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 about 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 choosing good movies to watch yourself!

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Fun Movie Returns to Superhero Classic Formula

By Debbie Schlussel
I liked “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” in movie theaters today, more than any other superhero film I’ve seen in the last five to ten years. That’s because the other superhero movies of late were so bad, so unmagical, so uninteresting. This one returns to the classic superhero movie formula I remember as a kid.

I’m not normally a fan of Spiderman (my favorite superheroes are Superman, Captain Marvel, and Wonder Woman) or of Andrew Garfield, whom I think of as kinda nerdy. But ASM2 recaptures the magic, the classic, stark good versus evil plot, and it is engrossing and suspenseful from beginning to end of its overlong 2.5 hours. But even with the length of the film, every moment of it was suspenseful, exciting, and entertaining. I wasn’t bored for a second. The plot is simple and easy to understand, unlike many of the confusing jumbles and crazy plots in many recent superhero movies. Plus Garfield is very good in this as a self-deprecating, funny, morally upright Peter Parker/Spiderman.

I could have done without several scenes of him with tears in his eyes. But at least one of these scenes has to do with finding out what happened to his father, and learning that his father was the loving, righteous man he thought. That’s another plus with this movie: the fathers–though absent in physical body–shine through as their love and concern for their kids (Peter Parker and his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, who is played by Emma Stone) is made clear.
If you are a parent concerned with whether or not to take your kids, this movie is completely clean. There’s no sex or dirty language. None of that. It’s a wholesome reincarnation of the superhero movies from decades ago in that respect. And, unlike some other recent superhero movies, there are no left-wing politics hidden in any messages as far as I could see.
But when it comes to special effects, it’s wholly modern. I don’t usually recommend shelling out the extra bucks for a 3D, but this is one of the rare instances, where I say, go for it. The 3D effects in this movie are particularly good and make the movie even more engrossing.
There are many plots and several villains in the jam-packed 2.5 hours. So don’t drink an extra-large Coke at the beginning. You won’t want to leave for a bathroom break, or you’ll miss something. Also, don’t worry if you haven’t seen the first installment of this incarnation of Spiderman movies. This movie explains what happened in the backstory and you will understand exactly what’s going on.
There are three villains. Electro is a nerdy OsCorp employee played by Jamie Foxx, who is electrocuted and vows to steal all of the power from the city and make New York a very dark place. I should note that in the comic books, Electro is White (so is Nick Fury from Captain America, who is played by Samuel L. Jackson in the movies). Then, there is Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), the kid CEO of OsCorp, who has taken over after his father dies. He’s dying of a mysterious disease and wants Spiderman’s blood. He ultimately becomes the Green Goblin. He is the more interesting and intriguing of the villains (and played by a better actor than Foxx). And, finally, there is Aleksei Sytsevich, a Russian with a Soviet Union “Hammer and Sickle” tattoo, played by Paul Giamatti (I didn’t realize it was Giamatti until the credits ran). Please, Hollywood, put the stale Russian villain narrative to bed.
Amidst his battles with the villains, Spiderman/Parker is also battling the demons of his father who “abandoned” him as a kid and the demons of Gwen Stacy’s deceased police chief dad, who wanted him to stay away from her because Parker puts her in danger with his many battles against criminals and other villains. He stays with Stacy, then breaks up with her, and then she wants to go abroad, to his regret.
Yes, there’s a lot going on. A lot. But it’s a return to the classic, fast-paced, good-versus-evil, evil-is-vanquished formula of the past. And I liked it. No, it’s not as good as some of Christopher Reeve’s “Superman” movies or anything like that. But it’s pretty good.
And it’s a great start to the summer movie season.
THREE REAGANS

Wknd Box Office: White House Down, The Heat, Redemption (Hummingbird), Dirty Wars

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 about 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: White House Down, The Heat, Redemption (Hummingbird), Dirty Wars


By Debbie Schlussel



The new movie I liked best this week isn’t the one with a lot of hype. It’s a small Jason Statham film with release in fewer theaters. But all things are relative. Here’s what I thought of all the new releases, debuting in theaters this weekend:


* “White House Down“: I already saw this same movie in March. Then, it was called, “Olympus Has Fallen” (read my review). And although this retread of that plot is a little more fun, it’s also a lot more politically correct . . . annoyingly so.



In Olympus, there was a White, ideologically nondescript President. In this one, there is Barack Obama parading as Jamie Foxx parading as “President Sawyer.” But it’s definitely Obama. He’s pretentious, brings the troops home from Afghanistan, idiotically makes a deal to withdraw all U.S. troops from the entire Middle East, has a partially-read Nelson Mandela book sitting on his mantel in the White House residence, negotiates with Iran, and makes a peace treaty between Israel, France, Russia, the United States, and all Muslim nations, including Iran. Yup, we’re supposed to believe peace with Iran is possible if we only negotiate with them and pull all troops from the entire Middle East. Dumb. Oh, and we’re supposed to believe that the President sent investigators to Iran, and found “no nuclear weapons there,” as the movie tells us. Yeah, that’s the ticket. No Iranian nukes, no such aspirations. And if you believe that, I have some land in Tehran (or Hollywood) to sell ya.



Absolutely ridiculous is the plot point that the defense industry and “military-industrial complex” are behind the plot to take over the White House and kill the President because they don’t want the peace treaty to happen, as it will kill business for them. Riiiight. ‘Cuz that’s waaaaay more believable than terrorists being Muslims . . . which has never ever happened. The movie makes a point to tell you that the world and the media mistakenly believe it’s Arabs and Muslims, when it isn’t. ‘Cuz again, they would never ever be involved in terrorism. Never. Also, did I mention that the terrorists in the plot in this movie are “right-wing” domestic terrorists? They include a “right-wing sociopath,” a “Special Forces veteran of black ops,” and a man who shot up the Post Office because there are too many Blacks working there. The Speaker of the House, who is also in on it–and ends up being a major bad guy. He justifies his involvement in trying to kill the President by telling the President, “You’re selling this country out to the Arabs.” Yup, as if those of us who know that this current President (as did the one before him) is, in fact, doing that, would plot to bomb the White House and kill the Prez. Did Janet Napolitano (who went to the Washington screening of this movie) write this crap?



Among the plot similarities between “Olympus” and “Down”: both movies have a member of the President’s Secret Service personal protection detail who is in on the plot to bring the President down, kill him, blow up the White House, and get the President’s secret codes to launch nuclear weapons. Both movies have the White House getting horribly damaged through explosives and shootings and the President nearly dying when the Joint Chiefs are gonna blow up the White House, but the President avoids this at the last minute. Both movies have idiots at the Joint Chiefs of Staff war room doing the wrong thing. Both also have the preposterous plot holes of the bad guys getting to bring guns into the White House and virtually every single member of the Secret Service detail and uniformed Secret Service at the White House killed or otherwise incapacitated at the hands of only a few guys. Just not believable. Oh, and one surviving Secret Service agent–in this movie, a Secret Service agent wannabe–saves the day in Rambo/Die Hard-like fashion. In Olympus, it was Gerard Butler. In this, it’s Channing Tatum.



Please, Hollywood, come up with something new.



The plot: Channing Tatum is a ne’er-do-well who saved the nephew of the Speaker of the House when they were serving in Afghanistan. As a reward, he’s given a job guarding and protecting the Speaker. But he wants to become a Secret Service agent protecting the President, so he goes to the White House for an interview with the world’s ugliest and most annoying female Secret Service agent–America-hater Maggie Gyllenhaal (who said America deserved 9/11). Here’s a tip: when applying for the Secret Service, if accepted, your first stop is the Secret Service Academy for several months of training. After that, agents spend years in the field as Secret Service agents before they are considered for the President’s personal protection detail. It’s not a job you can interview for from outside the agency because you know someone. Just doesn’t happen.



Anyway, Tatum doesn’t get the Secret Service job, but he’s brought along his estranged young daughter in an effort to impress her because she’s into politics, the White House, and President Jamie Foxx Obama. While they are still at the White House, technicians working on the President’s personal movie theater are really terrorists with guns they unbelievably got into the White House. First, a janitor, who unbelievably got a gun and explosives into the U.S. Capitol building blows up the Rotunda. Then, the terrorists at the White House take over. Surprisingly, there are only about 30 people, including tourists, in the entire White House (in this absurd movie), and they are all herded into a single room, including an anti-President Foxx TV talk show host, who is conservative and obnoxious/annoying. He gets killed, and everyone laughs.



Meanwhile, Channing Tatum is separated from his daughter (she went to the bathroom) when the terrorists strike, and he spends the whole rest of the movie trying to find and save her and save the President.



Yes, there are funny lines (and scenes, including one with the Presidential limo) in this movie and it’s entertaining–much more so than “Olympus Has Fallen”–but mostly it’s just a giant absurdity and rehash of a movie I saw just months ago. And, above all, it’s a Tatum-produced effort to make himself into an action hero a la the 1980′s movies. But it’s a hard buy despite the hard sell. Tatum’s no Jason Statham. Not even close.



The one thing I did find believable: when President Jamie Foxx is on the run for his life and every second counts, he stops to change his shoes to his precious, prized Air Jordans, which he wants to save. Priorities. You can bet the Obamas have a lot of the same kind of priorities, which is why people like Jay-Z infect the White House and the Presidency.



HALF A MARX


* “The Heat“: Sandra Bullock plays an uptight, perfectionist, but highly achieving and ambitious, FBI agent. Melissa McCarthy is a let-it-all-hang-out, sloppy Boston cop. They initially hate each other, but are forced to work together to catch a drug lord. And after a long set of arguments and hijinks against each other, they become buddies as in a raunchy male cop buddy movie. Yay, feminism!



Yes, there are funny lines, and I laughed. But not as much as I expected to. The movie is mostly boring, stupid, and predictable. It’s not a good cop buddy movie, regardless of the gender of the lead roles. And Melissa McCarthy’s “Laugh at me ‘cuz I’m a fat slob, and therefore funny” act gets tired. And beyond five minutes, it isn’t funny. Just grotesque and slovenly.



Mostly, this movie was lame. But, hey, they got a big paycheck. Cha-ching. It may be called, “The Heat.” But there’s no truth in advertising here. There’s nothing hot about this predictable time-waster. In fact, it left me cold.



HALF A MARX PLUS FOUR BETTY FRIEDANS

* “Redemption” (Hummingbird): I liked this Jason Statham movie the best out of all the new releases, this weekend. But all things are relative. Originally called Hummingbird, it’s about Joey Jones (Statham) a veteran of some Middle East war (either Iraq or Afghanistan, apparently), who went nuts, fled from a court-martial, and is now just a homeless drunk on the streets of London.



Thugs beat him and a homeless girl he watches over and loves. When the thugs chase him, he escapes through the roof of a building into a penthouse apartment, which just happens to be unoccupied for the summer, as its occupant, Damon (apparently a gay, big name photographer), is spending the summer in New York. So Statham stays there and brings himself “back to life,” cleaning himself up, getting a job as an enforcer for a Chinese mob, and ultimately seeking revenge for the killing of the young homeless girl, who has been murdered by a john when she was forced to work as a prostitute. He is an “avenging” angel.



During all this time, Statham amasses money and gives a lot of it to the attractive Polish nun, who mans the soup kitchen where he ate when he was homeless. And he and the nun have a brief romantic flirtation in which they learn they have very similar mysterious pasts.



I found this movie very entertaining, but it’s extremely violent and its message–if there is one–is quite muddled. While Statham tries to avenge the young girl, he’s just as violent and mean to others as a Chinese Mob enforcer, a point the nun makes to him. And while the movie is built on an interesting idea–a homeless man who finds himself in a luxury apartment for a few months, with access to funds and the good life–some of it was a little too coincidental, such as the fact that the man whose apartment it is just happens to wear the same size clothing as Jason Statham, in addition to happening to be out of the country when Statham lands there.



Still, if you like Jason Statham (I’m a fan), you’ll probably like this movie. It’s full of action, and has an interesting story line.



ONE REAGAN


* “Dirty Wars“: This anti-American, apologist “documentary” by the far-left “journalist” Jeremy Scahill (of “The Nation”) was boring and absurd, but, hey, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Rand Paul, and other flip-flopping partisans who’ve attacked Obama for killing “U.S. citizen” Anwar Al-Awlaki, will love it.



Scahill acts as if this movie is uncovering some sort of mystery or new information. Nope. It’s simply a love letter to Islamic terrorists and a polemic against America’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for combating Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and so on. Scahill is upset that we are actually combating this problem, that we used drones to kill Awlaki and his son, and that some other “innocents” (whose side he automatically believes because it’s against America) were killed. Um, that’s what happens in war. What about the innocent Americans Muslims killed? Scahill can’t be bothered with that.



In fact, he actually says that he’s upset that JSOC killed Osama Bin Laden. Go to hell with him, Jeremy Scahill. Oh, and did I mention that Michael Moore helped make this film possible and is thanked at the end? But, hey, it takes the same view on Awlaki and others as Limbaugh, Hannity, and Paul, so it must be great, right?



FOUR MARXES PLUS FOUR BIN LADENS

Midweek Box Office: Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Parental Guidance

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 about 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!

Midweek Box Office: Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Parental Guidance


By Debbie Schlussel



Sorry I didn’t post my reviews of the new movies out Christmas Day, but I wasn’t feeling well and needed a brief break. This is supposed to be the time of year when Hollywood puts out its best stuff. No such luck. Not even close. It’s just dreck. I can’t recommend any of the new movies that debuted in theaters yesterday, and here’s why:



* “Django Unchained“: This movie is a three-hour-long anti-White racism-fest. Yes, slavery happened in America, and the slaves were Blacks who were enslaved by Whites (and some other Blacks). But there were also some good White people, abolitionists who worked for the freedom of slaves. And, yet, not a single White American in this movie is a good person. All of them, with the exception of a German immigrant dentist/bounty hunter, are evil (and stupid). And you know why director Quentin Tarantino made the one good guy a German, don’t you? Because four score (the movie takes place in 1858) years later, the Germans were the Nazis we fought, the Nazis who enslaved the Jews. You’ve probably heard about Jamie Foxx bragging on “Saturday Night Live” that he gets to kill White people in this movie and gets paid for it. But that’s not news, since he utters the same line in the movie and that line is in many of the trailers promoting it.



And, since this is a Tarantino flick, it goes without saying that the movie is extremely bloody, gory, and violent–perhaps more than the other Tarantino movies. If Tarantino really wanted to do a good western, he wouldn’t have done this. Instead, he wanted to do a tribute to the Obama fans of the world and pile on everyone else, somehow justifying the non-stop affirmative action, minority set-asides, and other race-based favoritism in America. He also wanted to give the hip-hop, single-mother, welfare-addicted, drug-using segment of our society something to feel good about . . . that they are better than the White “crackers,” who “did this” to them. But, in fact, most Whites in America today, don’t come from that stock. For example, my ancestors were busy being raped and tortured in pogroms by anti-Semitic Poles in Europe at the time. They had nothing to do with slavery or what happened then. So, this movie, as a justification for all the Black racism against White people and all the legs up the government gives minorities, just doesn’t work for me. The “Get Whitey” ethos of this movie isn’t what we need more of. We need far less. And, as you may have read, it’s full of the N-word, though I expected that, since it does take place at the time of slavery in the South.



The story: a German immigrant dentist/bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) travels the country rounding up criminals, dead or alive, for the bounty. In the course of that, he looks for, finds, and frees a Black slave known as Django (Jamie Foxx). Together, they partner up in the bounty hunter business, while they look for Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), a German-speaking slave who was once owned by a German family. They find and try to buy her freedom from a haughty but not-too-wise plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio a/k/a DiCrapio). Along the way, they also meet another plantation owner, who is also haughty but not-too-wise, played by Don Johnson (yup, that Don Johnson of “Miami Vice” fame; Tom Wopat from “The Dukes of Hazzard” also co-stars). They also meet up with many small town residents and cowboys, all of whom are racist. Oh, and did I mention that White people are racist? In case you didn’t get that, there are scenes, such as DiCaprio and his other slave-owning friends and associates holding and watching a private mandingo death match between slaves as entertainment. Yeah, you see what those crackaz did in 1858? So, we deserve our Obamaphone and then some!



I would be lying if I didn’t say that there are some mildly entertaining and funny moments amid the race-baiting. But that doesn’t justify it, and mostly the movie is long, slow, and boring, between brutal, graphic killings, that is. Like I said, the movie is extremely bloody and violent, and extremely racist. And it’s not necessary at this time, unless of course, it’s to provide more justification for the re-election of Barack Obama, the ever growing ranks of American food stamp and welfare recipients, and the disintegration of urban America. You know datz right.



If you do go to see this race-baiting cinematic screed, don’t drink anything beforehand. It’s nearly three hours, and you’ll need a pretty strong bladder (and a lot of patience). I like a good spaghetti Western. This ain’t it.



FOUR MARXES PLUS AN AL SHARPTON PLUS A JESSE JACKSON


* “Les Miserables“: Miserable definitely describes my mood sitting through this nearly three-hour exercise in bad singing and an even more atrocious story. For years, I’ve heard every female relative I know and many of my friends rave over the Broadway musical upon which this is based. And, now, that I’ve seen it, I wonder, is that all there is? I have to say the fans of Les Mis vastly overrate utter garbage. What’s to rave about? An abandoned mother (Anne Hatha-neigh, er . . . Hathaway) toils in a factory to pay for her daughter who is being kept by evil, sleazy inn owners (Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter). When she’s fired from the factory, the mother becomes a prostitute and gets sick and dies. Then, the man who fired her, a former prisoner and lawbreaker (Hugh Jackman)–he was imprisoned for 17 years for stealing a piece of bread for his sister to eat–feels bad, so he gets her young daughter and raises her. But he is forever in hiding and escaping from a lawman (Russell Crowe). Oh, and he dies on the daughter’s wedding day. And this horrid tragedy is somehow a “great” musical? Oy.



I found this to be long, slow, and very boring. I couldn’t wait to go to the bathroom, as it’s waaaaay tooooo looooong. Also, while Hathaway has a great singing voice, the same cannot be said for the men, who sound horrible. It sounded like someone was beheading sheep. Not only can’t Russell Crowe sing, it’s almost as painful to hear Hugh Jackman, who supposedly was a great singer on Broadway and in his native Australia. Maybe something happened to his vocal cords since he began playing Wolverine in the X-Men movies?



I’m also shocked at all the parents who would take their kids to see such tragic, lascivious stuff with scenes of prostitutes and sex for money and so on. But maybe I shouldn’t be, since a porn star (Kim Kardashian) is the heroine for kids these days. Sad.



Don’t believe the hype over this flick. It’s a pointless bore, set to music and songs most memorable when they are the butt of “Seinfeld” jokes (“Master of the House”).



TWO MARXES




* “Parental Guidance“: this extremely stupid, utterly cliched, unfunny “comedy” makes it official: Billy Crystal and Bette Midler are soooo over. This is the best they could do? Sadly, yes. Sorry, but dumb bathroom humor “jokes,” such as a kid calling his grandfather, “Fartie,” fall flat. Not funny.



The story: Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott play pretentious, left-wing, New Age parents. When, at the last minute, Tomei gets a chance to go on a vacation with her husband, they reluctantly call her parents (Crystal and Midler) to babysit. Tomei doesn’t like them much or want to entrust them with her kids because Crystal and Midler are traditional, normal grandparents who don’t engage in the New Age silliness. That was the good part of this movie–showing how ridiculous the “never say no,” “no winners, no losers” and “no good, no bad” childcare philosophies of left-wingers are (but that wasn’t enough to save the movie or make it worth seeing). Crystal is aghast when, attending his grandson’s Little League baseball game, he learns that there are “no strike-outs” because kids are allowed to swing until they score a hit. And there are no scores either, as there are no “winners” and “losers.” He is not allowed to discipline his grandkids or criticize them, and is told, instead, to tell them to “think about your words.” Ridiculous, along with the kids’ ridiculous names, “Harper,” “Turner,” and “Barker.”



You can probably guess what happens, because this movie is all too predictable. Not worth 2 hours or ten bucks. Sorry. A great statement on the BS of today’s upper middle class American parents, just not a great movie. Not even remotely so.



HALF A REAGAN

**BUMPED** Django Unchained is coming soon to a theater near you

A very interesting post from http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/  about the movie "DJANGO UNCHAINED" which was previously posted. This follows this post about Ashley Judd's Senate run. This follows this post about a race hoax at U.T. Austin.  This follows this post about Emmit Till. In the meantime, you can read a very interesting book HERE.

Django Unchained is coming soon to a theater near you


We all know that Germans and White Southerners are the two types of people in this world who are hated above all others.

We are especially hated by Hollywood.

A couple of years ago, director Quentin Tarantino made a movie called Inglourious Basterds. The film was set in WWII France and features the sadistic butchering of scores of Germans by a character named “The Bear Jew,” and his friends. The climatic scene of the film shows a theater full of Germans burning alive.

Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 2009, winning one.

Interestingly enough, actor Eli Roth, who plays “Bear Jew,” has publicly denounced our radio program. See his comments here.

Now that the Germans have once again gotten their comeuppance from Hollywood, it’s time for White Southerners to take another turn.

Another movie from Quentin Tarantino is coming soon to a theater near you!

It’s called Django Unchained and it’s about a slave-turned-bounty hunter who sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner who seeks to put Django in chains once more.

The release date has been set for Christmas Day, naturally. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the evil plantation owner and Jamie Foxx as the righteous slave, Django.

One can only assume that Django will enjoy killing Confederates as much as Bear Jew enjoyed killing Germans.
Like Inglourious Basterds, it is being produced by the Weinstein Company.

Pay special attention from the 1:50 mark to the 2:10 mark. You get to see a White man killed and have his blood splattered onto cotton, with Jamie Foxx as Django stating with pleasure, “Kill White folks and they pay you for it? What’s not to like?”

All in time for Christmas.

Walt Disney, where are you?
HT: Brian in Arkansas

Django Unchained is coming soon to a theater near you

A very interesting post from http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/  about a movie coming out called Django Unchained. This follows this post about Chick-fil-A being attacked for their marriage stance.  This follows this post about some of the music that was poplular during 2011. This follows 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!

Django Unchained is coming soon to a theater near you


 We all know that Germans and White Southerners are the two types of people in this world who are hated above all others.



We are especially hated by Hollywood.



A couple of years ago, director Quentin Tarantino made a movie called Inglourious Basterds. The film was set in WWII France and features the sadistic butchering of scores of Germans by a character named “The Bear Jew,” and his friends. The climatic scene of the film shows a theater full of Germans burning alive.



Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 2009, winning one.



Interestingly enough, actor Eli Roth, who plays “Bear Jew,” has publicly denounced our radio program. See his comments here.



Now that the Germans have once again gotten their comeuppance from Hollywood, it’s time for White Southerners to take another turn.



Another movie from Quentin Tarantino is coming soon to a theater near you!



It’s called Django Unchained and it’s about a slave-turned-bounty hunter who sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner who seeks to put Django in chains once more.



The release date has been set for Christmas Day, naturally. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the evil plantation owner and Jamie Foxx as the righteous slave, Django.



One can only assume that Django will enjoy killing Confederates as much as Bear Jew enjoyed killing Germans.



Like Inglourious Basterds, it is being produced by the Weinstein Company.



Pay special attention from the 1:50 mark to the 2:10 mark. You get to see a White man killed and have his blood splattered onto cotton, with Jamie Foxx as Django stating with pleasure, “Kill White folks and they pay you for it? What’s not to like?”



All in time for Christmas.



Walt Disney, where are you?



HT: Brian in Arkansas

Weekend Box Office: “Horrible Bosses”

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!




Weekend Box Office: “Horrible Bosses”

By Debbie Schlussel



Most of the critics are raving about “Horrible Bosses,” the guy buddy comedy which debuts in theaters today. But I’m not. Forget the word “Bosses” in this movie’s title, and you get my review: “Horrible.” (I did not see “The Zookeeper,” but I heard it stinks.)







While, yes, there were some laughs, I mostly didn’t find it that funny. Instead it was mean, filthy, and just thin. It’s yet another movie in the Judd Apatow mold, meant for and aimed at 20-something frat boys and 30-something slacker boys who haven’t grown up. I found last summer’s evil boss/eager employee movie,”Dinner for Schmucks” (read my review and read the New York Times article quoting me about the movie), far more charming and funny.



This movie was just cold to me and kind of clunky. Sterile, yet filled with so much filth and class warfare. Yes, especially in these hard times where you have a choice between a bad boss or no job, many people fantasize about doing all kinds of things to their bosses. But few bosses are as bad as the ones in this movie. And it looked like a United Workers of the World fantasy that eventually goes bad, not a comedy for escape from my real life and yours.



And I could have done without “Horrible Bosses’” mocking of my religion and religious observances. When a sexually harassing dentist (Jennifer Aniston) squirts her male hygienist’s groin with water, she says, “Shabbat Shalom. Somebody’s circumcised.” Shabbat Shalom is the greeting I and my fellow Jews use to wish each other a good Sabbath, the observance of which is the key religious observance in Judaism. Can you imagine if Hollywood had the gall to say, “Happy Ramadan. Somebody’s circumcised.” Or “Alhamdillullah [praise allah], somebody’s circumcised”? It would never happen. And if it did, the filmmakers would already be negotiating with HAMAS’ CAIR Action Network to provide sensitivity training workshops and a buttload of cash and t-shirts.



If there was one high point in the movie, it’s that it shows the sexual harassment situation in the workplace as one between a harassing female boss (Aniston) as the aggressor and her male employee as the victim. Yes, women can be pigs, too, and don’t ever forget it, despite what the left (and now the right) says. But that’s been done before, and far more effectively and accurately in the 1994 movie “Disclosure,” starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas.



Another high point in the movie is Jamie Foxx. As much as I don’t like the guy and his pro-Muslim statements (his real-life father was Muslim), he played his role as “murder consultant” and financial scammer well against three silly, gullible White guys looking to kill their bosses.



The story: three guys who are buddies have horrible bosses. A dental hygienist (Charlie Day) has a nymphomaniac dentist (Aniston) as his boss. She insists he have sex with her, but he is engaged and doesn’t want to. Yet, he cannot leave his job because as a sex offender (he is on the list for urinating on a playground at night), no one else will hire him. Another guy (Jason Bateman) is angry at his evil boss (Kevin Spacey) who denied Bateman a long-promised promotion and took the title and salary for himself. And, finally, there’s Jason Sudeikis who worked for a wonderful boss (Donald Sutherland), who suddenly dies. The new boss, his son (Colin Farrell) is a cokehead creep with a combover, who forces him to fire a guy in a wheelchair and fat employees. The three of them decide to combine forces to kill their bosses. But, as with any wannabe comedy, they can’t exactly carry it out correctly. They, instead, screw things up and “hijinks” (or something) ensue.



And it’s not just that the movie is filthy that made me hate it. I’m no prude and like comedies like “The Wedding Crashers.” I just hated this. There just wasn’t enough humor or anything else to cut the bite.



Like I said, a few laughs here, but not too many. And this was instead a cold, raunchy disappointment. Thought I’d like this. But I just didn’t.



ONE-AND-A-HALF MARXES