It's been out for a while. It sort of reminds me of office space, but I think its much better. It makes me want escape the corporate rate race and subdivision life of plastic Greenville even more so than office space did.
Synopsis:
George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of mankind. It is an utterly comfortable life, but when people around George begin exploding, he fears he might be next.
The ending was kind of lame, but overall it was a good paraody of life as an office drone.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.
Based on the stage play, this musical parody of 1936 film 'Reefer Madness' takes that already overblown criticism of marijuana usage in the source film and ups the ante to humorous effect.
This is one of the '30s-era "out-for-your-best-interests" films. This one deals with the dangers associated with smoking marijuana and shows how high-school students, after smoking a little pot, may easily commit rapes and other awful drug-induced activities. In later years, in a more marijuana-enlightened society, this film has become a comedic cult classic.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Vrede too wrote:My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Vrede too wrote:My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
A lot of the young cast has killed it since, as has Director Ang Lee.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Michael Parks, ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ Actor, Dies at 77
Always liked this guy. I first noticed him as a teenager in Then Came Bronson, where he seemed, at first, to be dull and unresponsive in his acting, by the more overwrought standards of the 50s & 60s. But watching him, even a kid began to notice how authentic his acting was, how little he said with dialog, but how expansive he was with subtle facial expressions and body language. There was a brief period in the 8th grade when all the boys adopted a black stocking cap like Jim Bronson's, turned up just so and worn forward, just above the eyebrows.
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
Amazing for 1939. Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant and Akim Tamiroff (a Russian-Armenian playing a Mexican?) is a hoot in a supporting role.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Amazing for 1939. Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant and Akim Tamiroff (a Russian-Armenian playing a Mexican?) is a hoot in a supporting role.
Almost anything de Mille did was as overwrought as a Lifetime Channel movie. And, yet, I rarely miss an opportunity to watch The Greatest Show on Earth. So much scenery to chew; so little time.
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
Not just for the message, also a really well made and powerful film.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Doh! It was altered to 'spit' for TV. Even better, thanks. Sissy Spacek was hilarious, I cracked up with her.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
...A week later after Fargo is devastated, it heads for Winnipeg...
Rest of the world doesn't notice.
Traffic is tied up around my office because a major route a couple blocks away is shut down for filming all this week. Forest Whitaker and Theo James are in town filming "How it Ends" for Netflix. "A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos."
Earlier this summer another major route was shut down to film "Break My Heart 1000 Times." "Set nine years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts."
Winnipeg used to be the standard location for filming anything set in Chicago. Including three movies in one summer alone, a decade or so ago. Now we're the go-to location for post-apocalyptic events. And to think that I once had a hell of a time trying to convince the Emergency Measures Organization that Winnipeg was like this when I got here.
Winnipeg... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
...A week later after Fargo is devastated, it heads for Winnipeg...
Rest of the world doesn't notice.
Traffic is tied up around my office because a major route a couple blocks away is shut down for filming all this week. Forest Whitaker and Theo James are in town filming "How it Ends" for Netflix. "A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos."
Earlier this summer another major route was shut down to film "Break My Heart 1000 Times." "Set nine years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts."
Winnipeg used to be the standard location for filming anything set in Chicago. Including three movies in one summer alone, a decade or so ago. Now we're the go-to location for post-apocalyptic events. And to think that I once had a hell of a time trying to convince the Emergency Measures Organization that Winnipeg was like this when I got here.
Winnipeg... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
Portions of the woody harrelson zombie movie were filmed in Newman Georgia outside my sister's home. Burning cars and bodies outside her front windows.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
One of the saddest movies I've ever seen. If you can handle that, it's a great one.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"A piranha-anaconda hybrid terrorizes a movie crew after a scientist steals an egg from the creature's nest."
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
I gotta start watching more upbeat movies, but it's a great one.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Kind of an anti-
