Movies out that aren't funny and politics

[JYB]

Not to do any shameless promotion, but here i go anyways.

http://brainwurk.blogspot.com

Everyone's doing it. I just wrote about how movies that are being released are "funny at times" but really don't deliver. If you're political, you might like to read this blog as well as although i'm a democrat, i give some interesting ideas about politics in general.

I'd like to know what people think of the blog as well so either let me know there or let me know here! Thanks!!

[Wisco-Kid]

I liked your blog. It is very honest and open, just the way a blog should be. Thanks for sharing!

[joshtpa]

Its a very honest blog. I disagree with the racist factor. How about an experience factor. But its honest from YOUR point of view which is what a blog should be.

[Jonah523]

Love the blog. Keep it coming!

[jcrew]

Its a very honest blog. I disagree with the racist factor. How about an experience factor. But its honest from YOUR point of view which is what a blog should be.

rah experience is over rated. George bush had plenty of experience but he still managed to f*ck sh!t up. America as a whole is still racist and sexist. Hillary would be having just as much - probably more- trouble with all the men who wrongly think that a woman shouldn't be in office. Many people try to disguise their racism or sexism by finding other reasons to disapprove of Hillary and Obama. I'm not saying that most people who are against Obama are actually racist because of course many people will disagree with his policies but I would bet a lot of money that a good percentage of those people have some subtle (or not so subtle) racist feelings towards him. Either that or all those who like to point out that his middle name is Hussein and try to make him out to be unpatriotic. The fact that there are emails circulating saying Obama is Muslim and people actually believing that (and finding a problem with it EVEN though it isn't true) and passing it on says something about America.

I disagree with the funny movie rant but it's simply a matter of personal opinion. I love obscene crude hilarity and one-liners. Judd apatow is god in my eyes. I loved pineapple express, tropic thunder, and step brothers.

[joshtpa]

Please give me examples rather than accuse people of being racist because they do not like Obama. I think Obama is great. But not ready for president. Neither is Hillary for that matter. Lets face the facts. If her last name was Smith and not Clinton, she would not even have sniffed politics. As far as GW is concerned. He did not have great experience either. That was and is the problem. Being involved with MLB does not make a great leader.

[Bourbon and Coke]

And the flip side of the racist-anti-Obama argument is simple: just because Americans are predisposed against a black candidate doesn't mean he's the best candidate.

One need only look at his hopes for healthcare, his insistence on government interference with energy, and his dumb middle-class tax cut to see that. Change for the sake of change makes no more sense than status quo for fear of change. Doing something different just because you don't like the way things are make absolutely no sense. Government regulation of predatory practices makes sense (see: housing bubble burst) because it amounted to lenders taking advantage of an information imbalance to hoodwink consumers, but government regulation of any freely competitive market is a trap for inefficiency and waste.

What this election really comes down to is simple: do social issues really mean more to the average voter than solid economic choices? Candidates constantly try to stray from this concept by clouding voters with talk of social reform and feel-good legislation, but the fact of the matter is that no one since LBJ has been able to do that. Even Clinton (the typical counterexample) maintained his political strength because of the economy, regardless of who you blame for the economic strength of Clinton's administration.

I predicted this from day 1: Obama will have a hefty lead in the exit polls because people fear judgement if they admit to not voting for the black candidate. Fox News will predict the upset about 4 hours before any other news station, and the morning headline will read "Biggest upset since Dewey."

[Bourbon and Coke]

Also, Pineapple Express and the rest of Rogen-penned comedies are funny for exactly the reason you claim they aren't: they are real. He writes the way people talk. Will Ferrell, on the otherhand, sells quotability: you know as soon as his movies come out, every d-bag you know will begin quoting the six funny lines ad nauseum.

Rogen's comedies don't have much replay value, because once you've heard the conversation, the realism of it loses its charm (unless, of course, you watch it with people who haven't seen the movie yet.) Try watching Superbad again: the gas station scene at the beginning loses it's appeal when you know what's coming because it's the rapidfire delivery, the real-life wittiness, that makes the jokes. "Six handjobs and three-quarters of a blowjob, but who's counting?" is funny because you know someone like that, and because it was unexpected, not because it's inherently humorous. It's the same way that you can't retell most conversations to third parties because the timing is lost and the humor is gone.

Probably the nerdiest joke I ever laughed at was in Pineapple Express , though. "Is there a ****in' Rancor down there?" as James Franco is being led into the compound cracked me up.