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I prefer to get my reviews from some "real" reviewers like the Movie-A-Minute guys, or Mr. Cranky. Their reviews are as informative as any, but a hundred times funnier...

The filthy critic is just foul-mouthed rather than witty. If you want funny, check out Mr. Cranky. His Pearl Harbor review is here.

The filthy critic is just foul-mouthed rather than witty. If you want funny, check out Mr. Cranky. His Pearl Harbor review is here.

For example, take a look at this ... about upcoming video-game-based movies and how they'll probably all suck.

Oh man, you probably haven't heard of Mr Cranky Rates the Movies. It all sucks!

It's absolutely hilarious that the reviewer was that stupid.

Well, not about Keanu Reeves. He's dead-on there.

Yeah, that's a ridiculously bitter review (even Mr. Cranky didn't get so bent out of shape). But come on, calling him "stupid" because he hated a movie you really liked? On the other hand, Ebert's review touches on many of the same points and is excellently written (as usual).

Shameless offtopic chatter: I saw Josie and the Pussycats last night and as it turns out, it was actually pretty funny (but it's really, really goofy).

Forget Katz's review of the this movie, check out Mr. Cranky's instead - and while you're at it, check out his review of Antitrust too... all too accurate.

Forget Katz's review of the this movie, check out Mr. Cranky's instead - and while you're at it, check out his review of Antitrust too... all too accurate.

If somebody in Amsterdam decided to put up an informational website using, how would the us search engines keep such links out? Hard to filter on words like 'speed' and 'crack'. What about netnews posts? Text files in gnutella? Freenet? Sealand? Enforceablilty sounds like something that politicos in question haven't considered. It is bad karma to pass laws you can't enforce consistantly. Politicos should be reminded of this.

Another argument against censorship is that even if you disagree with the material being censored, censorship is like painting over the termite-holes. No matter how bad you think drugs are, the problem is that people look for them, not that they exist. Convincing people that they need to be responsible is the right solution. Give them enough rope to hang themselves, and one way or the other, they'll learn to respect rope.

Course, that last statement applies to many fields. Anybody want to set up a website along the lines of Mr. Cranky , but rating politicians instead? Or a place to read legislation converted into 'everyday language' - can't be harder than explaining computer code in everyday language. Politics is o so very dry. Somebody should do something about that.

Two Drinks:
*Someone in the room laughs
*John Travolta's character laughs maniacally, after a few stunned seconds, all other alien bad guys join in
*Cave guys reenact final battle scene in Star Wars
*Cave guys do cross-continental travel
*The declaration of Independence is spotted

Taking a break
*Players may be excused from drinking as long as they tilt their heads in unison with the camera shots. Any player caught tilting out-of-sync will be handed another drink or the barf bucket, whichever seems appropriate.

oh yeah, something good to say about this movie ... Mr. Cranky's review made my day! without the movie, there would have been no review!

peace

review of this bad, bad movie...
http://www.mrcranky.com/movies /battlefieldearth.html

If you want a real negative review, tryhttp://www.mrcranky.com/movies/beach.html . Mr. Cranky makes everyone else's negative reviews look like glowing endorsements.
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Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net