World's Greatest Dad: What A Dark Comedy

We all know stuff about "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" phenomenon and it might be that possible that I might have met Kevin Bacon through these "six degrees" situation. I can't start and end at that point but I do say that it's now certain that I have met Bob Goldthwait. How? Because I went to this year's Supanova Convention at Sydney and met his former co-star Michael Winslow. Yeah, The point of where I have met Michael Winslow is seque to the point I met the director of this movie that I'm reviewing. Scary Enough, It might suggest I have met Steve Guttenberg through the "six degrees" theory.

Wanna know what's ironic? I have also actually met Rob Schneider when he promotes that Deuce Bigalow sequel in my quiet hometown of Liverpool. No really, I have met Deuce Bigalow himself when he's the only celebrity that I know have come to my hometown and that's freakin' scary!

The movie is World's Greatest Dad and it proves that Bob Goldthwait is not just that guy from Police Academy sequels (does anybody know he directed episodes of Chappelle's Show?) and it focuses on Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) whom while he's still an teacher in high school, he's also an author on writer's block and an hated father to his son Kyle. The character of Kyle is possibly the kind of son who's both an emo and an horny virgin with an hatred on both music and movies (he called these stuff "gay" and thinks Heavy Metal is the "faggiest" of all musical genres). While Lance is concerned that Kyle's dumbness might have send him to special education classes, something else happened when Kyle is jerkin' off the mobile pictures of Lance's girlfriend/co-worker Claire's pantyshots (he's actually doing doing autoerotic asphyxiation) which immediately killed him.

If this were another movie, I would be happy to see Kyle died while jerkin' off with that autoerotic asphyxiation technique but this is a movie directed by Bobcat Goldthwait so there must be hilarity, right?

If you just read the screen-caption, I'm correct that there's gonna be hilarious part of this black comedy story as Lance decide to fake Kyle committed suicide which also involves writing an suicide note. The note actually drew attention within the school and everybody thinks Kyle is talented (except Kyle's friend Andrew) and it leads Lance to write an counterfeit journal that gains an cult following. Lance is living the dream with his girlfriend, his friends and the school itself but for how long? Oh Crap, I just spoiled the story...

Did I spoil the whole movie? Well, I didn't tell you all about the ending, what's funny about this movie and everything else so at least I didn't spoil everything!

This movie is perfect vehicle for Robin Williams and unlike the other movie released that time known as "Old Dogs", It should be one of his greatest along with Dead Poets Society, One Hour Photo and Insomnia. Despite it being an independent comedy (and surprisingly co-produced by Richard Kelly), it should have hit it big in the worldwide box office. Maybe there will be a time when one of Bobcat's future directorial efforts will be on that path but seeing as we living in a world where the only huge Robin Williams movies are mostly the lame ones (eg. Richard Donnor's Jack). Well, I recommend everybody to see this movie including the anti-Robin Williams followers.

Old Dogs - The only way I could see this movie is because Seth Green's in it. However, He also voiced in the horrible show that is Family Guy (just get off the show and do more Robot Chicken, please).

Just A Harmless Attack #2: Social Networks

It's already obvious that we live in the kind of age of tomorrow that even H.G. Wells didn't get to describe in one of his novels. We have portable MP3 Players, Hybrid Vehicles and Touch-Screen Computers that might sometimes have an glitch in somebody's free time. I'm kind of an social type when it comes to various forms of Internet - from Forums, YouTube and Email Services. But for Social Networks, I'm kinda an anti-Social type when it comes to that so I'm gonna give my take on three major Social Networks plus one that I so against. Thankfully, I don't anything to say about CraigsList or Tagged because I never researched/visited those so in this "Just A Harmless Attack" installment - It's me against most of The Social Network.

MySpace: This is unlike anything I done before but here's an surprise - I have nothing against MySpace at all. And it's for a good reason. Even if I haven't checked out MySpace for several months, I still think of it as the original starting point of The Social Network itself. Well, I have little problems involving that but it's not like I'm gonna blame Tom Anderson for that. First, It's this MySpace member known as Corey Worthington and you might have heard of him. He's the so-called "face of Generation Y" and I fully hate this cunt. He's responsible for hosting the biggest parties in his parent's house that generated police forces and publicity and his second 15 minutes of fame is appearing in an "downunder" version of Big Brother. I really hate this jerkoff and he's by far the only member of MySpace that I wanna see him get comatose. Gee, I'm now heading for an dark territory.

I'm not certain but this picture of Tom Anderson is always on MySpace and there's no other updated picture of the man responsible for the original social network. Is he missing or something?

Another thing is that it has an spinoff network and I'm not gonna attack this. I'm just surprised that this site still exists today. What I'm referring to is MyDeathSpace.com and involves deceased members of MySpace which is still surprising. I never visited that site and I know this because WikiPedia have an entry on this. At least I do have say one thing - If there's an perverted jerkoff visited this site and get turned on by any deceased member. He/she should have been captured by the authorities by then because MyDeathSpace is only preferrable to be viewable for innocent families and friends (maybe some MySpace members) to each deceased member.

Corey Worthington - I'm not sure but since Lady Gaga was accused of being an hermaphrodite, I'm theorising that she used to this party asshole before an unheard-of sex change but that's just my theory.

Facebook: Like MySpace, I have nothing much against about Facebook. But unlike MySpace, I might go to the site anytime I want. Why? I'm one of those members of the "Tron: Legacy" viral campaign and it's because of the forthcoming success of David Fincher's The Social Network. This site is indeed mostly harmless since there's always news about stalkers and other evils on the internet. When I think of the ongoing MySpace and Facebook battle, It's kinda similar to the Coca-Cola Wars which is still happening since Pepsi is still around. So this is very shorter than anything else so my choice is Facebook is cool and awesome.

This is the person Justin Timberlake is gonna based on in the upcoming movie. Just as long as we don't see an reference to that Superbowl event then I'm okay with it. And I hope his acting is approved beyond Southland Tales.

Bebo: Now this one is an "interlude" of sorts to this installment because this network is still a major one but not in the same sense as the other three. I fucking hate Bebo and I could go on with this one. First, the name of this social network. Even though it stands for "Blog Early, Blog Often", It's still an very stupid name and the style on the website is stupid. I hardly visited this site but I know this because my younger sister used to be an member and any site is like an mid-nineties GeoCities type and all-sparkling. I have loads more but it will take up an whole fucking page so moving on to the even worse one... well, to me anyway.

You know there's an site called "Bo" which stands for "Blog Off", right? Oh, I forgot about the other two letters.

Twitter: Now before I start, I know that this network has many members that I know ranging from celebrities to my close friends so I'm not gonna attack the followers. It's just I'm attacking the site itself so what the fuck am I gonna say about Twitter? It's the Social Network counterpart to the forthcoming apocalypse. I hate this more than Bebo and I wish I could go on and on about this shit of an phenomenon. Twitter is considered to be the so-called "SMS of the Internet" and it's because it involves only 140 characters worth of each entry. Hello, we have other blog sites and it has much, much more than that. Do I even wanna check somebody's entry saying that 10 minutes ago, he wrote "I just went shat on the toilet and what comes out is Bono of U2"? Fuck no. It's sadly now dominate everywhere on Earth from news bulletins to any comic book. I actually do have one person against this thing and it's the guy who made Twitter well-known. I'm talking about Ashton Kutcher, the star of The '70's Show and Punk'd so what I do think of Ash-Kutch (okay, that's a funny nickname) now...

"I am Sir Ashton Kutcher and I invite you to follow me to the Twitterland"

That pretty much sums it up. While I can still any of his shows and movies, I now hate this fucking cunt because of what he did. Oh, and I'm not really gonna blame the network's creator Jack Dorsey because I heard he's not gonna get paid for the network's creation. I now felt sorry for him but if he have any cash involved - I could take an cruise to America and gone to his house to kick him in the groin even if he has bodyguard near him. But since he felt cash-free, what's the point? He's gonna get kicked anyway and he doesn't have bodyguards to pay for. Okay, maybe I did blame Jack for what I said so here's an screen-caption before I make an closing point of this installment...

Jack Dorsey looks a bit like Eli Roth so if it's played by him in an movie about Twitter, it means the Twitter members have been "ooh faced" by the director of Hostel.

So to end this installment, I can say that I can handle the sites that is MySpace and Facebook but I'm not an fanatic when it comes to Twitter and Bebo. Fuck, I once even heard Bebo's shutting down for good riddance to them hopefully anyway. I might be wrong on that part so until I make another instead of "Just A Harmless Attack", please don't give your social network an very shitty name.

Next Installment: I'm taking on the Dance Movies of both last and this decade. That means They gonna get served by me.

TGWTG Film Club #6: RoboCop

Back in the eighties, We were given the kind of people that are considered icons from Chuck Norris to Pierre Kirby to... Steve Guttenberg (so sue me if I still like those Police Academy movies). There are also fictional characters that became part of our media culture and one of them is the perfect police officer known as RoboCop. Ever since the first movie hits, RoboCop is one of the franchises that is still around but today's people hardly took an notice. It gained two sequels, couple animated series, an television series and countless comic books. And yet, RoboCop isn't as big as Star Wars and Star Trek combined but is near there. I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid and despite the R-Rating, I can still watch it even with my soon-to-be divorced parents involved because it's that nostalgic anyway.

You know what? This would have been the best RoboCop sequel that I badly wanna see, I ain't kidding.

I really need to get an life but anyway let me review the first movie in an retrospective style. The movie sets within in the not-too-distant future and it involves Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) as they try to bring justice to the war-torn streets of Detroit (which seems to be too late despite Devil's Nights and Gangsta Rapping involved there) but Murphy himself got killed off by one of the local gangs, which is lead by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood "Red Foreman" Smith). But don't worry, the Omni Consumer Products corporation have the chance to rebuilt him and became the six-million dollar icon known as RoboCop (I'm gonna stop making references to other television shows and movies). Meanwhile, Dick Jones has an alternative known as the ED-209 who is so antagonistic enough to kill few humans in the flick.

Kurtwood Smith came a long way from an little show with Patrick Swayze as an gang leader. What? You haven't heard to the short-lived television show "The Renegades"? Gee, I have seen the stuff you humans never seen (okay, this is the last shout-out reference and I swear to God on that).

While being resurrected as RoboCop, Alex Murphy has to obey the law while gaining his old memories involving his family along the way. And guess what? The action gets more bloody beyond Murphy's death involving the death of few characters before the showdown with ED-209. The movies then closes out with Dick Jones facing an crisis in the boardroom which results to his death and RoboCop giving the name "Murphy" to the president of the OCP corporation. The end (and that was pretty fast).

Finally, something worse that his own sex tape – Dustin Diamond as RoboScreech with boobs!

With Paul Verhoeven's directing style, This movie is very known and is must-recommended to those who haven't seen RoboCop. It's an stand-out for its ultra-violence through catchphrases (eg. "I buy that for a dollar") and it's also prefect to be just an stand-alone movie. Even those commercials (I wanna play that nuke board game) is awesome. Heck, It even has great sequel like the one with an foul-mouth pre-pubescent gang member. Okay, bad example but what about the flying Robocop one. Uhhhh, I remember an television show with that “Commander Cash” involved. You know what? Just see the first one because the others suck anyway.

Additional screencaptions time...

Michaelangelo approves of an Robocop Pajama guy so Cowabunga, Dude!

I wish I could interrupt Kanye West with the fact that his song is good but the movie is 100% friggin' times better. Oh yeah, I wanna go there.

Is this how Paul Verhoeven thinks of Robocop as an “American Jesus” figure (and in addition, Why there's an remakesploitation of Robocop that I haven't heard?)

Oh, not another one. How the heck did I miss that?