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Hey! Movie watching Buffistas, I've got a bone to pick with you.
I flipped around the cable channels this morning and found Southland Tales. I start watching and it has a Mega Zeppelin.
You know I have checked off 100% Zeppelin Alert For All Movies and yet, you let me down. You're going to have to be a lot more vigilant in the future.
Dude, don't watch that movie. Seriously. Bang your head against a wall for two hours instead.
Dude, don't watch that movie. Seriously. Bang your head against a wall for two hours instead.
Too late! It has the dwarf lady from Poltergeist and Rebekkah Del Rio from Mulholland Drive!
Bai Ling has already kissed Wallace Shawn and The Rock. Justin Timberlake has facial scars and all the women have Hairdos.
WTF?
Peace be with you on this quest.
Dude, don't watch that movie. Seriously. Bang your head against a wall for two hours instead.
I liked it. I'd have a hard time explaining why, but the Mega-Zeppelin was part of the reason (sorry, Hec.) Plus it's general over-the-top-ness and humor. (Like when SMG explains why she won't do anal .) Plus the music is awesome.
I was kidding about Polanski. He did a terrible thing 32 years ago, but only after having faced firsthand some of the worst things in the 20th century (i.e. the Holocaust and Charlie Manson). His victim has made peace with him and it's a certainty that it won't happen again. I mean, it's not like he's spent the last 32 years doing drugs and molesting children. I just don't see where there's any justice in this. It's a meaningless vendetta.
Punishing someone who had evaded justice for forcible rape (including sodomy) is not a meaningless vendetta. Nor is the behavior of a judge or prior bad experiences even remotely an excuse for it.
Well, yes, those are the facts of the case. And without trying to excuse Polanski's actions or deny these facts, I'm saying the prosecution of Roman Polanski is a meaningless pursuit at this point. There is not a conceivable outcome that will result in anything like justice for any aggrieved party, including the U.S. legal system. I question why Switzerland chose to arrest Polanski now, instead of the numerous times that he has been in the country in the past 32 years. I question how extradition to the U.S., presuming that's the point of the arrest, will result in an outcome that is better for anyone than the status quo.
Well, the case could be decided and Polanski could be free to travel and work in the USA.