dollars are doing: Fighting a wasteful war on drugs that has cost our society more than sending every child in the country to college. Isn't it great that our society's priorities are so straight? [/sarcasm]
