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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Ghostbusters, Afterlife

 Well, if it isn't Thursday morning, and, as usual, we're heading into a forecast of showery, drizzly, and a not so very dry day.  Oh, and I have to work for 5 hours.  That shouldn't be too bad because of the weather.  If temps were a little cooler we'd have snow showers on and off.  They don't seem to be occurring in the the next few weeks.

The dogs are still sleeping.  Blame the weather.

I went to see Ghostbusters, Afterlife last evening.  It was very enjoyable.  There are some important cameos, in case you didn't know.  If you don't, I'm not going to spoil anything.  Paul Rudd, the handsomest man alive is funny in the beginning, but then... well, not so funny, and not in a not so funny good way.  That's the problem with most of the cast, but then the writing loses sharpness, at times blunting through the minutes.  I do have to mention the 2 standout performances, though: McKenna Grace as Phoebe, and Logan Kim as Podcast.  These 2 young actors steal every scene they are in.  They are funny and they are smart.  I get the impression the story was written about them and everything else was added as filler.


Interesting discussion yesterday.  Keep in mind that while some of you are activists, I am not one, except when it comes to politics.  As such, I do not follow activists on social media since there are times when they tell you what you desperately want to hear.  While being terribly opinionated, those opinions are mostly centrist, except for politics, and as such may rub some of you the wrong way.  That's fine.  Discussion is good.  Eliminating discussion leads to blindness.

On the shooter in Michigan:  so much information is coming out, and it's bad.  While no one in the media is saying it, the kid appears to have been radicalized by his parents... in a bad way.  They had been called to the school earlier in the day to discuss behavioral issues and his mother complained about 'immigrant children' in the classrooms.  I suspect most of us can surmise their political leanings.



12 comments:

  1. My Gurlz went to see Ghostbusters and they enjoyed it a lot. I'm going to wait, probably.
    The Michigan shooter: a disgrace. The kids uploaded the most terrifying videos of their ordeal to social media. And the killer! He had just been given a gun? As a present? And he did have issues. All those young lives lost. And the gun lovers still waiting for the good guy with a gun to do SOMETHING.
    Ugh.

    XOXO

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    1. The movie is fun.

      That family has been completely radicalized.

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  2. The previews for Ghostbusters Blah Blah look good, but that's as far as I got.

    I read some people think that murderer's parents need to be held liable.

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    1. One of the Michigan prosecutors has said they're going to try and prosecute the parents as well.

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  3. We saw Ghostbusters last weekend and really enjoyed it. And it looks like there will be a few more after this one based on the end credits.

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    1. We didn't stay for all of the end credit scenes, just the one with Bill and Sigourney.

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  4. I can't believe Hollywood thought we needed another Ghostbusters movie. So many redo's and remakes...are they out of ideas?

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    1. This is more of sequel than anything else, and you may find this hard to believe that Hollywood has been doing remakes since day one.

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  5. The shooting in Michigan touches close to home. My co-workers son was one of the wounded victims. He was shoot in the leg, but he will make a full recovery. The media is a circus outside of their house.

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    1. I am so terribly sorry to hear that. What is wrong with these fucking people?

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    2. So very sorry to hear your coworker's Son was a victim, even tho' the physical recovery may be full, the emotional one probably won't be, ever. What all the kids in that School had to go thru will scar them for Life now.

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  6. I said right away that Kid was radicalized by his Family... Kids often Learn what they Live and the type his Parents are, they'll Sacrifice the Child for The Cause.

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