King of the hill, its kind of one of those shows you watch when there is nothing else on at 1 in the morning but... eh?

the ideas that make silent hill interesting are really an adjunct of the series as a whole - we're really only talking about some of the aesthetic stuff, silent hill 2 and maybe shattered memories. the rest of the stuff isn't really anything special, so as long as there is something shitty to pick the bones of you can guarantee that's what people will go for. so i guess what i'm saying is why wouldn't it stink when the series basically does?

I just wish they would let silent hill die already.  And I'm a little nervous that they're going to try to make it into an annual halloween trashy horror movie franchise, which is pretty upsetting because even though at this point the series overall is mostly pretty lousy, there was a point when it was a respectable series and now it's just going to get over saturated with garbage.  it's like how there are more bad seasons of the simpsons now than there are good ones. Obviously this is kind of a silly thing to complain about but people were posting the trailer for the movie on facebook and they were like AW YEAH THIS IS GONNA BE DA BEST and I was like fuck. dat. 

also I suppose I haven't seen a lot of scorcese films over all but king of comedy is my fave.  good movie.  It's been a while since I've seen taxi driver but I guess they do cover a lot of the same ground, huh?  they even have thematically similar endings now that I think about it.  I mean, I think.  It's been a while.

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Somebody really needs to do something about that. I am not the least bit sure what needs to be done about that, but something definitely needs to be done.

probably not intentionally, but it does subtly push that stuff. idk if conservative really covers it. it's still pretty easy to watch, unlike The Goode Family which was pretty much just making fun of "liberal" things and people, and making them all out to be phony or stupid or pointless. not that that's necessarily bad, but it did it all from a really uh conservative middle-american reactionary/moral shock pov. and it used the exact same set up, with the father being the little off-kilter but ultimately reasonable and good-natured one and the backbone of the family. then there's the irrational and emotion-driven mom, the weird but good-natured son and the reckless daughter. that worked fine in KotH, where it worked pretty well if taken as satire, but here it was really junky

I've never thought of King of the Hill as a conservative show.  It's about individuals and a setting that is based on the actuality of locations that are similar to it, not unlike that the Simpsons is a representation of the sort of suburban life of many individuals, and King of the Hill in the same is a representation of the life that many small town southern folks experience on a daily basis.  Whether or not its a satire of that experience, I wouldn't know because I've never lived in the south, or been to the south really, but I don't tihnk it in itself is designed to "push" conservative values or anything ridiculous like that.  It's not a preachy show in any sense anyways, especially compared to shows like Family Guy (which is a show about New England, so it would be innaccurate if it didn't preach at you) or South Park.

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King of the Hill most definitely does have problems viewpoint-wise.  Basically you're both right.  On the one hand, there are plenty of cases where Hank is supposed to represent outdated views and you're supposed to be laughing at him for it.  Like, for instance, when he's talking about how poisonous MTV is.  However, there's also plenty of times when you're legitimately supposed to be agreeing with him.  This is usually in cases where they'll take an issue, give an incredibly exaggerated side of it that goes too far in one direction, then portray it as being the bad side.  The problem is, the only other side we have is Hank.  By implying that the other side is totally nuts, it's implying that you're supposed to be on Hank's side when really both are awful.


You see a lot of this fight against ultra-liberalism and "political correctness" (a term that makes my skin crawl) which would have a point if the answer didn't seem to be "so let's not even begin to think about this just like Hank.  Let's just say it's silly and move on".  Like the episode where the school gets a diversity counselor or whatever when the kids are supposed to be working on a school fair.  The idea in this episode is that the kids, who are a mix of a variety of ethnicities, were working together just fine without someone coming in and talking to them about diversity.  The counselor in this show is laughable and is concerned only with heaping guilt on the kids without actually discussing the issues at hand.  Nobody would say that this guy should be the hero in the episode.  But the show seems to be pushing the idea that kids don't need to worry about diversity because hey if you don't talk about it they work together just fine!  It's equally laughable to me that somehow this whole school has no issues with racism whatsoever and that if you just leave kids to their own devices they won't ever be racist or ignorant of racial issues.  This is total bullshit.  I know that King of the Hill is a comedy show, but that just means that it doesn't need to be "tackling" real life issues that it's not actually giving a second thought about.  I've seen every episode of King of the Hill several times, and I can definitely say this happens far, far more than it needs to.  Nearly any episode that takes on some sort of social issue mishandles it this way.  Also, watching KotH with my dad, it's clear that a lot of the people watching it don't even get that Hank isn't a hero 24/7.  I see him identifying with things in Hank that were meant to be laughable, but he takes them literally and seriously. 


So yeah, there's a lot of things in the show that are ultimately sending a really regressive message.  Does that make it a bad show?  No, as long as you aren't taking any political ideas away from it.  It's still really cleverly written and funny and whatnot.  But does it push conservative values?  Occasionally yes, and when it doesn't it's still pushing Not Progressive Ones(tm).

I just watched Chinatown. I dunno how to do spoiler tags so just skip my post if you want to see this movie. You aren't missing anything important by skipping my post. I promise. It isn't important that you read this post. I think you should probably skip it anyway, even if you have seen the movie. Maybe I should skip writing it.

so roman polanski first got outed as a paedo just a few years after making this movie huh? kind of interesting that the villain of this film is an incestuous paedophile. jack nicolson slapped faye dunaway pretty hard and a lot. i think he's known for getting up to that kind of crazy shit in real life, too. this movie is weird. it seems to be made by a bunch of fuckers and is about doing what they like to do best. but it is a pretty good movie, i liked it. and that's all she wrote!

god damn chinatown is so good.  there's that one scene where jack nicholson and faye dunaway are in a car, and I can't totally remember the context of the scene atm (I think, and SPOILERS btw, that dunaway tells nicholson that the mysterious girl is her daughter (or sister, I can't remember, but the point is that it's not the "sister AND my daughter" scene)), but they're talking and at one point dunaway just kind of leans her head down on the wheel and hits the horn and it goes off and she jerks back up, and it's the best foreshadowing ever.  there's another great bit of foreshadowing in that scene that I can't remember without watching the scene again (I think it involves dunaway covering her eye with her hand or something?) so looks like I gotta go watch chinatown again.  great movie.  the best.

For anyone who have a time, this is a classic comedy fantasy filmfrom our country.
It has english subtitles soi I thought someone might be interested in giving it a try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJu6QlEXwI

and no, you don't need to watch the first one to watch this sequel.

binge watching werner herzog over the last few months. i've made it through more than 20 things he's either done or been in.

he is my favorite person in the world

i should watch some of werner herzog's fiction films, cos i've only seen a couple of his documentaries and they were only interesting due to their subject matter. i didn't really find anthing he did with the subjects particular cool.

idk why i write this but no country for old men kinda bothers me that for something that strives out to be 70's-existential side - style of action film, it really doesn't seem to have any kind of profound view on things happening within the movie, thuss coming out more of a tarantino-like-series-of-sudden-events - effect than anything substancial. probably also needed more view/fleshing out on the tommy lee jones part. sorry for this blurt.

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