Jim Jones and Cam’ron, who are two members of the four-member group, wore what appeared to be U.S. Navy jackets while singing on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem over the weekend.
I don’t think most “Vets” are outraged at this kind of grabasstic nonsense, most probably just think its silly. These wannabe Rap clowns just want to be seen in the news, they could care less how they get there.
Tom Cruise has signed on to reprise his role as Maverick in a sequel to the iconic 1980s movie Top Gun, due to start filming this year. Looks like he’s flying an F-35 this time, so no NFO to back him up. The big question is, can this possibly be as bad a flick as the original? Here’s the trailer, so decide for yourself.
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling’, Mick.
*grin*
We talked about the latest Clint Eastwood film, “The 15:17 to Paris” last year. It’s about the three Americans, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, who thwarted a lone-wolf terrorist attack on a train from Brussels to Paris. The trio star as themselves in the movie which spends an inordinate amount of time telling the story of the men before their heroic efforts on the train, according to critics, reports AFP;
“We thought the projectionist had put on the wrong film for the first quarter of an hour,” said the Parisien newspaper, which bemoaned how the veteran director took an hour and 15 minutes to recount the friends’ “tedious” childhoods as devout Catholics in California.
Only in the final “incredible, hyper-tense 10 minutes” does “The 15:17 to Paris” take off, said critic Renaud Baronian when Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler overpower a Moroccan jihadist armed with an AK-47 on the Paris-bound train from Amsterdam carrying more than 500 passengers.
Others were slightly less damning, with one critic lamenting that “an incredible story does not make a good film” and that “the movie gets stuck in the station,” while Culturebox said with biting irony that “it was not going to revolutionise cinema.”
The Figaro newspaper, however, praised it, although it admitted it “does not play the suspense card”.
Yeah, well, the actual terror attack only lasted minutes, so what could Eastwood use to fill a 90 minute film other than tell the story of three Americans who saved the lives of hundreds of Europeans on a spur of the moment decision, out of a sense of duty to humanity?
From Roger Friedman, a more charitable review;
You know, I’m Jewish and liberal, so “patriotic” and “Christian” aren’t two of the things I warm to in movies necessarily. But Eastwood’s take on these real life heroes is not simplistic. The real life people playing themselves as heroes on the train from Amsterdam to Paris– I was braced for a bad movie. And I will say, it starts slowly and it’s totally not what you expect. Nevertheless, if you’re patient with it, you quickly realize several things.
First of, the real guys are not bad. I’ve seen worse. Compared to Louis CK’s unreleased “I Love You, Daddy,” the acting and writing here is Shakespearean.
Second, Eastwood– as he did in “American Sniper” and “Sully”– lays out their stories and backgrounds objectively. I’m already seeing in some reviews some idea that Eastwood is pushing a religious agenda or whatever. Nonsense. He’s accurately depicting these people. The mothers of the guys are religious– this is what they believe, it’s their right. No one is mocking them or judging them. This is who they are. And kudos to Jenna Fischer and Judy Greer for finding the mothers’ dimensions.
If there’s a problem with “15:17” it’s that it’s almost filmed like cinema verite, certainly as the story unfolds. There’s a lot of exposition and it seems slow. Again, a little patience wouldn’t hurt anyone. Because when the kids’ backstories switch to the main guys, Eastwood finds a groove. Forgive him if the entry seems clunky.
So the French critics don’t like a film about Americans. Big surprise.
So, I bothered to read this tripe from Peter Maass in the Intercept entitled It’s Time to Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity. Basically, Maass is angry because Hollywood has stopped making movies which have too much sexual content, for some reason. He wants more movies like “Thank you for your service”. I haven’t seen it, actually, but I know from the title that I don’t want to waste my money on it. Maas confirms my suspicions;
The men in “Thank You for Your Service” are struggling with PTSD, painfully coming to the awareness that the combat that gave them such purpose in Iraq has injured their psyches.
Blah, blah, fucking blah. The same kind of drivel that Hollywood makes every few months for no reason other than to denigrate military service. Maass is upset because most Americans feel the same way that I feel;
“12 Strong” earned nearly twice as much in three days as “Thank You for Your Service” has earned in three months. And the numbers – more than $15 million in ticket sales for “12 Strong” in its first week – are Venmo pennies compared to the box office take of “American Sniper,” the macho movie about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle that has earned more than half a billion dollars since 2014. Who is at fault for the lucrative war chum that Hollywood tosses into our Saturday nights – the movie studios or the movie-goers who love to consume this masculine nonsense?
I’ll gladly answer that question: both.
Yeah, if only the movie-viewing public could be more like Maass and come to appreciate the fact that whining little pussies are more entertaining than the war-mongering heroes that actually write the chapters of our history in their blood. Hollywood wouldn’t make movies like American Sniper, 12 Strong and 13 Hours if Americans didn’t want to watch them.
Masculinity may be outdated in the testicle-free Maass household, and at Intercept, but not so in the rest of America.
I hate Hollywood. The whole controversy over the Harvey Weinstein scandal is a perfect example why I hate Hollywood. A few dozen women have accused him of sexually assaulting them in various manners ranging from dirty talk to accusations of rape.
None of them came forward over the years because they didn’t want their accusations to impact their careers negatively. They all took the crumbs that Weinstein threw at them in the form of acting jobs, though, so I doubt their sincerity when they claim injury.
Now that the dam has burst, they’ve all come out, and they’re being called brave. It’s actually a case of “Me, too-ism” rather than bravery. Even the communist traitor Jane Fonda says that she knew about it, and she feels guilty that she didn’t mention it before.
Yeah, it’s not brave decades after the assaults happened. People like Weinstein only have power over their victims if the victims allow him to have power over them, and that’s what they did when they didn’t make their accusations years ago. Now it’s just so much noise.
I can’t identify with Weinstein’s apparent need to force himself on women. I’ve always allowed women to “make the first move”. Even my wife had to move on me first, in that elevator 41 years ago. But, you know if that first woman that Weinstein defiled years ago had the intestinal fortitude to put a stop to it, maybe he wouldn’t have done it all those times since.
But now it’s fashionable for women to come forward – like everything else in Hollywood. Hillary Clinton, the great feminist warrior, took days to come forward with a statement condemning Weinstein’s behavior – only because it’s become fashionable. She’s not returning his money, but she’ll “tithe” 10% of her income to charities – her income, not her campaign donations that Weinstein made to her.
I was going to boycott Weinstein productions in protest, but it seems that I’ve been doing that already. Looking at the list of movies that he’s produced, I’ve only seen two of his movies, so I guess I won’t be putting a dent in his income with my boycott.
Yesterday, it was reported that British police and US law enforcement are conducting investigations into the allegations against Harv, but I don’t have high hopes.
The late night shows have been avoiding the controversy, but South Park took a single shot at Weinstein last night while they were going after Facebook and fake news.
Hollywood can’t even say a cross word about Roman Polanski, the child-rapist, 40 years later, I doubt they’ll ever really hate that pudgy little turd Weinstein enough to make fun of him. Ben and Casey Affleck and Oliver Stone have been accused of similar behavior, but I’m sure they’re just the tip of the iceberg.
Corey Feldman is reported to have “blown the cover” off of Hollywood’s pedophilia habits, but even he won’t name names this long after the crimes. He’s only scratching at the pedophiles’ doors, not “blowing covers” off of anything.
They only have power over you, if you let them.
QM1 sends us a link to the news that Kathryn Bigelow, the director of everyone’s favorite war movie, Hurt Locker and later Zero Dark thirty, is planning a movie about Bowe Bergdahl;
And now her third film is sticking in similarly hot button territory, as she’s moving forward on a movie about US soldier Bowe Bergdahl.
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Mark Boal, who wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, will write the movie, while Megan Ellison will produce. And while this project was actually announced last year, it looks like all three are now making it a priority, with Bigelow in particular pushing aside another movie she was attached to (Triple Frontier, about the South American drug trade) in order to get going on this.
Yeah, nevermind that the details of Bergdahl’s trip haven’t been released (that we know about), go ahead and make a movie. Of course, we all know that the CIA and the Defense Department released details about raid on bin Laden to the movie maker, so I guess they won’t have a problem doing the same in this case. Maybe we can come up with possible titles for this totally unbiased piece of fiction.
So that movie “American Sniper” that earned over $200 million the first week that it was in theaters has taken all kinds of hits from Hollywood and the political Left, but it will certainly flop now because Jimmy “Sour Grapes” Janos has announced that he won’t see it;
Ventura said Wednesday he won’t see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him.
“A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honor in lying,” Ventura told The Associated Press from his winter home in Baja California, Mexico. He also noted that the movie isn’t playing there.
Ventura also dismissed the movie as propaganda because it conveys the false idea that Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. “It’s as authentic as ‘Dirty Harry,’” he said.
So the fellow who sued the widow of a murdered veteran wants to lecture us about honor, and make the point of a film all about politics.
The movie that has set box office records for films opening in January, will certainly fall flat on it’s face now.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 18, 2015
Yep, that fellow who overeats, the fellow who told us that there is “no terrorist threat”, the fellow who wants to take away our Constitutional rights, the fellow who admires the Castro brothers more than he admires any American, took a few seconds out of his life to tell us that snipers are cowards, you know the weekend that a movie about an American Sniper is leading in Hollywood sales.
Everyone who believes that Michael Moore had an uncle killed in World War II by a sniper, raise your hand. Yeah, me neither. I’m pretty certain that yellow streak of his runs way back into his antecedents. Funny how he’s never mentioned this unfortunate uncle before. But, you know, it could be true, so that makes it valid.
I’m pretty sure he just figured that folks have been ignoring his stupid documentaries and needed to remind his followers (both of them) that he’s still around.
It’s apparent to me that all of the leftists are upset at the success of the movie, some morons have written bad reviews of the movie even though they had only seen the trailer;
I have not seen American Sniper. But if the trailer is any indication, Eastwood’s film, like Zero Dark Thirty, tries to make a straightforward situation more complex than it is.
I guess the combination of Chris Kyle and Clint Eastwood is just too much for them to bear. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I’m not going to write anything about it, like these two peckerwoods should have done.
ADDED: Was this the uncle that was killed by a sniper;
Following in his father Herb Moore’s footsteps — who served in the U.S. Marine Corps and fought in World War I — Frank Moore joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and became part of the 1st Marine Corps Division, fighting in the South Pacific in World War II.
“Frank was proud of his country, but he also fiercely believed in peace. “Anyone” he would say, “who has seen war first-hand would not want to ever start one,” states his obituary.
He died from his wounds last year, I guess.