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Quote du jour

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

-Maxwell Scott, from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

Little Thor

I've been a little thor mythelf! A clever spoof on the Vader/VW ad:



The dog's dish and the license plate on dad's car are both a nice touch!

H/T Full Metal Patriot

The Lyin' King

"Alias Jesse James" with Bob Hope

Saw "Alias Jesse James" for the first time this weekend. I didn't think it was one of Bob Hope's better movies, but there was one star studded gunfight, with nine different cameos from TV western and movie stars.



The cameos start at about 2:15 and just keep on coming, with Hugh O'Brian (TV's Wyatt Earp), followed by Ward Bond of "Wagon Train", James Arness of "Gunsmoke", Roy Rogers, Fess Parker as "Davy Crockett", Gail Davis as "Annie Oakley", Gary Cooper from "High Noon", Jay Silverheels from "The Lone Ranger", and finally, even Bing Crosby!

And, as an added bonus, here's the "cover stealing" scene between Bob and Trigger in "Son of Paleface".

Leslie Nielsen- R I P

A leading man type in the fifties, star of many a detective story*, Leslie Nielsen turned to comedy in the 1980's and the world has been a funnier place ever since. I haven't quoted from a Leslie Nielsen line since...earlier this morning. And don't call me Shirley! Rest in peace, Mr. Nielsen!

H/T Eye of Polyphemus

* I was an extra in a Leslie Nielsen made-for-TV movie once. My claim to fame!

Red: Gina Elise Hits the Big Screen... Sort Of!

In the film "Red", opening today, if you look closely, you can see our friend Gina Elise of Pinups for Vets. That is, there is a picture of her, in a janitor's closet in the CIA where the Bruce Willis character hides. According to Gina:

"(the) photo is on the door, and the camera lingers on the photo for a while after he exits the room!" A little added bonus, sports fans!



Update: Be on the lookout for this picture:

LCR Exclusive: Director Mike Wilson of Michael Moore Hates America

by the Left Coast Rebel

Recently I just happened to come across a brilliant conservative documentary titled Michael Moore Hates America via Netflix on the family Wii console. Filmed in 2004 but still highly relevant, the movie was charming, interesting, funny and best of all - entertaining. The flick didn't brow beat it's particular angle on iconic leftist Michael Moore but more or less laid things out in a fair way - despite the title.


After viewing Michael Moore Hates America (and loving it), I put on my Google-search-cap and hunted down director Mike Wilson's contact. I wanted to fire him off a atta-boy and a quick request for an interview. Proving that sometimes all you have to do is ask - Mr. Wilson quickly responded and accepted my invitation for a Q&A. The following may be best viewed after viewing the movie.

Read the Q&A with Mike Wilson here.

Save the Planet with Disposable Toys!

Over at Hacked Gadgets, they take apart a McDonald's Happy Meal toy to see what makes it tick.
Like the Avatar DVD released on Earth Day, it seems to me that there's an awful lot of blue landfill created in the making and marketing of this paean to saving the environment.

H/T Right Wing News

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

Conan the Musical

Yesterday, we busted Arnold's chops as the Governator. Here's someone busting him for his illustrious acting career. Pretty funny, in a weird sort of way!


via House of Eratosthenes

Iron Baby - Be Very Afraid!

In keeping with the more light hearted theme of the weekend heading towards Memorial Day, I give you: Iron Baby!


Note the pacifier in his "heads up" display!

Shamelessly reswiped from Troglopundit

"Waiting for Superman"

This looks good!

H/T Jonah Goldberg

Why You Never Want to Watch TV or Movies With Me

It’s the little things that bug me! I was watching TV this weekend. More than usual. I’ve been doing a little remodeling, and after downing 600mg. of generic Ibuprofen, I settled down to listen to my bones calcify and turn on the TV. And, IMHO, there’s nothing on. At least nothing that I might really enjoy watching. But, my kids and I have this rating system, and one of the ratings is “A movie I would watch only if I were in a full body cast and couldn’t reach the remote”. This one may qualify…

I’d never seen Robocop III. I liked Robocop, but the sequel, II, was pretty bad. I wasn’t even aware that they’d made a third one. Peter Weller was missing from the cast. I thought the fact that he had to go through pretty much the entire first movie with just his mouth and jaw showing to convey emotion was pretty cool.

Anyway, they get some Peter Weller lookalike to reprise the role. Plot spoiler alert: Towards the end of the movie, he flies. That’s different. But, unfortunately, the point in the movie that really caught my attention was a couple of boneheaded mistakes by the writers/director. According to the story, Robocop is more machine than man. He is heavily armored to withstand bullets, mortars and rocket fire. At one point in the movie, he is doused with gasoline and set on fire. Why this didn’t burn his unarmored face off, I’m really not quite sure! (See what I mean?)

Then Robocop is down in some sewer helping his friends escape the evil bad guys, and he’s running out of energy. He collapses. Great! How are they going to get this heavily armored piece of machinery out of there? He must weigh a ton! No problem! Two guys, a woman and a little girl pick him up and carry him into an adjoining space. Actually, the little girl was more hanging on him than carrying him. Now, that might work if Robocop was merely an actor in a plastic costume, but these people didn’t even pretend to break a sweat. There went what little suspension of disbelief there was for me!

And then, there was this episode of Law and Order (I think). I stopped watching L&O when it became more of a platform for every liberal cause célèbre than for entertainment. At the beginning of the episode, we see a body. Some SYT (sweet young thing) lies on the floor and pretends to be dead. No big deal. SYTs do it all the time looking for their big show biz break! Now, I’m not sure if this particular SYT fell asleep while waiting for her close up, but you can see this twitching around her eyelids. A second close up confirmed that this corpse definitely had Rapid Eye Movement! What was she thinking?

I must confess, that spotting continuity glitches and the like are sometimes more entertaining than the shows themselves. I saw one movie where the bad guy holding and firing a gun was alternately holding a revolver or a semiautomatic pistol from one moment to the next. I like looking for car chases where a car loses a hubcap or a side mirror which miraculously reattaches itself in the next shot. Or the good guy that takes a bullet through the thigh or shoulder who is sprinting and wrestling the bad guy mere hours later. And whenever I see a scene where a car is making or about to make some dramatic turn, I look to see if there are already skid marks on the street where it was done in earlier takes or rehearsal. This also works in Westerns, where if you can sometimes see wagon tracks or hoof prints where supposedly no one had gone before.

In that respect, my TV viewing did not disappoint me, and full disclosure, I generally multitask, watching the TV next to my computer, so my time is not entirely wasted. Well, on TV anyway!

Robobama

The only hope for Detroit??? You guys are so screwed!

In Detroit, Life Emulates Art

A local independent TV station has been playing the "Robocop" trilogy for the last couple days. I'd forgotten that they were set in Detroit, overrun with crime and corruption and bankrupt.

It seems as though life emulates art once again!

(I guess, more properly, it should have been "imitates".)