Knowing Then…

……what I know now?

I would have / should have / could have just walked out of the screening of “Knowing” at about 1 hour into the film. Somehow, they chose to emulate the film “The Abyss“, and as James Cameron did, go goofy and totally piss away the ending of what was up to that point a really good spooky Sci-Fi / Action film.

It’s just conjecture on my part to say that they couldn’t figure out how to end it so they gave it to Larry the janitor and said “have at it”,  but (sort of  like the producers) I can’t come up with a better conclusion.

I don’t want to be a spoiler here, but should you receive a call from mother nature (or a work call on your cel phone) soon after the subway crash scene where you sure can see the result of all of  the CGI techies work, it’s o.k., go ahead and get out of your seat and answer it.

Actually, you wouldn’t miss all that much if you left after the excellent “Lost” style aircraft crash scene.

Don’t worry, it’s a good christian film  and (as usual) god conquers all at the end. Oh yeah,  the prodigal son returns to the fold.

Well, at least he does for a few minutes, anyway.

And his son becomes the next Adam.

On another planet.

But do tell me, what’s the significance of those white rabbits?

P.S.  Coming soon:  http:// www.rfiDeny.com

How’s It Hanging?

This may not be exactly a big revelation here to some, but on watching the film “Watchmen” yesterday, it seems likely Dr. Manhattan / Jon Osterman, might just be of the Jewish persuasion.

With his blue skin and white eyes, same as the colors of the flag of Israel, it doesn’t take an Ozymandias to figure it out. Especially the configuration a certain part of that blue skin (and maybe it was cold that day?) hanging out in the night sky.

Hey, isn’t that George W. Bush just to the left of his feet?

Ya just gotta press the right button…

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Pepsico Met Me Half Way?

O.K., I’m claiming at least a partial victory here, in a previous post  I castigated Pepsi-Cola for making so many offshoots that were sold in the same color/style bottle that people (me, anyway) often picked up the wrong stuff.

Would I like to drink a “Caffeine Free Diet Cherry Pepsi”?    

Save us both some time, just kill me now.

So now comes a normal Pepsi that’s clad in a simple dark beautiful wrapper that just says Pepsi and sports their basic logo colors. Good start, all of you pencil pushers out there in Purchase, New York…

Here’s the other part of my request that hasn’t (to my knowledge) been dealt with yet: Bring back real Sugar!!!!

No more of this High Fructose Corn Syrup crap that is so addictive and cheap. How much do you think Pepsico saves per bottle when they use it instead of sugar?  .005 cents per unit?  From my experience with comments sent to me, there are a lot of us out here that feel this way.

Hey Pepsi-Co, get your market researchers off their collective asses and find out that educated customers like me want you to use real sugar again, as you did back in the day!

Meanwhile, in Japan……

My offer  still goes “I’ll pay an additional .50 cents in American currency above the price charged for a liter bottle of the HFCS sweetened stuff for a Pepsi that uses regular sugar”.

(hey, here’s a link to Pepsi’s response to my offer …)

Hmm, perhaps this might not be the best time to stress that “American Currency” part too much.

Tell those morbidly obese ones to go roll down a hill chasing their donuts, they already have a big ass load of diet (fill in the variety) stuff everywhere, I want my Original Pepsi-Cola back

You know, the one I grew up with.

The sad demise of the “Reach Around” is obvious here.

Well, I didn’t grow this much…….

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Those All New Jonas Brothers You Say? Hmmm……

Jonas Bros hard at work

Why do these odd guys seem so familiar?

Perhaps Gringo Menudo would be a great alternate name for the new

(or at least somewhat new) boy toy band group of the century.

You know, like those other guys who are famous for being famous.

Me Nude O? No, Me Got Clothes

Of course, as we can see in the above image, Menudo was just a newer and (some might say) sort of less plaid but more sparkly dressed up version of:

The 70’s Gay Bay City Rollers

Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

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