Hard to tell which flick will win the Terror movie category among this year's Rotten Globe Awards nominees :
. "The invasion of the buddy snatchers" : a remake of Romero's masterpiece directed by Karl "The Architect" Rove, "The invasion" turns Joe Sixpack into a zombie voting machine unable to utter any word but "freedom" or "terror", contaminating friends & neighbors across the county ("you're against Him ? You're not one of us").
. "Lara Whitchcraft" : in this sick parody of America's Funniest Home Videos, GI Jane becomes a shameless torturer. X rated. Explicit material and language. A tremendous success for director Gonzales - even the boldest piracy won't deter much awaited sequels.
. "Shock & Awe" : and you thought Godzilla was the only towering menace to civilization ? The trillion dollar deficit is back, baby : angry and hungry.
. "Donald's wonderful adventure" : thanks to a powerful lobbying, Disney's creatures won't fall into the public domain anytime soon. But Rummy is very much likely to fall back into the private sector after january the 30th (ballot in Iraq ? pentagone out of track). Money, power, greed, handshakes with dictators... expect the most gruesome moments of animated movie.
. "The exorcist - reloaded" : brother Jeb is plagued with floods and hurricanes, father Herb's running out of stamina but Saint George has the power to defeat the dragon once again with a double barrel tommy gun. Mel Gibson's brilliant (err... make that "enthusiastic" instead) impersonation of "never doubting dubya" brings tears to the audience and blood all across the Middle East.
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OOOOOOOOoooooh, I must get all of these on DVD.
Is there anything featuring the BushWorld inaugural speech? Where, when Bush says the word "freedom" (as in "spreading freedom"), we all insert the word "tyranny" so that everyone everywhere knows what he was really talking about?
Isn't George Orwell fun? I hope we can all learn to talk like George!
Is there anything featuring the BushWorld inaugural speech? Where, when Bush says the word "freedom" (as in "spreading freedom"), we all insert the word "tyranny" so that everyone everywhere knows what he was really talking about?
Isn't George Orwell fun? I hope we can all learn to talk like George!
The "Shock and Awe" one. Does it tell about the future? Does it tell how a lot of Iraqis get cancer because those shock&awe shockers spread so much carcinogens? And then how bludgeoning the earth with big boomers foralmostever caused the earth to suffer so much the weather changed and the earth shook and maybe the earthquakes started and maybe even some tsunamis?
I hope there is a reference somewhere in that show that tells how Bill Clinton took a look at using S&A and decided it was too terrible a thing to perpetrate upon the innocents. But GWB was a real good perp and decided it was a good thing.
I hope there is a reference somewhere in that show that tells how Bill Clinton took a look at using S&A and decided it was too terrible a thing to perpetrate upon the innocents. But GWB was a real good perp and decided it was a good thing.
In very deed, "Tyranny" is their new flavor for 2005... seems like the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" series don't sell anymore.
"T-Rex vs Godzilla" ? Now that would be a winner ! Don't you think "Godzilla" sounds like "God Zealot" ?
A quick look at some definitions of "tyranny" :
Wikipedia :
Merriam-Webster :
"Usurper" ? "absolute power" ? "no ethical censure" ? "popular support" ? "heir" ? "single ruler" ? "outside agency" ?... looks like tyranny could be summed up by "George W Bush".
"T-Rex vs Godzilla" ? Now that would be a winner ! Don't you think "Godzilla" sounds like "God Zealot" ?
A quick look at some definitions of "tyranny" :
Wikipedia :
QUOTE
"a tyrant (from Greek τυραννος) is a usurper of rightful power, possessing absolute power and ruling by tyranny. In the original Greek meaning "tyrant" carried no ethical censure, a tyrant was anyone who overturned the established government of a city-state, usually through the use of popular support, to establish himself as dictator, or the heir of such a person."
Merriam-Webster :
QUOTE
Etymology: Middle English tyrannie, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin tyrannia, from Latin tyrannus tyrant
1 : oppressive power <every form of tyranny over the mind of man -- Thomas Jefferson>; especially : oppressive power exerted by government <the tyranny of a police state>
2 a : a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler; especially : one characteristic of an ancient Greek city-state b : the office, authority, and administration of a tyrant
3 : a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force <living under the tyranny of the clock -- Dixon Wecter>
4 : a tyrannical act
1 : oppressive power <every form of tyranny over the mind of man -- Thomas Jefferson>; especially : oppressive power exerted by government <the tyranny of a police state>
2 a : a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler; especially : one characteristic of an ancient Greek city-state b : the office, authority, and administration of a tyrant
3 : a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force <living under the tyranny of the clock -- Dixon Wecter>
4 : a tyrannical act
"Usurper" ? "absolute power" ? "no ethical censure" ? "popular support" ? "heir" ? "single ruler" ? "outside agency" ?... looks like tyranny could be summed up by "George W Bush".
QUOTE(wpshreve @ Jan 22 2005, 03:53 PM)
OOOOOOOOoooooh, I must get all of these on DVD.
Is there anything featuring the BushWorld inaugural speech? Where, when Bush says the word "freedom" (as in "spreading freedom"), we all insert the word "tyranny" so that everyone everywhere knows what he was really talking about?
Isn't George Orwell fun? I hope we can all learn to talk like George!
Is there anything featuring the BushWorld inaugural speech? Where, when Bush says the word "freedom" (as in "spreading freedom"), we all insert the word "tyranny" so that everyone everywhere knows what he was really talking about?
Isn't George Orwell fun? I hope we can all learn to talk like George!
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