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There's more to life than movies... I think

Love This Guy

I don’t know, I probably would have left this guy be if I was the cop. And have we come to the point where all you have to do is ask somebody to do something times before you tase/pepper spray them? This guy was not a fucking threat at all, give me a break.

Marion Cotillard is AMAZING

That’s all. Just thought it was worth pointing out. I’m a sucker for french accents too and Good Lord she has a cute one.

Marion Cotillard

Proof Tarantino Is Nuts

I still love the guy, but this is not a normal reaction. I assume he had a rough morning or maybe a few hundred lines of coke.

Best SAG Moment

Bad Movies, Great Time

Rambo

I saw Rambo this past weekend and I’m still amazed by how much I enjoyed it. Hell, even super-snob Jeffrey Wells loved it. There are some movies that even though you know deep down are preposterous, inanely simple-minded and “bad” for you, debasing you, resorting you to your inner ape … you can’t help but give in to them. Stallone did a great job with this movie because all he’s looking for is your most primal feelings. Fuck your intellect.

He starts out showing you the horrors occurring in Burma. He does explain them. He just shows them. He shows you real footage of dead bodies. He shows you dead mothers. He shows you dead children. You hear the news reporters talking about the high levels of genocide. And all you really know is that the guys in the soldier uniforms are the ones putting these innocent people into the ground. You can’t help but be affected by these images.

Then you’re introduced to some movie footage. And you watch these soldiers toy with some captured villagers. They play the mine game. People die. Stallone wants you to hate these guys in the green uniforms. He wants you to know they’re evil. And boy oh boy does it work. You’re ready for some Rambo carnage before you even meet the 61-year-old fart.

But Stallone knows he has one more thing to do: he has to give Rambo a personal stake so we have to sit through some bonding scenes with the blonde chick in the movie and then we have to wait for her and her husband and friends to get attacked and abducted by the green uniformed storm troopers. And then we meet the shady good guy mercenaries. And this is where the movie becomes Rambo: First Blood Part II meets Predator minus the alien and plus more violence.

And it isn’t long before Rambo comes in, shows up the loud-mouthed mercenaries, and KILLS SCORES AND SCORES AND SCORES AND SCORES AND SCORES OF PEOPLE.

If you have any interest in seeing Rambo, you have no excuse to dislike this movie. What else were you expecting? Rambo kills bad guys. That’s all you need to know. Rambo kills bad guys.

This is an ’80s movie made today only more violent. More chests explode. More heads explode. More arms pieces burst towards the camera.

And let me say that Stallone is very smart in how he handles his 61-year-old actor. He doesn’t have to do a lot of physical stuff. He doesn’t have any real mano-a-mano. He sneaks up on some people unawares but for the most part, Rambo does the bulk of his damage 3 ways:

Arrows (unfortunately not the exploding tipped ones)
A Pretty Big Bomb
And A Giant Fucking Machine Gun With Bullets The Size of Steak Knives

So he really never puts his character into too laughable a mode. Don’t get me wrong, you will be covering your mouth at both shock and laughter at some of the goings ons here but thats what makes this movie the perfect kind of primal film experience. I have a special place in my heart First Blood Part II but I will say this movie blows Rambo III out of the water.

Rambo is - for better or worse - a childhood hero of mine and there is no doubt nostalgia fits into my great experience with this movie. But I still love his character. He’s the man of, well, no words basically. The fun of his character is that you know what he is. He’s a ticking time bomb and he takes a lot of shit before really exploding. He explodes again and it was hella fun to watch it all go down.

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The Best Candidate Nobody Knows

Ron Paul

I’m watching the Republican debate thats taking place in Boca Raton, not 15 minutes from where I live. I’ve been watching for about 45 minutes now (i missed the beginning) and Ron Paul has gotten 1 … ONE … ONE question. It was on social security and his honest, concise answer lasted about two minutes. In that same span of time McCain, Rudy and Mitt got about 8 BILLION. Huckabee only got about 2 billion. Oh wait, the debate is about to end and Brian Williams just snuck in a last minute question to Ron Paul which Paul used to rail against his entire party.

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If Obama and Paul were to run against each other (I realize the odds against this), I would have a very hard time choosing between the two. They are easily my favorite two candidates and they are as philosophically different as you can get.

The debate is over now as I finish this up and of course, nobody is talking about Ron Paul. Can’t say I blame them. They never gave the guy a chance, although he ended the debate on a tremendous note. If the media isn’t fair to all of the candidates, how do they expect to defend attacks that they constrict, skew and show only to the people what the powers that be want them to show?

I encourage anybody and everybody to search what this guy is about. His official site is right here.

John Gibson … Major Fuckhead

john gibson nazi

Leave it to a Fox News asshole to give trample over the grave of the Heath Ledger. Ledger was more than above-average as an actor. He had integrity and chose roles based not on box-office potential but on what he found interesting. Gibson is a guy who time and time again shows his complete lack of character. He made some pretty despicable remarks when he opened his radio show the day after Ledger’s death. From the Huffington Post:

Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Making fun of the famous “I wish I knew how to quit you” line from “Brokeback Mountain,” Gibson said of his death, “Well, he found out how to quit you.”

On a less-Nazish note, I’d like to play a little tribute to Ledger. Ledger directed this nicely-shot Ben Harper video for “Morning Yearning” (one of the very best songs on Harper’s Both Sides of the Gun album). Someone should really make a tribute to Ledger’s films using this song and his film clips.

Jose Canseco Needs a Bat Up His Ass

Canseco Finger

So apparently Jose Canseco is out to destroy more lives. I just read this MSNBC article on how Canseco reportedly tried to blackmail Magglio Ordonez. Supposedly, Canseco offered to keep the Detroit Tiger’s name out of his next book (which I assume will implicate Ordonez as a steroid user).

Which brings us back to what is often pointed-out. Jose Canseco is a piece of shit. He does not care about cleaning up the game of baseball, he cares only about destroying it and he does not give a flying fuck whose life he tramples over.

I am not defending Ordonez. In fact, I don’t even care for the guy. I look at Canseco’s first book as an unfortunate but - in hindsight - necessary evil. There is nothing necessary, however, about his next foray into sad, vindictiveness.

Reason # 483 Why I’m Going to Hell

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