The Expendables 2

Watch any trailer for this movie, and you'll know if you're in its target audience.  If you're still not sure, if you haven't seen at least five films of each of its main stars, you may well want to give it a pass.

I, on the other hand, had no doubts that this movie was for me. I've seen just about every film of all of the stars, and I had a great time at the first movie.  I walked into the theater tonight fully prepared for a little under two hours of mindless, unrealistic violence, dumb dialog, and in-jokes delivered badly.

The Expendables 2 delivered all of those things by the extended magazine full. 

I could explain the plot, but there's no point.  It's just there to put our team in interesting situations in which they can kill many people.  I could talk about the acting, but, really, there was hardly any.  I could review some of the many inside jokes, but either I'd be ruining them for you or you wouldn't get them, so there's no point.

The decision is simple: If you're in the audience for this movie, you'll have a grand time and laugh your ass off.  If you're not, I don't know how you'll react, but the odds are that you won't like it. 

Predictably, I had a wonderful time and now hope for an unrated Director's Cut DVD. 

Cheering myself up after North Carolina embarrasses me

When I first moved to North Carolina, Jesse Helms was one of our senators.  In every other state to which I traveled, I had to listen to Helms' jokes and insults--jokes and insults we deserved.  Eventually, of course, his reign ended, and those jokes stopped.  Now, with the landslide passage of the "marriage amendment," my state has embarrassed me again--and angered and sickened me.  I hate that we passed that amendment.

So, to cheer myself up, I went tonight to the weekly gathering of Pie Pushers and Parlour, and I ate extremely good pizza and wonderful ice cream in the brisk spring night air.

When I came home, I saw that this trailer was available.  Yeah, this movie looks as dumb as it gets--and as awesome.  I can't wait to see it.

Enjoy.

So bad it's mandatory

I can't artistically defend the fact that I'm already psyched to see this movie, but I am.



So it goes.