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Wien

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  1. Haven't listened, never expected Sly to do a podcast with Sheer anyway. So what is the show? Is it just like, Paul's take on the Hulk Hogan Talk Show?

     

    In related news: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/celebrities_gossip/20141117_WENN_Arnold_Schwarzenegger___I_wanted_to_destroy_Stallone_.html

     

    He says, "When I saw Rambo II, I saw Sly with his clothes off and he looked totally ripped. I said, 'What the f**k is he doing in my department? In the Rocky movies, he was athletic and smooth but he wasn't that ripped. Does he have less body fat than I have? I have to get him. If he thinks he's stepping into my territory, I'm stepping into his and outdo him in the movies'. This is where the battle began. He was like a competitor that I had to go and destroy. We were competing on who had less body fat, who was killing more people onscreen, who was killing people in the most unique way, who had the biggest box office, who has better reviews. It was an all-out battle for a decade. People asked me, 'What do you think of Sly's movies?' I'd say, 'They're s**t!'."

     

    Eagerly anticipating the inevitable Arnold/Sly 80s battle documentary.


  2. Probably the worst thing about this movie is this: it spends an hour telling you a harrowing story a man who had a life altering injury and became a paraplegic. Most of the movie shows him struggling with this very real, very relevant adaptation of his life. Its frustrating for him, he is angry with it, and he sees the change in everyone around him. People talk down to him, his girlfriend leaves him, its just a nightmare unending. Then at his lowest moment, he tries to commit suicide. The poor guy, you are never given a reason to do anything but feel sorry for him. When he survives the attempt, you want to root for him and want him to win. But what does winning mean?

     

    Well, in Monkey Shines what it means is suddenly being able to regain control of your body again. There is no real redemption, there is no triumph over adversity here. The struggle to deal with an injury like that, and the depression and frustration it causes, is real. That his disability is so flippantly disregarded, and the "happy ending" completely reverses what the first hour of the movie spends establishing, its kind of dickish. Its like people who are disabled are just ruined meatbags with no hope for happiness or a real life unless they regain the ability to use whatever part of their body has been disabled. I would have at least liked it if the happy ending was Allen and his gf enjoying their lives with him being a paraplegic.

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  3. Okay, I'm an hour in now, and I have to say that so far, Allen is the only normal fucking person in this movie. He finds out that the doctor probably botched his surgery and is livid about it, and the girl driving him is like "I don't understand this reaction." REALLY, bitch?? "I don't like this change in you, Allen." Seriously, Fuck You.

     

    When that bitch of a homecare nurse was yelling about her bird being killed, I was thinking "Fuck that bird, he shoulda killed it himself anyway." And then Allen pretty much says exactly that. He lives in a world where everyone is a dumb asshole who talks down to him like he had down syndrome or something. How can you do anything else BUT root for him to slaughter this shitty world he lives in via a telepathic monkey mind meld?

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  4. This happened to be on FX the other day, and I caught the last 5 mins of it. Even being only 5 minutes of the film, and being completely out of context, it was still just a pancake layering of absurd scene on top of absurd scene with some of the worst dialog sprinkled on top like some shitty powder sugar. I can't even imagine what sitting an enduring the entirety of this film must be like. I think I'd like to retract this suggestion.

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