Wknd Box Office: Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows 2; A Better Life

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!




Wknd Box Office: Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows 2; A Better Life

By Debbie Schlussel



I did not see “Winnie the Pooh.” But here’s what I saw new at theaters, today:



* “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2“: I saw this in 3D, and it’s a nice summing up and ending to all the Harry Potter movies. I didn’t read any of the books, but I’m told it’s pretty faithful to the written page. If you didn’t see Part 1 (read my review) of this mini-series within a series, you will be very confused and not know what’s going on. I saw Part 1, and forgot what happened in it. Thus, I was a little unsure of what was going on. When I remembered what happened, I was still a little confused. You really have to be a Potter-phile and have read the books.







Continuing from Part 1, Harry and his small gang of fellow wizards are trying to find a number of “horcruxes” they must destroy in order to get defeat the evil Lord Voldemort. But apparently Harry himself is a horcrux, so he must be destroyed? And there’s a scene in which suddenly a whole bunch of rioters led by a guy that looks like Adam Ant appears and starts running on a bridge to kill everyone at the wizardry school. Adam Ant made a comeback? Like I said, it’s confusing. And I thought it was weird that a giant snake is named “Negini” (sp?). Who names a snake that? A billionairess, I guess (J.K. Rowling).



Does Harry survive or must he die to save everyone else from Voldemort and the snake? Does the wizard school survive? As I noted, it has a nice and tidy ending, that tells you what becomes of the wizards years from now. I was a little surprised that in a movie aimed at kids, a female professor at the wizardry school screams, “BITCH!” at one of the evil female characters. But that’s the time we live in, and I guess that like the cast and characters of Harry Potter, most original Potter fans are now adults or, at least, in their mid-to-late-teens.



Lots of action and not boring, but make sure you’ve seen the first part or read the book before seeing this. Or you’ll be lost. (And–jihad alert!–don’t forget that Alan Rickman a/k/a Severus Snape, is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.)



Is it the end of Harry Potter? For fans and cast, apparently so.



TWO REAGANS

BLOGGERS NOTE: I on the other hand give the series four MARXES here!!



* “A Better Life“: It’s no surprise that most movie critics (a/k/a liberals) are gushing over this movie. It’s pure open borders propaganda. Illegal alien porn. Sadly, it’s very well done illegal alien propaganda, and most people who see it will buy what they’re selling here. Extremely manipulative, cloying, and maudlin, the movie sucks you in and makes you feel for the illegal alien father, Carlos (Demian Bichir, who played Fidel Castro in the Che movie), who is a gardener in East L.A. A single father, he struggles to survive and put food on the table for his unappreciative, gangsta-wannabe, American-born, anchor baby son. We see Carlos work so hard to make money and live the American dream. He’s an honest, decent, good guy who does backbreaking work in order to afford to buy a used truck and start a business.



Reality check: many illegal aliens are not like Carlos. Many are criminals, terrorists, and other low-lifes who come here to take advantage of a system that rewards them with a panoply of entitlements. And for those who are honest, decent men like Carlos that just want a good life, there are many far more honest decent people who applied to come here legally and are waiting in line for a long time. They have my sympathy more than the Carloses of the world.



But the movie doesn’t touch on those points, not even vaguely. Instead, it shows us how “mean” American life is to Carlos, even though he “did the right things” (though, how “right” is it to come here illegally?). Carlos meets tragedy after tragedy, some of which is visited upon him by fellow illegal aliens. Some of the “hardship” is visited upon Carlos by the big, bad mean Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which in real life, wouldn’t even detain him, these days, as they only detain aliens with violent criminal records. The movie doesn’t even get the agency’s name right, calling it “Eye-Cee-Eee.” It’s ICE, as in the hard, frozen water you put in drinks.



As I said, this is a well done movie, in that it gets people’s sympathy, where there shouldn’t be any. It’s the same old illegal alien sob story you’ve seen and heard a million times before. I won’t hold my breath waiting for liberal Hollywood to make an honest movie showing us the real story about the hardened criminals and terrorists who come here through the same desert we see Carlos using. I won’t hold my breath waiting for liberal Hollywood to show us how those aliens repeatedly game the system and remain on our soil through immigration fraud, marriage fraud, and phony asylum claims, like that of DSK’s false rape accuser.



If I held my breath for those, I’d already be dead. And sadly, many victims of illegal aliens in our midst are just as dead, or their jobs and dreams are dead, stolen by illegal aliens. That’s the real story. But they never show you that on the big screen.



The tagline on posters for this movie says, “Every father wants more for his son.” But the thing is, many American citizen fathers want more for their sons and can’t provide it because illegal alien dads like the one in this movie have stolen their opportunities to do so.



THREE-AND-A-HALF MARXES

Child Raping and Murdering Illegal Alien Chants Viva Mexico before Execution

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Child Raping and Murdering Illegal Alien Chants Viva Mexico before Execution




ALIPAC NOTE: President Obama did all he could to try to save the life of this illegal alien child rapist and murderer that chanted Viva Mexico before Texas executed him.



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Texas executes Mexican after court stay rejected

July 7, 2011



This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Humberto Leal. State lawyers have told the U.S. Supreme Court that appeals to halt this week's scheduled execution of the Mexican national for the 1994 rape-slaying of a 16-year-old San Antonio girl are without merit. Leal faces lethal injection Thursday in Huntsville,Texas. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)



Texas executed a Mexican citizen Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after he and the White House pleaded in vain for a Supreme Court stay, saying he was denied help from his home country that could have helped him avoid the death penalty.



In his last minutes, Humberto Leal repeatedly said he was sorry and accepted responsibility.



"I have hurt a lot of people. ... I take full blame for everything. I am sorry for what I did," he said in the death chamber.



"One more thing," he said as the drugs began taking effect. Then he shouted twice, "Viva Mexico!"





"Ready warden," he said. "Let's get this show on the road."



He grunted, snored several times and appeared to go to sleep, then stopped all breathing movement. The 38-year-old mechanic was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms.



After his execution, relatives of Leal who had gathered in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned a T-shirt with an image of the American flag in protest. Leal's uncle Alberto Leal criticized the U.S. justice system and the Mexican government and said, "There is a God who makes us all pay."



Leal was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, whose brutalized nude body was found hours after he left a San Antonio street party with her. She was bludgeoned with a piece of 30- to 40-pound chunk of asphalt.



Leal was just a toddler when he and his family moved to the U.S. from Monterrey, Mexico, but his citizenship became a key element of his attorneys' efforts to win a stay. They said police never told him following his arrest that he could seek legal assistance from the Mexican government under an international treaty.



Mexico, the Obama administration and others had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay Leal's execution so Congress could consider a law that would require court reviews in cases where condemned foreign nationals did not receive help from their consulates. They said the case could affect not only foreigners in the U.S. but Americans detained in other countries.



The court rejected the request 5-4. Its five more conservative justices doubted that executing Leal would cause grave international consequences, and doubted "that it is ever appropriate to stay a lower court judgment in light of unenacted legislation."



"Our task is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be," the majority said.



The court's four liberal-leaning justices said they would have granted the stay.



Leal's attorney Sandra L. Babcock said that with consular help her client could have shown that he was not guilty. But she added, "This case was not just about one Mexican national on death row in Texas. The execution of Mr. Leal violates the United States' treaty commitments, threatens the nation's foreign policy interests, and undermines the safety of all Americans abroad."



Prosecutors, however, said Congress was unlikely to pass the legislation sought and that Leal's appeals were simply an attempt to evade justice for a gruesome murder.



Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement that the government condemned Leal's execution and sent a note of protest to the U.S. State Department. The ministry also said Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan attempted to contact Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who refused to speak on the phone.



The governor's office declined to comment on the execution Thursday.



Leal's argument that he should have received consular legal aid that could have helped his case was not new. Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, has executed other condemned foreign nationals who raised similar challenges, most recently in 2008.



Leal's appeals, however, focused on legislation introduced last month in the U.S. Senate by Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy. Leahy's measure would bring the U.S. into compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations provision regarding the arrests of foreign nationals, and ensure court reviews for condemned foreigners to determine if a lack of consular help made a significant difference in the outcome of their cases.



"Americans detained overseas rely on their access to U.S. consulates every day," Leahy said after the Supreme Court decision was announced. "If we expect other countries to abide by the treaties they join, the United States must also honor its obligations."



The Obama administration took the unusual step of intervening in a state murder case last week when Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. joined Leal's appeal, asking the high court to halt the execution and give Congress at least six months to consider Leahy's bill.



The Mexican government and other diplomats also contended that the execution should be delayed so Leal's case could be thoroughly reviewed. Some also warned his execution would violate the treaty provision and could endanger Americans in countries that deny them consular help.



Measures similar to Leahy's have failed at least twice in recent congressional sessions. The Texas Attorney General's office, opposing the appeals, pointed to those failures in its Supreme Court arguments and said "legislative relief was not likely to be forthcoming."



Stephen Hoffman, an assistant attorney general, also said evidence pointing to Leal's guilt is strong.



"At this point, it is clear that Leal is attempting to avoid execution by overwhelming the state and the courts with as many meritless lawsuits and motions as humanly possible," Hoffman said.



Prosecutors said Sauceda was drunk and high on cocaine the night she was killed, and that Leal offered to take her home. Witnesses said Leal drove off with her around 5 a.m. Some partygoers found her brutalized nude body later that morning and called police.



There was evidence Sauceda had been bitten, strangled and raped. A large stick that had a screw protruding from it was left in her body.



A witness testified that Leal's brother appeared at the party, agitated that Leal had arrived home bloody and saying he had killed a girl.



In his first statement to police, Leal said Sauceda bolted from his car and ran off. After he was told his brother had given detectives a statement, he changed his story, saying Sauceda attacked him and fell to the ground after he fought back. He said when he couldn't wake her and saw bubbles in her nose, he got scared and went home.



Testifying during his trial's punishment phase, Leal acknowledged being intoxicated and doing wrong but said he wasn't responsible for what prosecutors alleged. A psychiatrist testified Leal suffered from alcohol dependence and pathological intoxication.



Sauceda's mother, Rachel Terry, told San Antonio television station KSAT her family already had suffered too long.



"A technicality doesn't give anyone a right to come to this country and rape, torture and murder anyone," she said.



In 2005, President George W. Bush agreed with an International Court of Justice ruling that Leal and 50 other Mexican-born inmates nationwide should be entitled to new hearings in U.S. courts to determine if their consular rights were violated. The Supreme Court later overruled Bush.



Associated Press Writers Jesse J. Holland in Washington and Porfirio Ibarra in Monterrey, Mexico, contributed to this report.



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