I bet even Mexico treats its army with more respect, probably with double bills of the Santos wrestling pictures or something.
Anger Management could have been good for a giggle or twenty, and it still is quite amusing in places, with Mr. Nicholson being very amusing at certain points, like when he tells a joke or two that might actually be worth telling. For my money, these are the best jokes in the film. The ones what are funny. Sadly, there's very little of them.
And really, that ending. It's like if someone insulted you for an hour and half, but it's ok cause they said some quite funny things amidst it all, maybe a few of those "Your mother is so fat that she really should slim for a week or two" kind of deals, and then after all that, when you think, well, it's gonna be worth it, cause at least he's gonna punch me in the face and stomp on my broken jaw, he just throws his arms around you and pukes down your back. He suffers from this condition that makes him think his gut-juice smells of roses.
He needs to see some sort of counselor, maybe one played by the man from Five Easy Pieces, cause The Duke has to be honest with you, man, that puke just stank the fuck out of this whole damn town.
The Duke resides at Mondo Irlando
Article comments
1 - Chris Kent
Brilliant stuff El Senor Duke.....Let's not forget the lovely Heather Graham flick Night of the Boogies for some truly yummy camera "angles."
I'm just glad you are appropriately covering the great career of Ian Holm, what with The Snow What Killed the World, From Johnny Depp Hell (which had a great cameo by John Hurt) and The Adventures Of The Hobbits Trilogy......Good work should never go unnoticed!
2 - Bob A. Booey
Creepy ... just creepy.
3 - Chris Kent
Sorry if I hurt your feelings BABs......you had it coming......;)
Still waiting for a post......
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Chris, thanks for the kind words! But whats going on here, eh? Controversy? What are you two fighting about? The Duke is intrigued. Come on. Share with the group, now.
5 - Chris Kent
I have a stalker El Senor Duke. And please accept my apologies.
6 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Ha! No need to apologise, i was intrigued is all. Play nice, you two. Cyber-scuffs can get all nasty all of a sudden.
7 - Eric Olsen
At first, I - as the good Duke will attest - was concerned that the Duke was just about style, though an entertaining, energetic and inventive style he certainly possesses.
But that is not the case: in fact sometimes I think the Duke hides some very deep, thoughtful and humane thinking and feeling behind style because he doesn't always trust his own instincts and it's always easier to say "just kidding."
The Duke is always very good, often excellent, and sometimes extraordinary.
8 - Chris Kent
Some good points Eric,
But The Duke resides on a different plateau than most in this room. You either get it or you don't. I laugh out loud in my office when reading his stuff, and it amazes me. There is no one else in this room who writes with such flair and inventive pop obscurity.......there's some talent here......David Lynch, Hunter S. Thompson, hell, even William Burroughs would laugh whole-heartedly at this work. I get it, but hell, I can't write it.....
You have 2-3 good writers in here. Duke is one of them.
9 - Tom Johnson
File me as a Duke Supporter. I wholeheartedly agree with Eric. I think the Duke's writing may seem like "schtick" to some, but it's only schtick if it doesn't have any substance behind it. Without a doubt, the Duke's writing conceals deeper truths that I'm really glad he lets the reader figure out for him/herself, rather than spelling it out explicitly. That's a good writer at work.
10 - Eric Olsen
Oh and Chris, there are way more than 2-3 good writers here - I am constatntly surpirsed and dlighted not just by the overall level of quality here, but at specific moments of observation, description, turn of a phrase, insight, etc that stop me cold.
These things are what my faith in the site is based upn.
11 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Eric, i agree. Whilst it is more than lovely to get compliments like that from folks like Chris, Tom and yourself, folks i respect a hell of a lot as writers, i have to add that i think any bit of fuck-spinnery i do pales in comparison ot a shit-load of stuff on this site. It's why i read most every post, even if i couldn't care less about the topic. The quality of writing is amazing on here at times, and is always consistently entertaining at the very least.
It's a unique slab of web-net, one that offers news, sure, but does so in a way that allows for individual voices to do the reporting, allows for artistic flair and what not since the writers aren't constrained by journlaistic codes of paragraph-structure and so on. I remember a comment left on a post about how the writer really needed to edit, becuase in a newspaper that kind of long-winded shit wouldn't be tolerated. i feel it would be a sad day if Blogcritics were to adopt such a style, ie, the writers start yacking like Times reporters. That would suck, is what The Duke makes of it all. This is the first site i visit each day, and i return it to loads of times throughout the period between getting up and passing out, and i'm only on it every couple days, so obviously its not just to see if anyone left comments for me lol. I genuinely feel inspired by a lot of the stuff on here, and jealous as all hell too. But thanks guys. Means a lot.
12 - Chris Kent
Eric,
I enjoy your site and am also surprised and delighted by many posts. But I stand by what I said without a moment's doubt.
13 - Eric Olsen
all very nice to hear - thanks for writing AND reading
14 - Chris Kent
....but that does not mean many of the great contributors are not becoming good writers, as they most certainly are......
I myself am a shitty writer and embrace it wholeheartedly.......but at least I try, though not with the feverish regularity of what man The Duke.....
15 - Eric Olsen
Chris, you're a very good writer and excellent thinker - I don't agree with your self-analysis
16 - Chris Kent
Thank you for the kind words and I always appreciate being allowed to contribute. I suppose certain comments soured my mood, putting me on the defensive. My apologies, as there are certainly many excellent writers and thinkers in this room. I am happy to be here.
17 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Chris, yours is one of those names i hover to instintively when its slapped beneath a post. You are among the most intelligent critcs de filmic what i have encountered. Honestly. Keep it up, sir.
18 - Mark Saleski
i like the duke because 1. the writin's top notch and 2. he didn't accuse me of buying the black crowes cd just for the cover 'art'