Tuesday, April 23, 2013

This appeared on reddit recently and has been circulating social media. Click for larger view.



I'm pretty sure a choice of ignorance is what gets us into these kinds of messes to begin with. If something terrible happens, you aught to find out why. This includes understanding the motivations of criminals sometimes. All this person on reddit did was take a holier-than-thou / "won't somebody please think of the children" attitude in order to make him/herself seem noble. No, we don't need 24 hour news yammering on and on about irrelevant details about the person; but who they were and what might have led to this? I think we can sacrifice a few a synaptic connections for that. Sad as it is, remembering the names of the victims isn't going to help prevent something like this in the future. They have families, and people who knew and loved them personally for that. Let THEM do the personal grieving and spare me phony sentimentality.



2012 Movie List

 Movies seen for the first time in 2012.

1. The Debt (***1/2)
2. The Expendables (**)
3. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (***)
4. The Ides of March (***)
5. Haywire (***)
6. Winter’s Bone (***)
7. IP Man (****)
8. Underworld: Awakening (***)
9. The Descendants (***1/2)
10. Ip Man 2 (***)
11. Heathers (***1/2)
12. Hugo (****)
13. The Adventures of Tintin (***1/2)
14. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US) (***1/2)
15. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (****)
16. Casablanca (****)
17. Strangers with Candy (*)
18. Jaws (****)
19. Young Adult (***1/2)
20. The Hunger Games (***)
21. The Avengers (****)
22. The Secret World of Arrietty (****)
23. A Dog Eat Dog World (*)
24. Ghost Rider (**)
25. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (***)
26. 21 Jump Street (***)
27. Magic Mike (***1/2)
28. Moonrise Kingdom (****)
29. Larry Crowne (***)
30. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (**)
31. Safety Not Guaranteed (***1/2)
32. Jeff, Who Lives at Home (***)
33. Vanishing of the Bees (***)
34. Anatomy of a Murder (****) <--That might be my new favorite movie.
35. Your Sister’s Sister (***)
36. 12 Angry Men (****)
37. Le Circle Rouge (***)
38. Crazy, Stupid, Love (***)
39. Dark Knight Rises (****)
40. Cedar Rapids (***)
41. Bernie (***)
42. Lawless (***)
43. Woman in Black (***)
44. The Birds (****)
45. Indie Game: The Movie (***)
46. Looper (****)
47. The Amazing Spider-Man (***)
48. Skyfall (****)
49. Hellraiser (***)
50. Beavis and Butthead do America (***)
51. Carrie (**)
52. Premium Rush (***)
53. Ted (**)