CGActor VS. Humans

This isn't really political and I may discredit myself by this article but, I have a bone to pick and so I must pick.

Tom Hanks, you got to love this guy. A great actor and an even better human being. So, why, you say, am I picking on him. I'll tell you: The Polar Express. A fun family film but not a very good film. Several reasons: The animation, though plesent looking, does not move with the flair we love in the Shrek movies. The facial expressions are lacking and the emotional mood is missing. Second, Mr. Hanks plays three roles, the boy, the conductor (who looks like him) and jolly ole' St. Nick. Now this might be fine for Eddy Murphy in a live action flick with the help of make-up wiz Rick Baker but Tom just doen't cut it. Now I'm not saying it is his fault I blame the technology. They used a computer to capturer his face and his movements a simular tech to what was used for Golum in LOTR. The diference is in LOTR it was needed to make Gollum work as he works in the books, here it was not needed and hurt the film as a result. I strongly believe that this film would have been a great had they used real actors on a "green screen" set like they do for the new Star Wars films but more like what they did for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Had they done that, the emotional content would have been felt and Tom would have delivered a power performance as the conductor or what ever role he would have played. The key word being "role".

I never like adults playing kids, the only time it worked in a film was Grease and that is simply because John Travalta in a convincing child even today he just has that loveable spirit. And no, I'm not forgetting about Big but, that was live action and Mr. Hanks was aloud the full power of his face which delivered the childness in all of us.

To sum this up, Hollywood is trying to find cheaper actors and it is abusing a new technology to do it and in the mean time making good movies instead of great movies.

Tolerance!

Who says we need more tolerance? We tolerate crime in our streets, we tolerate our children abuse of drugs, we tolerate pre-marital sex, we tolerate violent crimes when we put a user of marijuana in prison for 6 years and a rapeist in prison for 3. What are we telling the world? We tolerate the fast food industry, even though most of us know it is bad and possibly responsible for America's obesity problem. The French recently made a film called; The Triplets of Belleville. In this film the triplets come to America to find it full of fat people, really really fat people. Is this what the world thinks of us? And why not, go to the mall or better yet go to that haven of American commerance Wall-Mart and look around; FAT people are everywhere! Have we become so tolerant of our life style that we have forgotten about our own health?
And crime: in 2002 Oregon was struggling with their budget, not enough money for schools nor enough for prison. The great Oregon legislators came up with a brilliant plan to solve this. In the voters pamphlet for that year I read something that still shocks me today. They called it a temporay income tax increase. The Oregon legislators thought (wrongly) that the people of the state would vote for this tax to save their schools even though they had wasted all the moneys we had already given them. However, just as a side bar to help ensure the voters voted "Yes" they added a threat: should this temporay tax not be passed the drastic cuts that would have to be made would force them (the OR gov.) to release 1400 prisoners that they could no longer afford to imprison. Naturally the already highly taxed citizens wouldn't hear of another tax hike, temporary or not. So when it came time to vote the measure failed as did our trust in the government when they came through on thier threat to release the prisoners they promised. The kicker here is the criminals they put back on the streets not the harmless but stupid pot heads, but hardened, violent criminals including rapest and child molesters.
It gets better, and more horrorfing, the people of my home state tolerated this.

This isn't just a problem in the good ole' United States, the UN has this problem too, but it is much worse. Bosnia, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, and countless other countries ruled or subject to ruthless men begged for the help of the UN a form of government set up to stop anything like Hitler from happening again yet they sit on their seats of power in the and do nothing about these baddies. This may be the worst form of tolerance I've seen yet. Here is this great united power, they could put a stop to all this tyranny, they could balance the world and find an end to poverty and war just by working together. But no, they would rather bicker amongst another and play power games, "Mine is bigger than yours."
Do you remember history? A man comes to mind a lesson learned from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his plan of "appeasement". When he signed the Munich Pact he promised Germany that England would stay out of its affairs if they would not invade Britain. I remember what happens when you trust the bad guy will keep his word. Britain was left open and exposed and the great isle fell defenseless before the onslaught of the German war machine that was the Nazi's.
LISTEN to the history of our for fathers and be tolerant no more. For what greater crime can there be than the tolerance in our world today? Can we not learn from the mistakes of the past and take control this virus that is sweeping the globe? If not, then we surely are doomed as where the Romans when they began to be tolerant.

Don't Cry For Arafat

So why is the media once again praising a sic degenerate? Yasser Arafat's rule of Terror is finally coming to an end in a very natural way yet all I hear in the media is, "When will he come out of his coma." Hang on Arafat. Do people not realize that this man damn near invented terrorism in the modern age? It was under his rule that his people started blowing themselves up in the name of Allah, (Allah doesn't like this by the way!) He could be pinned as being responsible for the lack of peace in Isreal. Never willing to goto peace talks but to lead us into false hope before one of his minions blows themselves up along with a school bus full of children. I'm tired of hearing about his ailing condition... just shut up and pull the plug on this evil S.O.B. and be done with it. One less spawn of hell to worry about. Think about it.
America influenced Isreal to give the palistinians thier own state, something they've been dying for and killing for for the last 40+ years and this "great" leader of thier's couldn't keep his people in line for more than a day after this announcement before they went and blew up some more innocent people. When that jerk die's I'll be dancing in the streets like "they" did when our twin towers fell. I'll count it as a great victory for Good when this evil man dies. I can only hope the media will say something about the crimes he was never charged for here on earth that he will certainly be charged for in the afterlife...

The End Justifies The Means

So let me get this strait, you really hate President Bush. Am I hearing you right America? So why did he win both the popular vote and the electrorial vote? I bet even you haters' secretly voted for him but dont' know why you did it. Well, I'll tell you why. He gets the job done. He is willing to do what ever it takes to keep us safe. He put his foot down when other presidents (the ninties pervert) refused to take action when that son of a ... Saddam was shooting at us despite his surrender, when Usama Bin dumbass was plotting against us ... America voted for the President to have a second term because they know down in thier hearts that we need the man. He has kept us from further attacks and his plans (which he tells us about unlike Mr. I have a plan but you need to goto my website to read it and if you don't have internet then screw you) keep us safe. Children even know this. If you don't read USA Today then you didn't read the cute little article about how Weekly Readers sponsers a vote for children to decide the presidential race and they voted in President Bush. Interestingly enough I've been told that Weekly Reader has been doing this vote for every Presidential election for several decades and it turns out the kids always vote for the canidate that ends up winning. Interesting, no?
When asked why they voted for Bush they said it was because he keeps them safe from terrorist. Something to think about I think.

Back to Saddam and the evil war for oil. It is quite simple Saddam was a very sick and twisted individual. He killed anyone who posed a threat to his power, attempted genocide, and as CNN reports he barried these people in the same manner as another sico, mass graves.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.graves/index.html

I don't know the Presidents motives for going to war with Iraq. Maybe he lied but maybe he was fed false info, or maybe he wanted to get that bastard but didnot think the UN would listen to him unless he had a good reason to invade. So they brought up the WMD thing. The point I'd like to make before I expand on a few of these things is this. We (the United States) stopped a killer. We toppled and EVIL goverment and are now bringing peace to the middle east. What ever the reason the President had to invade Iraq, the ends justifies the means.

A remark on the UN: The United Nations was set up to stop another World War from happening. They where set up to stop evil dictators like Saddam. When the Gulf War ended Saddam surrendered but, all through Clintons admisitration the dictator shot bullets, missles and other small arms at both US and UN forces on his borders not to mention all the difficulties he made during weapons inspection. The shooting at us alone is enough for us to invade in the rules of war. But the UN just like britains prime minister (the guy before Churchhill) during WWII placated Saddam and let him get away with mass murder. We had to go in there because no one else would. The UN and Clinton where too scared or lazy....

Interesting point about WMD: Did you know that Saddam signed orders to use WMD on invading American forces? Saddam himself thought he had them! Something to think about the next time you call the President a liar!

Now the whole Peace in the Middle East I brought up. I know what you are thinking how can a war bring peace? (again see WWI and II America brought Peace to Europe through war) If Iraq becomes a true democracy and being the richest country in natural resources as it is the through that power base (that we now have strong ties to) democracy has a true chance at bringing peace to a people who have suffered through wars for the last 2000 + years. Think about it with the three most opposing forces (Saddam, Usama, Arafat) gone can the middle east stay messed up? The people are learning about freedom and liking it. Once they have it will they let it go? Would you ever give up your freedoms? The answer in no.
I finish with the title of this blog; The End Justifies The Means!!!

Home Sweet Home

I love this country of ours. America home of the brave. We are free to think, speak, and act however we like, so long as we are not hurting others. But let us look back at the 9/11 tradegy. I was walking into my Bishops office to finish up my wedding plans for the 15th. When my soon to be bride and I met him, the first thing he tells us is that a plane crashed into the Twin towers. A couple hours later we get home and I turn on the tv, the first image I see is the towers collapsing... all I can think about is all those Brave rescue men and woman being crushed by the unimaganble weight of the building as it falls on them while they're in the middle of helping people to safety. Later we will hear how thousands lost thier lives that day.
Fast forward to the present and all the news talks about is how Bush lied about this or that and how rebublicans are ruining the nation... I love america and I am a fan of President Bush and he is doing a damn good job. So I ask you this what would Gore have done in the wake of 9/11 would he have prevented the numorous attacks that were thwarted because of the presidents quick action to fight back? What would wishy-washy Kerry have done? What have either of these men done to Help america? The answer that I got from my research is: NOTHING! These two men, these two democrats have only done what was nessicary to advance thier own carreers. They have acted selfishly and in thier own interst.

Now Bush on the other hand has always done what he thought would be good for the whole USA.

Now if you disagree with me you may want to read what more educated people have to say and check out www.ornery.org

But this is just my opion. What's yours?