Not going to review it right now, I’ll give everyone a chance to see it first. Definitely a must see movie, I don’t think it could have been done much better. I was attached to the screen from the get go. The theater was dead silent. It was almost painful…kinda like it is in the bush in that min just before sunrise.
I hope this movie makes bazillion dollars so they put the same effort into a sequel.
…started running these things through the spell checker in word before posting, catches some of the bigger mistakes anyhow.
Are we as a culture desensitized to violence and violent acts? If so, is it necessarily a bad thing?
A certain amount of “desensitization” is almost necessary to handle crisis situations in a calm manor. I’m pretty immune to blood and people being cut up to a certain degree (I’ve never seen a person disemboweled before) so if such a situation arises I should be able to handle it ok….this is a good thing. Can we be desensitized to a point where a rape doesn’t matter though?
I think that’s a pretty shitty discussion. No matter what traumatic events are on TV, they never occur with such a great consistency that we don’t care if they happen in the real world. How many shows display child abduction? Murder? and other such heinous events. We still react with distaste and disgust when they happen. Will such events cause people to not be as careful as they normally would be in different situations? I think quite the opposite, seeing it once in awhile on TV should remind people that it’s a very real possibility and you need to be aware of your surroundings at all times. Such violent acts should not be ignored; they should be embraced and used to educate people who would otherwise be content in their complacency, living in the bubble of “that won’t happen to me” and other such ignorant thoughts.
The knock about the ‘Rescue me’ scene seemed to be that after the rape they shrugged it off and didn’t really dwell on it. Well, what exactly should they have done? He should have ran from the house in a flee for his freedom? She should have been a wailing wreck? She chose to be in, what looked to me, like a bit of disbelief that it happened and tried to remain calm. I haven’t seen the episode yet and I will either catch it in a re-run or other means. From what little they showed on cnn it seemed like she had the reaction you would have expected from a domestic situation like that. A man that she’d had sex with many times before, forced her to do it again… It’s probably a bit of a different feeling then if you are randomly grabbed in the park and raped then left. Both are the same act, but would evoke different emotions.
They also pulled out shows that this behavior happened in and said it was happening too much. Their examples…gone with the wind, general hospital (I think, not much of a soap watcher) then rescue me..what’s that, 3 in a forty year span? I guess I don’t see that as being much of a problem. Nip/Tuck did a whole season on a serial rapist…but I didn’t see shit about that on the news. Their main focus was him raping a man… there was an episode of the shield where the police chief was forced to give a criminal oral sex (which was more graphic then I’d expect on TV)…but nothing about that in the news.
Guess I don’t see it being on TV as being much of an issue. It was in a “risqué” show in FX, something children shouldn’t be watching anyhow…seems like the appropriate place for it.
Ain’t that about a bitch…
I turned over to y94 again to try and win tix for sup’s and I qualified for some office party drawing at bucks. Listen to y94 july 6th over the all request lunch and see if we hit!
I WANT FREE TIX GOD DAMN IT!
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I’ll probably comment on this tomorrow.
If it doesn’t play, it’s a commentary on a rape scene in “rescue me” on FX. You should be able to find it on cnn.com
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Flag burning went another round with congress again, being narrowly defeated…meaning you can still burn the flag.
Patriotism amuses me. People walk around wearing flags proclaiming that they love this country and anyone that doesn’t can get the hell out. Screaming that burning the flag is such a veil transgression only public hanging can atone the sin. If you don’t vote you must be a communist, MTV’s “Vote or die” campaign was humorous to say the least. Alot of people consider themselves patriotic, but the message they are spreading is so far from the fundamentals the country was founded on that in their very proclamation they are being decidedly unpatriotic….
Sit back for a min and think about what was going on or just happened at the time the constitution, bill of rights and declaration of independence were drafted. Such things were created to define governmentâ??s controls….they were built to make sure that the public had the right to speak out against the government, protect themselves from over zealous governmental prosecution and make sure the public could stay armed incase they needed to rise up against the government again. Burning the flag is speaking out against the government, plain and simple that’s all it is. People do it for the media attention and shock factor they get from the ignorant masses. True patriots should be utterly outraged that the government would attempt to outlaw a form of protest. I hate to throw out the free speech argument simply because it’s a misnomer and does not exist, but flag burning needs to be protected under our freedom to protest. As long as it’s not a 90 foot flag in the middle of a dry field in an attempt to start a million acre grass fire…there’s really nothing wrong with it. We need to be concerned about them banning this because of what it could lead to…what they might ban next after this one simple form of protest. The adage about the inch and mile seems applicable in this case.
Love it or leave it….that phrase alone is so discussing. It demonstrates the “sheep” mentality that so many people are resigned to. You don’t have to be content with the government, and you shouldn’t be. If you vote, you have an opportunity to work within the system in place to try to change it….should voting be counted as discontent with the government? If you shouldn’t burn the flag..something that’s legal and should be…should you note vote and whoever is in should make our decisions on successors? It seems to me like it’s the same thing. “Soldiers died so you could vote!” No they didn’t, they didn’t sacrifice their life so we as a people should have to go out and vote now. They sacrificed so we had -choice-. We can choose to vote, we can choose to protest….we can choose to scratch our asses in public…
People protesting the soldiers bugs the hell outta me though. They are free to do so and their statements are in my opinion wrong…but they need to be free to say them. So many people fail to recognize that it’s possible to respect and recognize the bravery of those that serve and still not believe in the underlying conflict. The young men and women that go over the hill firing have no say in which conflicts they fight and which they won’t. They signed up for a reason, agreed to follow what orders they are given, and do so. They fight for the weak and are a barrier between us and the barbarians at the gate. I’m awfully happy there are people that do serve, and I support what they do…but I also thing that the government handles things incorrectly and fights in the wrong conflicts. I respect the office of the presidency but I’d also like to see that dipshit currently holding it to be ousted.
I don’t vote for president and as long as the Electoral College is in place I never will. It’s outdated and unnecessary at this point. I don’t vote for much of anything…I came close here when they were looking at a cigarette ban locally, but that could potentially be shot down by 1 person after everyone voted anyhow…so I really didn’t see where it was much of a vote.
dear god…
In an effort to save myself 15 bucks, I’m listening to y94 to win free tix to superman. This has got to be the shittiest music I’ve heard in a long time. Usually I spend most of my day listening to Q98 “Everything that Rocks” and they play what I’m interested in….rock and roll. They have the occational crap song, but hearing buckcherry’s “crazy bitch” a couple of times a day makes up for it. I don’t even listen to country anymore, just no interest in it. I don’t think it’s so much that I’m not interested in it, but more that I don’t like the station in town here. They play the same 6 songs 15 times a day at the same time every day. It gets old fast.
So here I am, listening for the Superman Sounder…but I have no idea what it sounds like. Apparently there’s a chance to win an ATV as well, so that’s probably worth an afternoon of hell.
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This is soooo worth seeing…
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This diet stuff is such bullshit!
I recognize when I’m “full” now and quit eating…but man some stuff just tastes so good it’s tuff to stop. I do feel a bit better though, if it’s mental or physical it really makes no difference…I do feel a bit better. I’d tear the heads off fluffy animals sometimes for a coke though…grrrr
Ordered a TiVo on Friday. I havn’t had one for quite awhile so i’m pretty happy to be getting one again. It will really save on my bandwidth. I have a switch right behind the TV for the xbox anyhow, so I only need a foot or so of cat5. Little sucker is a dual tuner model too…I’m pretty happy. They have the hardware cheap as hell on the tivo website, subscription rates are a few bucks more a month, but off sets i suppose with the minimal cost of hardware.
I saw a commercial for “DAWG: THE BOUNTY HUNTER!” last nite that made me kinda think a bit. They are going after a “woman beater” and are all hot and heavy for him because he knocked around a woman. Now at first glance, yeah I don’t like it and he needs to be torn limb from limb…but if you stop and think about it, what is more sexist then treating a woman differently then a man when she gets beat up? Just stikes me as odd in this day and age with people screaming for equality, is it truely equality they want? They want to be treated better…they don’t want equal pay..no one wants that, they want better pay. Affarmitive action my ass. Nothing sets back minorities and women more then programs that say you have to hire them…people are such dipshits about this stuff. It’s not that you didn’t get the job cause your a woman…you didn’t get it cause your a fuck head. Accept the fact that someone was more qualified and that you arn’t god…and life will be much easier to bear.
In anycase, I don’t think a guy that beats a woman should afford himself anymore wrath then a man whom beats on another man. Child beaters and molersters deserve to be fucking crucified. I don’t mean that figurativly…litterally nailed to a cross till their bowles release and hang from their ass like spaghetti. Then, we can have bubba the 500 lb serial rapist jackhammer them back in. But that’s just one man’s opinion.