Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The trumpet of the Delta variant being the most deadly will be sounded the loudest by the media outlets suffering the worst ratings and circulations declines (looking at you CNN and The Atlantic)... Poverty was reduced by 80% in just 20-years and it wasn't communism or socialism... It just may be that the best screenplays written by Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino were  for movies they did not direct. Coppola with Patton and Tarantino for True Romance... Still say someone should come out with an a fantasy football app where if an NFL player on your roster kneels during the National Anthem then your player is not eligible for any points that week. Think there's a demand for such an app... Very cool... In accordance with my last will and testament - I have two final requests... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- If his stance was instead correctly positioned as Quentin Tarantino for revolutionary communists and against police - would that effect you going to his new movie?

- Plot for Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts movie

- The difference between fog and mist

- Got to love 60's fashion. Those hats are the best!

- Bass Pro Shops may be looking to acquiring Cabela's

- Heh heh - Rawanda Rousey

The Making of Pulp Fiction

Excellent history looking back on the making of Pulp Fiction.

It is strange to think of Quentin Tarintino as a functional illiterate who watched a ton of movies but that's almost how he's painted in this article. There's something engrossing to the story of a movie script so great that everyone who reads it is determined to be a part of it.

Worth the read for any movie fan worth his salt.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- Jon Stewart: Not a fan of President Obama’s not war speech. It seems to me that the speech on Libya can simply be summarized as "Obama vult" (Obama wills it!)

- I can't believe this is a real movie. Strangely mesmerizing.

- PBS's Frontline piece on the NCAA. First Tunisia, then Egypt, now Libya and the NCAA is next! Freedom is on the march!

- Excellent news - FX picks up Justified for third season

- Autistic boy, 12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity

Movie Hitmen

I hate sloppy lists and I found this list of movie hitmen to be awfully sloppy. I found myself driven to post just to get thinking of the sloppy list off my mind (like getting a crappy song stuck in your head).

The article starts by mentioning Clint Eastwood in the first sentence but the article never mentions Clint's Eiger Sanction one of his most under-rated movies in which he plays a mountain-climbing, art-loving hitman. Oh and for the record - Eastwood didn't play a hitman in The Outlaw Josey Wales. You could make the case for Unforgiven but not Josey Wales. Sloppy.

The article also mentions Quentin Tarantino but fails to mention perhaps the most menacing hitman Tarantino created - Virgil from True Romance played by a pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini.

If I had written an article about movie hitmen I'd probably mention Timothy Olyphant's title role in the movie Hitman. Not rocket science.

I'd also give a final shout-out to the scene-stealing hitmen, Mr. Kid and Mr. Wint, from the James Bond classic Diamonds are Forever.

Those were just off the top of my head. If I got paid to do a list you could be sure it wouldn't have been as sloppy as the one I linked to.