April 7, 2008
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“Fuck the President” & Brokeback Carey
Stop-Loss Is Just the Beginning
“Fuck the president!”So blurts Staff Sgt. Brandon King, played by Ryan Phillippe, after
learning he’s being sent back to Iraq for yet another tour of madness
in Stop-Loss.It’s hard not to like a film where an Iraqi combat vet, Bronze Star
and Purple Heart barely warm on his breast, insults the
commander-in-chief in front of his commanding officer. Read more…Curry (Gary), his brother and I went to see this movie at the Arclight today, and I must say I was blown away.
Ryan Phillippe gave what I thought was an Oscar worthy performance and Joseph Gordon-Levitt was hauntingly good, as usual. When Phillippe’s character shouted “Fuck the President”, someone in our theater cheered, resulting in spontaneous applause. That says a lot right there.
I was looking back at my blog entry from one year ago today. It also featured Iraq:
Is Iraq REALLY that bad? YES!
This roundup of YouTube clips is
meant to give a small sense of what it’s like for the people who are
killing and getting killed in Iraq — a view that, limited as it is, one can’t possibly get from the mainstream newsmedia. Terribly sad.I highly recommend this movie. I actually tried to see it Friday night, but it was sold out. That’s a good sign. I hope the rest of the country is watching. This war is so ridiculous.“The main characters are small town kids dragging ghosts, nightmares,
anger and despair in their wake. They have no real means of escape,
apart from suicide, as the cycle of Middle East war spins madly on
without end. If Stop-Loss conveys any message, it’s simply that.”http://weblog.xanga.com/CareyGLY/620655167/the-increasingly-few–proud.html
Here are a couple of shots from the roof of the Arclight.
Speaking of Hollywood…Steve gave me the idea to upload my picture to find out which celebrities I resemble. Here are the results. LOL. If I looked that much like Jake Gyllenhaal, do you think I’d still be single at 42?
Comments (13)
Fuck the president? No thanks.
That person has balls to say it first haha
Oh gosh, was that the f-word I just saw? hahahaha
Yay, a Xanga mini get together.
That movie was surprisingly good! Ryan P. is cute & handsome as usual!
Btw I can’t believe they put Emmy Rossum LOL that’s such an insult ><
how cool is that – having an on line friend that’s only a couple genes away from stardom! – lol. ahh, the war – what to do? the correct answer is to have never gone there in the first place. now that we’ve fucked up the lives of all the average people in iraq – do we just walk out and leave them to the dogs? – i dunno. and bush’s saber rattling about iran worries me too. like the guy says – fuck bush. peace, Al
very interesting review…
you sorta do look like ferrell.
wow, you DO have the same eyes. sorry for the long “non-blog-reading” but I am in brazil right now and can´t access your blog from my computer. hope you are all well. dicken Schmatz,
bine
I did not know you could have been a double in Brokeback Mountain, which scene were you in? My famous star.
It still amazes me that there’s a war going on in Iraq. Though how powerful these anti-war movies are, I don’t think that the government would cease the war and pull back the soldiers back. I wonder when will it ends.
~peace~.
what is an ohanami? is it drinking under the chery blossoms event that everyone seems to be talking about?
regarding your celebrity look alikes, there is one that is missing..steve carell…hahah.. what do you think?
@stevew918 - I was the top
@straw_hut - That’s exactly what an ohanami is…a picnic under the cherry blossoms. Walk around, they’re everywhere in Japan right now! (At least Tokyo
Steve Carell huh? I’ll take it!