YIKES!!
Correlated by Pat Darnell  |  Apr 11, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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"You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories"

Roger Ebert wrote those words in 1980 for The Atlantic magazine, a love letter to the medium that became his employer: the movies. After a 46-year tenure as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, several decades hosting a hugely influential television show, a landmark Pulitzer Prize, and countless thumbs in both directions, Ebert died Thursday at age 70. ( Kevin Fallon Apr 4, 2013 LINK)

Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70 - NYTimes.com:

We wake up one day and find that Roger Ebert, the Ted Copol of movie critiques, is passed away. Here is the website to find many Ebert reviews. Sadly, he won't be giving us his cinema wit or wisdom from this time on.

Unless someone gives Ebert life after death, we will miss his thumbs up ... OH WAIT WHAT IS THIS?

'via Blog this'

"Now the famed critic is in a new jurisdiction, where he can see the blessings poured out on God's humble servants in heaven, from his seat of eternal torment and sorrow in Hell! It's too late for the fool Roger Ebert! WBC will continue to bind those who still live in Doomed america to God's eternal laws and Word, so you, like Roger, are without excuse!"

That is what is being said by the Westboro Church Gang, as they talk ill about the dead. Nice going W-boro Dissidents, especially now that Roger Ebert can't offer you his rebuttal. He's dead.

These boneheads call him a "fag enabler." What the hell does that mean? Why does this issue, which isn't an issue, create such misanthropic and seething, egotistical, hatred of humanity?

Ebert might respond to Westboro Baptist wankers this way:

"You misguided cynical, carper, caviler, detractors, disbelievers, doubters, doubting Thomas's, egoist, egotistic, flouters, misanthropic, misogamist, misogynist, mockers, pessimistic, satirist, scoffers, skeptical, sneerers, unbelievers ... would make a wonderful movie project. Two thumbs up."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html?src=me&ref=general

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-picket-roger-434594
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-s-10-best-reviews-and-10-best-zingers.html

Westboro Baptist Church Members can see Dead People

YIKES!!
Correlated by Pat Darnell  |  Apr 11, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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"You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories"

Roger Ebert wrote those words in 1980 for The Atlantic magazine, a love letter to the medium that became his employer: the movies. After a 46-year tenure as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, several decades hosting a hugely influential television show, a landmark Pulitzer Prize, and countless thumbs in both directions, Ebert died Thursday at age 70. ( Kevin Fallon Apr 4, 2013 LINK)

Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70 - NYTimes.com:

We wake up one day and find that Roger Ebert, the Ted Copol of movie critiques, is passed away. Here is the website to find many Ebert reviews. Sadly, he won't be giving us his cinema wit or wisdom from this time on.

Unless someone gives Ebert life after death, we will miss his thumbs up ... OH WAIT WHAT IS THIS?

'via Blog this'

"Now the famed critic is in a new jurisdiction, where he can see the blessings poured out on God's humble servants in heaven, from his seat of eternal torment and sorrow in Hell! It's too late for the fool Roger Ebert! WBC will continue to bind those who still live in Doomed america to God's eternal laws and Word, so you, like Roger, are without excuse!"

That is what is being said by the Westboro Church Gang, as they talk ill about the dead. Nice going W-boro Dissidents, especially now that Roger Ebert can't offer you his rebuttal. He's dead.

These boneheads call him a "fag enabler." What the hell does that mean? Why does this issue, which isn't an issue, create such misanthropic and seething, egotistical, hatred of humanity?

Ebert might respond to Westboro Baptist wankers this way:

"You misguided cynical, carper, caviler, detractors, disbelievers, doubters, doubting Thomas's, egoist, egotistic, flouters, misanthropic, misogamist, misogynist, mockers, pessimistic, satirist, scoffers, skeptical, sneerers, unbelievers ... would make a wonderful movie project. Two thumbs up."

______________________________Reference
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html?src=me&ref=general

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-picket-roger-434594
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-s-10-best-reviews-and-10-best-zingers.html

MooPig Movie Reviews :: "Lincoln"

"Slavery, sir, is done..."
Perpetrated by Pat Darnell  |  Apr 5, 2013  |  Bryan TX

[PHOTO gif submitted by Pat2] ... The movie got mixed reviews, but mostly praised for its cinematic elegance. ... This photo is a "gif" of a device that keeps your camera motionless while you run with it. Annoying, eh?

In Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Passive Black Characters - NYTimes.com: "That, too, is the history of abolition; “Lincoln” is an opportunity squandered."

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How much do you know about Daniel Day-Lewis? Eh? I don't know squat about Daniel. I do know something about ears though. As a man gets older his ears get larger, because they never cease to grow throughout his life.

Next chance you get, look at how huge Tommy Lee Jones's ears are. They're GIANT! I know, I know, he can't help that!

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was debated at several occasions to have Marfan's syndrome and also acromegaly. He grew to 6 ft. 4 inches in height and generally weighed less than 180 lb. Lincoln's body growth and energic constitution show gross evidence of pituitary hyperactivity and gonadal hypoactivity. He was a long, thin baby at birth, with unusually long, thin arms and legs.You will have to Google all these difficult words.

That is about as historically factual as we can get in this movie review. You, dear reader, will not gain any exacting Lincoln scuttlebutt today. We don't have any historians on deck here at MooPig Enterprises. We farm that out.

So we go to the Bonus Features on the DVD we rented at Red Box for 99 cents, plus tax. In the usual mention of Steven Spielberg, the making of Lincoln is prefaced with anecdote given by Mr. Spielberg. He remembers as a young lad going to the Lincoln Memorial; and walking up to the seated man at the top of the stairs.

Spielberg's imagery of the greatness of the memorial in his memorable youthful experience gives us a clue to what the movie is about: the giant white man who ended the Civil War, and signed into law the Thirteenth Amendment.

In Theaters: Nov 16, 2012
On DVD: Mar 26, 2013
Box Office:$182.0M
Dreamworks Pictures
PG-13, 2 hr. 29 min.
Drama
Directed By: Steven Spielberg

MooPig Movie Reviews Department is proud that they are not insiders in the cinema industry. We are so far afield... well, a good analogy is this quote from the movie, Daniel Day-Lewis says:

" ... Abraham Lincoln: A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and dessert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True North? ... "

In answer to what Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, asks:

Thaddeus Stevens: You claim you can trust them. But you know what the people are. You know the inner compass that should direct the soul toward justice has ossified in white men and women, north and south, unto utter uselessness though tolerating the evil of slavery. White people cannot bear the thought of sharing this country's infinite abundance with Negroes.

This theme is the crux of the biscuit in real life ... the abject failure to "share" the abundance. But, that theme is never much dealt with in this movie. Blacks are more stoically portrayed as props, one liners, and altogether waiting in the wings for "white man" to "gift" them abolition of slavery in this movie. Too bad, too. With that wellspring of knowledge Spielberg's Lincoln could have remarkably transcended its boundaries.

Suggestion for when you watch the flick, you might want to turn on the subtitles so you can appreciate the American-English jargon spoken. It also helps the flow for you the patron, when actors and actresses muff and mumble their lines.



_________________________Reference
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/opinion/in-spielbergs-lincoln-passive-black-characters.html?pagewanted=2
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lincoln_2011/
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Marfan%27s-Syndrome.htm

http://www.lincolnportrait.com/emotional_neurosis_hypokinetic.asp

MooPig Movie Reviews :: "The Raven"

Only 4-4/10ths Stars out of Ten in the Reviews
Re-Sniped by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 14, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe as the American writer being plagiarized and euthanize'd.

The movie took a sniper hit when it came out a year ago and did not fair well. I watched The Raven for the first time today. The review is:

" ... Thinly scripted, unevenly acted, and overall preposterous, The Raven disgraces the legacy of Edgar Allen Poe with a rote murder mystery that's more silly than scary. (Rotten Tomatoes by Flixter. Apr 27, 2012. LINK) ... "

And, we could end our review right here. But, there is some stuff I want to say, regarding the American archetype writer, E. A. Poe.

Let's say this is three years later, and I am writing a review on The Raven, and remember very little about it, except back story on Edgar Allan Poe. It is not a mesmerizing movie, the film is not weird, disturbing, fascinating, entertaining, nor profound, for instance like The Master, but it points us toward an American phenomena.

That phenomena is "the path" many Americans take. It can be traced to Poe's life. Edgar Allan Poe had a thing for the aristocracy, but he didn't stick around to get the qualifications that would make him part of that scene. He chose rather to edify his street credit. He runs up gambling debts, joins the Army, returns to his adoptive parents, deliberately got kicked out of West Point, and basically lives the life of a rock star, all before he is twenty-two years old.

It resembles results today like our edgy outsiders, artists, recluses who are famous as outsiders, becoming insiders; the rebels become the giant bosses? It is the same for Poe in his day.

And I promise not to make it a "Did you know" slide into minutia. But how did we Americans not travel very far from a rock star archetypal life like E. A. Poe's?

For instance, in the movie, Poe is plagiarized by a serial murderer, who shall remain nameless. The villain uses Poe's short stories about macabre murders, to stage his own killings. This royally pisses off Poe in the movie, especially when the villain kidnaps his girlfriend, Emily, and buries her alive in a tunnel. She doesn't die.

Poe is the Baltimore Police's prime suspect in the series of murders, but it soon becomes evident he isn't the murderer, and he actually begins to help the police. It gets complicated and dicey, as one might expect, but there is no computer special effects, nor game console intelligence, nor SWAT team. As a matter of fact, the whole plot is about as emotionless as Vulcan poetry.

The plot depends on Poe's memory, as he is required to remember all of his writings, because the mysterious murderer leaves Poe's own words for clues written on pieces of paper. And, then Poe is required by the murderer to write like a sitcom author at Disney to come up with an 'impromptu story' about the current murders. This story is printed in installments in the Baltimore paper.

Spoiler: Poe [John Cusack] has to drink poison to save Emily's life.

I don't find this version of Poe's life anywhere; so it must be fiction script for the movie. The raven allusion in the title is not explained, nor his pet raccoon. We don't know in the closing scene how Poe is found on a park bench, half dead. But he dies at age forty in real life, due to unknown causes.

However, a model for American pop artists today, even after two centuries of American writing, Edgar Allan Poe is the first American rock star.

Out- out are the lights- out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
(Edgar Allan Poe. EXCERPT  :: "The Conqueror Worm" (1843) )


That's what we got out of the movie for our 99 cents rental of The Raven DVD ... and it is all good for us.



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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_raven_2012/
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/books/blog/edgar_allan_poe/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
http://poestories.com/
http://www.poemuseum.org/index.php
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_master_2011/
http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/09/20/a-masterful-and-mesmerizing-movie/

MooPig Movie Reviews: "Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians"

'Holy Rollers' movie will mess with your head - National Christian Pop Culture | Examiner.com:

Filmed over two years, “Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians” follows the “Church Team,” a group of pastors and church-planters who mastered the “art” of card counting. By learning how to decipher how many cards have been played and which ones vs. how many are left in the deck, the Church Team basically leveled the playing field and beat the casinos at their own game.

"Holy Rollers” follows the highs and lows of one of the largest blackjack teams in the country: winning streaks, devastating losses, questioning their integrity and even the possibility of a team member stealing from the group. Through it all, I struggled with it. Was it okay for them to gamble? Was it okay if they won? Was it okay if they lost? Was it okay when they dressed up in disguise? Was it okay when they got kicked out for being card-counters? In the end, I’m still not sure. However, what I appreciate about this documentary, is that group of guys didn’t live by the black and white rules. They lived in the gray so that they would have to rely on hearing from God on whether or not what they were doing was the right thing.

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See the Trailer HERE ... 

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http://www.examiner.com/christian-pop-culture-in-national/holy-rollers-movie-will-mess-with-your-head-review
http://www.holyrollersthemovie.com/

MooPig Movie Reviews: "Pollock"

POLLOCK
by Pat Darnell

Don't drive when drinking heavily, especially if you have borderline personality, with obsessive compulsive disorders, and bi-polar tendencies.

Spilling and collecting paints and painted objects can be thrilling, and dangerous. Movie goer is treated to Collecting-Spilling cycles that can lead to hoarding, and dysfunctional marriages. It turns out though, well-presented in scenes of this movie, discoveries made during episodes of clamor actually are foundation to much modern art.

Therefore, one must not exclude light, form, translucence and color in Pollock's paintings, in lieu of the psychology of his works. And it appears that one has to be bi-polar to not be a cynic, after all.

In the movie Ed Harris portrays Jackson Pollock under direction of Harry Moses, and both do a damn good job of it. In their portrayal, Pollock is the reluctant bully having to push his "expressions" through to the end. Eventually this leads to a puppy found in the middle of the street, a failed extra-marital affair, and dementia. Afflicted or not, the portrayal of cagey Pollock makes it clear that all the cynicism about "modern art's evolving" comes from outside sources; so, damn it to hell.

Tatum Totum McDagger, MooPig Assistant Deputy Desk Clerk of Movie Reviews Department, had this to say about the movie's effectiveness with her, "Pollock has put the icing on the cake. I mean ... He makes me want to eat the painting. He did this after thousands of years of painting ... he put the icing on. ... eh, but who again is Ed Harris?"

Good lick there Tatum, so say we all. "Oh and yes, I want to add, Tom somebody sings a song at the end, world keeps turning. And I really, really like his voice," concludes Tatum.
You can make your own Jackson Pollock painting at Jackson Pollock Emulator (2003. Miltos Manetas; created emulator)

That's our capitulation from here, MooPig Movie Reviews. There isn't much discussion any where else on Ed Harris as Pollock. Wrap it.
Rotten Tomato
Rated: Not Rated Run time: 74 Min's
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts [ ??? ]
Theatrical Release: Nov 15, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Harry Moses explores the hidden life of iconic painter Jackson Pollock.
Director: Harry Moses

Remember to always wear your seat belts.

Politics is Theater: MiLK

Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Herd


MILK; another MooPig Movie Review


MooPig Cinema Reviews Department has filed the following report:

"We waited till the DVD came out as we got our NetFlix mailer with our choice this week. We chose MILK since it is supposed to be a great Flik... and it is. We had to wait till the very end for Sean Penn, acting as Harvey Milk, to be shot three times in his chest, and once in the back of his head -- but it was worth it."

"We fast forwarded through all the homosexual love scenes, because they were unconvincing," said one Department Head Editor. "There is a major climax when Milk's live-in booty boy hangs himself, and that seems sort of real tragic."

"It would have been nice if Patrick Swayze had shown up in this film in drag," says one reviewer. "Or at least Robin Williams; it's too bad about both of them being under the weather and all, isn't it?"

Other than a regular plethora of Gay slogans written on placards with a host of thousands marching the streets of San Francisco, there is little plot that supports the Gay Rights push of that era, late 1960's to 1970's. Except for one special one-liner uttered early in the movie by Sean Penn's Harvey Milk, "politics is theater." This phrase sets the stage for many of us who are paying attention.

"Yes, and we are all players," says Schlomo Spitzer, Chief Movie Analyst, San Francisco branch, MooPig. Also, Harvey Walletbangor said, "Yes and if there is any actor alive who can milk a part in a movie... I have just witnessed the maestro of MILK doing it."

MooPig's Theory of Evertything-- TOE -- Department: "Gim'me the Key"

Ask MooPig about any serious theory postulates, and it shall be posit 'd to you,
by Pat Darnell

A few days ago Sister Mary Elephant said... You boys need to study hard and stay in school; basketball and music may be fun but it's not an education that Jesus would like.



Thanks Sister:
and yes "We Like Very Much." For your question Here is my reply -- I think you are talking about the key to education in a diverse society like USA... no?

In almost every movie is the phrase "Gimme the Key" [don't believe me?] Next movie you just try to get through the 90 minutes without that phrase... it also correlates with turning point climax scenes in the movie theme like right after gratis sex scene; and is usually just before car chase scenes. ?Comprendes ustedes Tio y Tia' y tu Socio's, y Morto Vivente?

For Example:
Timothy Leary meets Cheech and Chong and Peewee -- Yes, this is the real Timothy Leary,the real Cheech and Chong.... and a Public Service Message by Peewee Herman (Paul Reubens) from the mid 80's is mixed into the scene to make it even more bizzare. Michael Winslow plays Jimmy Hendrix in this edited clip from NICE DREAMS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0T8YtIat7o


GIMME THE KEY...Gimme the Key !

My Favorite Movie Review Ever...

1. Maxtype Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am

   The sweat that John Wayne left in his f****ng BOOTS is better and more useful than these leftie-critics will be on their BEST day!

   People say to me-”Dave, how come you haven’t seen -name any recent movie with Cloonie, et al-?”

   “Because the DUKE was on TV! I needed to watch ‘She Wore A Yellow Ribbon’ again!”

From HERE :
[the ending of “Fort Apache” there is a great line that the Duke delivers]
Newspaper reporter: [speaking of Col. Thursday] But what of the men who died with him? What of Collingworth and…
Captain Yorke: Collingwood.
Newspaper reporter: Oh, of course, Collingwood.
Reporter: That’s the ironic part of it. We always remember the Thursdays, but the others are forgotten.
Captain Yorke: You’re wrong there. They aren’t forgotten because they haven’t died. They’re living - right out there.
[points out the window]
Captain Yorke: Collingwood and the rest. And they’ll keep on living as long as the regiment lives. The pay is thirteen dollars a month; their diet: beans and hay. Maybe horsemeat before this campaign is over. Fight over cards or rotgut whiskey, but share the last drop in their canteens. The faces may change… the names… but they’re there: they’re the regiment… the regular army… now and fifty years from now. They’re better men than they used to be. Thursday did that. He made it a command to be proud of. (Retrieved HERE )