Some movies I've seen (and some I want to see)

I am not the biggest fan of Jim Carrey that there ever was, but he is funny is some movies. I liked The Mask and Dumb & Dumber, the two Ace Venturas were OK, but I hated The Cable Guy. Then came Liar Liar, and I really like that movie. Yes, he does overact quite a bit in that one, and a co-star even calls him on it in an outtake, shown over the ending credits. But still, the movie was funny.

Through the years, Carrey has attempted to do serious drama, and in my opinion he is just not cut out for that. The Truman Show was OK, but  both Man On The Moon and The Majestic were box office flops. Then there was that live-action Grinch abomination, I refuse to see that one, I perfer the original '60's cartoon.

Another favorite of mine is Bruce Almighty, which was directed by Tom Shadyac, who also helmed Liar. I think him casting Carrey in the lead role of this movie was pretty smart, this is exactly the kind of movie that he excels at the most. Also, Jennifer Aniston plays his girlfriend, and her character is the complete opposite of Rachel Green, and I found that refreshing. A star in the making who also would get his own movie in the form of the spin-off Evan Almighty was Steve Carell. He scored big with the American version of The Office, as well as the hit movie The 40-year-Old Virgin. But in this movie, Carell plays an arrogant and obnoxious rival to Jim Carrey's Bruce at the news station in Buffalo, New York. Like I said, most likely because of the success Carell had in other things after Bruce was released in 2003, he would star in it's semi-sequel Evan Almighty. I should also mention that the very beautiful and talented Catherine Bell is also in Bruce, unfortunately, she is totally wasted in a thankless role as a bimbo newscaster who propositions Bruce at a party, but only after he has become successful in his job on TV.

What I am trying to say is, Carrey should not ever again try to do serious drama, he should leave that to others. Also, now I want to see Evan Almighty. I read that after it came out and was a moderate hit, it was the most expensive comedy movie ever made. I'm not sure what it's budget was, but I think it was able to make it back at the box office. I'd like to see it sometime.

One other thing. The great Morgan Freeman has now played God in two movies. Before that he was none other than the President of the U.S. in Deep Impact. Also, he does many voiceovers for commercials and documentaries. Apparently he is quite versatile!

How most celebrities would react to us mere mortals

I was just watching a little bit of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother". As some of you know, it's about "Ted" as a thirtysomething in the present day interacting with his friends, and the show is narrated by "Ted" of the future, telling his teen kids, well, look at the title again. Anyway, the dude playing "Ted" may be billed as the star of the show, but it's Neil Patrick Harris as "Barney" who is the *real* star! And I know why Neil took this job, and I'll let you all in on it.

Back in the early '90's, Neil was but a mere young'un and he starred in a mild and mediocre family-oriented sitcom called "Doogie Howser, MD". After the show ended, he then played a role in the pretty good sci-fi/horror movie "Starship Troopers". He played a powerful psychic who could not only read minds, he could transfer his thoughts to others far away. I thought that was cool. Anyway, after that, he was on a very short-lived and very terrible show called "Stark Raving Mad". It was yet another one of NBC's futile attempts to have the viewing public contribute ratings, as they billed it, along with many other shows, as "Must-See TV." The problem with this is that I choose never to watch it, as poor Neil was stuck in the role as an assistant to a borderline-insane horror novelist (played by Tony Shaloub, who previously was Antonio on "Wings", and he would later go on to play the lead role in the comedy drama "Monk"). Anyway, if that wasn't bad enough for Neil, he was given the role and told to play it straight. Can you believe that? NBC had an excellent comedic talent at their disposal and he was thoroughly wasted playing the straight man on another dumb NBC sitcom of the late '90's!

And you know what else? There were promo ads leading up to the debut of the show, which featured Harris and Shaloub around a campfire talking about the show and how great it would be, and Shaloub kept mocking Harris by saying "Doogie" every few seconds. That was cold! And as a result, Harris became extremely sensitive to the word "Doogie". Apparently he was hoping that this new show would make people forget about the character he played when he was a child (much like Jaleel White and "Urkel", referenced in the kid comedy "Big Fat Liar" where Jaleel plays himself and expresses disgust at being called "Urkel".)

So now, Harris is on a hit show, he is playing a character people like (women want him and men want to be him, that sort of thing) and he came out as homosexual some time ago to boot. And doing so did not hurt his career in the slightest! Now that's a cool dude.

Now, I was thinking, what would happen if you were to encounter a celebrity either at a convention, or maybe just in public somewhere, and let's say you're lucky enough to be able to get their attention and actually have them talk to you. Now, let's say that you just want to have a little fun, and you say to them, in the form of "(however many) words! (whatever show, movie, or album they did that bombed, or whatever character they played that everyone hated). Do you see what I'm doing here? For example, say you actually meet Neil Patrick Harris, and you say to him "Three words, NPH! STARK RAVING MAD!"

I think I would really love to do that to a famous person someday, because EVERY actor or singer or whatever they're famous for has made embarrassing mistakes that they would really just rather forget about (and hope that everyone else has forgotten about it too!). So to Neil Patrick Harris, I would remind him of that incredibly shitty NBC sitcom he did over ten years ago, and see how he would react. I think it would be fun!

However, there is also the possibility that the famous person just wouldn't care about you mentioning their past failures. Some of them just might not care at all! I'm reminded of what comedian Andrew Dice Clay once said to someone in his audience. It was from an album he did back in 1989, and Clay was talking about sitcom star Rosanne. Then some guy asked Clay if he had heard about her new show, and Clay asked the guy to "tell him the joke". When I listened to what the guy said next, I unfortunately could not understand what he said. But Clay laughed, and then he told the guy this: "She lives in a house in Bel Air and you drive a broken Pinto. She gives a fuck what you say, really. She SHITS on you, believe me!"

Now I don't know about you, but that really puts it into perspective for me!

Also, there's the EXTREME reaction to an embarrassing past that a celebrity could make to a unsuspecting fan. For one thing, if you get on their nerves enough, depending on just who it is, they could attack you. And then you'd try to sue them or take them to court, which would be completely futile because everyone knows that juries (and lots of judges) love famous people and would almost never convict a celebrity. They would just be slapped on the wrist, just a little bit, and you might still be injured. Sometimes it said that the poor can never afford justice. And in some cases it's true!

And then there's the scenario where the celebrity has their hired muscle do their dirty work for them. If a fan were to say something that a rich and powerful famous person doesn't like, they would just snap their fingers and say "Security! Get this asshole out of here." And they'd grab you and roughly take you out back, and throw you into an alley into a big pile of garbage. At least that's how I've seen it done in the movies!

In conclusion, it just depends on the personality of the celebrity as to how you would deal with them. Mention a past failure to them just for fun, and some of them wouldn't care. Others would have their no-necked goomba goons throw you out, and still others would attack you themselves.

Out of all the celebrities I'd like to meet, I've thought of things to say to two of them. One is Kevin Smith, the director. He did a movie with Linda Fiorentino, and he reportedly hated working with her so much that he refuses to work with her again. He also refuses to talk about what happened. So what I would say to him is: "Why do you hate Linda Fiorentino? What did she do that was so bad?" and then see how he responds. But for her to have done something SO BAD that KEVIN SMITH refuses to talk about it, holy shit, it must have been *really* bad, because anyone who knows and is a fan of Smith knows that he is  NEVER at a loss for words, and ALWAYS has something to say, as long as people have paid to listen to him talk! Much like the late George Carlin, Kevin Smith absolutely LOVES to ramble on and on about himself and how successful his career has been, you know, once he actually had some money so he could write, direct, and star in something that actually looked like it cost more than $20,000 dollars to make, and didn't have the same five people play all the roles in it! And don't get me started in the incredibly pretentious Kevin Smith Movie Dialogue! I mean, who talks like that? Nobody in the real world, that's for sure! And if I were to create a character called "Silent Bob", well, I'd do just that, I'd have him NEVER TALK! You know, like Teller! He's pulled off that schtick for the last 20 years or so, and it's worked pretty well. Or, as one last suggestion, have him be like Morn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, an alien who LITERALLY NEVER SAYS A SINGLE WORD! The "joke" is that, off-camera, he doesn't ever shut up! Now, that's some good sci-fi character development!

Another famous person I want to meet is George Lucas. You all know him as the creator of the Star Wars Saga, the six movies. But in 1978, after the first movie was a big hit,  a "Holiday Special" starring the Star Wars characters, plus guest stars Harvey Korman, Art Carney, and Bea Arthur, was aired on TV. And it was an appalling abomination, to say the very least! And it will NEVER be released on DVD. There are only a few bootleg copies left. Apparently Lucas is so embarrassed by the special's failure, he refuses to talk about it, but he did once say that if he could track down every copy and smash them with a hammer, he would. That's pretty bad for a legendary director and producer, to feel that way about something he created, don't you think?

I mean, this from the man who produced the release of the 1986 mega-bomb "Howard The Duck"? Well, that's one questionable thing, but it gets worse! Apparently Lucas gave the creation of Jar-Jar Binks, the ultimate racial stereotype that annoyed and offended millions back in 1999 when he debuted in the Star Wars Universe, the green light! It was one (of many) things that made me never want to see "The Phantom Menace" and just read about what happened in it. (I wasn't really interested in seeing Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker as a little kid, anyway.)

Well, I have actually seen Howard, and it was pretty bad, but at least it made me laugh at times. But for Lucas to say that the existence of JAR-JAR FUCKING BINKS is OK by him?! Holy shit, that's pretty messed up if you ask me!

More thoughts on "ScarJo" and her hubby "RyRen"

Well, I thought about it, and I decided that I like both Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds. I always liked her, but I didn't care for him until he married her. His roles on TV like "Two Girls & A Guy (& A Pizza Place) from the 90's did not inpress me too much, to tell the truth. But then he started doing movies like Van Wilder (which I still haven't seen), Just Friends (which I saw cause I also like Amy Smart), the trendy theme restaurant comedy Waiting... (that one was OK, but I have no interest in the straight-to-DVD sequel), and of course, the well-received comedy The Proposal, which pretty much revitalized his career. It co-starred Sandra Bullock, who had both a really bad movie (All About Steve) and a great movie where she won an Academy Award (The Blind Side) both in the same year. Yes, she won an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year, just like Halle Berry did a few years ago!

Then came the Wolverine prequel, and I think Reynolds played a fine Deadpool. In the Marvel comic books, the Deadpool character is an assassin-for-hire who has razor-sharp wit and a really sarcastic sense of humor, so Ryan was right for that role in the movie, because he can play characters who are real smart-mouthed.

And now he will be playing the Green Lantern (the Hal Jordan version) in next year's adaptation movie of the DC Comics character. That should be interesting, I have been doing a lot of research into the DC Universe for a while now. Before that, I was just reading Marvel, but now I like DC as well.

As for Scarlett, well, I had been wondering something for a while now. In my previous blog post I said that I had seen both the Nanny Diaries and He's Just Not That Into You and that for the most part, I enjoyed both. But as I also said, she was brunette in Nanny and blonde in Into You. Plus, in Into You, her breasts looked much larger than in Nanny. Perhaps it was the clothing she wore for the two different roles. In Nanny, she played a young and intelligent aspiring business woman who has an interest in anthropology, and as the title implies, she becomes a nanny for a wealthy couple in Manhattan's Upper East Side, and her outfits are, I suppose, relatively conservative. Her breasts do not stick out all that much, nor does she show much cleavage. But like I said, that was proabably because of the character whe was playing, and the director wanted the audience to tak her seriously.

But in Not That Into You, the story is a lot different. In this movie Scarlett plays a young, fairly naive yoga instructor who is also an aspiring singer. This leads her to meet a guy (played by Bradley Cooper) at the store, they get to talking and he says he works for a record company. He also tells her he is married, because at first he is not intending to cheat on his wife. But his attraction to her grows, as does hers to him. One night after a yoga class, they go to the gym's pool, talk briefly, and then she strips her clothes off and dives in. She then asks if he would like to come in the water as well. Anyway, they do end up having sex, and hiding this from his wife (played by Jennifer Connelly) is putting a major strain on their releationship.

I must point out that in contrast to her Nanny character, Scarlett's character in this movie is more impulsive and less inhibited, so I suppose that explains why she ends up sleeping with a married man who may or may not be able to help her with her singing career.

Anyway, some time later, the two are going into his office, and he locks the door. They discuss how the (whoever does this sort of thing) loved her demo, and she is very excited that her career is getting a shot in the arm. So they proceed to passionately kiss and he gropes her buttocks and begins to remove her dress, as they move over to his desk. She then reveals her magnificent breasts in a sexy red bra, and then he gropes them too. At this point when I was watching the movie in the theatre, I was thinking "OK, NOW I'm getting excited!" However, they are interrupted as his wife knocks on the door, and she wonders why the door is locked. He attempts to regain his composure and motions over for Scarlett to go in the closet, and he practically shoves her in there. So his wife comes in and decides that she wants to seduce him, as their sex life has been nonexistant for a long time. He succumbs, and during this, Scarlett is forced to listen to them while in the closet. Afterwards, the wife leaves, somewhat satisfied. But when he lets Scarlett out of the closet, she is furious, saying that he is a "pathetic excuse for a man" and she ends their affair right there by saying "You will never touch me again!"

All this time, Scarlett's character has been friends with a real-estate agent who is frustrated at her lack of interest in him, romantically and sexually. After breaking up with the record guy, Scarlett goes to the agent and passionately kisses him, and we are led to believe that they do finally have sex. She then, at the end of the movie, decides to not be with a man for a while and talks about going on a yoga retreat to India for six months.

Oh, in case you were wondering about the guy's wife? She was suspecting him of smoking, and whenever she would confront him about it, he would always deny it. But one night she find the cigarettes, and just like Scarlett was, she becomes furious that her husband would lie to her. She throws his clothes out of the closet and smashes a large mirror on the floor. But after she has calmed down, she cleans up the mess, writes a note for him, and leaves. When he comes in sometime later, he finds the note with a carton of his brand of preferred cigarettes. The note reads "Knock yourself out" on the front. And when he flips the top over it then reads "P.S. I want a divorce."

Well, that was a bit of drama right there, wasn't it! Anyway, I was just wanting to compare the two charcaters that Scarlett Johansson had played in two decent movies that I had watched recently. That's all, nothing more!

And if you were wondering if ScarJo ever got a boob job? No, she hasn't, they're all natural, and all spectacular! It's just, like with other women, certain clothes press the breasts down and make them less prominent or visable. And then there are the outfits that leave very little to the imagination. Especially in the summer!

Like I said before, I haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet, but I suspect that she has done a good job of playing Russian super-spy Black Widow. In the Marvel comics, she was a long-time love interest for Tony Stark (Iron Man). But in real life, Scarlett is twenty-something, and Robert Downey Jr is in his mid-forties! Nice work if you can get it, that's what I say!

Well, here I go again...

.....with having crushes on celebrity babes, that is!

I started having a thing for Scarlett Johansson a few years back. I think the first movie I saw her in was Lost In Translation. I never saw the Horse Whisperer where she was a kid, but I did just watch Ghost World, where she was still kinda young. I've noticed that she goes back and forth from being a brunette, like in The Nanny Diaries, and being a blonde, like in He's Just Not That Into You. I really liked both of those movies, and I still want to see her in The Other Bolyn Girl and Iron Man 2. Of course, she married Ryan Reynolds and the two are said to be adopting a child soon. Good for them, I wish them well. She is a hot babe, and he is a hunk stud muffin. At least according to a female friend of mine. When we were talking about Scarlett and Ryan, I jokingly suggested that we both go to Hollywood and break them up so that we can be with the one we like. Ha, that sure is funny, I guess it is the fantasy of many people to be able to seduce a hot celebrity!

The one actress I have loved from afar for about 20 years now is Winona Ryder, and I just saw The Darwin Awards, one of her post-shoplifting incident movies. Believe it or not, she is actually a natural blonde, but she has had either black or brown hair for so long, it's easy to forget that fact. As for the length of her hair, I liked her fairly short dark hair in Reality Bites, and I also liked her really short dark hair in Girl, Interrupted. Also, she wore a blonde wig for Edward Scissorhands, the only time she was ever blonde in a movie that I know of. Some other movies she did I liked were Beetlejuice, Heathers, Mermaids, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some of her not-so-good movies were Alien Resurrection, Lost Souls, Mr. Deeds, Sex & Death 101, and A Scanner Darkly, because the animation used in that movie was absolutely terrible! However, I have yet to see Little Women, The Crucible, How To Make An American Quilt, The House Of The Spirits, and Autumn In New York.

As for my "thing" for her, I have liked her for a long time because she is an attractive petite brunette, unfortunately, she is a chain smoker. And then there's that incident at Saks Fifth Avenue back in 2001. She was removing security tags from items of clothing and the security cameras captured the whole thing. Also, she was in possession of non-prescription medication, but that might have had to do with the fact that she broke her arm filming a scene for Mr. Deeds earlier in the year. As far as I know, she paid a fine and served community service, as it was her first offense they did not punish her too harshly. I suppose that's for the best, as Bill Clinton said about Monica Lewinsky, she's basically a good girl.

Anyway, I sometimes dream about being able to meet Winona and go on a date with her. That would be great. She has dated many musicians and some fellow actors, and I guess we will never find out about why she and Johnny Depp broke up. Was it him or was it her? Oh well, I suppose it's irrelevant now. I do however, wonder if she will ever get married.

Anyway, I don't really care for the movies she has been doing since her arrest, I feel the earlier ones are much better. Also, I remembered, she will be 40 next year. Wow, time flies, that's for sure.

I guess that's it for now. Until next time...

Today's random postings

Two actresses that are still prominent and significant, even though their respective shows are now off the air: Kirstie Alley and Leah Remini. Apparently they are the best of friends. They proved it when Leah appeared on Kirstie's Fat Actress as herself and when Kirstie guest starred on King Of Queens, also as herself. They both did those things as a favor to the other, it would seem.

The problem I have when these two? They're both in the Church of Scientology. I recently learned that the only reason Kirstie never guest-starred on Frasier in her Cheers character is because Fraiser was a psychiatrist and Scientologists don't believe in psychiatry. Or in taking medication for depression either, they think ordinary vitamins work a lot better.

Anyway, one difference between Kirstie and Leah is that Kirstie was originally a movie actress and then moved onto numerous TV show roles. On the other hand, Leah has always just done TV, I don't believe I've ever seen her in a movie.

And Leah gained weight in the middle of King Of Queen's run and looked particularly porky. But then it seemed as if she lost it later on. The same cannot be said for Kirstie. Her whole Fat Actress show was about her life in Hollywood now that she was really big, and her being unable to get work as a result. John Travolta even appeared as himself because the two did the Look Who's Talking movies a real long time ago. His career has had it's ups and downs (Pulp Fiction: up, Battlefield Earth: down) but he seems to still consistantly get work. Kirstie, for a while, did not. Oh, and he and his wife are Scientologists, too.

I cannot properly express just how much I thoroughly loathe and detest Scientology and Scientologists. As I once said, if I were ever to talk to somebody and they said that they were one, I would immediately break off contact with this person and move on. I choose to consciously avoid people for that reason, as well as for other reasons as well. I just have no patience or tolerance for certain things. Life is too short, you know what I'm saying?

In my way of thinking, Scientology is not even a real religion! And this is *my* blog, so I have the right to express my opinions about it. Just so you know where I'm coming from.

There are numerous aspects of Christianity to consider. I was not brought up in any one major religious background, and I choose to not follow any specific one. Not even Satanism! Hey, that's a religion too, and so is Atheism, in a way. I have no religious beliefs of any kind, and I'm proud to say that that's my right! But I can still say what I really don't like about religions in general.

One thing I can't understand is why Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to accept blood transfusions. They would rather let a loved one die instead of accepting a donation of a pint of blood that ordinarily would save their life. Coincidentally, the entire Jackson family are J.W.'s. That's right, the *Jacksons*. As if that family didn't already have enough problems!

As for Mormons, they're too religiously-oriented and incredibly conservative about everything to my liking. Plus the idea in the media that got attributed to them that all Mormons are bigamists certainly doesn't help their image any, either. Plus, their families are absolutely huge! The Osmonds, anyone?

I'm going to reserve judgment on the other major religions, such as Judism, Islam, and Buddhism, as my knowledge of them is incomplete. I need to do further research before I decide to comment on them. I don't know of there being anyone against Buddists, but both Jews and Muslims have had to deal with a lot of prejudice against them for thousands of years.

That's it for now. Until next time...

Some musings on pro wrestling

I've been a fan of the WWE, and to a lesser degree, TNA, for a while now. Generally I will check TNA's website to check their current roster in order to see who has been newly signed, or has has been released. That same page also shows that company's current champions. I don't have cable so I do not watch the Impact program TNA does every week, nor do I subscribe to any of the pay-per-views. I just like to check the site from time to time to see what's going on.

As for the WWE, I first became a fan back in 1991. I also started following the now-defunct WCW a few years later. I followed both companies until mid-1996. About that time the famous "Monday Night Wars" were going on between WWE and WCW. Also, in the mid-to-late '90s wrestling underwent a considerable change in content, it became decidedly more adult-oriented. It was referred to as the "Attitude Era" for WWE, and in WCW, the NWO, led by newly-turned-heel Hollywood Hulk Hogan, had pretty much taken over the company, and it led to considerably risque content bieng aired on their weekly Nitro program.

Unfortunately, I was not following the companies at that time. I took a long break from watching the shows and buying the magazines. But I decided to come back to following wrestling around 2006-2007. The Attitude Era was over and WCW had been bought up by WWE's chairman Vince McMahon, and programming was pretty much back to normal, the way it had been before. Wrestlers I had never heard of were now in WWE, and I started buying the DVD's of the pay-per-views, and I starting watching Smackdown on my local FOX affiliate so I could catch up with the feuds and the championship holders at the time.

Now WWE has entered what is referred to as the PG era. There is no more excessive violence or sexually-oriented angles being done any longer. The women wrestlers or "Divas" no longer strip each other down to their underwear, and matches like "First Blood" have been discontinued. In wrestling, bleeding used to be quite commonplace. Now, it only happens by accident, or if it was not previously planned to happen in the script. WWE used to have angles involving either extreme violence, or an insane level of sex, or both. No longer. They have gone back to the early-mid '90s way of doing things - that is, appealing to families and children. Besides the regular WWE Magazine, there is also a WWE Kids magazine as well. Which is all fine and good, I suppose.

I have a few observations I have made about two wrestlers in particular. One is about Sheamus, the big Irishman. I liked him when he first debuted on the ECW brand of WWE (which has since been discontinued) because he was neither a face or a heel, it seemed he did not fit the description for either. However, he proved to be a big fish in a little pond, as he ran roughshod over the limited roster on that brand. He was then drafted to Raw and was immediately thrust into a feud with WWE Champion John Cena. So they had a match for the Title at December's Tables Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view. One of the stipulations was that the title could change hands if Cena was thrown through a table, and if it broke, Sheamus would become the new champion. Well, that's exactly what happened, and some fans were outraged. I felt the same way, I could not believe that WWE would actually let a title change hands in that manner. Also, the fans turned on Sheamus and made fun of him for his bright red hair and pale white skin, heckling him with lines like "get a tan!". It was also said that it was only because Sheamus was good friends with "Triple H" Paul Levesque (who happens to be married to Vince McMahon's daughter Stephanie) that he was pushed in that manner and got the title shot that he did. Anyway, he has since lost the title, and he is now feuding with Randy Orton.

The other wrestler I thought was a big deal was the self-proclaimed "untouchable" Drew McIntyre, who is Scottish. He quietly debuted on Smackdown last August and the proceeded to completely squash his opponent in less than a minute. Drew and his hapless opponent, R-Truth, would feud for the next two months, with Drew annihilating him in every match. During this time, Vince McMahon personally endorsed the arrogant Scotsman and labled him "a future World Champion". Drew must have gotten a swelled head over this because he then set his sights on bigger prey than the mid-carders he was so easily squashing up to that point- John Morrison and his Intercontinental Title. So the two started to fued and McIntyre did indeed defeat Morrison for the title. He held it until about a month ago, but on one Smackdown, his antics and his incredible arrogance proved too much for SD General Manger Teddy Long to handle. He came to the ring while McIntyre was fighting with Matt Hardy, and because Drew would not stop attacking Matt, Long first suspended Drew, then he stripped him of the title and banned him from Smackdown. The next week there was a mini-tournament to crown the new IC Champion. Kofi Kingston won and was awarded the belt, but then McMahon came down and declared that Long had abused his power as GM and reinstated McIntyre on SD and declared that Drew was still the IC Champion. This caused the crowd to nearly boo McIntyre out of the building, and when I heard about this I thought, well, he's done his job, he's now the most hated heel on Smackdown. And he played the part to the hilt, cutting promos where, while speaking in his thick Scottish brogue, how he was the future of the company and that he was now "untouchable" because of McMahon's personal endorsement of him. He REALLY made the fans hate him, that's for sure!

But the story has a happy ending. Remember Kofi Kingston? He managed to do what no other SD wrestler, not even John Morrison, had been able to do: he soundly and cleanly defeated McIntyre for the IC title on a recent SD episode. I like that, it's good to lot a popular face have the title for a change.

By the way, Drew is married to one of WWE's Diva's, Tiffany. And she is very pretty. I suppose Drew must be a decent bloke in real life, but in the ring, he's all-business and the fans LOVE to hate him!

Also, before they both debuted in WWE last year, both Sheamus and Drew McIntyre were frequent opponents in numerous independent federations, both in the US and in the UK. I thought that was interesting. They are both tall as well, about 6'5"-6'6" each!

(This was from 2010. Obviously it is now extremely outdated, as I edited this in 2013!)

Holy shit. These assholes are all fucked up!

That was my reaction to the trailer for "Grown Ups". Here's why.

I hate Adam Sandler. Not because he's Jewish. Because he's annoying and obnoxious. And he is incapable of talking in a normal tone of voice. He always speaks stupid baby talk, or he screams uncontrollably. And he thinks that's funny. Guess what. IT ISN'T!!!!

I hate Kevin James. He's fat and he's stupid. Just what the late Anne "Momma" Ramsey said about Danny "Owen" DeVito in the excellent 1987 comedy "Throw Momma From The Train". I LOVE that movie! Plus, it was done back before Billy Crystal became pompous and arrogant and totally convinced of his own superiority over the rest of Hollywood. Trust me, if you ever find out that he wrote, directed or produced a movie he's also starring in, it's bound to be complete crap. AVOID IT!!!!

I also hate Kevin James because he's been really fat for at least fifteen years on both TV and in movies, and hasn't done a goddamn thing about it! He's STILL fucking fat! Plus, he's not funny! And neither is his equally fat, equally stupid brother Gary Valentine. This no-talent shlub would never get any work if it wasn't for Kevin, who for some reason is a big star and throws his weight around to get his brother work!

Moving on. I hate Rob Schneider. Not because he's Jewish, but because he had the audicity to pick a fight he could not possibly win. After his "Deuce Bigalow" movies came out, a film critic commented that there was no such thing as an acting award that would go to "the most unfunny consecutive penis jokes delivered by a third-rate comedian" and that stuck in little Robbie's craw, you see. He wrote a scathing reply in a full-page ad that not only had this critic never received any kind of recognition for his work (which was later proved to be false) he also threatened that if this critic would ever meet him or his friends, he would probably "be beaten beyond recognition". Well, if that don't beat all, so to speak. Anyway, Roger Ebert would review the "Male Gigalo" flick and proceed to completely tear Schneider a new asshole over the fact that he had been so brazen to confront a critic on his opinions, and bluntly informed him that "quite frankly, your movie sucks." Which Ebert would then use for the title of his second book of reviews of movies he gave two stars or less to.

I also hate Schneider because he would never get a single acting job if it wasn't for Sandler, he is basically Sandler's "pet", in a way. Tell me: when is the last time you saw Schnieder in a movie that wasn't a "Happy Madison Production"? Exactly my point. And the same goes for David Spade, I might as well put him in here as well. Don't get me wrong, he *used* to be funny. I especially liked his "Take The Hit" comedy performance from 1998. But everything since then ("Joe Dirt" & "Dickie Roberts", for example) has been absolute drivel! Plus, since he grew his hair long and started sporting a scraggly beard, it makes him look like a sleazy drug-addicted drifter! How he ever managed to seduce a woman half his age is totally beyond me. And he's a father to boot! And like Schneider, he only gets movie roles these days 'cause of Sandler.

I wonder what kind of arrangement Rob and Dave have with Adam. They must be like his bitches or something, having to do everything at his beck and call, and cater to his every whim. Not THAT kind of whim, you perverts! Sandler maybe extremely unfunny and possibly legally retarded, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't swing THAT way!

Last, we come to Chris Rock. Now, I view him a bit differently than the others, not because he's black, but because he is a self-made comedian and multi-millionaire who NEVER needed Sandler's help to get an acting job. I have to say it, Rock is actually *funny*. His comedy albums and cable specials, his late-night talk show, and his "Rock This!" book have proven to me that he is definetly a true talented entertainer. However, I do have to take some points away from him for refusing to stop cursing so that the legendary Bill Cosby would agree to guest on his '90's late-night HBO show. Cosby apparently refused to appear because of Rock's constant use of strong language. That was pretty sad, I thought, I would have loved to have seen the two converse, as Rock not only lists the late Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy as influences on him, but Cosby as well.

On a side note, in 1987 when Murphy was doing his "Raw" concert special, he spoke of Cosby calling him and "chastizing him for being too dirty". Murphy then explained that he then called Pryor up and told him what Cosby had said about him. And then Pryor told him to keep on doing what he was doing, cause he was making people laugh *and* making a lot of money at the same time. Oh well, I suppose that's one way of looking at it!

So, needless to say, I will NOT be going to see this movie, I would rather watch "Bill Cosby Himself", "Eddie Murphy Raw" or even my "Bill Cosby: 49" VHS, as that special from 1987 has not yet been released on DVD. And it's still better than anything the cast of Grown Ups has done!

BTW, one comedian who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth is Martin Lawrence. He was pretty active in movies, on TV and comedy in the '90's, but since then his many personal problems derailed his once promising career. Apparently he never had any kind of connection to the above mentioned comedians, I guess he just wasn't in their league!

Well, that's it for now. Until next time, this is A. R., and sometimes, ya just gotta let it all out!

I can be wrong too, ya know!

Well, it turns out that Two and a Half Men is returning for two more seasons, as Charlie Sheen has just signed a two year contract to continue on the show. And here I was, all "the show is coming to an end" earlier. I'm so ashamed that I was wrong!

I honestly thought that Sheen would either be going back to rehab, or even to prison. But he is, of course, getting away scot free with abusing his wife and putting her through all that bullshit. He's a celebrity, what the hell do you expect? They get away with things you or I never would!

Oh well. That's pretty much all I have to say right now. Later!

Two & 1/2 Men has finally run it course!

The new episode has convinced me of that. The show is nearing the end of the seventh season, and I think it's time for it to leave the airwaves!

Frankly, I would not shed a single tear if this show came to an end after this season. Charlie Sheen is rumored to not be returning, and there ain't NO WAY that they're doing this show without him!

I'm sick of the off-color over-sexualized style of humor anyway. It's the same reason I thoroughly loathe and detest the current Alyssa Milano sitcom. Why is she doing this show? It is so beneath her it's not even funny. She is almost 40 years of age and has already done a sitcom as a child actress, then in the 90's while trying to "find herself", she did a shitload of made-for-cable and direct-to-video erotic thrillers, too many to count!

As for her music career, it only existed in Japan, so I shall disregard that. And then there's her love life. She's dated about three or four dozen dudes in the last 20 years (many of them her co-stars) and now she's finally married to a man she loves. Also, she's a diehard vegan as a result of smelling the stench from the burning flesh coming from the WTC wreckage. Tell me, is that REALLY the best reason to mention why you choose not to eat meat? I don't think it is!

Anyway, I wish she was not on this show she's doing now. She is gorgeous and beautiful, I love her face, hair, and body, but her choices for acting projects has left a great deal to be desired!

Plus, Alyssa's mother hates the fact that her little brother was able to see nude pictures of her online, so she started a movement to regulate (CENSOR) the Internet. I don't like that. That makes me angry!

Enough about her. As for the Two Men thing, it can go off the air and into oblivion for all I care!

I just want to see The Big Bang Theory continue for many more years, it's is the absolute best sitcom on TV right now. And many people agree with me!

I'm about done ranting for now. Later.

Random Movie Musings

I am a fan of both "Weekend At Bernie's" movies. Yes, you read that right!

I don't know why, I but I think they are both funny and entertaining for various different reasons. Both movies have different directors, writers, and producers, but they both follow a common theme. That being, a dead guy doing all sorts of crazy and ridiculous things!

Film critic Richard Roeper has listed the first "Bernie's" as "one of the forty worst movies I've ever seen", and he had this to say about it - "Corpse comedy is D.O.A."

Well, that's his opinion. I've certainly seen far worse. "Battlefield Earth", anyone? And how about the so-called "Underground Comedy Movie", brought to us by the same guy who was hawking ShamWows and Slap Chops, before he got arrested for soliciting and assaulting a hooker. Apparently he has crawled back to obscurity as a result!

Trust me, DO NOT waste your time or money with the aforementioned "comedy movie". In my opinion, it is neither!

Anyway, back to the two Bernie flicks. The first came out in 1989, and starred Andrew McCarthy as Larry and Jonathan Silverman as Richard. A very attractive young Canadian actress named Catherine Mary Stuart was Gwen, the romantic interest for Silverman's character. And Terry Kiser was Bernie. Silverman and McCarthy played young executives at an insurance firm who discover attempted fraud in the company's records. Their boss, Bernie is the one who stole the money, and in order to cover the fact that he had embezzled from the company, asks his criminal cohorts to kill Larry and Richard. Instead, the head mobster orders his hitman to "take care of Bernie" instead, as he has become both greedy and careless, plus, he is having an affair with the head mobster's girlfriend on the side. I think you know about the rest. The hitman takes Bernie by surprise and kills him, and Larry and Richard arrive at the beach house and discover Bernie dead. The rest of the movie consists of Larry and Richard's misadventures as they are avoiding the hitman who is out to kill them for being witnesses to Bernie's death.

Not the most intelligent comedy ever, but it was still, like I said before, funny and entertaining.

Now for the sequel. It was filmed two years later in 1991, but "sat on the shelf" for two years and was not released until the summer of 1993. I actually remember the TV ads for Bernie's II.

Richard and Larry are back, as apparently this movie takes place where the first left off, after they have returned to New York with Bernie's body. To complicate matters, a voodoo priestess has been hired by the mob Bernie was working with. Her plan is to use a magic spell to resurrect Bernie so he can show her where he hid the cartel's money (the $2 million he stole from the company in the first movie.)

Much of this film takes place on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The first film was actually shot on the coast of Virginia, but claimed to be on Hampton Island, which is fictional, and is not to be confused with "the Hamptons", an affluent region on Long Island.

Anyway, the scenery is beautiful, and that, along with the music, are two ways the sequel is better than the original. The first film had some good score (like the music during Richard and Gwen's nighttime walk and romantic interlude on the beach) but it had only one decent song in it, "Some Like It Hot", the main theme accompanying the opening and ending credits. However, the second had a lot of great music. Both the instrumental score and the original songs were really good to dance to.

Needless to say, Bernie's II did very poorly at the box office. It was made fun of in an episode of "Seinfeld", and many critics felt there had been no need for a Bernie's sequel. Also, Catherine Mary Stuart did not return. That was a real shame!

So that's my take on the two Bernie movies. Take from it what you will