Movies for 2009

P/f is whether the movie passes the Bechdel Test. There must be 1) Two female characters 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something besides a man.

Passing doesn't make a good movie or a feminist one. Failing doesn't mean a bad movie. I find this an interesting measure of roles for women.
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24) Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo. DO. NOT. ASK. Sucked like a giant black hole of suckitude. (f, 2)

25) Montana. Older Flynn western. Contains a couple of really great scenes but Alexis Smith looks very very weird around the eyes. The clips from this piece influenced our "Showdown at Yellowstone River." (f, 1)

26) Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror. Where to start. Viral warfare creates military zombies. Naveen Andrews as a biochemist, trying to do the "Middle-Eastern Badass" but coming off like Charlie Eppes with a castration fetish. Rose McGowen. And of all the things I never wanted to see, Quentin Tarantino's zombifying balls splattering all over the floor when he drops trou. Cameo by Bruce Willis. Gross beyond gross to the point the gore becomes funny. But the sex scene is well shot.(p)

27) Bolt. Brilliantly funny animated feature. jlm121 was right. The fanboy hamster MADE the movie. (f, 3)

28) Bride of Frankenstein. Horror classic. What is there to say except to quote Gods and Monsters "Dear Una, squawking her head off." Victor Frankenstein is a dumbass and Una O'Conner steals the show. Karloff is, as always, fabulous. (p)

For those who think I exaggerate the problem

Conservatizing the Bible

Apparently the Bible is too liberal for the fine people at Conservapedia. Check their rewrite guidelines:

As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1]
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity
...
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning

Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story



Free Market parables. From a man who practically preached communism. From a religious movement that started as "Cast your lot among us and let us all have one purse." From a book of Law that decrees all debts forgiven every 7 years and everything back to the original owner every 49 years.

Wanna bet the adultress story comes under "liberal insert" while the Benjaminite's Concubine falls under "proper marital relations and hospitality?"

Blots from the Debauched Desk

• 20:41 81,000 words later, Alive on the Inside is edited. Now to create something new. I'm thinking sexbots. #

Please to be sweeping them into the wastebasket now
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I have lost 10% of my body-weight. That's 30.5 lbs for those playing the home game.
I weigh 265, which is the lightest I've been in 5+ years.

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