Fighting for Life

Typically I don’t post serious things on this blog and they usually contain a video but I stumbled across a blog article on Blog Maverick and want to give attention to the documentary “Fighting For Life“. Regardless of where you stand on the “war on terror” in Iraq or in Afghanistan, this documentary is about the men and women serving this country and the sacrifices that they have to make on a day-to-day basis.

Recently the mainstream film “Stop-Loss” has come out under MTV film studio. When first seeing the trailers on the tv, I had no interest in seeing the movie mainly because of my interest more in documentaries over Hollywood corporate dramatization. About a week later I was sitting down at lunch and picked up a City Pages and the featured story was called “Soldier Suicides“. This story was very well written and depicts the struggles and inner demons that these “kids” are dealing with when they come home. I couldn’t believe some of the statistics that Beth Walton pulled out in this story. I honestly read the story and said to myself under my breath, “these kids need help”. So after reading these stories in the article, I decided to go to Stop-Loss. Despite many story-line flaws and typical main stream Hollywood influence, the movie does depict our current struggles facing our over-worked men and women in this long drawn out war. Looking at this trailer for this new documentary, Fighting For Life, I hope that it succeeds enough so I can see it come to Minneapolis.

The only other Iraq documentary that I had seen is “No End in Site” which focuses on after we had declared “Mission accomplished” in major combat operations in Iraq. This actually was one of the better more disturbing documentaries that I’ve seen and makes you furious how ridiculously poor planning and execution of securing a post Saddam Iraq. As always here’s the whole movie if you have time (1 hr 42 min) to watch at your computer. I highly recommend this documentary and if you get a chance check out Fighting for Life.

Tags: Fighting For Life, Iraq, Iraq war, No End In Site, Soldier suicides, Stop-loss

Congrats Cohen brothers

Well as expected the Cohen brothers pretty much swept the Oscars with best picture and best director or should it be directors? It’s cool to see a couple of Minnesota kids just doing what they do best, making films. In dedication to the Cohen brothers, I leave you with the F*cking short version of “The Big Lebowski”:

-HS

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet

All I need is a beer and popcorn for this movie, you think they’ll have this movie in iMax? I think they should, that would be SWEEEEEEEET!

Giddy as a school boy I am

Before watching the movie, I am legend, this week I couldn’t help but get stupid excited watching the trailer for the new batman movie, The Dark Knight. Out of all of the superhero comics I’ve always favored batman over any other ones. If it’s anything like the last Batman, we’re in for one hell of a movie. My favorite Batman was the Tim Burton’a 1989 original one with Michael Keaton playing batman and Jack Nicholson as the famed Joker. This one has an all-star cast with the likes of Christian Bale (batman), Keith Ledger (joker), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent), Michael Caine (Alfred), Morgan Freeman, among others. Apparently they are going to play this in an iMax theater, OH MAN! I can’t wait for this new one, watching this new trailer seriously takes me back!!!

For updates to what is going on with this movie, check out the Dark Knights wiki.

Trailer:

IMAX teaser explanation:

IMAX Joker teaser:


Damn cool batman slideshow video with a damn good song:

No offense…

Look, we all know Home Ec. is a joke. No offense. It’s just like everyone takes this class to get an A. It’s bullshit, and I’m sorry. And I’m not putting down your profession, but it’s just the way I feel. I don’t want to sit here all by myself, cooking this shitty food - no offense - and I just think that I don’t ever need to cook tiramisu. When am I gonna need to cook tiramisu? Am I gonna be a chef? No. There’s three weeks left in school - give me a fuckin’ break. I’m sorry for cursing.

No offense…it sometimes seems that the Vikings and Twins have no offense? But serioiusly no offense.

NEED INTEL ON JASON BOURNE?

On August 3rd, 2007 Jason Bourne is going to be unleashed again.  This time with the supposed last of the Bourne Novel series written by Robert Ludlum, Bourne Ultimatum.  Have we seen the last of this spy gone awol?  Check out the trailer, I know that I’m going to go to see this movie.