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Whacking Permalink Archive 16 January 2005 It was 41c on Friday, and was still bloody hot yesterday. I
hate summer.
While the USA and Australia are saving lives, the French are proving to be as bloody useless as ever. Link
via LGF.
The recently "elected" chief Palestinian mass-murderer already has his death squads in action. Yeah,
we should really give these people a state.
Just watched Scorcese's Raging Bull, a film which one particular group of critics claimed was the best film of the 1980's.
The film amounts to: LaMotta shouting at people, thumping opponents in the boxing ring or bashing his wife. This is the problem with the movie: I couldn't give a shit what happened to the paranoid, misogynist schmuck. The narrative was poor: LaMotta's connections to the mob are only vaguely sketched, and you have little clue as to his motivations most of the time. Cathy Moriarity does a great job with a badly-written role as LaMotta's wife. Joe Pesci has little to do other than his usual Goodfellas-psyhco riff as LaMotta's brother and manager. The production values weren't too good either. The black n' white cinematography was pedestrian (it certainly added little in terms of atmosphere), the sound mix was terrible (it was genuinely hard to decipher some of the dialogue) and the boxing choreography - while better than Rocky - was still painfully artificial. Why Scorcese thought this asshole's life merited a movie is beyond me. It's not a bad movie, but it's vastly overrated and is honestly not worth the effort.
It should now be obvious to most Australians how we really did dodge a bullet on October 9, 2004. Can you imagine this sickly, mentally unstable crybaby as our PM?
Praise
Jeebus most of the voting public were sane enough to send this dick back
to Green Valley.
And while we're on the topic..... Steve
Edwards has a good post on the Labor leadership squabbles.
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Frankly,
I dunno what all the fuss was about. De Niro's protrayal of middleweight
champion Jake LaMotta may be accurate, but his character is as tiresome
a protagonist as you could imagine. 
