"'Tristan' [and Isolde] like a Monty Python Movie wthout jokes"-- Headline seen on Yahoo! News tonight.

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1 BAH! I was looking forward to it too I love that story.

Posted by: Ith at January 12, 2006 09:07 PM (sCBe0)

2 I don't listen to critics, I'll probably still go see it. I mean it is an old celtic tale, possibly event he insperation for Romeo and Juliet.

Posted by: Contagion at January 13, 2006 05:24 AM (Q5WxB)

3 OH DAGNABBIT I was so looking forward to that movie, too. I was SO in love with Tristan in high school. I was going to grow up and marry a guy named Tristan. Or MR. Darcy, and then name my son Tristan. One of those.... *sigh* Yes, I am a book freak. But more imprtantly, they have to stop messing with my favorite stories. Either make it good or not all. Please refer to the A&E version fo Prde and PRejudice for research. *more sighing*

Posted by: Elizabeth at January 13, 2006 07:51 AM (ceeh7)

4 Yeah, and I always had a soft spot for Tristan in All Creatures Great and Small. I was a little leery of the movie when I saw it was getting the full teeny bopper ad campaign treatment during the WB ad breaks, complete with behind the scenes footage and modern music.

Posted by: Ith at January 13, 2006 12:50 PM (sCBe0)

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CBS released the information on the new crop of Survivors who will return to Panama for the 12th season of the hit reality show (that I am evidently obsessed with...)

Seems as if this time, those voted out will be sent off to "exile island" to fend for themselves during the rest of the run of the show.  As a twist (since it worked so well last season, right Gary??) an immunity idol will be hidden on Exile Island, and any of the voted-out players who finds it may return to the game.

That's kinda dumb.

Anyway, click here for the info and bios of the Season 12 castaways.

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So last night DH and were up late celebrating the last "non-school night" of vacation, and we were watching TV when Bowling for Columbine came on Bravo.  Neither of us had seen it, and as we're not directly paying that Fat Fcuk to see it, we decided to watch it.  Quite an interesting movie, and I had been unaware of the fact that the Fat Fcuk, the Nichols brothers, and Eric Harris (of the Columbine massacre) all lived in the same area of MI as kids.  Kinda creepy.  But still....

Here's my one word movie review:  Hypocrisy.

Here's my 8 word movie review:  Holy shit! What a difference a year makes.

One of the main subtexts of the film, as far as I could tell is that it's hypocritical to tell out kids not to shoot each other while we bomb the hell out of innocent countries....  That is, we cannot simultaneously demand peace and peddle war, even on different scales.

Who does Señor Fat Fcuk (and any number of others in the film) blame for this?  Why President Bill Clinton, of course.  Funny how just 2 years later Clinton is the benevolent savior of the universe and George W Bush is the only bastard that ever peddled war to the rest of the world.  How conveniently the righteous indignation over the bombing of Bosnia was forgotten as soon as we went to war in the Middle East.

The other thing that got to me was this statement "[during the Clinton administration] 500,000 Iraqi children were killed by bombing raids and sanctions", displayed while a picture of a US bomber dropping bombs was also shown.  Clearly implying that US bombs did most of the killing, when the reality of the matter is that the vast majority of those Iraqi children died because Saddam and friends wouldn't cooperate with the sanctions AND pocketed the Oil for Food money.

At least the shithead was blaming it on the Clinton administration for a change, evidently he hadn't gotten BDS yet.....

The saddest thing is, I used to love the Fat Fcuk.  Ben can vouch for this.  We both were HUGE fans of TV Nation, especially after he stood up for Sean Boyd, a weatherman from Fresno who was fired from his job after refusing to lie (scroll down to "Story #3") about the weather forecast during a station-sponsored event.
It was also interesting to see Matt Stone (of South Park) agreeing with the Fat Fcuk, as in subsequent years he and Trey have literally skewered the Fat Fcuk on South Park and in Team America.

Funny how things change.  Hypocritical Fcuk.

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