Bring the New Robot Hotness

The name Michael Bay is enough to strike terror into the hearts of movie-goers everywhere.  The unwelcome fear that your hard-earned ten dollars is going to be wasted on another craptastic piece of trash that barely deserved to be filmed in the first place is a hard thing to swallow. Well, that and stale movie theater popcorn, but I digress.

All of that aside, it looks like this summer's Transformers movie might just revive the childhood passion I had for the franchise.  I'm not going to get my hopes up too much, but from the latest trailer, it looks like Bay might just have a winner.

 Check it out.

 

Technorati tags: Transformers, Michael Bay, Movies, Film, entertainment, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Starscream

Misery Loves Company

No longer confined to Livejournal and Myspace, emo kids are now branching out into the real world.

Forget happiness, the in-crowd is being moved to tears by a new wave of super cool misery clubs, which give visitors (with the help of a pile of chopped onions) the chance to weep away their woes.

The birds are dying, man.  I have to ask though, isn't the hip emo thing to isolate yourself from actual human contact and to share your life only via the web?  If so, doesn't the concept of an emo club seem to be self defeating?

Technorati tags: Misery, emo, clubs, entertainment

Give the Brits a Break

The other night driving home from work, I heard something which made my blood boil. I flicked the radio on and punched the AM button in the hope of finding some talk radio station interesting enough to keep me awake on the trip home from a long day at the dealership.

Because of crappy reception and poor timing, the only thing I was able to pick up was Michael Savage.  Ordinarily I can't handle listening to him because he comes across as an obnoxious know-it-all whiner.  That and his tendency to ramble on and on about how everyone he disagrees with are vermin, rats, rodents, pests, psychos, etc all the while griping at his studio engineer to throw on some oldies rock.

Being familiar with his schtick, I more or less ignored him for the bulk of my trip until he started talking about the British seamen who'd been captured by Iranians.  He went on for several minutes about how they were traitors, losers, sissies, and every other name his venomous, crotchety old mind could cook up.

He worked himself into a near orgasmic frenzy of hate, criticizing them for appearing in videos released by the Iranians, cooperating with their captors, and every other act imaginable except, quite possibly, breathing.

I'd like to see that whining SOB in a similar situation and see exactly how he responds.  Let's see him, blindfolded and thinking he's about to be shot, tell his captors to go to hell.  That'd never happen in a million years.  His snivelling ass would be in the fetal position begging for his miserable life the second he heard a bolt being drawn back.  It's easy to talk smack when you've got a million braindead radio listeners ready to kiss your ass no matter what you say.  It's also easy to talk smack about people with guns to their heads...until you have a gun to yours.

So what if they cooperated.  They were in a hopeless situation.  Resistance would have meant death, and they knew that.  They lived to fight another day. 

Maybe Savage can turn off his emotions as easily as he's able to turn off his brain cells, but these young people did what I suspect most anyone would do.  They survived, and in the military, isn't that considered a desirable outcome?

Technorati tags: Iran, UK, Navy, hostages, Ahmadinejad, Khameini, war, terrorism, Iraq, Faye Turney, Michael Savage, conservative

The Rock Rolled

Matthew 28:1-7

1  After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

2  There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

3  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
4  The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

5  The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

6  He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

7  Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

 

Happy Easter!

Technorati tags: Easter, Christianity, Resurrection, Jesus, Religion

History is Now Rewinding, Stand By

More news from the UK:

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

...some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

And the downward spiral of western society continues unimpeded by common sense.

Technorati tags: Holocaust, UK, education, terrorism, Islam, Muslims, revisionism, political correctness

More Than Meets the Eye

Filmwad's got some seriously badass new pictures from Transformers. Come onnnnnnnnn July!

 

Technorati tags: Transformers, Michael Bay, movies, film, cinema, Optimus Prime, Megatron

British Kamikazes?

Two wrongs do not make a right.

A senior RAF officer asked fighter pilots whether they would consider suicide missions as a last resort to stop terrorists if their weapons had failed or they had run out of ammunition.

The head of the RAF's elite One Group who is in operational control of Typhoon, Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier fighters and bombers, is reported to have asked the pilots: "Would you think it unreasonable if I ordered you to fly your aircraft into the ground in order to destroy a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al-Qaida commander?"

Wow, we're really taking the moral high-ground against terror, aren't we?

 

Technorati tags: RAF, Britain, War, Terror, Terrorism, UK, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iraq, Afghanistan