Sunday, March 4, 2018
The Oscars!
It was last year when Bonnie and Clyde wandered onto the Oscar stage to present Best Picture award. After a substantial portion of the world said "who the hell ARE those old people?" Clyde opened the envelope. thought what the fuck, and showed it to Bonnie who blurted out the words "La La Land" and the rest is one big clusterfuck of the La La Land posse getting onstage, realizing that they didnt win and calling the Moonlight club to get up there cuz they actually won. Wow. What can happen THIS year?
Supporting Actor
1) Willem Dafoe - a lifetime achievement award? He did keep an overrated movie called The Florida Project alive everytime I wanted to kick one of those obnoxious little punks ass.
2) Woody Harrelson- he was the best part of that 3 Billboards hatefest and even he whacked himself halfway through which is what I wanted to do
3) Richard Jenkins- the gay neighbor role in The Shape of Water. He's always great
4) Christopher Plummer- its hard to imagine All The Money In The World without him. If it wasnt Michelle Williams movie, it was his. And he shot it all in 2 weeks
5) Sam Rockwell- I love Sam Rockwell. He's been great for years. But 3 Billboards? The redeemable racist thug cop who throws people out of 2nd story windows? Really? No tghanks
Who Should Win--Christopher Plummer
Who Will Win-- Sam Rockwell
Supporting Actress
1) Mary J Blige-- Mudbound is on Netflix. It's really good. She has no chance.
2) Allison Janney--she's the cartoonish mother ion I Tonya. She's wonderful while she's chewing up the scenery. But she's a cartoon
3) Leslie Manville--The Phantom Thread was a chore to watch. It was necessary to see, but it was a snoozer. Im not even sure which character she was,
4) Laurie Metcalf--Lady Birds mom. Not a cartoon. A real person. A great performance. She's fantastic.
5) Octavia Spencer-- She was in The Shape of Water. Like Richard Jenkins she was glue. She's already got one.
Who Should Win-- Laurie Metcalf
Who Will Win-- Allison Janney
Best Actor
1) Denzel Washington--Denzel is glue. He was great as an autistic lawyer in Roman J Israel Esq. I liked the movie more than most.
2) Daniel Kaluuya--Get Out was freakin great. It was satire at its modern finest. But as time fades, so does Get Out.
3) Daniel Day-Lewis--because he's Daniel Day-Lewis and he's the greatest actor of his generation. The Phantom Thread was a waste of his talents
4) Gary Oldman--he's never won an Oscar? He's hardly ever been nominated? Was he in The Darkest Hour? All I saw was Winston Churchill
5) Timothee Chalamet--Call Me By Your Name was stunning. This kid was in it AND Lady Bird. The 7 minutes of acting he did in the credits of Call Me was Oscar worthy
Who Should Win-- Gary Oldman
Who Will Win-- Gary Oldman
Who Should Get An Oscar within 5 Years- Tim Chalamet
Best Actress
1) Sally Hawkins-- Her goofy face alone acts better than a lot of actresses. Her mute fish fetishist in The Shape of Water was solid as hell
2) Frances McDormand--she doesnt give two shits what you think of her. Her grieving mother in 3 Billboards was the anti-Marge Gunderson. I hated her character. Her range is thus unlimited
3) Margot Robbie--I'll give her credit. She was fantastic. I Tonya was too
4) Saoirse Ronan-- since I first saw her in Atonement, she is my favorite young actress out there. She's the new Streep. Lady Bird is her second masterpiece at age 23. Oh, Brooklyn was the first
5) Meryl Streep--Like Gary Oldman, Meryl becomes her character. Her Katherine Graham made The Post. She shold have 15 Oscars by now, if not 20.
Who Should Win--Saoirse Ronan
Who Will Win-- Frances McDormand
Who Deserves To Win--Meryl Streep
Best Director
1) Christopher Nolan--is anybody better than him. No. Dunkirk is captivating
2) Jordan Peele--Get Out for his first effort is amazing.
3) Greta Gerwig-- Lady Bird is writing at its finest. She ought to win that award.
4) Paul Thomas Anderson--The Phantom Thread is so not him. I should admire it. I apologize I dont
5) Guillermo Del Toro--I am not sure I want to be in this guy's creative mind. The Shape of Water is as good as Pan's Labyrinth.
Who Should Win--Christopher Nolan
Who Will Win--Guillermo Del Toro
Best Picture
1) Call Me By Your Name--35 year old guy having affair with teenager? Hey, thats how it may be see by voters. As unfair as that is, no chance
2) Darkest Hour--its British, its cerebral, its got Winston Churchill, its not going to win
3) Dunkirk--its British, its suspenseful, and it is a classic. Nope
4) Get Out--its satire, its racial, its ending is so ridiculous they actually filmed a realistic ending. It has a punchers chance
5) Lady Bird--good lord I cant rave about this slice of life movie enough. It has a chance if others split the vote
6) Phantom Thread--huh? what? Is it over?
7) The Post--anyone under 40 probably laughed at how newspapers used to be. In fact, what IS a newspaper?
8) The Shape Of Water--Do they have the raisins to give Best Picture to a movie like this? The Sexy Fish movie?
9) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri--Its mean spirited, its dark, it features behavior that is criminal yet goes unpunished and its infuriating. The longer time marches on, the more I hate it
What Should Win--Dunkirk
What Will Win--Lady Bird (for the upset)
Finally please. Hammer that fucking Trump hard. You know he would give it all up to be accepted by Hollywood. Make his world even more miserable before he gets indicted. Please, MORE politics, not less.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Best 2017 Movies!
Hey its Oscar weekend. Ive seen all the movies finally. For 2017 was a pretty good year for flicks, right? You had disappointments like Beatriz At Dinner, and pleasant surprises like Baby Driver. It had trash like Brawl in Cell Block 99 and fun rides like American Made. 2017 also had perhaps the worst day in my movie going life when I endured the worst movie Ive ever seen, Mother, and two hours later endured the creepy and boring ass It. But it also had great movie going days like Logan Lucky, the best Coen Brothers movie of recent years (I know it wasnt the Coens but it seemed like it was) and then seeing It Comes At Night, a superior "horror" movie to Get Out, in my opinion.
But lets move on. Here are my Top 10 Movies of 2017.
10) John Wick 2
Sequels generally suck. John Wick 2 did not. The choreography in this shoot em up was as well done as the original. John Wick is a great character and a fine franchise. Much like Taken, another pleasant find years ago, this franchise has legs. They may have hit the mark here and if they make a new John Wick movie chances are it will be Taken 3. But lets hope not.
9) I Tonya
Margot Robbie has never impressed me as an actress. Suicide Squad is godawful, she is godawful in it. But as Tonya Harding in I Tonya, she made a believer out of me. The wacky "true" story of the late 80's to mid 90's soap opera involving Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan is really a great study of someone who you cannot help but sympathize with. I know Tonya Harding knew Gillooley and Eckhart were going to kneecap her competition in Massachusetts and did nothing to stop it. I know she'd do it again. But god help me, theres a little part of me that likes Tonya Harding. Sorry.
8) Wonder
Jacob Tremblay is a kid actor that much like Dakota Fanning before him, holds his own with anybody they put in front of him. He plays a young child with a deformed face who is put into middle school with other kids after being home schooled by Julia Roberts, his mother. Let me tell you, if you dont cry more than once during this movie, you are truly heartless. Jacob Tremblay is that good. So is this movie.
7) The Post
Yeah we know the story. Its about Watergate, right? Uhhh no, its about the Pentagon Papers and the decision on whether the Washington Post will publish them, risking jail and destruction. Its also the story of the growth of Katherine Graham as a feminist and as a human. Its a great movie. Meryl Streep is phenomenal. Sorry if thats a cliche' but theres no denying reality.
6) Wind River
Its this years Hell or High Water. Well written, a point of view, and Jeremy Renner. Renner is a cop investigating the murder of a young Indian woman in rural Wyoming. Its twists and turns continue the entire movie and will not disappoint. I also love any movie that employs the great Graham Greene and Gil Birmingham.
5) Detroit
This overlooked Kathryn Bigelow film just kind of faded away as people ran off to superhero movies last summer. Detroit takes place in 1967 Detroit and is about an ill fated police raid on a motel. Its got racism, racism and more racism. But what it really has is the toughest half hour to watch in any movie in 2017 when Detroit cops mock execute various detainees until something goes horribly wrong. This movie slipped thru the cracks. See it.
4)The Shape Of Water
I love Del Toro's movies. Full of color and fantasy and so utterly like nothing you're ever seen before. The Shape of Water, about a mute clean up lady played by Sally Hawkins at a top secret government facility back in Cold War America and a sea creature being tortured by an evil Michael Shannon that form a relationship. Despite the sex with a fish scenes, this colorful fairy tale hooked me from the start. Let it reel you in too.
3) Call Me By Your Name
There are times I feel this movie may be my favorite. The story of a older grad student having a summertime romance with the young son of his mentor is often so real its scary.Yeah I know Armie Hammer looks 35 and Timothy Challomet looks 12 but get past it because the story is both joyful and inevitably heartbreaking. Ive seen this movie twice, which generally means it made me feel something. Like I said, joy AND heartbreak. The soundtrack is also great. The last 10 minutes with Michael Stulberg and Timothy Challomet ARE the best 10 minutes of film of the year.
2) Lady Bird
I walked out of the theater at my advanced age and felt like a teenager again. The writing ,by director Greta Gerwig, was so spot on there isnt a human being, male or female, who couldnt identify with at least some of this movie. And if you are of an advanced age, and a parent, you can see this fantastic movie from both sides. Saoirse Ronan is going to win Oscars galore in her career. Dont tell me she was better in Brooklyn as a sort of criticism of Lady Bird because she is great in everything she does. Laurie Metcalf will probably not win an Oscar for this movie but she deserves it for playing Lady Bird's mom. Lady Bird is brilliant. Period.
1) Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, well one of his masterpieces, is Dunkirk. Starting with the fleeing to the French beach and ending with the British army being taken home by fishing boats and trawlers, Dunkirk tells the story from 3 different timelines. It may confuse you as it did me, but once you get the hang of it its thrilling. You know how it ends, yet you still sit on the edge of your seat as nameless faceless German planes attack relentlessly. Its arguable about how great it is in comparison to The Darkest Hour, which is much more cerebral, but nobody captures tension like Nolan. Bravo!
Now about one more movie. I know its not great. I know its ear candy. I know its bullshit as history but The Greatest Showman was the one movie all year I sat in and had 90 minutes of fun. The multi talented Hugh Jackman and the multi talented Michelle Williams sing and dance their way across the screen as PT Barnum and wife and its a freakin joy. Catchy tunes, underdog themes and an Oscar worthy original song. Loved it.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Let Your AR-15 Get You Out Of This!
There are so many thing about this guy that scream weasel that Im surprised the good voters of Missouri didnt elect Eric Greitens with about 90% of the vote.
Yeah, Eric Greitens, future GOP nominee for POTUS, is a 100 proof creep. An ex Navy Seal who campaigned in Missouri by shooting an AR 15, shooting a machine gun at the "Democratic agenda" ,Greitens benefited from millions in so called "dark money" to win the Governorship of Missouri. Nice choice Jed Clampett.
Greitens used a list of donors to a veterans group to solicit dollars and votes which by the way is highly illegal and just plain weaselly. Greitens is also a fine family man, a Bronze Star winner, hangs with Mike Pence and of course, is a complete weasel.
Back in 2015, Governor Greitens (Weasel-Mo) was carrying on an affair with a married lady. Greitens, the fine family man and ex-Navy Seal, wasnt into straight sex, oh no, he's a tough guy macho asshole who likes to tie chicks up and make em do pull ups, ya know, like any guy who shoots a machine gun in a commercial. Greitens tied his naked paramour up, blindfolded her and then took a picture of her. Oops, the woman must have thought, this is kind of weird, even for my weaselly boyfriend. Greitens the man, the cocky tough guy, then went the extra step to guarantee this side piece would never talk. He threatened her, like any guy who shoots guns in a campaign ad would do. You talk, and I release this picture.
Eric Greitens (Felon to Be-Mo) was indicted by a St Louis grand jury last week, perp walked to jail, god I cant help laugh, handcuffed, oh this is so precious, and charged with "felony invasion of privacy". This is so great.
Greitens isn't in trouble for blackmail, which he should be, he's not in trouble because he's a phony little prick with a gun, he's not in trouble because he's a guy who uses the Navy Seals to advance his own career (Seals are the bomb by the way and this guy is a disgrace to the rest of them), he's not in trouble for cheating on his wife "years ago" way back in 2015, he's not in trouble because he is a mug motherfucker. Nope he;s iun trouble because he's a dumbshit. He sent the pictures to his weaselly buddies. Again, he sent the pictures to other people.
This 42 year old jackoff is really a 16 year old boy bragging about his conquests. Goddammit, Missouri, what the fuck were you thinking? Oh yeah, he had a R after his name.
Greitens (Schlemiel-Mo) is now in full Trump mode. Pleading with his base by blaming "reckless liberal prosecutors", hollering about "George Soros" and the "liberal media" ya know all the good old excuses for conservatives being just plain bad people.
Greitens (Cocky Fuck-Mo) may be one of these assholes who dont get away with it. Missouri Republicans seem to be ready to bail on this weaselly prick. Expect this guy to resign soon.
Which means only one thing, In less than 5 years, the base will forget, blame the libtards, and elect this creep to some other office. Well that, or a prime speaking time at CPAC.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Crazy People Action Committee!
It's the annual gathering of neo-fascists, dummies and closet cases in DC this week when CPAC holds their annual screechfest. In the past we might get the sight of El Rushbo dressed like and Eastern European mobster hopping up and down as nerdboys ejaculated red white and blue all over each other.
But this year, in the wake of another NRA sponsored slaughter of young people, CPAC is just another swarm of soulless miscreants bent on worshiping their cult leader and calling dead and wounded students snowflakes.
Forget about the day that domestic terrorist Wayne LaPierre ranted and raved about gun issues like the EPA and socialism. Forget about human praying mantis Dana Loesch telling the fawning geeks that CNN loves mass murder and treasures crying white mothers. Both these inhuman heartless nutjobs deserve scorn and shame. Yes I know they have none.
Friday featured the appearance of Cult Leader In Chief Donald F Trump. The Kool Aid Advocate in Chief played with his hair, carried on like the drunk at the end of the bar about arming your history teacher, building walls, how clean coal gets all polished with Dawn or something, MS13, the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, his jacking off to the 2nd Amendment, DACA, letting the dead carcass of Billy Graham lay in state, his greatness and then the coup de grace, got these creeps to boo John McCain because ya know he prefers guys who dont get captured or dont get brain cancer. And yes he got the gaggle of limp dicks to chant Lock Her Up the same day Trumps flipper, Paul Manafort, is facing a life sentence in jail (he's 70 years old folks)if he doesnt flip on the Combover In Chief.
CPAC is usually the annual gathering of the biggest nuts in American society but with the Human Slime in Chief the nuts have become screwballs and loudmouthed maniacs.
Today we had speakers call former RNC chairman Michael Steele a token black guy, another speaker got the crowd to boo immigrants pretty much showing what these white supremacists think America is, and booed conservative speaker Mona Charen who called out Marie La Pens anti-semiticism showing these fucksticks are looking for their own Beer Hall Putsch, most likely when they all gather at the local all men tavern.
But finally, to be provincial, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (Trust Fund Baby-Ne) spoke today and hollered for off duty cops to be patrolling schools. Ricketts also glad handed the NRA to hold their annual Domestic Terrorism Convention in Nebraska because we all hunt and love guns and constitutional rights here in the heartland. Ricketts is of course full of shit and couldnt do a fucking thing without buying it himself. Ricketts also opposes background checks at gun shows as it interferes with "privacy". He wants to end Title IX so he can end abortion while at the same time paid a million dollars of his Daddy's to reconstitute the death penalty in this state. Ricketts is truly as bad a Governor as exists in this nation now that Brownback is gone from Kansas.
This whole CPAC screechfest was entertaining as a kind of mental case gathering of berserk whackjobs. But now that this nation shot itself right in the noggin in 2016, its a Nuremberg Rally for American Nazis. They arent even hiding it any longer.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Not Again!
Yeah its all you kids fault for not being meddling enough. Trump the moral leper took time off from watching Fox News and its moral creeps to tweet out a blame game tweet blaming the kids for not ratting out a troubled teen. For chrissakes, if every troubled teen was turned in to the cops, well there'd still be full high schools cuz the cops wouldnt do a damn thing once they found out the troubled teen was white.
Fuck all you complicit Congressional cowards who see this mass murder of America's children on a weekly basis and do nothing except shout out your worthless thoughts and prayers while at the same time counting your NRA blood money. Mitch McConnell is a moral midget who deserves whatever hell brings him and Paul Ryan, a cold hearted inhuman monster who not only conspires with the NRA to slaughter America's young but cannot wait to starve the elderly into an early grave also deserves the worst the Earth can bring to him.
If this constant destruction of innocent children by limp dicked losers who are allowed easy access to assault rifles by the likes of Trump and his puppet masters in both Russia and Congress doesnt bother you, no infuriate you, you belong in a cage like the animal you are.
Trump and his handlers are bad enough when they are cutting health care or giving money to their rich sociopathic donors or cutting food stamps while putting together a Russian type military parade or looting the United States Treasury or beating women or lying on a daily basis or paying off porn stars or threatening nuclear war on a pissant nation or groping his own daughter or calling people juvenile names or repealing everything the black president did, BUT TO REPEAL OBAMA ERA LAWS THAT MADE IT HARDER FOR THE NIKOLAS CRUZ'S OF THE WORLD, THE MENTALLY ILL, TO OBTAIN FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES IS A SIN. Its a sin against humanity and Im not talking about the bullshit religious idea of sin, but the basic sin of being a cold blooded prick with no shame and no concern for anyone but yourself.
I am still beside myself over this lack of basic decency shown by Congressional whores who value NRA money over lives of children. And they do, oh they do. These cowards are the worst of this society. The absolute slags of America. These clowns you vote for are desrving of nothing but your scorn and ridicule. Respect is earned and these untouchables deserve none.
Next Town Hall, show them what you have. Compassion for kids, and absolute disgust for them. They deserve nothing more.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Full Speed Backwards!
This is the story of Nebraska Trump. A man so childish and arrogant they he thinks that when things dont go his way, he can throw a money tantrum and buy his way back to being his way. Hey, it works. So why shouldn't our Trump, Governor Pete Ricketts, Governor Death Penalty, get his way even when it comes to appointing Admiralships in the Nebraska Navy. Yeah, The Nebraska Navy. A totally mythical organization that allows a Governor to hand out funny little certificates to various people and everyone has a good laugh. Hell, its not that hard to become an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy. All you need is to have one of its citizens, like me, to send in your name for nomination, and voila, you soon have a fake title like Worlds Greatest Chef or Worlds Best Mom and can hang it on your wall. But lets get back to the start of this story all about Nebraska Trump.
Back in the fall, empowered by something, I'm not sure what, a college sophomore set up a table on the University of Nebraska campus for Turning Point USA (throw that USA in there of course), an organization the rats on college professors they feel are too liberal, you know like professors that oppose white nationalists. But I'm again getting ahead of myself.
This college sophomore, a young woman from Colorado, set up this booth to get people to sign on and "monitor" the University professors to make sure they dont teach anything bad to impressionable young people. You know, like the earth is round or there was actually slavery at one time in this nation's history, or god forbid, that Donald Trump is an uncouth loud traitor. A demonstration began involving people who think this young woman may have been in line with the Charlottesville
This incident caused 3 state senators to throw a shitfit that their point of view was being stifled by
The grad student, also a lecturer, was asked not to return to campus. The Professor went on with her year, knowing there was some squealing snitch someplace monitoring her every move.
This is where the Nebraska Navy comes in. A Nebraska gadfly nominated both the Professor and the grad student for Admiralships and as 99.9% of the nominations, they were both granted by Governor
For example, the Nebraska Legislature, attempting to keep under control Governor
Example 2, when the legislature gets a bit uppity and doesnt go along with what Ricketts wants, he simply spends his own money to get his puppets elected. And it fucking works, because in this state we vote for whoever's name youve heard the most in TV ads. And Daddy Ricketts has a lot of money to buy TV ads to elect his son's sheeple to a job that pays $22K a year.
Back to the Nebraska Navy. Once Governor
Admiralships in the Nebraska Navy have been given to murderous dictators, scam artists, religious phonies, tax cheats, women abusers, and even my liberal father. Yet not once has one of them been revoked. Not one. Until now. Because a couple of strong women made a little conservative
As you can see from the above picture, one of the "honorees" aint giving it up, The only problem is that Ricketts, like Trump, has a goon squad of bodyguards and a gang of Trumpanzees willing to do anything to enforce his will. So we shall see what happens if Governor
Oh and a PS. The University of Nebraska has a full fledged self aggrandizing Nazi on its campus. This, however, is a matter of freedom of speech and University officials, in fear for their funding, can do nothing to eradicate the white nationalist scum from its campus. Yell at a conservative cream puff and you are asked to leave campus. Espouse Nazi ideology on You Tube, participate in white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, and its all a matter of free speech.
This is Pete Ricketts' Nebraska. His own little fiefdom, his own little plutocracy where you do what he wants, or he'll buy his wants.
He's running for re-election folks. And he will probably win because he has unlimited money to influence the western part of this state with his TV ads.
I feel like Nebraska is going the way of Kansas. Run into the ground, or rather run straight into an iceberg by a man in a little dictator suit.
Where the hell is an Admiral when you need one?
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Tuesday And I'm Thinkin Again!
My father spent 45 years in the stock game. From stock broker to account executive to financial planner he always said all those titles were bullshit. I'm a salesman he'd proclaim, almost proudly. The other two things my old man said in his 45 years pushing stocks on a daily basis was "stock market goes up, stock market goes down" and of course, "I was just about to call you" whenever one of his panicky investors would call and interrupt his newspaper reading.
The stock market plunged the last two days after Wall Street realized we have a goddamned maniac running the country. Just a warning. To those of us versed in history, we know, that when Republicans get control and cut taxes to the rich and run up the debt what inevitably happens is 1929, 1987, 2007 and perhaps 2018. The fucking market crashes bigley and regular people suffer. My 401K lost 40% in 2007-2008 thanks to the permanent tax cuts passed by the Cheney Administration and I havent really recovered. Others can say the same thing.
Beware, America. The third thing my Dad said was "Democrats are good for the market, Republicans are bad for the market". The stats prove him correct. Abortion dont mean jack on Wall Street. Unless they are aborting your investments. Vote accordingly.
The Blabberer in Chief went off to some manufacturing plant in Ohio to get his huge ego and tiny hands a workout. Speaking in front of some of the blindest and most brainwashed cultists, oh lets face it, white racists, the "Billionaire" in Chief told these idiots what they wanted to hear, Gus Greatest Hits tour. He's not "braggadocio" , he loves workers (and the poorly educated), no
I'll tell ya why not, Felon to Be in Chief.
No I wont. What I will say is the imbecile who yelled that at the rally should move to fucking North Korea if he wants to worship a Dear Leader. Cultists like the cretin who hollered "treasonous" about someone who thinks the Lazy Asshole in Chief can say nothing that should not be worshiped and written in a tiny tiny book even Trump's tiny hands can get a grip on should get it over with and drink the cyanide that inevitably will come to his lips.
Tom Brady threw for over 500 yards in the Super Bowl. He was virtually unstoppable. The only problem was Nick Foles was better. So to tell me Brady is done is asinine. Congratulations to The Eagles. Max was ecstatic.
Then white Philadelphians took to the streets to act like assholes. Smashing windows and overturning cop cars. All in good fun, right? Imagine had the vast majority of the revelers been black. Think about it. Be honest. What would have happened? You know the answer.
Finally, reality hit us all in the face on Monday when Max's Mom's Mom passed away in her sleep. Sally had a tough life, indeed. She survived aneurysms and cancer and heart attacks before her body and spirit just wore out. Though not without her flaws, as we all have, Sally was one tough broad. She suffered no fools and took no shit the last few years of her life. Sally became my pseudo Mom after my Mom, another tough broad (sorry Mom), passed away. So long Sal Gal. You were one of a kind!
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