TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2013

the breakfast club
Cats Eyes

Criminal Minds

The Jeff Dunham Christmas Special

Caught up on some shows I mussed on Sunday

Family Guy
Bob's Burgers
American Dad

'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' (2006)



Intriguing documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America and their strange, secretive, occasionally clueless, sometimes contradictory methods of assigning 'ratings' to movies. It seems like everyone in Hollywood has butted heads with the MPAA over their rating system at least once since it was introduced in the late 1960s, mostly having to do with sexual content. (in other words: Rampant violence in films is OK with the MPAA, sex...hmmm, not so much.) Interviews include such directors as Kevin 'Clerks' Smith, John 'Cry Baby' Waters, Matt 'South Park' Stone, and Mary 'American Psycho' Harron. Interesting stuff that raises a lot of questions about censorship and whether or not the MPAA is prejudiced against edgier, independent film fare that takes more risks than the big budget major studio stuff.

More of Santa's Slay! (clip below NSFW and may also qualify as a spoiler because it's all the "best scenes" but if you know anything about Bill Goldberg's wrestling career or love parodies of classic Christmas specials, this movie has more to offer than this clip shows)

Eureka - Season 3

Death Wish II (1982)



In Charles Bronson's second go-round as New York vigilante Paul Kersey, he's living in L.A. and returns to his old habits after a pack of street punks (one of whom is played by a young Laurence Fishburne!!) rape and murder his housekeeper and daughter.

So yeah, there's not much plot, but there is a whole lotta really sadistic, sleazy revenge action. Twisted '80s retro fun.

Xmas movies seen so far:

White Christmas
Christmas Vacation
Santa Claus: The Movie
Jack Frost (horror)
Gremlins
A Christmas Story
Bad Santa
Basic Rankin-Bass productions
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Mickey's Once/Twice Upon A Christmas

That's about a quarter of my list. As they say, Xmas goes way too fast.

Penguins Beat the Rangers 4-3 in a shootout

Finished Santa's Slay today.  I always watch the end credits on this one because I love the music.  Plus if you stay until the very end, Goldberg comes back in his Santa outfit and as he's looking over his List he utters his famous wrestling tagline "Who's next?!?!?"

Fat Freddy wrote:

'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' (2006)



Intriguing documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America and their strange, secretive, occasionally clueless, sometimes contradictory methods of assigning 'ratings' to movies. It seems like everyone in Hollywood has butted heads with the MPAA over their rating system at least once since it was introduced in the late 1960s, mostly having to do with sexual content. (in other words: Rampant violence in films is OK with the MPAA, sex...hmmm, not so much.) Interviews include such directors as Kevin 'Clerks' Smith, John 'Cry Baby' Waters, Matt 'South Park' Stone, and Mary 'American Psycho' Harron. Interesting stuff that raises a lot of questions about censorship and whether or not the MPAA is prejudiced against edgier, independent film fare that takes more risks than the big budget major studio stuff.

Very good documentary.  The MPAA really makes no sense (the idea is sound, the execution is laughable) and operate in a constantly contradictory manner often based on how much budget is behind the particular movie they are rating. Also interesting to hear the story about how the NC-17 rating (which should have been a legitimate option) was instead transformed into the new X despite it being created for the sole purpose of distancing itself from it.

More Eureka.

TNA Impact

I just came back from vacation saw a few things while on vacation

On the flight down I once again saw Despicable Me 2

On the Disney Cruise - Frozen and Thor 2

At Downtown Disney - The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug

Flight Home - The Breakfast Club

Comic Book: The Movie (2004)


Mark 'Luke Skywalker' Hamill directed and stars in this hit-and-miss 'mockumentary' style comedy that satirizes both comic book fandom and Hollywood. Mark plays a lifelong fan of a 1940s superhero called 'Commander Courage,' which has been optioned to be made into a movie. The studio hires him to be part of the team promoting the film at the San Diego Comic Con but when he finds out that the movie version will feature a dark, gritty 21st century update of the Commander rather than the wholesome old school character he grew up with, he tries to figure out a way to stop the film from being made instead.  
Parts of the movie were filmed guerrilla style at the real San Diego Con and the film features appearances by tons of movie & comic personalities, including Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Jim Cummings, Matt Groening, Donna D'Errico, Billy West, Hugh Hefner and many more.
With the amount of talent involved, 'Comic Book' should've been a lot funnier than it is. The flick had a couple of good bits but more than half of the gags ended up falling flat. Disappointing...

ended Game of Thrones season 3 and Sons of Anarchy season 2.

The Penguins beat the Wild 5-2

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'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' (2006

I think one of the true mysteries of the world was how the Women In Red with full frontal Kelly Lebrock got a PG rating. As a young kid hitting puberty this was like a gift from the movie rating gods. Tanya Roberts in Beastmaster was the other.

Nudity in PG films was not uncommon in the 70s and early 80s, but once the PG-13 rating was adopted that came to an end.

Here's a rule that the MPAA uses that boggles my mind:

You can say F*ck in a PG-13 film, but only once. If you say it twice the film will be rated R. Someone out there explain that logic to me.

Pawn Stars

Capitals vs. Hurricanes game.

Duck Dynasty - Christmas

Criminal Minds

Nothing phenomenal, but a solid indie dramedy.