"And yes I am totally against segregation."

This is old, but still very funny:One-star Amazon reviews of classic books.

When Alex Watched When The Levees Broke

So, I'm watching When The Levees Broke for a class. I need to write a paper about a ten minute segment of the film. I'm a little surprised that I like it. Not in a weird way. Not like my facebook interests are, "9/11, The Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina". I don't like watching it, but now that I've started it, I feel kind of compelled to finish it. All four hours of it. Remember? It's a Requiem in Four Acts? For the most part it's really well done. There are some issues with it, one being that it's four hours long. Four hours of anything can become tedious. Four hours of this would probably get old. Anyway, you should probably watch it and learn about some horrible stuff. Stuff that these people apparently did not learn. Some people are fucking dicks. Did they really watch all four hours of this?

This Guy

I'm not at all excited about Inglorious Bas-turds. I have never been excited about it, and now that it is almost out, I don't care at all. I think it's cool that it has such a weird cast. BJ Novak, Paul Rust, Samm Levine, and Mike Myers? Unfortunately, that is not enough to get me to go see this movie (unless my dad wants to go). At this point, the only person I care less about than Quentin Tarantino is Eli Roth, and I keep seeing his dumb face everywhere. Check out this great interview with him on the A.V. Club. Keep it to yourself, Eli Roth.

More 500 Days of Summer

500 Days of Summer has one of those trailers.

By that I mean that it involves some fast-paced dancing, a song that sounds vaguely like "Where the Streets Have No Name," and a lot of running. Running in a trailer will always sell me on a movie, but even without that I would have still wanted to see this. Ever since this teaser trailer came out in January, I've thought about movie nearly every single day. It seemed like July was never going to come.
So I guess it's inevitable that I was going to be a little disappointed. But overall I loved it. 500 Days of Summer reminded me of why movies are sometimes just better than books. On paper, this would have been one boring story. But it worked on film, mostly because of all the things that Lexie already mentioned. He spent very little space talking about the clothing, though! The clothing was marvelous! I am currently on the hunt for a sweater vest for H.
Two things: Roger Ebert's review was right on the mark, as per usual.
He liked it. Also, he was a total sassy bitch about the punctuation in the title. I love it!
Secondly, this person is an asshole. Seriously. I don't want to be one of those people who claims that anybody who doesn't like what they like just doesn't "get it." But this person really obviously didn't "get" the dance sequence, and there isn't even all that much to get. Also, they dared to insult the parade sequence in Ferris Bueller? Barf.

Delocated

I don't have to tell you how much I like this show.  That is why I was apprehensive about checking the imdb boards.  However, they were mostly very nice.  Weird, right?  So then I went over to Adult Swim and read their message board.  Well, I guess it is exactly what I would expect from middle school boys and recent college graduates with The Boondock Saints posters still on their walls.  Here's what they have to say:

"What's worse than reality TV? A show pretending to be a reality show where, get this, they wear masks and are in a police protection program.  The best thing that could happen to this fake reality family is to launch a bullet in each of their heads and end this awful show."

At least we know he understand the concept behind the show.  

"YES.  Please cancel this show.  Let them explore gay relationships on LOGO and leave us our cartoons."

What?

"Another example of a show taking it too far where the theme and point reaches the point of becoming boring.  There is a line and dancing on it is still passing it, furthermore, it's still screaming the "trying too hard" bit."

What? What?

Basically what I'm trying to say is that I'm glad these people spend so much time watching Adult Swim that they have no chance of ever advancing into any sort of leadership position.