Gravity FAIL! (or Don’t rock the boat)

I posted this video the other day:

I love The Poseidon Adventure so much (who doesn’t?). But after I watched that clip for the 16th time I noticed one major problem: as the ship is tipping over and the people start falling, strangely, the chairs don’t move in the same direction. Everything else: the party favors, the dishes, the people, they all are affected by the ship tipping over. Some of the chairs tip over but they fall in the opposite direction of the unluckly passengers. The chairs are all like “meh, what’s all this nonsense about?”. You even see one bitch sliding past a perfectly happy to be on the ground chair. At the end of the scene, the gravity defying chairs are stuck to the floor (ceiling?). Am I being too critical of crappy 1970s disaster movie? Do I need to get a life?

Don’t answer that. Let’s dance instead:

Star studded disasters

Warm bodies and cold nights

I’m all about recycling but this totally creeps me out.

A Swedish crematorium criticised for environmental pollution has come up with a novel way to save energy: it will heat buildings in the surrounding town from the crematorium furnaces.
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If the new heating system proves to be successful in the crematorium’s own facilities, town officials have said they hope to tap into the new energy source by 2010.

(h/t James Taranto)

And since I’m already there:

(and you know, I don’t think that I’ve ever seen this movie. Let me guess; it ends badly.)

Tuesday’s hottie

Jason Statham. I’ve never seen any of his movies but I love my hot British manflesh (don’t be jealous, Daniel).

Agnostic cynics for whatever

Buddhist Jew Kate (or would that be Jewish Bud Kate) has a thought provoking review of Bill Maher’s movie Religulous over at her place. I don’t plan on seeing it because when it comes to TV pundits, Bill Maher is right up there with the Bill “This Fucking Thing Sucks” O’Reilly. Smug, angry and ugly doesn’t work for me. Anyway, she makes some interesting points on both the good and bad sides of organized religion.

Here’s her short but sweet synopsis of the movie:

“Because when we think *we* know what’s best and everyone else is wrong…we f*ck shit up.”

She continues:

This hit home. Maher said that those of us who are only moderately religious should take a long look in the mirror because if we belonged to a social organization that had such deep historical ties to misogyny, homophobia, child rape, killing, and other acts of horrific violence – we’d have turned in our resignations long ago.

Leaving religion altogether? Hmmmmm.

Talking to my brother on the way home, he said we could say the same about our own country and we ain’t jumpin’ ship and moving to Canada.

Kate’s brother makes a great point. I’m continually amazed how people who mock faith in religion seem to have the most faith (hope) in what our government can/will do for us. Believing that some supernatural power will help you out does take faith. Believing that if we only had the “right people” in power, we will be delivered from all that ails us, that takes a shit load of faith.

The countdown begins

Less than a month, bitches…

Another reason not to like ethanol

Does this movie really need a remake? I saw it in 1984 and it sucked (and it had six sequels!). Nonetheless, they are remaking it and they’re filming it around here. At least it keeps a few crumb crunchers off the streets.

Here’s the original trailer:

I like this one better:

Maybe my dislike of this movie has something to do with my dislike of children. They scare me. They’re so small and unpredictable and needy (and maybe want to kill me). Who needs that shit?

Matinée idol (maybe it’s Kate?)

More Katherine Hepburn and eye candy:

Matinée idol (teh kitteh edition)

Bringing Up Baby is one of my favorites:

Matinée idol Monday

Tyrone Power got me in the mood.