Bozzy’s World

Michele is trying to quit smoking and also thinks today’s yutes have it easy.
Final Cut Pro Versus iMovie? Roger Avary examines.
Matthew Yglesias discusses The Medicare Crisis.
Oliver Willis thinks “Superman” is going to suck.
Mark pimps my site, so I return the favor.
Fry Still needs to post more.
Wil Wheaton gives a preview of his MacWorld presentation. (It’s already happened, but still a good read.)
Avram talks about all his previous cars.
Froggie lost 75lbs and has the pictures to prove it
Zoe has lost 23lbs and her underwear is baggy. A little TMI, there.
Ryan: Dell sucks.
w00tah has this neato image thing
Billy Ray Brewton posts his 20 favorite directors of all time.

And I’m a libertarian, socially speaking.

Ever wanted to see Roger Avary’s bare foot? No? Well fuck you, I’ll show you anyway. It all started when stepped on a hoe (note: not a hooker, the garden tool), and one of the spikes went in his foot 4 inches.

IN OTHER NEWS AROUND THE BLOGOSPHERE…
Avram posts something about Michael Jackson.
Dave Barry has some important medical advice, but it doesn’t concern him.
Froggie wants to waste all of our time with 38 meaningless questions. *UPDATE* She wants me to mention she lost weight too. Go her!
Fry really needs to blog more.
JASON PASSED HIS PHYSICS TEST! OMG! WE ALL CARE!
Jeff Jarvis lapped himself.
Jenna May has an apology. Take it for what it’s worth, folks.
Jim wants everybody to know where he stands. What the fuck, motherfucker. What the fuck are you thinking?
Katie made the cut, Matt still hasn’t met a celebrity.
Kevin Cupp is still in the process of moving his blog.
Lily has a conversation with a freak.
Mark wants us to hear his voice.
Michele finally finished her ranking of 500 songs.
Oliver Willis has a new Pundette.
Ryan has a hilarious screen capture from the last episode of the Simpsons.
Sam Cook returns to blogging with a full, rainbow-colored announcement. Good for him.
Spidie congratulates people.
Wil Wheaton was on VH1 on December 7th. I missed it.
Yirga posts an answer to that mind-boggling question about the snooze function on alarm clocks.
Zoe is losing weight. Give her encouragement.

Well that’s all I care to tell you, bye.

HONORABLE MENTION: LOTR: The Two Towers, 8 Mile, Equilibrium, S1m0ne, Bloodwork, Panic Room, Punch-Drunk Love, Minority Report, The Bourne Identity, Blue Crush, and Queen of the Damned.

Now, the starting lineup…

10. THE RING - This has to be one of the most scariest movies in a real long time, and was still scary when I saw it a second time.

9. GANGS OF NEW YORK - It’s time to stop ripping Leo DiCaprio. Just stop, it’s no longer funny. The man can act.

8. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING - It played for 33+ weeks. That’s simply astonishing giving that most movies disappear by the 5th week. It’s a nice change of pace for the comedy genre.

7. RESIDENT EVIL - Go ahead, laugh. This movie rocked, no longer can we say that there hasn’t been a good movie that’s based on a video game.

6. FRAILTY - Welcome to directing, Bill Paxton! This film was downright creepy at times and the acting was always top notch.

5. WE WERE SOLDIERS - This is a great war epic, but that’s not why it’s up here, it’s up here because it doesn’t glamorize war. Finally, the truth about war! War is hell.

4. BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE - This is the most the influencial movie I have ever seen, kudos to Michael Moore for having the courage to make this film.

3. THE RULES OF ATTRACTION - What can I say, the movie had some bad-ass editing (props to Sharon Rutter), and really depicted college life well, well at least the colleges that Roger Avary heard of! Seriously, there isn’t a dull moment in this flick.

2. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - Spielberg can do anything he wants, and then add Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio into the equation. Mind boggling.

and the best film of the year goes to

1. ROAD TO PERDITION - See above remark about Tom Hanks.

now, for the worst, but I don’t want to show it unless you really really really want to see it…
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Like brother, like brother…boy oh boy, the Batemans sure are one fucked up bunch. Yes, if you are unaware, “Rules of Attraction” is based on a novel by Brett Easton Ellis, who also wrote the novel that “American Psycho” is based on. ‘Pyscho has Patrick, and ‘Rules has Sean, Bateman. Okay, time for the review.

Where should I start? I guess I’ll start with the bad reviews this movie has been getting. Most of those reviews say the characters seem shallow, selfish, and greedy, and that the film lacks a plot. Hello. Did you not understand the 80’s, or were you born in the 90’s? The 80’s was about all that, the characters in “Amercian Psycho” were about all that, being shallow, selfish, and greedy. Sure, ‘Psycho had more of a critic-friendly plot, but ‘Rules has a plot too.

It’s just not like any other plot, in fact, if you have ADHD or just weren’t paying attention, then you probably would say it doesn’t have one. But it does. It portrays Ivy League college life briillantly. Okay, I never went to one of those schools, so I don’t really know, but the reason I am saying this is because the characters were believable. If the characters are all believeable then the plot and setting is too. I guess if you want, you could just call it the “anti-plot”, but it still works, no matter what you call it.

Let’s “rock and roll”, as Sean Bateman put it, to the acting. James Van Der Beek is brillant as the pseudo-rich kid at college. Is Ian Somerhalder gay in real life? He sure portrayed his character well. There’s Jessica Biel, “Blue Crush”’s Kate Bosworth, and the lovly Shannyn Sossamon. There’s three cameo’s: a wonder boy, Bonnie Parker, and a guy named Lance. Can you guess them? Kip Pardue (”Remember the Titans”), has a wonderful 5-10 minutes of fast paced Europe touring, which is gonna be a docudrama because Roger Avary got over 70 hours of footage for a spot in the film that is only at most 10 minutes. Let’s just say I am on pins & needles. Overall, the acting was pretty good. Russel Sams has a hilarious scene with Swusi Kurtz, but Clifton Collins Jr seems to be a little over the top as Rupert Guest, the drug dealer. I don’t know. I don’t know any drug dealers.

Did you remember the connection between this movie and “American Psycho” or are you one of those ADHD critics who weren’t paying attention? Okay, that was wrong, and I apologize. Anyway, there are two references to “American Psycho”, I won’t mention them, you should go see the movie. I just wish there were more, maybe throw in another cameo. Christian Bale! That would have been sweet.

Do I recomment this film? Not if you have ADHD. Okay, I will stop that. You shouldn’t see this film if you are offended by lots and lots of sex, both hetero and homo. That probably turned off a lot of you right there, but if it didn’t I applaud you. Movies can be graphically violent and be rated R, whereas a movie about sex get’s a NC-17 rating at first. Murder is worse than sex, hell sex isn’t bad at all.

I have been following the making of this film at Roger Avary’s online journal since Early-May, and I want the DVD. What was cut out? Ooooh let’s just say I am on pins & needles.

Read this review and others @ PopkornJunkie.com

Click below for spoilers:
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Okay, here’s what happened.

I go to Blockbuster to rent Roger Avary’s “Killing Zoe”, and they don’t have it. So I’m like no big deal, I’ll buy it. Lots of people like this movie, so I’ll take the chance that I will too.

I go to Best Buy. I have no problem finding this film. But there’s one condition. One very asinine condition. The only way to buy this film is to buy the incredibly horrible film “The Way of the Gun”. I know this cannot be. So I look and look for what seems like hours– probably only 15 minutes, but that’s ample time for a 4-row DVD section. Hey, it’s not like I had to scale the Great Wall of China. So, I’m bouncing between the aisles. I’m pissed and I’m looking for the single.

I notice a blue-shirted-pseudo-intelligent employee and inform him of my dilemma. All he says is to try Customer Service. So off I go. Luckily, there’s no line. (Which might say something about the quality of Best Buy’s service. You know, it’s so bad that people don’t even bother trying.) A young twenty something girl, whom we’ll call ‘Tits’ for quick reference calls me to the front desk. I say to Tits, “I want to buy this movie, but not that movie, can you separate them?” The answer from Tits, was a resounding, “They’re packaged together, you cannot separate them.” Well, that’s gee golly great, Tits, but I asked if YOU could separate them.

I tossed the pawning off of a bad film back on the shelf and head to Borders, where I had no problem finding “Killing Zoe”…and JUST “Killing Zoe”. I went to the checkout line and purchased the so-called-by-best-buy “evasive” title, “Killing Zoe”, where the guy said, “Great movie!!”

Now what have we learned here? We’ve learned that Tits is a lying sack of cow testicles. Now let’s quote her: “They’re packaged together, you cannot separate them.” Well…I guess Borders is special. They at least aren’t so fucking ignorant as to think that people might not want to buy “The Way of the Gun” and have several single copies in stock of “Killing Zoe”.

Now maybe the obvious reason for Best Buy’s blunder is because they were sold out of JUST “Killing Zoe”, but c’mon, if this were Spider-Man, I’d believe that. I don’t believe it when the movie is rated 6/10 on IMDb and is an Art House flick. No, Best Buy just didn’t give a damn. They just wanted to get rid of all the hundreds of copies of the lame-o “The Way of the Gun”. Am I being unreasonable? I didn’t think so.

Now, Off to the DVD player…