Superman and the American way

"...the American way." Three words. If all they are are words than why leave them out? PC is a tool of petty bureaucracies and their owners. Or some such thing like that. Ok, if you want to accept the argument that Superman/Clark Kent aren't technically from Earth or even the U.S. an as such makes him more of a man of the world. According to this argument he is more of a protector of the whole planet than sure that might work. That is if it weren't for the fact that he landed in Kansas. Kansas is in the middle of the U.S.

I bring up this obvious little factoid is to use it as a stepping stone to my next point. My next point is that when the planet Krypton exploded he was made an orphan. Which made him eligible for adoption. How do you fill out that form for adoption? Check the box for a Kryptonian baby? "You want a Kryptonian baby, sorry we're fresh out. Oh, wait we just happen to have gotten one a day ago." Normally I would support going through the correct channels to adopt a child and immigration but this was a special case.

So is Superman American? More than he is British, Chinese, or South African. Does he still have an obligation to the whole world? Yes, if he can help people in those countries.

Hot Pocket

A while back I found out about Jim Gaffigin. In cause you've never heard about him he's really funny. So go to his website and listen to some of his stuff. What are you waiting for, go.

The Punishment Begins

Um...wow. That's what was going through my mind as I was watching "The Punisher." Not really in the best sense that the word wow could be used either. It was more violent and gory than what I thought it might be but then that's what I get for only knowing the basic premise of a movie before watching it. This movie isn't getting a very high spot on my recommendation scale. I'd say about a 5 out of 10. I found the movie overall a bit distasteful, though it did have a few decent things about it.

There are some other things that bring down the recommendation score. First, brief glimpses of too much skin on women. The reason that brings the recommendation score is because it might be something that might something that some people might think unnecessary or want to speed through. The second thing that brought the score down was John Travolta. More like John Revolta. Oh come on, don't tell me you couldn't see that one coming.

I Does No the English Language..

I find it more than a little annoying when I come across a blatant grammatical error. For example, someone using the word here for hear. I saw that as a comment on a friend's blog. I don't know about the overall intelligence of the person who made the comment but that shouldn't be a mistake that should be made. I say that since it's so obvious. I know, I know I should lighten up a little bit since I make some spelling and grammatical mistakes myself. However making a mistake like the example I made shouldn't be made. At least not by anyone who knows the English language well enough.

"What's going on, buddy?"

Random thought of the day. Well, actually not to random since there is a connection between the two. Now to the not too random thought of the day. A few years ago, about the time of the release of Attack of the Clones I was up relatively late watching tv when I flipped past MTV. I stopped since they were talking about Star Wars. They were giving a quick recap of the Star Wars movies up to that point. When they got to the point of the end of "The Empire Strikes Back" they said something to the effect that Lando Calrissian was a good for nothing traitor. To which I automatically thought that he wasn't and that they were idiots for even thinking so.

True, for the longest time when I was little I thought that Lando was a traitor and for that was a horrible person. To tell the truth I hadn't given the whole "Lando is a traitor" thing much thought for a few years until I heard it on the idiot making channel.So what changed my thinking? Well, I had matured and had read several Star Wars novels, as well as watched the movies numerous times since I was little. Between those two things I must have unknowingly came to the conclusion that Lando did what he did for the good of the citizens of Cloud City and everyone else that was in the floating city. So is sacrificing a friend for the good of thousands of people that you have an obligation to truly justified? I think that it can't be fully justified but that if only one person is lost no matter how grudgingly for the majority of people concerned, even the person making the choice, for the good of the majority and the situation ends up working for the good in the long run than it was for the best.

What's that smell?

Ok, here's the review of sorts of Sasquatch. I thought it was a step or two up from Abdominal. What I mean by this is that it seems as if more money was spent on the production of it. Also the acting was better but that isn't saying a lot. Was it an outstanding movie overall? No, not really. I'm not saying that it was bad but if I had to rate it on a scale of 1-10, one being craptastic and ten being greater than great; I'd give it a 5.5. Simply because the acting was relatively believable but not award winning, the "special effects" were nothing spectacular. The sasquatch did look more ape-like and more plausible however looked a bit silly. What I mean is that it was less furry than what I typically imagine a sasquatch to look like.

I really wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone who dislikes inconsistencies. That's because towards the beginning of the movie the search party notices a horrible smell, this is about the time when we the audience sees an outline of the sasquatch through the trees. However this little fact seems to have been forgotten to the director and everyone else responsible for continuity. The reason that I even bring this up is that when the sasquatch is stalking the rescue party and they think that it's following them they forget to check for the smell.

To sasquatch, or not sasquatch? That is...

I watched the last 30-40 minutes of one of the most craptastic monster movies that I have seen in the last year. It was on the Sci-Fi channel. The movie was called Abdominal. True, I only saw the ending but still just based on that little of the movie I can confidently say that it was horrible. Why you ask. Well, let me start with the overall appearance of the sasquatch. It just looked like a big extra hairy human with really bad teeth. I admit that I don't know what one of these creatures would look like if they really were to exist but I could bet money that it wouldn't look the way that it was depicted.

Another thing is that the sasquatch was breaking into houses to get to the people inside and eat them. The problem that I see with that is that who's to say that sasquatches are blood thirsty man eaters? I have only read of two claims of attacks on humans by sasquatch-like creatures. Whether those actually were true or by sasquatches has yet to be confirmed, but I digress.

There was something that just didn't seem that it should have worked from what I saw. BTW I should warn you that I'll just give something away about the movie. The hero of the story, I didn't catch his name, put his station wagon in reverse to hit the sasquatch which subsequently pinned it to a tree. The hero took one of his shoes off and put it up against the gas peddle but there was no way that it could have stayed at least from the camera angle that the shot was shown from. That could just be me being a stickler.

There was another sasquatch movie immediately afterwards. This movie was imaginatively named Sasquatch. I'll post on this one later when I get the chance.