Drag Me to Hell was delightful, and in my view very much reminded me of EC Comics /Tales from the Crypt. Also, that little jig during the possession scene was just pure fried-gold.

Oh, and Within the Woods has never been officially released, because thinks it too shitty to be put out, though it’s floating around online in horrible quality.

Spider-Man 3, Peter strutting down the street and dancing = awesome fucking shit.

I can perfectly understand why people like this film so much. That’s fine. For me there was just more that didn’t work than did. And that’s fine in my book too. I don’t get this “If you didn’t like it, you’re an asshole of the first degree” attitude. It reeks of organized religion.

I think one of my big issues with Ron Paul’s campaign was not even Paul’s problem. It’s that so many of his internet fanboys (and yes, I would use that term in many cases) were organizing as if they were sending a petition to George Lucas to release Episode 1 without Jar Jar. They were overestimating their numbers and anytime he did poorly it was some ‘conspiracy’ and they were holding back the real numbers, or some other excuse, and they were all so certain he was goin to win anyways. I think the fact that they were so deluded that they sincerely believed that he was going to win, even in New Hampshire, was weird. They spent all their hours setting up fake chatrooms under fake Romney or Huckabee domains that they looked past actual on-the-ground operations and GOTV organizations.

I mean they raised this shit ton of money, and they organized like absolute idiots, and did nothing useful with it. It was a pretty pathetic spectacle, and I don’t think its inflammatory to say so.

I worked for a man who could barely speak any English at a Greek-run restaurant in St. Catharines. He was comical though, he’d dash into the back in a hurry whenever more than a half dozen people were in the store and ruin whatever we were making and thought he was helping, literally shoving us aside and sticking his hands in the salad bowl and tossing it all over the floor, flipping burgers and butterflied chickens onto the floor, picking it up off the floor, flipping again, same result. Pretty nasty. Kind of irrelevant but something I’ll never forget. He called me “Ko Hay”

Living in Orlando means a unilingual person will often come across a language barrier. I worked a little bit in landscaping here and it seemed to me like the only one in that company who spoke fluent English was the owner (read into that as you will). It seems to me that the ability for a community to successfully blend rests upon the shoulders of its educational system, and Florida’s has been woefully inadequate since the Jeb! days of yore. Our current governor is seen as the more progressive of conservatives, baffling liberals with his pro-environment rhetoric and angering conservatives with his soft stance on social issues. Yet for all Charlie Crist’s praise (look to see that name on a more national level in the years to come) he is, in reality, an empty suit looking solely to further his career one photo op at a time. As a result our schools still fail and our communities become more segregated by language. When we get to Summer Heights High on The Rotcast I’ll go further into how schools continue to fail children.

I supported Dr. Paul’s campaign, and yet I find nothing in those statements to be inaccurate or grossly exaggerated. None of this changes the fact that I fall in line with his rhetoric more than I do, say, Tim Geithner’s.

Anyways. . . . .

I think Kevin was supposed to be the comic relief, but then she turned into a martyr-esque creature. It’s like Up wanted to be everything to everyone and in that it lost me. But hey, at least Sean @ Filmjunk feels the same way.

I still dont see whats so specifically Dreamworksesque about the dogs, given Pixars record of things talking that can’t talk. I laughed my ass off at the dog who had the squeaky toy to fire his guns. If I had to have Russel as the sole comic relief and no dogs, I couldnt see myself liking this movie. that kid was not endearing at all.

That being said, I wish there was a libertarian (or like minded individual) in politics with good hair that sounds great. Maybe then we could drive the conversation towards things that really matter.

I think we might have to agree to disagree on Doug the dog. I thought it was cheesy, and very “Dreamworks-esque”… and unnecessary given the Russel character in the first half. But I still liked the film, quite a bit, even though it had some flaws.