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Hand Maid May (2000)
Trite Harem Anime
The overused and implausible scenario where the male in the harem anime is inhumanly detached from natural emotion only when it serves the continuation of the indecisive heart of the male member of the harem? That's here.
The lack of earning the woman's loyalty but getting it anyway? This anime has it in spades, and does an over the top job each time.
That being said, it's cute, silly, and fun. I beg of you: don't use your time on this anime. You won't grow much from watching it. I was a fool not to check the reviews on IMDb before watching. But I'm glad it was only 10 episodes.
Artistry is fairly simplistic, but colors are fairly vibrant. Perhaps it has something to do with being produced in 2001.
I'd write a longer review, but I simply don't want to think about Hand Maid May any longer.
White House Down (2013)
The antidote to Olympus Has Fallen
If you want to compare the two, both of which are {highly unrealistic -a given in almost ALL:} action movies, White House Down has more realistic battles. Not by a whole lot, though.
What makes White House Down the antidote to Olympus Has Fallen is that it's got a respectable president and honest politics. This fictional president's actual actions indicate that he has values in line with our founders: humility, willingness to admit mistakes, and real passion for non-interventionism, diplomacy instead of preemptive and dishonest wars, and separation from the military industrial complex and banking cartels which have helped destroy our republic.
Some people have written that he is like a liberal, when in fact the actual politics of this president are in line with libertarians. It has been stated that this movie is divisive about republican vs democrat, but I disagree strongly with that position. It has also been said that this president's politics are that of obama. But that is simply untrue. Obama's actions have spoken: he is a wallstreet schmuck who cares little for our republic. He cares little for diplomacy. He cares nothing for staying out of wars. He cares belittles our founding fathers and our constitution. He cares nothing for humility and campaign promises. He cares little for real transparency and honor. Take off your blinders, people.
Sony Pictures was righteous to create this film. It's a dose of reality that was sorely lacking in Olympus Has Fallen. If you can stand dumb action, you haven't seen either Olympus or White House, and you feel inclined to see one of the two, then do choose White House Down.
The Walking Dead (2010)
Great premise, bad characters (through script & acting). Very disappointing, given the superior potential for a cataclysmic zombie madness show
After one's naturally murderous appetite for a zombie shooter TV series subsides (it can never, ever go away) one will come to realize how absolutely terrible the script and sometimes acting in this series is. From episode to episode, you can count on cognitive dissonance if you try to relate with the characters.
Characters will be directed to perform behaviors which seem unrealistic. In the interest of brevity, I'll touch on just a few. a VERY few. And I'll do so in a fashion that's easy on me, so I can go make a plate of food instead of sit here typing...
"wasn't he just raging mad a split second ago but having no bodily adjustment time to switch to the current relaxed bodily state and gentle demeanor?"
"why is rick's hand always over-dramatically extended after he pushes Daryl out of the way?"
"If Daryl is so flaming mad to attack someone with a pickaxe, why is it so easy for scrawny Rick to push him out of the way?"
"Really? Guillermo and his rough gang are in solidarity behind a bunch of old sick white people whom are past breeding age and are basically in a home to die? The world is ending and resources are scarce and they're using the resources for these decrepit old white folk?"
"Hey...visible, regular bonds throughout DNA strands! Conceptual visual aids are actually real objects! Oh and the DNA exchanges without the use of RNA. hmm."
I don't care to reproduce anymore sad thoughts. It's very sad indeed. Also sad is that I still watch this show. Gah! The need for zombie cataclysm!
John Q (2002)
A propagandist piece to be scrutinized. Disappointing.
A heart wrenching potential loss of a son and a beautiful scene about the self sacrifice of a father are well acted and touching. Tear jerking and beautiful.
However, the movie "John Q" presents multitudes of only positive support for universal health care. The argumentation presented in the movie is myopic, however. I wish to devote my review largely to this incredibly important issue of empathy for others.
To claim (and I quote) that "when someone is sick, they get care" is just policy is very selfish; if we are to respect each others' lives, freedom, and choices, then we are to respect that if nobody wishes to perform a surgery on you, provide their heart for you, or perform other services for you, then we ought not receive them.
Sometimes, life can be difficult. To be fair to others, we have to grow up and embrace our misfortunes rather than turn them into the misfortunes of unknown people around us. The protagonist was an unrealistic character in that he was self sufficient and respectful in the end, but throughout most of the movie performed every behavior to demonstrate that he was selfish and insensitive in his providence for his son. Without this implausible character who is simultaneously both selfish and self sufficient, the movie would have difficulty presenting a moving for armed heart robbery and enslavement of doctors.
Don't you DARE ruin others' lives. Look at the big picture. Get angry about John Q's dangerous message of mob rule enslaving the non-majority. Live by principle, not by your brain stem.
written by non-republican, non-insurance carrying, non-able to afford health services individual born and raised in California, working without pay for a more principled society.
Real Steel (2011)
Looking to waste some time? Not someone who cares about plausibility?
You might enjoy Real Steel! A tale about a man who chose to spend his life pursuing victory in the, cough, noble and productive "robot boxing" trade while incurring idiotic debts to naive and soon to be betrayed lenders. One of his only smart moves, he bribes a rich guy to let him make family matters seem nice for a while and take temporary custody of a boy who was born via his sperm. The boy is three times smarter than the, um, protagonist?, and travels with him while teaching him how to save up for purchases as difficult as a candy bar and mend some of the terrible relationships which he, um, built. Are you as depressed as I am? Pass some of your life away! Watch REAL STEEL! Just don't pay for a ticket.
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Read spoilers. It's in your best interest for time.
Prepare to be stupefied; From instant access to genuine tunnel schematics and 3 second encryption of terabytes of previously unencrypted data, to jumping off of a spinning jet and scraping down 60 feet of concrete at a 45 degree angle without damaging thin cotton/polyester garments in any plausible wear pattern, this action flick is filled to the absolute brim with absurd scenarios.
This flick is a combination of flashy, eye-catching scenes, engaging audio, ... and just like every other Mark Bomback story, ridiculously implausible scenarios.
If you're an idiot, you may just enjoy this film.
People do less damage with a night of hardcore illicit drugs than is done by taking one's hindbrain and scrambling its impressions with processing this Mark Bomback garbage.
A list of retarded scenarios is as follows: *bombs secretly planted in hackers' apartments which are triggered by pressing the delete key.
*hackers pressing the delete key without fail and all dying save one *every scenario involving technology (long range transmission at 66.6 mhz. That frequency being used on multiple unrelated devices. entry screen for an "algorithm" which grants access to sensitive data. (the "algorithm" is a series of numbers and contains no function characters) ambient blue LED's on mainframe towers. Large scale A/C systems with non-insulated linesets. A useless chomping device as part of the A/C system, constantly spinning, kills a bad guy...might as well looked like a 20 foot tall blend-o-matic with giant buttons for the different speeds (don't forget the blue ambient lighting down below it). The list would go on,) *rolling out of a police car, parallel to ground and perpendicular to the vector, at 45+ mph onto concrete and not breaking any bones *the ignition of natural gas WITHIN the pipeline, despite having no induced leaks for the entry of oxygen. (You can saw into a steel natural gas pipeline with a steel blade and you won't ignite the gas within the pipe) I'm going to watch any other movie now just to clear my head.
District 9 (2009)
Absurd waste of time. The movie itself is a spoiler.
I'm already familiar with ignorance of others' feelings causing tragedy. The resolve of one such instance is the only strong redeeming part of this absurd film, so the conclusion of this film was uninteresting.
District 9 makes light of the keepers of an absurd, brutal, murderous concentration camp for aliens, in a completely implausible location and setting.
If the makers of this film were making a documentary about unprovoked violent rape, it would be about as serious as one of those reality shows where they stick a bunch of people in a mansion for a while. "Tra la la, ho dee dumb. Rape your stab wounds B1tch, slide n' cum. Hmmmm. I could use some water. I wonder what's on TV. I'm bored but too lazy to get another body, I think I'll lubricate one of those old stab wounds. Nah. Too lazy. Nap Time".-perpetrator "Tune in next time for stabbings using sharpened commercial-diameter rebar, then packed with TNT!"-director/producer
Inside Job (2010)
Clever Interviewer, just scratched the surface of corruption
In a country we desperately want to respect, love, and see prosper, I would consider the situation of bankrupting society to be of utmost importance. Any marketed communications regarding perspective and solution to problems which one is to produce ought to be of superior utility for empowerment to my fellow countrymen in order for me to conscionably implore them to watch it. This is true for Inside Job's on a select group of otherwise monetarily educated people only.
A few prominent characters who are involved in the ravenous and often bloodthirsty circle of slavedrivers shaping policy and betraying billions are interviewed, and it's refreshing to have their interviews remind us that the figureheads of the IMF include non-traitors. But the interviewees in this film who were cretins are largely small fishes. I do congratulate the film producer for tactfully securing and performing interviews with some of these people. They are useful indeed for breadth of perspective about the scum who are *less* powerful.
However there's a largely private institution which keeps these so called "big banks" on a leash, and owns the note on every dollar, which is a receipt of debt, you think you own. Secretly, as JFK was realizing before he was ended (and began to execute Order No. 11110), this institution has all but mastered deceiving to control us through means only imaginable to those with a passion for deceit. This group is in effect a private company owned by unknown foreign and perhaps domestic investors in a cooperative called the Federal Reserve. This loaning agency, which lends every US dollar in circulation at interest (yes, nearly the entire amount of currency allowed for congress to distribute is like the funds issued to you for a mortgage on your home) has a long history which desperately needs to be understood in order to understand the private bank's currency retraction and expansion policy and how it affects business and political power redistribution, and actually our nation's progress and potential greatness as a whole.
This film also doesn't touch on the absurd modification of the indices used to calculate inflation. The disparity between actual inflation and stated inflation is about as raped and flesh mangled as the disparity between the reliability of CDO's and the ratings they received from the agencies... these are warning signs modified in order to keep people naive and cause greater shifts in prices.
This film might be seen as shocking or amazingly important to the naive, but this film fails to introduce the audience to evidence for the basic reasonable suspicions and skepticism that every responsible citizen must develop if we are going to see meaningful progress, beat privately owned fiat money, and make clearer the language in our constitution to disallow the disempowering con game that has been the mission of debt-based currency giants in europe for centuries.
Get angrier indeed, but people still need direction. Consider watching The Money Masters for an introduction to corrupt finance. It's free online. Betrayal, dishonesty, and the necessity of the emotions required to defend democracy. Whether rage is appropriate, I'll figure out later. But it's in me, and it feels great.
This film, on the other hand, ignores the deepest problems completely. Suitable for academy award, of course (cynical), because democracy is never glitzy.
The dream of the founders is still within grasp, but few have been exposed to financial history.
Avoid public school for children if you can help it. Were you ready to be as good for your child as you'd hoped?