Damn Dirty Liberals pry gun from cold dead hands...

[wednes]

You know, I'm not a big gun person, but I always thought Michael Moore was very rude to Charleton Heston when he was shooting his little anti gun movie. While I agree with the sentiment, I don't abide rudeness. Heston was kind enough to invite Moore to his home for an interview, and Moore acted like a pompous arrogant jackass with a monopoly on truth. I was embarrassed to be a liberal when I saw it.

Now Mr Heston has shuffled off this mortal coil, and will be sorely missed by the movie community. I could go on and on about Planet of the Apes, The Ten Commandments, Omega Man or Soylent Green. But I won't. Instead I'll mention his hilarious cameo in Wayne's World 2, and his hilarious cameo in the remake of Planet of the Apes. He was a good guy, with a good sense of humor about himself, and I am bummed to hear of his demise.

As for me, I went to La Shish for lunch and ate enough lamb to feed a...well, I had a healthy amount of lamb. I've decided that I love kibbee. I also picked up my copy of The Mist which I have already watched. It mind fucked me just as well the second time around. Fine film...

Comments

[katharinakatt.livejournal.com]

I have to agree.. I really liked the movie til the end. It was just a really 'wrong' and 'distasteful' ending.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I think horror movies should have a tragic ending, particularly those with apocalyptic themes. I was fine with the brutality of it all, it's just sad...because of the little boy.

[katharinakatt.livejournal.com]

Lol.. are we talking about the same movie? I was talking about 'Bowling for Columbine'. heh

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL

No...I was talking about The Mist.

Oops.

[katharinakatt.livejournal.com]

Hehe... prolly my fault ... I wasn't specific.. bad me. ;)

[boblovesdot.livejournal.com]

damn them... damn them all to hell!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

I was just promoting 'The Omega Man' at work yesterday when people expressed dissatisfaction with 'I Am Legend.'

Alas.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

[everythingtold.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to say that sometimes I'm embarrassed to call myself a liberal because of some of the stuff Michael Moore says. I was too worried about what people would say, though. Now, I feel bad that I was worried; while I agree with him on a lot of things and while I do find him funny, he usually only comes up in conversation when people are putting 'liberal' and 'stupid' in the same sentence. He's kind of a dick-head sometimes. Limbaugh is a dick-head most of the time ;-)

Anyway, I do feel bad about C.H. I just hope he's content/happy wherever he is.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I always think of the Simpsons episode where George Carlin's character refers to Homer and says:

This man does not represent us.

That's totally how I feel about Michael Moore.

[chocobotkid.livejournal.com]

most people find that final scene to be excessively rude on Moore's part. However, considering the rudeness Heston showed twice earlier in the film, by holding Pro-Gun rallies in the towns in the wake of gun tragedies (columbine and in flint) i argue that Moore is making a point about hospitality and respect.
in the cases of the gun rallies, heston refused to back down despite massive protests in the towns where the locals said "this is our town we are mourning, please leave us me...not now"
is this not strikingly similar when Moore reverses it on Heston at the end?
I mean, maybe that's far fetched but worth considering.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Moore made it sound like the NRA planned the rally's after the tragedies. They didn't, they were participating in rally's they'd planned long before fun violence erupted. Should they have cancelled? Probably. But that's a reasonable disagreement, whereas Moore resorts to name calling and rudeness when he's an invited guest in someone's home.

Then again, maybe I just don't like Michael Moore.

[maxverbosity.livejournal.com]

The headline from the print edition of "The Onion":

Charlton Heston's Gun Taken From His Cold, Dead Hands

[wednes.livejournal.com]

They need to stop stealing their jokes from my journal. Then again, that was kind of an easy one.

Heston's Post-Mortem

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB9D6ED480AA9FCE6BB982ECB3197718B1

Re: Heston's Post-Mortem

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Dang, I couldn't watch it due to computer slowness.

Re: Heston's Post-Mortem

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

It was just a quickie short.

It had a mortician struggling to remove a rifle from his hands on the gurney. When he finally got it free, the mortician whispers, "Dang, he wasn't kidding!" :-D

It was cute.

Re: Heston's Post-Mortem

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Ha!

That makes me LOL.