Thursday, November 9, 2023

A Scathing Letter To David Zaslav

 You are the worst CEO working in Hollywood today. Ever since Discovery bought Warner Bros. and made you boss, it has just be a constant string of bone head decision after bone head decision. You'd think with decades of experience in finances and even starting out as a lawyer, you of all people would know how to make money AND fight for what's fair.

I want to believe you came from humble beginnings as an innocent kid from New York. I want to believe you wanted to grow up and change the world. I want to believe you had the best intentions when you became the head of Discovery. But based on your current actions, I find it much more believable the you were a snot nosed, greedy little brat that bullied kids out of their lunch money and dreamed of being having his own swimming pool of gold like Scrooge McDuck. And now, here you are, an old, rich, stingey pig who's the CEO of one of the biggest entertainment companies on Earth.

In case you're head is too far up your own sphincter, let me breaking down everything wrong with you. You cancel movies when they're already completed for tax write-offs, you pull the plug on preschool programming after 1 year of trying, you changed HBOMax to Max, which was pointless and stupid, you removed a whole bunch of shows from Max, you made Chris Licht CEO of CNN without interviewing internal candidates, you oversaw cuts to TCM, and during the writers and actors strikes, you were nothing but selfish, arrogant, and unsympathetic.

You know what? Scratch that last one! You ARE selfish, arrogant, and unsympathetic! You constantly throw your employees under the bus, you undermine all their hard work by canceling their projects for tax write-offs, and you're not the least bit sympathetic towards employees who lost their jobs because of you. Worst of all, none of your tax write-offs are worth JACK DIDDLY! Coyote vs Acme cost $70 million to make and you only got $30 million after canceling it. Batgirl was $90 million, you only got back at best a quarter of that after canceling it. Scoob: Holiday Haunt, same story! You could’ve made triple the money you got from your write-offs on the opening weekends for these movies! So not only are you uncaring towards the creators of these movies and you're employees, YOU'RE ALSO A BLOODY MORON!!!

I normally don't campaign an executive to be removed from his position (and I doubt you will unless WB stocks are through the toilet), but you are the major exception. I hope you are not only fired, but blacklisted from the industry. I hope you are forced to resign and be walked out of the Warner Bros. property buck naked with everybody booing you and throwing tomatoes at you.


Sincerely,

Someone Who Will NEVER Work For You -.-

Thursday, October 12, 2023

OPINION: Terrorists Deserve No Mercy

George W. Bush's decision to declare a war on terrorism has been seen as rash and unnecessary by his critics. Even his successor, President Obama, denounced it as foolish and pointless. Yet in the years following the major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism is not only still alive and well, it has only gotten worse. We're now at the age where human being who grew up knowing the difference between right and wrong are now saying they stand in support of Palestine, a nation founded by terrorists and whose only contribution to society since its inception was terrorizing Israel. Folks, this kind of toxic thinking is exactly what lead the Nazis to gain power. This post is here to remind those who read it word for word that no matter what, terrorists are NOT worthy of your support, respect, and especially mercy.

While the word terrorism is relatively new, being derived from French in the 18th century, the tactics of terrorism date back to the dawn of man. There's always that one person who decides out of the blue that an innocent soul was going to suffer. Why? Were they being oppressed? Were they craving attention? Were they actually the hero? No, the answers actually pretty straightforward yet some people refuse to believe it. Terrorism exists because some people feel gratification watching innocent people suffer. They may try to play upbtheir religious beliefs or a pathetic sob story to try and rationalize their actions, but we all know there's no excuse for causing harm to someone who was minding their own business. The reality is terrorists are just rotten to the core and only get some semblance of joy by making innocent people suffer.

Terrorism has had many different faces over millennia. In the late 10th century, it was Gengis Khan. During the discovery of North and South America, it was Christopher Columbus. In 1939, it was Adolf Hitler. In 2001, it was Osama bin Laden. Now, it's Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, a terrorist group that launched an attack on Israel. With over 1300 Israeli citizens killed, you'd think it'd be unanimously agreed upon that Palestine, as a country, should be dissolved and every member of Hamas be publicly executed via firing squad starting with Ismail (preferably in front of all 13 of his children). Yet a good number of people online would read that sentence and think "bro, that's way too harsh! How can you say that? Look at the number of people injured and killed in Palestine!" 

You wanna know what's "way too harsh?" Killing men, women and children because you didn't wanna share land with a neighboring country. Dropping bombs on innocent civilians who practice a different religion than you is also going way too far. Brainwashing the young minds of children into thinking innocent people are their oppressors and the training said kids to kill is a prime example of overkill. Suggesting that the dastardly leader of an evil organization be executed for his crimes is gracious compared to what these sickos do on a daily basis. And yes, I'm aware the people in Palestine who had nothing to do with terrorism got injured and killed during this conflict. The thing is, I don't give a rat's backside! The people of Palestine and their government have put in zero effort in making the rest of the world feel anything but disgust and hatred for their very existence. If the nearly 5 million people in that country really wanted sympathy from the rest of the world, they should've been rationally thinking adults and be allies with Israel back when they first formed. Now it's over 75 years too late and the only good course of action for Palestine is to dissolve as a country.

I think these past few years have taught us that terrorism isn't gonna go away if we just stand idly by and not get involved. As much as respect President Obama, I have to disagree with him on his stance on the war on terrorism. We need to stand and fight againts those who terrorize innocent people. By refusing to do so, we expose ourselves as cowards who only fight wars when it's on our terf. To conclude, I want to send a personal message to every terrorist on Earth: when we die, I'll be laughing my way through the pearly gates while you burn in Hell!

Friday, May 5, 2023

A Scathing Letter To Adam Of YourMovieSucksDotOrg

 I'm glad I unsubscribed to you years ago. You're such a pretentious dirt bag! It's straight up impossible for you to respect filmmakers and audiences members because all you are is ego!


"tHiS iS a DuMb BaBy MoViE fOr DuMb BaBiEs" GROW THE FLOP UP!!! You sound like a spoiled 3 year old stubbornly refusing to accept that not everything is going to be made for you! You should've stopped reviewing mainstream movies years ago because you're never gonna find one made with your tastes and you're not good a reviewing anyway! Stick to just reviewing indie films!


Or better yet, JUST MAKE YOUR OWN! You have a camera, you have friends, you have sound equipment, and you have a backyard full of grass you should be touching instead of insulting talented filmmakers! The only thing thing stopping you from making your own films is your stupid ego! You'd rather waste your free time belittling talented and hard working men and women who spend their free time following their passions because you can't bear the thought that these people were just like you when you started this channel. Young and ambitious artists who wanted to make movies and give audiences a good time. The very idea that these people are living their dreams sickens you because you failed to make yours a reality.


And now, all you do is insult them and insult people who support them because if you couldn't make people happy with your movies then no one should be happy with movies. You're such a sad, pathetic and nasty man who's living a miserable life and is making it everyone's problem. I know you're laughing at me for saying all this because you just don't care and you think I'm just a butthurt Mario fan. You'd just be proving my point, and showing that you're too pretentious and nasty to even take criticism. I'm mature and sane enough to take criticism like a man, while you are took weak and narrow minded to handle something as simple as "I disagee." Those two words alone make you vomit because you believe you're opinion is the only opinion that truly matters and everyone else is a braindead moron for thinking otherwise. Newsflash, jerk dish: THAT'S NOT HOW OPINIONS WORK!!! Opinions are personal tastes and preferences, not indisputable facts of life! You're not the end all, be all of movie critics! You never have been and you never will be! All opinions are different because all people are different. Just because you didn't like a movie that doesn't mean someone is wrong for liking it. A bloody 2 year old has more common sense than you! I hope more people realize what a terrible critic you are and stop watching your reviews.


Sincerely,

A Real Film Fan -.-

Friday, April 21, 2023

Opinion: Driving Should NEVER Be A Right -.-

 In the United States of America, all living citizens have a significant number of rights. We have the right to vote, the right to practice religion, the right to bear arms, and the right to express ourselves. We do NOT, however, have the right to own and drive a vehicle of our choice. If you're expecting me to say "it's time we change that" or "I think now's a good time to make it a law" you are sorely mistaken. While I do have my disaggrements with Congress, I applaud them for sticking to their guns and never making it the law of the land for every U.S. citizen to be able to own or drive a care. As controversial as it may sound, I earnestly believe we need to restrict access to automobile ownership like we've been trying to do the same for gun ownership.


Driving in the United States hasn't always been a thing, unlike all the other rights in the Constitution. The first automobile, the Benz Motor Car, was patented in 1886, with units being sold within the first 20 or so years. By the time cars swept the nation in the early 1920s, it had already been 150 years since we became a nation. In that time, manny laws were passed and ammended to suit the needs of the American people. When it came to cars, however, things got complicated. See, like the locomotive before it, cars had this one problem that made it evidently clear that this wasn't to be a right. Everybody wanted a car, but not everyone was responsible enough to own one.


Car accidents, while they're common place now, they're not a recent phenomenon. In 1896, a bicyclist was hit by a car in New York City. This was the first of countless instances in which operators of motor vehicles abused their ownership of a car to cause harm or death to an innocent bystander, whether it was intentional or not. The first state to recognize the dangers of motor vehicles was Connecticut and on May 21, 1901, the state passed the first automobile regulation law in the nation. This law, An Act of Regulating the Speed of Motor Vehicles, stated that no motor vehicle was permitted to go over 15 miles per hour on the highway or any place outside city limits, or 20 miles per hour on the highway or any where within city limits. A valiant effort, but it wasn't enough to prevent accidents. To do that, would be drivers need to be taught the rules and regulations of the road.

Driver's education and training began in the United Kingdom in 1909, but for the United States it started as a high school class course in 1934. Created by Amos Neyhart, this course taught students the rules, regulations and history of automobiles which still apply to this very day. While getting a driver's license was nothing new at the time (the first one being issued in 1899), taking a driver's ed class became mandatory for a license in the mid 20th century. It was also during this time when new laws were passed that regulated automobile operation for drinking, running a red light, abusing your car horn and manny more. Ideally this would make our more responsible and car accidents would be at an all time low. Yeah, unfortunately that's not even close to the world we live in.


In 2020, yes the same year we had to stay indoors due to the pandemic, 38,824 people lost their lives in a car accident. To put that into perspective, that's almost the same amount of people that live in my one horse town I call home. The circumstances of these accidents differ, from distracted driving, drinking, a tire blowing out, a pot hole sneaking up on them or an animal lacking common sense before crossing. The one thing they all have in common, though, is that the driver is at fault for not following the rules of the road and not being responsible. I'm well aware nobody's perfect, believe me I know I'm not. That said, perferction and responsibility are NOT  the same thing.  Being perfect means you have no need to be responsible for the rest of your life because things always work out. Being responsible means you take full ownership of your actions and reactions. You see a pot hole, you go around it. Your tires blow out, you pull over and call a tow truck. You have alcohol in your system, don't get in the bloody driver's seat. With the prescene of the Internet, there's now no such thing as "wElL i DiDn'T kNoW." It's your responsibility to prepare for what's to come on the road. It's your responsibility to avoid hazards on the road. It's your responsibility to stay out of other people's blind spots.  If you hit someone or something on the road, there's no one to blame except yourself.


And there are real people out there who think driving should be a right and not a privileged. In case you haven't been paying attention, let me spell it out for you. If you need to be taught how to do something, you don't automatically have the right to do it. You don't have to be taught to express yourself, practice religion or vote. You also won't go to jail for expressing something negative, affiliating yourself with a controversial religion or voting for a politician that made very bad choices. Driving and owning a car shouldn't be a right because you don't have to work for your rights. You don't have to take a test and get a license to express yourself. On top of all that, if driving was a right, than all the laws that regulate and restrict it would be unconstitutional, thus causing more car accidents and deaths than their already are. You know what we should do, instead? Add more restrictions and car laws, like what we're trying to do with guns. There should be a law that forbid people prone to anger and violence from owning a vehicle. There should also be a failsafe installed in all vehicles that makes the car not turn on if the driver has alcohol in their system. More laws like this are guaranteed to save lives and make driver's think twice before making stupid mistakes.


As someone who's in the process of becoming an official driver, seeing car accident after car accident makes me want to puke up my internal organs. I don't think the rules of the road are hard to follow, nor are they confusing when you read them thoroughly.  I also don't think it's hard to responsible behind the road and be a decent driver. Ignorance is not an excuse in the age of the Internet and there is not "iT's NoT mY fAuLt" when there's over a hundred ways to avoid an accident. If you want to learn how to drive, here's the most important lesson for you to learn: it takes less effort to be responsible than it does turning the ignition. And don't gimme any of that "driving should be a right" malarkey. Your thinking druving is easy is not even close to being a good enough resaon to make it a right. Here's a right for you: I have the right to tell you that you have NO right to be a driver, especially if you're mentally unstable. Don't like it? Tough bananas -.-