Comments on: Cahiers du Cinema

By: H-Bob

H-Bob — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:27:43 +0000

He better not show up at the Vatican wearing that !

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:33:32 +0000

BTW, why does everyone always forget the Korean War?

The mawkishness of Alan Alda was traumatic.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:20:12 +0000

My colon constricted because it couldn’t relax or get enough water, then became impacted and burst thereby flooding my body with bacteria.

The Glories of War! Why doesn’t Hollywood make a movie about that?

BTW, why does everyone always forget the Korean War? It’s always WWII, and then the Vietnam War.

By: Von Pseud

Von Pseud — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:14:48 +0000

You can glean everything you need to know about the Fumento mind from the fact that, in the ‘Hate Mail’ section of his website, he corrects the spelling and grammar of every email he deigns to publish.

That aside, we limey lefties have it so very much worse. Brave liberal Nick Cohen had similar complaints about the lack of stereotypically evil Hollywood orientals a few months back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2126737,00.html

I’ll admit that Fumento is crasser in his language, but at least he’s not pretending to be left wing.

By: arky

arky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:11:58 +0000

My colon constricted because it couldn’t relax or get enough water, then became impacted and burst thereby flooding my body with bacteria.

Yep. Keep your head up there long enough and this is what happens.

By: Sadly, Cambridgeport

Sadly, Cambridgeport — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:07:08 +0000

An excerpt from one of his war stories (found at your speedo link):

My colon constricted because it couldn’t relax or get enough water, then became impacted and burst thereby flooding my body with bacteria.

You know, things have gotten just a little too familiar for my comfort, Michael. In fact, I’m going to go get myself tested now.

By: NobodySpecial

NobodySpecial — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:39:43 +0000

Antique implement from the days before microwaves. Evidently it was used to stress test nails in kitchen walls.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:09:11 +0000

NobodySpecial: What is this “frying pan” of which you speak?

By: The Critic

The Critic — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:14:35 +0000

I guess The Kingdom doesn’t count even though it just came out months ago.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:44:02 +0000

The tragedy of war, it seems to me, is that it routinizes death. Good people go out and kill, and it doesn’t make a difference if the motherfucker you kill is in Wehrmacht gray, black pajamas, shorts and a t-shirt or a burqua–you become a killer.

In addition to the destruction, the disease and the displaced people, this pretty much sums it up. War is bad not because bad me kill people in wars. War is bad because it makes killers out of everybody…

mikey

By: NobodySpecial

NobodySpecial — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:18:46 +0000

Is this the part where a female would say “I’d hit it”?

Depends. What are you going to hit it with? Good old frying pan? Or some newfangled weapon?

By: Spirula

Spirula — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:45:03 +0000

Even so, we still have 24 and Sleeper Cell, two Islamaporno films for bedwetters which managed to pack enough swarthy Muslim villains into each frame to give Fumento months, if not years, of wanking material.

Don’t forget The Stone Merchant. (I know. Technically not Hollywood) Besides being really awful, I don’t think you could make a more jingoistic/racist movie about Muslims. It really lowered my already wanning opinion of Harvey Keitel.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:40:15 +0000

Is this the part where a female would say “I’d hit it”?

By: Clark Barr

Clark Barr — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:47:50 +0000

Yeesh, that idiot’s speeo pic would be laughed off of GAY.COM!

By: The Dude Abides

The Dude Abides — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:16:13 +0000

Jesus Jiggidy Fuck, what is that little dude from fantasy island doing on my computer wearing a thong?

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:33:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYymOJEnEME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwVgviSuUY

More hammock goodness. Because he started it, and goddammit, we haven’t had a good YouTube War is months.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:31:23 +0000

True that, Arky.

And speaking of banana hammocks…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHd_lkqhQhE

By: Arky

Arky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:30:30 +0000

See, one could make metric shit loads of propaganda movies in WWII, because there was STUFF GOING WELL TO USE.

Don’t forget simple matters of technology. How many people had TVs during WWII?

But it doesn’t matter. Aside from things going boom and people getting killed, Operation Infinite Cock Up is not a replay of World War II, no matter how many banana sling wearing freaks say it is, which I think is the second point of his piece.

In the paper.

By: mndean

mndean — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:34:38 +0000

Have you watched any speeches by our president, vice president, secretary of state, etc. for the last 6+ years…?

False equivalence. I am not dealing with what comes from the administration, just from our popular culture. Forties pop-culture jingoism was little different than today, neither more sophisticated nor cruder, and that is all I’m saying.

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:52:37 +0000

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