the Day The Earth Stood Still

 

Time for a rant folks. 

Regular followers of my blog know how I like to rant but I haven't done one in so long. But last night I was watching a movie and I noticed something that so angered me I just have to rant about it. So get ready folks, here goes.

Last week I bought some DVD's at the local thrift store for a dollar. One of them was "The Day The Earth Stood Still." Normally I wouldn't watch a movie like this because there is nothing there except CGI and a ridiculous plot (even if there is a plot). But last night I just didn't want to watch any more of the MSNBC shows because they were having a glitch with commercials interrupting the regular show. So I thought I would wallow in the trash and watch the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still", knowing that I would learn nothing from it except for what I guess was the message, "Peace in the world." Who doesn't want peace? Apparently a lot of folks in this world don't including some Americans but I digress.

So here we go. 

The movie opens with Keanu Reeves struggling in a snow storm in the Himalayan Mountains and he comes across a "something" that just landed in the snow storm from space. He enters the "thing" them the movie is transported to the present (2008 time that movie was made). A warning goes out to gather all these "experts" because the United States knows a "thing" from outer space is going to land on New York City. Of course the movie has to focus on someone and this person is the actress Jennifer Connelly, she of the heavy eyebrows. 

The action picks up and then slows down when she begins interacting with her stepson, a biracial boy of about ten years old. Oh, okay. Politically correct movie, I get it. But the movie slows down every time she interacts with this kid with the cock rooster hairdo because he can't act. His acting is wooden. I can't get past the hairdo. But that's me. 

Then the movie picks up again and lots of action. Then it goes back to the cock a doodle hair do kid. What? Every time it goes back to this kid I'm thinking "What does he have to do with this movie?" I saw the original  movie back in the Fifties and I don't remember this character and what he has to do with the plot of the movie. 

The action picks up again only to again revert back to this bratty kid. WHAT? So now I have to look up who this kid is. And I find out. He is Jaden Smith, the SON OF ACTOR WILL SMITH. You all know Will Smith, the actor at the Academy Awards who thought it was alright to walk up on the stage at the Academy Awards and assault Chris Rock, the comedian who made a lame joke about Will Smith's wife. Yes, THAT Will Smith who showed his true thug colors by thinking it was alright to assault another human being in prime time and then strut back to his seat all proud of himself for protecting his woman Jada Pinkett Smith whose feeling were hurt by Chris Rock's joke. Then Will Smith not once but twice used the F word to respond to Chris Rock. 

Will Smith, Hollywood royalty who obviously used his power to insert his son Jaden into this movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still." It would be one thing is Jaden could act. He can't. But to subject the viewer to his push to make his son A STAR.  Didn't work did it Will? 

Will Smith put his son in more movies like "Happyland" or something like that but little Jaden still isn't a STAR is he? 

Sometimes there is justice in this world. Will Smith, after his slapping incident, will no longer be able to insert his kids into movies. Especially roles that are created especially for their little darling kids. 

I admit I generally don't like kids in movies. Most of them are brats in real life. Some are good but the majority of them I find BORING and irritating. 

So when I found out why the kid was in that movie last night I did what I will always do when I don't like something, I ejected that movie. 

Keep trying Will, but you blew it when you slapped Chris. Tell your kid to get a real job.

The Slap Seen Around the World

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards

 Were you watching the Oscar telecast last night? 

Did you see Will Smith slap the shit out of Chris Rock because Rock made a joke about Smith's wife's lack of hair?

For God's sake! What have we come too? 

For me Will Smith has always been overrated. 

Will Smith is no Sidney Poitier. 

Later, when Smith received the Best Actor Oscar he offered somewhat of a strained "apology" to the Academy but none to the man he assaulted on stage. 

Again, are there no consequences for violence committed so openly by a famous person?

The past month I've been sick to my stomach watching the destruction and killing of a peaceful people, the Ukrainians by the sub-human soulless Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. 

I usually watch the news, mostly as background to me doing something else like cooking or on my computer.  Now I mostly turn off the TV when pictures of the destruction and killing of innocent Ukrainians appear on TV.  

The Ukrainian leader Zelensky begs for help from the allied NATA countries but receives little but lots of platitudes. 

Biden stumbles his way through another read speech yet doesn't directly help Zelensky and his country stop the incessant bombing that is destroying his country.  

I realize I am very fortunate to live in a country that is surrounded by two large oceans that protect us from sub-human butchers like Putin but still, it makes me sick to my stomach to see the monster Putin get away with his aggression on his peaceful neighbor.  Why? Just so he can add Ukraine to his portfolio of countries that he controls?

I was born in 1941, a month before our country was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor. All my life I've lived under the threat of war as have all of us.

In grade school we were told to get under our desks if atom bombs were dropped by Russia on the United States. Even then I knew getting under my desk wasn't going to save me from that hot skin peeling atom bomb blast. 

During my adult years I just missed Viet Nam. Pure luck. Lot of guys and gals my age weren't so lucky. 

Then there was Afghanistan and Iraq. Again, many of our fellow young Americans died and injured.

So Will Smith walking on the stage at the Academy Awards and slapping Chris Rock for a joke?  Not a good move Will Smith. 

Apologize to Chris Rock and the public for your tasteless display of violence Will Smith. You're not cool.