Archive for February, 2012:

Your Week in Seriously Times: Feb. 19 – 25, 2012

SeriouslyGuys
on February 25th, 2012 by - No Comments

Yogis suggest belly-twisting beforehand to wring the toxins out for more productive spitting.

Soccer sucking, magma, spitting, women, booze, and Chuck Norris — What? No, I didn’t go CPAC. Those are just the topics from my SeriouslyGuys posts this week. Here’s the recap:

  • How long do you have to stick with something before you know it sucks? It took one Australian soccer team owner four years. (Feb. 20, 2012)
  • If you ever wondered why astronauts take long, jumping strides on the moon, it’s because THE FLOOR IS LAVA! (Feb. 21, 2012)
  • How to know your beer glass is clean, and what’s an age-appropriate designated driver in what may be the beginning of a new series: I can’t drink it for you. (Feb. 23, 2012)
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Movies I’ve Sneen: ‘Act of Valor’

Movies I've Sneen
on February 24th, 2012 by - No Comments

The U.S. military and Hollywood have shared a relationship since the earliest days of film, and whether the goal is recruitment or selling war bonds, it has often been lucrative. Occasionally, this cooperation includes casting real soldiers in the film, like Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy  in 1955′s film adaptation of his autobiography, To Hell and Back.

Act of Valor attempts something similar by casting anonymous Navy Seals in the lead roles, who had previously served as military advisors on directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh’s video for the U.S. Navy’s Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (the “Boat Guys” who transport and provide support for Seals). Much like what Stanley Kubrick discovered in the casting of real-life Marine Drill Sergeant R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket, the Bandito Brothers realized that there’s no acting substitute for what these guys do. (more…)

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BSD: ‘Ink’

Blast Shields Down Film Review Society
on February 23rd, 2012 by - No Comments

My Rating: 3.5 beats out of 4
What if your high school production of Godspell knew kung fu?

It’s Episode 10 of Blast Shields Down, and Duncan tries to keep us in line while we discuss obscure indie film, Ink. Good and evil, in the forms of the Storytellers who bring good dreams and Incubi who truck in bad dreams, fight over the soul of a little girl who has been kidnapped by a mysterious wanderer named Ink.

Topics range from how more money may or may not have helped, whether bad dreams are bad, and how a single Craftsman toolbox can destroy the suspension of disbelief, no matter how many polyvinyl sheets you hang up.

WARNING: Blast Shields Down film reviews are nightmarishly full of naughty language, infuriating opinions, and spoilers. But we’re not evil … yet.

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Women are still mysterious

Take it from Snee
on February 23rd, 2012 by - No Comments

A little over a month ago, I began investigating the enigmas that are women — these eniginas, if you will — after learning that Stephen Hawking is wasting valuable research time thinking about them. (Get back to your black holes, sir. You study cosmology, not Cosmo.)

Well, it looks like my investigation has attracted the notice of Republican state and federal legislators, who — like Professor Hawking — often have a problem with wasting time on this issue. I’ll admit that my sources are lacking when it comes to the pull of congressional committees as I don’t have the power to summon religious leaders to answer my questions.

Is this how mysterious women have become, that when science fails, we must turn to our culturally relevant mythologies (not this year, Zeus) to finally figure out what makes ladies tick? The answer is, yes, short of asking women, this is the only way to solve the further mysteries of women. Mysteries like …

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Movies I’ve Sneen: ‘Red Tails’

Movies I've Sneen
on February 21st, 2012 by - 1 Comment

After 17 years, we now live in a world with two movies about the legendary — in reputation, not existence — air group, the Tuskegee Airmen. And, Red Tails, this year’s offering, took over 20 years just to get made.

George Lucas, who had always listed Red Tails as his “next” project as far back as 1988 (so since Willow), claims that he could never get a studio to back an almost entirely black cast in a World War II film. Meanwhile, Fox had no problem pouring an estimated $343 million into each successfully dismal Star Wars prequel. It took his own money to finally put a film on the big screen where these larger-then-life heroes belong.

Written by John Ridley (Undercover Brother and the most excellent Three Kings) and Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, Red Tails takes a very different storytelling path than the 1995 HBO TV movie, The Tuskegee Airmen. While Tuskegee used an ensemble cast — including Lawrence “Cowboy Larry” Fishburne, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, and John Lithgow — to focus more on the drama of racism in the 1940s and historical context, Red Tails was not hindered by small-screen and budgetary restraints. (more…)

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