There It Is

Lives Awash In Glory

 

 BWAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA: I want to SUE my own mother - she's stealing $35,000 from my inheritance to pay for religious expenses

BWAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA: "Jay Shetty, the self-help podcaster, former Hindu monk and bestselling author whose [guests have included the likes of Michelle Obama [and] whose Hollywood status led him to officiate the wedding of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez] plagiarized social media posts,...lied about key aspects of his life while climbing the ladder of stardom,...falsely claimed to have spent three years in a temple in India,...[and] also concealed his past affiliation with a Hare Krishna sect, members of which were once accused of child sexual assault and corporal punishment." 

   

 They never learn. 

  

You Wanna See Laziness? (It's Ben Affleck As Batman)

Since Batman is TMR's unofficial mascot, I thought about saying something on this casting decision, but had decided against commenting until I saw this:

Is Ben Affleck man enough to play “Batman?” 

Controversy erupted across social media networks when Warner Bros. announced Thursday the 41-year-old Affleck will star in the newest version of the Dark Knight, a movie that promises to bring Batman and Superman together.

Talk about a symbol of what's wrong with Hollywood. Who in their right mind would consider Ben Affleck to play Bruce Wayne? Isn't that kind of fucking with our memories a bit much? And not in a good way?

And what must Hollywood think of Dark Knight fans (the only reason the movies got started) to put an unabashed liberal in the costume, of an unabashed conservative crime fighter, liberals had labeled a "fascist" when shown in his original form?

You KNOW they were planning on doing their liberal hocus-pocus on our hero. Well, fuck them:

When it comes to my man, Hollywood can't just feed us anything,...

 

This Couldn't Have Happened To Some Nicer Guys,...

Have you ever watched a movie with no one to root for? I've rarely seen one, but I'm watching the 2010 corporate downsizing film, The Company Men, and - besides Chris Cooper, who's always awesome, and some black supporting actors who, for some reason, all seem pretty normal - I'll be damned if every other frigging character isn't 100% unlikable. Seriously. It's so brutal I had to stop the DVD and say so.

 One of the few halfway decent guys in this picture (Tommy Lee Jones) is cheating on his clueless bitch of a wife (is the fact she's a bitch supposed to make me "understand" his adultery?) and the lead character, played by Ben Affleck, is such an entitled asshole I could care less if he ever finds another position. Affleck's character's brother-in-law, played by Kevin Costner, offers the douchebag a job doing construction work - but not until after making him endure a bunch of anti-corporate hoo-hah at every opportunity he gets. Parties, dinner, the stupid jerk just never let's up. Fuck, I wouldn't want to work for him either.

 As Affleck's fortunes fall, I had to stifle a laugh, listening as he negotiates with bill collectors like everybody else (Poor baby, I was waiting for the words Top Ramen to come up but no such luck) and when he's finally forced to do manual labor, it's treated like some great realignment of his manhood - and of course another opportuniity for anti-corporate Costner to break his balls. Glad for that.

 Rather than make me hate the financial meltdown of 2008, all this picture did, mostly, was make me hate the fact I've got to share my country with people such as these. From top to bottom, between these creeps and the NewAgers, this is an unintended expose' on why this place is such a mess. I can't help wishing a bucket of concrete would fall on somebody's head or something. Anything. Just. Make. Them. Stop.

 Chris Cooper's character finally kills himself, naturally, feeling like I do every time I encounter the word "recycling" or "sustainable." But few care anymore about my plight than I can for these guys. Fair's fair.

 I guess what I'm trying to say is, ultimately, there's only one thing I've learned so far from this lousy "compassionate" movie, but what it is, I knew before the opening credits rolled:

 No matter how bad the vehicle, I like to see Ben Affleck suffer,...