MainEventofTheDead.com: 10/29/2009: Check out the ICCharbinger.com instead of PJstar.com

Saturday, November 24, 2018

10/29/2009: Check out the ICCharbinger.com instead of PJstar.com

Because I get most my job hits on peoriahelpwanted.com anyway.

I can no longer save you the trip to ICC with my opinion pieces and movie reviews that get printed there. A bummer, because sometimes I feel it's easier to fulfill my, "well I at least blogged today" goal each day by cutting and pasting the original Word documents. With some of my movie reviews being poorly edited, I kind of took pride in "Save you a trip to the Hill" movie reviews on Russ's Online Home - ROHmobile.com, but when I see that only three people have voted on the latest web poll at iccharbinger.com it leads me to believe that there is a need to promote the paper.

No, I cannot say I read all of The Harbinger. I usually just skip to the opinion section and the A&E so I can get myself pissed and ready to write. But the fact is that the best reporting in the area may be coming from ICC's newspaper rather than the Journal Star.

I should say, the possibility of the best news coverage comes from the Harbinger. If we pay it more attention, they may feel encouraged to cover more than what will be featured in the print edition. Namely, local coverage of stories.

I realize that outside the 312, Illinois is a red state, so the Journal Star caters to it. That is probably why my responses to the statement of ignorant readers of the Star never got posted. The problem with the red state attitude is that younger people's voices will not be heard. These voices that want to be heard tend to be those discontent with the area while those who do not care if their voices are heard will continue reading the Star and never question anything written, and the area will never become bicolored.

If we encourage the college newspapers (including Bradley), maybe attitudes will change. The Journal Star can still be given attention. We all glance over the front page, but we should not pay it as much mind at least in terms of the websites because important issues needs to be covered by writers with more opened minds.

Those minds are at ICCharbinger.com

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The Undrafted and Wrongfully Drafted

"Bull Durham" was not drafted on the Baseball Draft (A film that can only be drafted at #1)
"No Fear of a Black Hat" on the Fictional Band Mini-Mega Draft
The entire George Lucas Draft
"The Birdcage" instead of "La Cage Aux Folles" on the Drag Draft
"Road Trip" was not even mentioned during the Road Trip Draft
"Major League" instead of "Drop Zone" on the Wesley Snipes Draft
"Black Swan" instead of "Mermaids" on the Wynona Ryder Draft
"Akira" instead of "Ghost World" on the Comic Book Movie (Non-Super Hero) Draft. Tetsuo is a Supe.
"Now You See Me" instead of "Diggstown" on the Con Artist Movie Draft
"The Onion Movie" instead of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" on the Sketch Comedy Anthologies Draft
"The Big Lebowski" not being marked eight on the Coen Bros. Draft
"Labrynth" or "Dark Crystal" not receiving the number 1 or 2 spot in the Jim Henson Draft
"Stage Fright" on the Giallo Draft. It is a slasher despite the presentation.
"Assault of Precinct 13" and "Prince of Darkness" Instead of "Escape from New York" and "The Thing" on the John Carpenter Draft
"Con Air" instead of "US Marshalls" and "Universal Soldier" instead of "Time Cop " on the 90's Action Draft
"WarGames" instead of "Spies Like Us" on the Cold War Draft
"Traffic" instead of "Side Effects" on the Steven Soderbergh Draft
"Fight Club" instead of "The Virgin Suicides" on the 1999 Draft ("Suicides" made the Actor Directorial Debut Draft)
Any Kirk Douglass instead of "The Shining" being on the Kubrick Draft
"Return of the Jedi" instead of "Tokyo Drift" on the Threequels Draft (there's only one "Return," okay, and it ain't "of the King," it's "of the Jedi.")

Deserves a Second Chance

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

I find the DC movies, or at least Zack Snyder, was trying to bring comic books to the big screen as opposed to adapting comic books for the big screen. If you read, (or watch the excellent animated adaptation of) "The Dark Knight Returns", it is a very slow build to the battle between the Bat and Supe. This is regarded as one of the best threads in comics.

As a guy who fell in love with wrestling in the 1980's, the very methodical showdown is what I loved. It's a love letter to comic book fans who read and note every detail and want to try figuring out the plot before the character do. Come at the flick this way, and I think you will get something out of it.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

This is a feature that dares you to be offended. When director Ben Stiller is that forthcoming like Robert Downey Sr. was with 1969's "Putney Swope", an audience saying that something is in poor taste, hence not funny, means they are afraid to make a mockery of a concept.

My own experience with junkies bankrupting me allows me to thoroughly enjoy Jack Black's making addiction seem ridiculous. Robert Downey Jr. nails his taboo performance and I would say helps the call for actors from a demographic to be the first people called on for the roles representing them. As for the "Forest Gump" knock off jokes, they serve as a way to ridicule us for what we accepted (and encouraged) as fine a decade prior. The narrative that controls the pace in the second act can drag, but the content that is delivered cannot be cut.

Saturday, November 24, 2018

10/29/2009: Check out the ICCharbinger.com instead of PJstar.com

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