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2014-11-14

                 2014-11-14                           Course there are war films, and then there are war / films, 'take that, Hans Blix' Kim-Jong Il says it better in Team America to that cinfamous head UN arms cinspector of the early 21st cintury (cintaxed 'cause he made / it up -id.), 'you fucking cock / sucker.'                 'I'm ronery' Kim Jung Il's puppet, sorry 'marionette' breaks into song better in this Matt Stone and Trey Parker film - pronouncing of course all the 'l's as 'r's in song and in regurar / speech - 'so ronery'.   It's a funny scene from a funny movie, Team America blows up Paris, followed by Cairo and a few others, all while the baddies led by Dear Reader Kim Jong-Il are busy blo...

2014-11-13

2014-11-13                            'Shoes are the answer' the bag's slogan had it better earlier / this evening, 'no matter what / the question.'   'Their sacrifices', Nick Nolte's middle-management officer says it better in this movie, of his family's, well, sacrifices for his career, 'like water spilled / on the ground.'   And 'dying', the Admiral says it better / to himself, 'slowly, like a tree.'   It's a nice line, and incidently, 'accidently' Warren Zevon sings it better in his song of the same name, 'like / a martyr.'                 Yes it's time for this Thirsty Thursday's The Thin Red Line horroreview, to cap off haha this Week of Wa® films.   Both will last as long as your humble / humbled / humiliated horroreviewer does, which is to say - given ...

2014-11-12

2014-11-12                            'Did you hear about the roman centurion ?' Chris Walken's steel-worker and soon to be Vietnam vet akses it better in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter , 'he was glad / he ate her.'                                                 Yes dear reader it's that time of year again, time for a WTFednesday horroreview of Ridley Scott's Gladiator .   During the course of House Arrest the Horror, wtf knows how many films Cin has videed, they number in / the thousands (hundreds - id.) be©ause ®egime ze®o.   Sometimes he forgets which ones he has videed, much less horroreviewed, and sometimes hor...

2014-11-11

                2014-11-11                  Who amongst even the most slavish of the wage slaves doesn't enjoy a staying of the whip, if only for / a day ?   Freedom, someone wrote it better, isn't / free, and today is Remembrance Day, lest / we forget.                 'Fuck' Forrest Whitaker's British soldier says it better at the Irish county fair in Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game , this just before he enters a world / of hurt, 'this bear', referring to the stuffed pink bear he just won as part of the honey trap set for him by the lovely Jude and the not-so-lovely I®A.                 Fuck this bear / indeed, 'there are certain things' the lovely Jude, played by ...

2014-11-10 Two Oaks, or In Mobile

2014-11-10           Two Oaks, or In Mobile                   'It's' DW said it to Cin better as they entered the upstairs Two Oaks clubhouse, 'my 50th year / with the Club', to which Cin replied 'attaboy', and then, followed by a suitable respectable silence - which by rugger standards is about three seconds / and a half, respectable or not, it's a function of all of the body-blows and beer and hits / to the head, and we weren't that bright, innit DD, to begin with, before we forget what we were 'assupossed to say and / or are cinterrupted by some other noise, some other / distraction some other shoulder-tackle - said 'I've been Club Secretary / for twelve' and then the punchline, 'not that it means that I'm any good / at it', to which DW was kind and truthful enough to reply back, 'twelve years of anything means / you're good at it', and between his 50 yea...

2014-11-07

2014-11-07                        'Loud and clear', Harrison Ford' Han Solo says it better to Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker at the beginning of George Lucas’ The Empire Strikes Back after Luke akses whether Han can hear him over the walkie-talkie, 'kid', loud and clear kid is all / we gots.                 'Then we'll see you' Han Solo says it better minutes later to the protesting deck officer as he jumps on his widlebeest or whatnot to go have a look for Luke up on out on up on out on up on the tundra of ice planet / Hoth even though the storm doors / are closing and a nor'easter or what passes for one on the ice planet / Hoth is on its way, 'in Hell'.                 'Some folks call it Hell', Billy Bob Thorton's Slingb...