2014-11-05 the Wiza®d / of Oz

2014-11-05 the Wiza®d / of Oz  

                'I need someone', the Admiral says it better in Sinking the Bismark of his ideal / 2nd in command or '2IC' - after being fed his set-up line from a subordinate officer about another officer's great big heart - 'without a heart, without / a soul' and then the kicker, 'with only a great big / brain.'

               

                'It was like', Cin said it better of his meeting yesterday at work with a group of folks who run world-wide logistics, several of whom his job is to keep an eye - and what's left, between all of the d®ugs and the booze and the ©incussions and we weren't that bright / to begin with, innit DD, of his mind - on, 'sitting in on / a Mensa meeting.' 

               

                'No arms, no legs', Metallica sings it better in their homage to this week's earlier horroreview victim of a movie, Johnny Get Your Gun, 'absolute / horror', and 'no heart, no brain' the opening credits of The Wizard of Oz / the 1980s cartoon series version - which ©in used to videe / at lunch along with 'Rocket Robin Hood', 'Hercules', 'The Flintstones' and of course 'The Amazing Spider Man' with its jazzy soundtrack - had it better, referring of course to the respective character defects of your men the tin man, the scarecrow and the cowardly / lion, 'he's much too shy.' 

                Course somehow every episode these three imbeciles managed to pool their limited resources and get into, and then out of, all mannner of monkey-shines, before successfully delivering the heroine Dorothy and your man Toto the dog out of / the same, and further along on their (m) / (s) / (b) and just plain / adventures towards finally meeting your man the myth, the legend, the Wiza®d / of Oz.

                'A single stick breaks easily' one of the warring princes says it better in Kirishimo (hooker please –id.) 's great movie Ran - based upon William Shakespear's 'King Lear' only with Lear's bastard sons playing the roles of Shakepeare's Lear's bastard / daughters and set in feudal / Japan - to his assembled bastard brothers, breaking a twig for effect, 'but a bunch of sticks' he ends his parable, bunching up, well, a bunch, of sticks and trying unsuccessfully to break the bunch, 'does not / break'.  Hereth endeth the lesson, innit Electrified JC.

                What it is in this film Bismark is that the titular warship, the baddest of the Nazi warships in World War Two, gets its comeuppance like ©in morning noon and night, ‘angels’ someone described it better, ‘fall / harder’, both at the hands of the Powers / That Be, in the case of the Bismarck Her Majesty's Royal / Navy.  Despite getting a birthday card as of late from none other than Adolf / Hitler, your man the commander of the Bismarck, in his and his ship's hour of greatest need, does not get air support as was promised by his BFF Adolf, and no Nazi airplanes appear in time to prevent the sinking of / the Bismark, 'the Luftwaffe' Homer Simpson says it better of the same Nazi Air Force, and perhaps for these very / reasons, 'the Washington Nationals / of World War Two.'

                Along with the masthead (?) / nameplate of the 'Sebastopol', assumedly its second-to-last / victim, the crew of the HMS Brexit warship that finally sunk the Bismarck hangs that ship's nameplate too on its deck's walls like so many stuffed wild animal heads in this 'Extras' bit of the movie, scenes are actually newsreel footage from the time, if the narrator of the newsreel and your own humble / humbled and humiliated narrator ©in are to be / believed, 'the greatest pursuit and kill' the gung-ho narrator ends / this bit in typical Hollywood / Mission Accomplished gung-ho style, 'in history.'

                Yes dear reader it's WTFednesday's War movie Horroreview edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the Wiza®d of Oz.  'Sink the Bismarck' was a good movie, this next, 'Jarhead' not - to use a loathed term for the first / and last time up on out on up on out on up in here in these pages and pixels - so much.  Though the civilians in 'Sink the Bismarck' got some reel time in that movie - mostly cowering and whingeing about finding themselves in the middle of a sea battle after being sent out to sea on a net-yet fully built submarine on which they / were contractors - these Hollywood types going in this movie 'Jarhead' through a set of Fort Bragg or whatnot do not / ©invince.

                'Iraq' Dan Rather of CBS News says it better from news footage of that time and place, and shown in this movie to establish place / and time, 'invaded its tiny neighbor / Kuwait.'  'Get some, Marines' the loudspeaker narrator says it better at the base as your men get ready to head over, 'get / some', and it's evidently gonna go on like this 'until' Metallica sings it better in their song of the same name, 'it sleeps.'

                And meanwhile the moon up on out on up on outside the cindominium is / all kind / of Full, and it shows, Cin all kind of revitalized by your man the full moon - aks any bouncer and he'll tell you / the same, there's a reason they call it / 'lunacy', innit Au Clair de La Lune - as well as by a one-hour massage earlier in / the evening.  Cince he's not 'asupossed to go out and socialize under horroregime Zero at his usual haunts the bars - 'I take away his weapons' Bruce Willis' detective in Robert Rodriguez's Sin City says it better after castrating his latest perp by ripping out his meat / and veges, 'both / of them', and 'have you ever had your balls ripped off' the hillbilly akses Jon Voight's yuppy character better in John Boorman's take on James Dicky’s Deliverance, threatening to do / the same, 'you fuckin' / ape' ? - Cin spends all of his weekly free time hours as of late, both / of them, at a non-descript office building in the West End of town, spilling his guts and aches and pains and whinges, "I guess that's why' Cin said it better' as the masseuse gnawed away at one of the many / gnarly bits on his back / and shoulders, 'they call it / a knot', to total / strangers, for money.

                Over the course of the last two days, Cin has gone on a horroretail therapy binge, hulk-smashing away his PIN in the sign of the cross, innit Electrified JC - 'spectacles', Mike Myers (no, not that Michael Meyers, monsieur debonaire, Halloween Week is over, though for Cin it's more of / a season) Austin Powers says it better in the movie of the same name while making the equivalent gestures of the signs / of the cross, 'testicles, wallet, and watch' - while praying, appropriately enough, that the machine will not flash back the dreaded ' declined' as it sometimes / does, or 'cinsufficient / funds', the cintax / is his, the decision to choose such a universal PIN / Personal Identification Number was chosen for that reason, 20 + years / ago, on the following debit keypads : the dentist (100 bones, re-imbused / by cinsurance), Bose Inc. for its bluetooth speaker which when he got it home doesn't seem to want to sync / with your man Tosh the laptop ('a buck', Cin said it better to the salesman, who got, or seemed to get, surprisingly enough, the short-hand, 'forty'), and of course the aformentioned one-hour massage (another 100), 'insta-', someone said it better of the 'Instabank' payment by debit card technology, 'broke'.

                'I'm having a pissing cintest (contest -id.)' Cin said it better to his cinsellor earlier this after - also resident cinventiently enough of the aforementioned non-descript office building in the West End / of town as Cin's masseuse as well as of his and Rugby Club's AT aka Athletic Therapist, who in breaking news will share her suite of rooms in the building with the masseuse, adding another chapter to his own personal Chapter / 11, not to mention another chapter to the spank / bank - of the (mis)behavior of your men the cats Frank and Jesse James, 'with / my cats', though they've been very well-behaved and sedate for a whole evening so far, and then the punch line, 'literally'.

                And from a real / reel horroreview / review , nice line from Papa, 'pretty / to think so' :

 By implication, the movie presents an argument between civilization and barbarism, between the pleasure principle and the death instinct. But the filmmakers mostly avoid high-flown rhetoric in favor of the intensely practical give-and-take of negotiation. Schlöndorff, dedicating the movie to the late Richard Holbrooke, makes a case that diplomacy can solve the most intricately knotted problems. As Hemingway wrote, in a slightly different context, it would be pretty to think so.

                http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/war-almost

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