A couple of Weeks ago My Cousin Amber was in town. As is our new tradition, when we get together, we watch a mob film.  our choice this time around Bugsy and the God Father Part 2, and yes I could do a review of the god father part two, but in reality what is thee left to be sad about the film.

So the onto my review of Bugsy: What I knew about the the real life mobster was pretty limited at best. I knew that he had ties to Lucky Luciano,  and that he was one of the biggest power players of the west coast mafia during the WW2 era. What a knew about the film was just as sparse: it was a film from 1991, it was nominated for a couple of Oscars, it stared Warren  Beaty as the title Character and that it was mentioned Billy Crystals Oscar song and dance opening to which after seeing the film I finally get the what he was talking about. And yes I know you are thinking “Wait 1991? Why does your title say 80’s in it?” and the answer is two fold:

1. Pretty much almost everything from 1990 and 1991 still had the major 80’s vibe going on and most of the shift to the 90’s culture didn’t start happening till 92.

2.  If you see this film(which I highly do not recommend) or have seen this film recently(in which case I offer my condolences) you’ll know this movie screams 80’s cinema.

So you can probably guess that I didn’t like this film, I’m not really sure where to begin on this, since it was a biopic I figure it will help me know a little more about the person. if you knew nothing about Bugsy from what the movie shows, you find out he was part of the east coast Mafia, was sent to California on a mission for the Mafia (whether they wanted him to stay out there end establish their crime syndicate  or if he was supposed to one thing and come back but he decided just to stay out to there even though it would annoy his bosses is unclear), he liked the Hollywood scene and does some crimial stuff there (though they don’t give much detail into what or how powerful he is in the area), he was extremely possessive and paranoid about his girlfriend Virginia Hill,  he was a major player in the founding of Las Vegas(or at least turning  it into the modern day sin city), and was OCD though I have no idea if this was really true.

while a potentially good movie was wasted behind bad dialog, bad acting and bad directing. by far biggest gripe about the Film was it’s editing…. It Drove me Nuts!!!! between the rapid cutaways that were poorly timed, the poorly placed overlays of people singing and the like, and the fact that the movie just seemed to jump all over the map and had no sense of purpose or direction what so ever was really frustrating,  the shoddy editing during the first half of the film left me disoriented and had me scratching my head trying to figure out all of what was going on as if they were trying to fit 3.5 hours of needed content into under 45 min, I’ll be honest after that it had me intrigued and interested for about 10 min, before the editing changed again and it felt like some new editor came in and said lets just drag out this last part for about 30 min longer than it needs to be, and let’s make him like he is certifiably crazy!

iIn the end the movie was plain overly long, frustrating and just plain boring (much like this review) I just can’t belive that this would get any sort of acclaim outside of a razzie or two

A while back my friend showed me this image on the web called the cat proximity graphic and I couldn’t stop laughing because it was so true. The idea of the graphic is………. well the image will explain it better than I ever could.

please note that you can swap “Cat” for a baby, a dog, and other pets and the results are pretty much the same. I really wish that I remember who created the graphic because it’s pure gold.

And by greatest I mean weirdest.  In a recent advertisement that came in the mail from Hollywood Video they had a deal where if you bought a brand new copy of the Latest Rambo Film from their store you would get two free Slim Jims.  I kid you not! This was the actual deal for this.  Now this left me scratching my head and gave me two thoughts

1.  Why Rambo? - Sly Stalone and the character John Rambo were never a spokesman for Slim Jim or any sort of beef jerky/beef stick product… Well at least in in America, since big time actors are more than willing to promote products on TV commercials in foreign countries (most notably Japan) since it won’t ruin their reputation in America as a movie star.  but that being said this is America not some other country where he could have theoretically done a slim Jim advertisement. I get that back in the day Slim Jims Spokesman was “The Macho Man” Randy Savage, an Old muscle bound (at the time) Pro Wrestler that has semi-recently turned Rapper, so I get they are referring to the fact that Stalone is an old muscle bound steroid er umm I mean HGH enhanced person I guess? Personally I wish they would have made the same deal for the first Spiderman movies since The Macho Man played “Booooooonnnnnne Saaaaaaaawwwwwww.”

2. Two Words:   OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH YYYYYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

I know in the last post I said I had a bunch of backlogged posts I wanted to put up,  well I did but I only had a few of them partially written, as a result a lot of other things happened that I wanted to post about but didn’t because I wanted to get the other stories out first, now I’ve got so many that I’m too busy and lazy to write them all.
I was going to put up a brief blurb of like a one sentence overview  and a the working title I had for the post, but lets be honest I’ve been called many things, but brief when talking about/describing something has never been one of them,  so to deal start fresh I’m just going to say adios to the old stories. If you want to know about them hit me up and I’ll be glad to tell you the stories of all of the missing posts

Hi everyone!
It’s been too long since I posted, I’ve got a few thing backlogged that I have to post about but they will come a little later. In the mean I added a new design to the site. It’s a modified version of the WDF Ubergeeks Site design.  Which may also be updated by the time you read this.  Also another big  addition is the new WDF Store! Yes folks, it’s finally open.  Yes some of the product need work and I need to add more product… all in due time folks all in due time.

Gotta run! I’ll be back (hopefully) soon.