Was Amos and Andrew a Real Movie?

From Netflix - When renowned African amiercan playwritght Andrew Sterling moved into an all white suburb, his suspicious new neighbors mistake him for a burglar and promptly call the police. 

SLJ and Nic Cage in a movie together when the fuck did this get green lit sold and made and why wasn't I told about this.  Why didn't I go see this?  Look how pissed Sam is.  Is this just like the Burbs?

Popcorn

So I was watching 4 months 3 weeks etc, I had my big ass bag of popcorn and I wondered should popcorn be considered abortion.  Would corn think it's wrong?  Should all biology be created equal?

Movies that make you not want to do ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________!

Let me just preface this by saying movies do kind of fuck you up psychologically if they hit that chord with you.  You know how you watch a scary movie, makes you double check that you locked the door and shit.  But there are just some movies that after I see them I can't do a certain thing for a really long time, because they did it in a movie and it just made me sick to my stomach to even think about doing it.  And it takes a special movie to do something like that.  Like Boogie Nights didn't make me want to stop coke or doing porn etc.  So here are my all time movies for that:

Leaving Las Vegas - Didn't want to Drink for a Really long time...

This film will always hold that special place in my heart for being the first movie to do something like this to me.  If that's part of what they were going for, then way to go.  You probably made a lot of alcoholics stop and I commend them.  Honestly when he made that 99 to 1 perecent screw driver in the shower I almost puked.

Owning Mahoney - Made me want to stop gambling.

This is a very underrated classic from Phillips Seymour Hoffman's cocoon to butterfly stage.  Basically from 2000-2004, PSH fucking owned acting but no one really gave him credit for a lot of things he did.  You had Love Liza, this, Punch Drunk Love (best part), 25th hour, Cold Mountain, Red Dragon, Almost Famous.  But that is why he is kicking shit right now and why everyone sucked his dick with Capote.  That was the years he was honing his craft.

This really showed that gambling is the sickest addiction you can have because anyone can have it really.  You kind of have to climb a mountain of failure to get into coke and heroin, but gambling is so easy and it is there and you think you always have it.  Think about it, how much are you up on the house, how entertaining is that for you??

I can't really explain it but Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back made me realize that the girl I was currently dating that it would never work out between us.  She wasn't even watching it with me and I don't know what it was.  Partially due to Shannon Elizabeth's entrance okay.  But I ended up not breaking up with her for another 2 years so you can tell how well that turned out for me. 

What are some of these movies for you?

What did people think Eyes Wide Shut was going to be?

Do you know who Stanley Kubrick is? 

X-Men First Class Trailer

So they just released the trailer for X-Men First Class yesterday.  They were going to release a TV spot during the Super Bowl, but they wisely held off to do a full length one.  I mean was anyone excited by the 30 seconds of Super 8 or Captain America?  Not only is it a waste of money, but unless you buy a minutes worth it's almost impossible to get people amped up for it.

Anyway, this trailer actually looked pretty decent.  I went into it expecting it would be stupid, even though it started a little slow.  I think Matthew Vaughn is a good director, he has his head and heart in the right place.  I love how he is anti-hollywood.  I was disappointed with Kick Ass which is another reason why I didn't expect much from this, but I'm pretty excited for this movie now.  And as much as I hate the idea of rebooting a franchise almost within a decade of the first one (see Spider-Man), I think this one needed a little new blood to keep it going especially after Wolverine and X-Men 3.  Are they actually considering this a prequel, or is this a reboot?

No one was as ramped up for first X-Men movie in 2000 as me.  When I finally got to see it, I brought my camera, and ended up making an album out of the time I got to see X-Men.  As much as I loved it though, I always thought something felt amiss with it, maybe it needed one more action sequence, or 20 more minutes.  I realize how hard it is to make an X-Men movie, you are basically creating an ensemble action movie within 2 hours.  Hopefully this takes X-Men to the next level and realizes that they don't really spend so much time on exposition, I think most of the people seeing this will already know the stories. 

Does anyone remember that TV movie in the 90's Generation X with that guy from Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Matt Frewer.  I kind of liked it.  Why haven't they done that with a comic book?  Even as there have been some effective super hero movies, can you really tell the story arc of a hero in a 2 hour movie, even if it is a trilogy?  With the progression TV has made, maybe it is the right time for a live action, well known, Super hero coming to the small screen, and I'm not counting Lois and Clark.  Batman the Animated Series was one of the best things to happen to TV ever.

PS it was always my dream since I was a kid to fly an SR-71, is that still possible?

Half Baked Pro Pot or Anti Pot

Half Baked will be one of my all time favorite comedies probably until the day I die, great sequences, good mix of random moments, visually striking, and has one of the legends Dave Chappelle.  But I was recently thinking was this setup as a pro pot movie or anti pot movie.  I could see certain elements relating to anti-pot since the studios financed it and wouldn't want to come off as pro-drug for financial and commercial reasons.  There seems to be somewhat of a character arc for Thurgood going from complete Stoner, to seeing the seedy underbelly of drug use and coming out clean in the end.   

Reasons for Anti

• Mary Jane makes Thurgood quit smoking in order to be with her and he does
• Mary Jane's father is in prison for selling it
• None of them have any "high" society jobs, and the only one that does somewhat, Kenny, ends up in prison, the rest have stereotypical stoner jobs, fast food, janitor, record store clerk
• There is a part where they say marijuana effects the memory
• They are labeled potheads during a negative connotation scene
• The one who smokes the most, Sir Smokes-a-lot, is a complete wreck, needs a backiotomy, is impotent and they seem to relate it to that he smokes a pound a week
• The cops almost don't bust SAMPSON! because they are too high 
• While they are selling it and meeting all the different stoners none of them, except maybe Snoop and Willie, seem to mentally be stable.  Thurgood and Scarface are a little scared of the creative and enhancement ones.  
• They are 4 adult humans living in a tiny cramped apartment with no bedrooms and a dude perpetually passed out on the couch
• It takes them a whole night to realize that Kenny is gone, maybe even more since Kenny seems to go through the whole judicial process overnight
• They don't get laid as often as they like, until Thurgood meets Mary Jane but he hasn't had sex since high school it would appear

 Reasons for Pro

• During the addiction meeting people call Thurgood out because it is only marijuana.  Someone even says marijuana is not a drug along with did you ever suck dick for coke
• It makes up most of the movie obviously
•  As a rebuttal to the one above, Sir Smokes-a-lot is also the best one off financially
•  There is a pharmaceutical lab (Frankensense and Burr) conducting experiments with it to show that it may have many different uses
• A grandma is smoking, saying how good it is for her glaucoma and arthritis
• I bet most of the actors, writers, crew working around the movie were pro-pot, and some were on weed and they were able to make a movie, which is a hard thing to do
• Everyone thinks that Brian is a crazy stoner, until his magic pouch ends up actually saving the day
• They all have jobs period, except the dude on the couch
• The detectives all seem to care about Sampson selling the cocaine and heroin
• Which they end up quitting to start their own business 
• They are 4 friends living together and enjoying life until one goes to jail
•  They are 4 stoners who end up taking down a major drug cartel

 I don't know, maybe it's both though, maybe both is happening at the same.  I think it says it's okay to smoke weed, it's fun, makes life a little bit better, just do it responsibly, don't let it consume your life like Sir Smokes-a-lot.  Yeah.  

El olor de una mujer

What Scent of a Woman in spanish, it is quite the trip especially if you don't know what they are talking about.