Site Irregularities, Overview: Shooter, & Week rental vs. 2-hr. Rental
I’ve been
having some strange issues recently with pages
disappearing. I’m not sure if I’m the culprit (hey,
I’m just dumb enough to pull it off) or if it’s
something else like my host that I’ve been having
other issues with during the same timeframe. But
either way, sometimes I don’t realize the issues
until it’s too late.
So basically I’d like to contract out my semi-loyal 1
or 2 readers as free tech help. If you come to visit
the site and notice things wrong (such as
previously-posted pages missing), please-oh-please
email me using the email link at the bottom of the
page, and let me know. I have backups and I can fix
it. But I don’t know what’s wrong until I find out,
so… Let a brotha know, ya heard?
OVERview:
Shooter
Are you a
a patriotic fool that’s been screwed over by the
government you swore to protect? Would you like to
continue to protect them even though they’re corrupt
and despicable? (Don’t worry if you’re unaware of how
despicable they are; we’ll tell you later in case you
don’t catch subtle hints because you’re a dumbass!)
Are you smarter than the average bear, able to outwit
the entire FBI, CIA, underworld mob bosses &
corrupt ex-military officials, yet prefer to drink
out of beer bottles
after your dog?
If you answered yes to all of these questions, then
you may be the Shooter
we’re
looking for!
Let me begin by saying that this movie is not bad,
but it’s not going to garner anything more than a
hollow
Rambo comparison.
It’s not as smart as the
Bourne Series, which is
sad because they fall prey to their
own
sets of mistakes (though
still a grand movie)
Shooter is good
for a
one-night-action-thriller-have-a-large-surround-sound-system-and-willing-to-use-it
type of scenario. Yes, I have these scenarios that
come up occasionally, and Shooter sort of fit the
bill. Be aware that if you read on from here, I am
going to spoil a few points of the flick, because
they’re just that dumb, and I felt insulted that they
left certain things either completely unexplained or
they gave you crap for answers and hoped it would
suffice. Such as:
Look, I’m a democratic soul, even what the
neo-conservatives might call a “damn dirty liberal,”
but even so, there’s only so much left-wing boozing I
can take. You have a point, you make it, or even
better you
allude to it, then it’s
done and over with. Doing that,
then going even
further to explain the allusion and then
even further to give a
keynote speech about it in the middle of a movie is a
little overdone, OK? I’m all about enlightening the
masses to the evils of big-business & government
coercion, I’m on your side, but there’s a not-so-fine
line between enlightenment & preaching.
Then there’s the final defense argument in the
shooter’s case. He claims he’s been framed by a third
party, and arranges a meeting with him, the third
party, the government prosecuting him, and his weapon
that was “used” in the shooting. He proves his case
by asking whether the gun had been tampered with
since being found (answer is no), and then loading a
round and trying to fire it, which doesn’t happen
successfully. He explains that he couldn’t have fired
the shot, because before he left his home (that he
shares with his beer-drinking dog), and as he always
does with shelved rifles, he removed the firing pin.
This immediately gets him released, even though there
are at least two things wrong with this:
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Just because the firing pin is not there does not mean that he didn’t just remove it after he fired the shot. This is such a weak, weak explanation that whether he was innocent or not they should have shot him on the spot for being a complete idiot.
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No one even bothered to question whether or not the round he put in the chamber was live. What if it was just a dummy round? Then guess what? It wouldn’t fire, because there’s no primer or gun powder. Would give the same outward appearance as the explanation he was giving, but be an entirely different reason for it.
Then there’s one last bit at the very end that got me laughing instead of applauding. After everyone’s gone free, the bad guys, the ones that can move people in & out of governments without question to kill, the ones that have friends in high places and an army of mercenaries to defend them & seek out others to destroy, seem to forget the good guy that can totally f*ck their sh*t up is out there, and make no attempt to finish what they started (end result: good guy dead). Instead they puff cigars next to a fireplace in the dark with little-to-no protection, allowing the good guy to waltz in and shoot them dead. I mean crap, if it was that easy, you shoulda done that 2 hours ago dude.
I know I just went about blasting the film, but it’s not all bad. For you guys, there’s a really hot chick wearing a see-through shirt and being all innocent-like. And for you girls, there’s Mark Walberg, who I’d probably have sex with if he asked me to nicely. The guy’s hot. He’s got the physique I work for yet never attain. A-hole. And more, if you’ve got a decent sound system with some good bass response, then audibly it’ll be a decent experience. And there’s always the cool factor associated with military-grade weapons being clickety-clack-clacked to the extreme & helicopters exploding, and seeing people who deserve mercenary treatment get it. A lot of the tech is right on if overdone, and up until the last 10 minutes it keeps you very engaged.
Overall? I’ll give it a C+, with the caveat that it is an action flick solely, and you shouldn’t expect a riveting, mind-bending journey.
And in related movie news
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before (I’m too lazy to look & see for sure), but my and The Girl have sort come to an impasse in regards to movie night. We don’t disagree, we just can’t decide how to proceed further. We both like to go to the movies, but truth be told it’s expensive, being at least $20 with no food or drink (which we don’t mind so much), and then on top of the cost of entry we have to sit around with a whole bunch of people we don’t know, who may be loud & rude, or possibly smelly, or possibly and/or smelly.
Compare & contrast this to renting a movie. Even if we don’t do Netflx and opt to go the old-fashioned rent it from a store route (we have one a short walk from our house), the cost of entry is much cheaper at a whopping $5 a flick for the both of us. Then there’s the fact that we can eat & drink whatever we desire with little additional cost, and there’s no and/or smelly, loud people there to contend with. We have a 52” HDTV with a superb surround-sound system, so it’s not as though we’re missing much of the “experience,” either. Plus we can pause and go pee if necessary, or rewind to hear something we missed. So we have cheaper ticket price, more convenience in about every way, and a damn-near equal experience. Sounds like we have a clear winner, right?
Maybe not so much. See, we’re both kind of impatient folk (me especially). I hear about a movie I want to see, and I want to see it right away, not wait the 4 months it’ll take for it to come out on DVD. And right now there’s a glut of movies either out or on the horizon that we’d enjoy watching:
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Superbad (don’t ask)
So you see that there’s plenty of reason for us to be impatient. We want to see these movies, but we’re not sure that we can hold off for an extra 4-7 months after the hype starts to actually see them in the coolness & privacy of our own home. Sucks, huh? I mean, movieplex prices puts our total at $280 for these flicks. Renting them as they come out puts us at a mere $70. Netflixing them could be as cheap as $27.
Gimme props
Got two – count ‘em, TWO – lists in one blog. I’m freaking awesome. Yeah!
…Peace.