Movie Madness!!!

Watched a bunch of movies again this weekend. The list includes: Manufacturing Consent, Seance, Pushing Tin, and then a low-rent comedy show called Stella.

Manufacturing Consent was good for what it was. Very informative, but very long. I think that Noam Chomsky looks like a mix between Tim Shew & Bill Hoover. I really like the way that Noam presents himself and also how he defends himself. I hated that he had debates with people who would not listen to anything he had to say, that can only be rivaled only by the likes of Bill O'Reiley & Rush Limbaugh. Assholes like them should be fucking shot. It amazes me that people who come off very blabber-mouthed and one-sided and don't listen to the other side and they're the ones that people listen to. Where as the ones they don't listen to are the ones who see both sides of things and form their own opinions.

It bugged me a lot when people were trying to get Noam on somethings and he'd explain how or why they're wrong. And it's like they didn't hear his reply and they'd ask it again in a different way. I really hated that kid towards the end saying, "...you hate the media and the paper and everyone here is here because they saw an ad for this even. IN the paper. How come you're not talking about that?"

Then Noam starts explaining and burning the kid, and the kid looks to the audience and smirks this irritating smirk that says, "Can you believe this load of shit?" Oh, the kid's wearing a frat shirt. But yes, Noam explains very clearly what his stance is against the newspapers but the kid just wanted to not hear it.

It's like that guy they had on NPR who was at one of Bush's speeches. Before Bush even said anything, this guy started attacking him on issues and Bush got upset and kept saying, "Can you let me speak? I haven't even said anything, why are you attacking me?"

Seance was stupid. I hate these pseudo-suspense/horror re-make films that's all the rage. This movie is stupid. It just shows this stupid couple who does everything wrong imaginable. They end up with a girl in one of his trunks. He doesn't call the cops or the hospital. Neither does the wife. The girl dies. His wife is the psychic on the case. They both start seeing her ghost. He beats the ghost up. He sees his doppelganger, and he set him on fire. The movie's dumb.

Pushing Tin was an all right movie. It took a long time to get good, but it did. John Cusack's charater is a dick. Billy Bob Thornton is pretty cool. The movie's well worth watching, if for anything, the part when they get caught in the wake of the 747. Jeff, you're gonna be rolling when you see it.

Stella is the stupidest show on earth. You would think that great sketch comedy guys like these guys would be a little bit funny. I watched an episode last night, which I believe is the pilot, and it bombed. The only funny scene is with Ed Norton, but only because he pops out of nowhere as Ed Norton. Aside from that, the jokes and all were stuff that you would expect from your boss if you work in an office job. Or comedy from the 20's or something. Stuff that just aren't funny, or it's not funny anymore.