Saturday, March 17, 2007
Quickie movie mini-reviews.....
Have viewed two more DVDs via Netflix. My service got disrupted for over a week just because we had a blizzard. The lazy-ass postal worker in my neighborhood wouldn't deliver to our mailbox because the snow plow only cleared the middle of the street and poor Mr. mailman could't reach our mailbox from his truck!
First up was "Thank You For Smoking". A tobacco industry lobbyist, slick as Teflon and just as bright and shiny, manages to escape from serious damage to his reputation despite kidnapping, near death, an expose by a sexy journalist, and a Congressional hearing. The guy can pretty much out-spin a tornado and keep a smile planted on his face the entire time. Along the way, he manages to bond with his son while teaching him the value of thinking for himself. Hilarious, well-written, excellent cast. I wonder if the Bush camp took lessons from the book it was based upon? I recommend it for anyone with a good sense of irony.
Then Thursday, I watched the Carlos Mencia DVD "No Strings Attached". This is a stand-up comedy performance recorded in San Francisco last year. Not for the faint of heart or narrow minded. Mencia takes no prisoners. He points out how boring and condescending political correctness has always been and leaves no minority group unscathed, including his own. He has a bit in which he describes his refusal to give a guy in a wheelchair special treatment, and just when you're thinking he's shameful for this, he points out that the man in the wheelchair thanked him for paying attention to the man in the chair and not the chair itself. When Mencia goes on a rant about how society treats the disabled as though they are invisible, he's telling the uncomfortable truth. And that's the basis for most of his stand-up routine: uncomfortable truths that are funny whether you want to admit it or not.
Should get back to unpacking the bedroom next to the command center so I can get the Gazelle machine set up, not that I have the energy to use it yet, heh heh. I keep finding more and more stuff to put in the filing cabinet I bought; I would estimate it's about 90 percent full now. It's turning out to have been a much better investment than I would have thought possible.
More later.
First up was "Thank You For Smoking". A tobacco industry lobbyist, slick as Teflon and just as bright and shiny, manages to escape from serious damage to his reputation despite kidnapping, near death, an expose by a sexy journalist, and a Congressional hearing. The guy can pretty much out-spin a tornado and keep a smile planted on his face the entire time. Along the way, he manages to bond with his son while teaching him the value of thinking for himself. Hilarious, well-written, excellent cast. I wonder if the Bush camp took lessons from the book it was based upon? I recommend it for anyone with a good sense of irony.
Then Thursday, I watched the Carlos Mencia DVD "No Strings Attached". This is a stand-up comedy performance recorded in San Francisco last year. Not for the faint of heart or narrow minded. Mencia takes no prisoners. He points out how boring and condescending political correctness has always been and leaves no minority group unscathed, including his own. He has a bit in which he describes his refusal to give a guy in a wheelchair special treatment, and just when you're thinking he's shameful for this, he points out that the man in the wheelchair thanked him for paying attention to the man in the chair and not the chair itself. When Mencia goes on a rant about how society treats the disabled as though they are invisible, he's telling the uncomfortable truth. And that's the basis for most of his stand-up routine: uncomfortable truths that are funny whether you want to admit it or not.
Should get back to unpacking the bedroom next to the command center so I can get the Gazelle machine set up, not that I have the energy to use it yet, heh heh. I keep finding more and more stuff to put in the filing cabinet I bought; I would estimate it's about 90 percent full now. It's turning out to have been a much better investment than I would have thought possible.
More later.
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