This is just something I posted on Social Media yesterday.
if Michael Moore, Bill Maher or someone else does make this, I would be totally in support of it. But at the same time, I'd like to think I came up with this idea on my own (although it would not be surprising if others also thought of it).
Maybe a Facebook Group has already been Created?
"American Refugees from Trump Presidency?"
someone should make a documentary of Americans leaving the country per Trump's winning.
Show them talking about why they are leaving and when they are packing up, making arrangements, etc
Then show where they move to, moving, etc and interviewing them again at that point.
Then a 6 mos, 1 year, 2 years later, interview with them again.
Also maybe include any online or real-life communities or networks they may be involved with others who've done the same thing.
If I had the time and money, I would totally try and make this.
I give him a max of 6 months after the inauguration on January 20th, 2017, before his the vast amounts of personality flaws are manifested to show up in his words and even worse, ACTIONS as president to show all the people who voted for him that it wasn't purely to get attention and get elected.
Or that
1) He's a pathological Liar
2) If not that, he is that way, not just in what he says, but his personality, character and actions will show just what we got in this abomination of a mistake.
For those who voted for him just to not vote for Hillary, it will prove to have been better for them not to vote at all, or write-in Bernie or Jeb Bush or whoever else they wanted instead.
For those who voted for Trump purely to not vote for Hillary, I almost look worse upon than those who genuinely wanted Trump as President.
again, 6 months.
July 20th, 2017, if not earlier. If he hasn't embarrassed or displayed that personality that was highly evident for the last 18 months, than I may actually give an ounce of credit. Granted, that hardly seems like it'll give him a massive radical personality change. The man is 70 fucking years old afterall. Far too old to be able to change his personality that dramatically.
But then again, the opposition may eventually get to him so much, he may decide to resign even before the 1st 6 months.
But, President Pence we may find just as many personality flaws, although at least we may be able to guess on them already given how traditional of a Republican he is.
Not sure how I may do this, but I'm finding myself biting my tongue a bit on both Social Media and Forums/Message Boards a bit.
So I may just start including things that I don't there, in here.
I likely won't be sharing this anywhere of course, but if it finds others per websearch, or a reader here, that's fine.
My 1st thing just to ask/point out.
Why are people explaining their vote for Trump as "needing change" or "something different," when if they actually considered why they did for that reason, "Change" and "Something different"..whether it be outside of Traditional Politicians/Washington, etc or just different than whose in office can be understandable. However, changing for THE SAKE OF CHANGING is hardly a justifiable reason in that making a change, especially as drastic with someone of Trump's character, lifestyle, etc..could quite easily make things A LOT WORSE.
Sure, it could and very well may be a lot different, but there are many others who would change things and would not be a traditional politician or similar to the current regime, that still would have been a lot less volatile and risky.
Given him and Hillary, the obvious safer vote is Hillary.
I said this many months ago, whoever wins this election should really only serve 1 term, assuming there is a more appealing candidate to come in 2020.
The Silver Lining could be, having Trump as President will inspire someone to become so appealing and intriguing, that it could be the best thing to happen indirectly.
However, surviving 4 years until then, or even less if he were to get impeached (and then have possibly the even worse Mike Pence as our temporary leader), is the challenge we see that inspirational candidate come.
So here's the series Watchmojo.com did with Underrated movies. And while there are a few on each of these I can get on board with (The Dead Zone certainly), I have posted many (but hardly all) of my favorite movies from each decade I see as underrated or just criminally unknown and under-appreciated.
Like most of these, I don't bother with the Best of All-Time which is just a compilation/ranking of all the movies listed in each list anyway.
1980's:
My comment: The Dead Zone, They Live and Local Hero make sense. But there are so many other underrated movies from the 80's that could have been included. Especially comedies. Moving Violations would be my top pick. I didn't go through my list of ratings to include in that comment, but had I, just quickly to add besides Moving Violations (an all-time favorite of mine).
Night of the Comet
The Hidden Running on Empty Cinema Paradiso Someone to Love Where the Buffalo Roam Dressed to Kill
1990's
New Waterford Girl Rosetta
Whale Music
Palookaville
Manny and Lo
Jude
The Spanish Prisoner Buffalo'66
2000's
My Comment: The Jacket? The Science of Sleep?Never Been Thawed?
Snow Angels (the Sam Rockwell movie I would include on here, not MOON as it seems that's the most mentioned movie of his career now, lol).
Transsiberian?
Sleepwalking?
The Square?
Brick should be on the most OVERRATED movies of the 2000's.
THE LOOKOUT is the Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie that should be on this list, or frankly, just more well-known. To add: Waydowntown In the Bedroom Funny Haha The Motorcycle Diaries The Machinist Wrong Side Up Alpha Dog Michael Clayton Synecdoche, NY Easier With Practice Fish Tank (Untitled)
2010's
My Comment: It's a Disaster?
God Bless America?
Sound of Noise?
The East?
Short Term 12? (the best thing I've seen Brie Larson do)
The Sessions?
Everything Must Go?
Begin Again?
Even the Rain?
Winter's Bone?
Exit Through the Gift Shop?
The Ghost Writer?
Safety Not Guaranteed?
Ruby Sparks?
Just got back a little bit ago from seeing the new Charlie Kaufman stop-motion animated movie Anomalisa. Being someone who loves more or less all of Kaufman's movies, I can't say I was disappointed in it, in that it has the unusual, unexpected story line and characters that engage me. But at the same time, it is a bit more subtle and less-is-more in many ways, compared to say SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK or Eternal Sunshine. The mindset of the lead character is very important in the perspective. Which perspective often is what I get from his movies. What we see are from 1 perspective, but then another perspective is revealed eventually, or at least Kaufman may want us to consider. I'm giving it 3.5 stars, although I may plan to pick it up on DVD and see if my feeling changes, as many of his others have as well.
I guess to add to this, I really like the whole mystery/mysterious element throughout this movie, which like I said, isn't unusual for Kaufman, but maybe it was done a bit differently.
Alright..*spoiler****
Other than the main character Michael Stone and Lisa, every character/person has the same voice and same face, I just came to realize the whole perspective thing. I suppose also with the voice being done by a male, even though that voice being identical and portraying both genders, I wonder if the lead is gay or bisexual, or if the world he exists in, seeing people not by gender, was relevant. Now later, when we meet Lisa, his sexual orientation is shown, at least more directly, to a point.
But like when seeing the Hotel manager in his dream, I got a Scifi/Twilight Zone/The Outer Limits kind of vibe, and then when we see part of his face come off. Also earlier, when he hears Lisa's voice through part of his face.
It's haunting. The whole society seems like a Prisoner kind of environment in some ways.
Another thing is how when the lead arrives in Cincinnati, every one wants to be his friend. They go out of their way to make extended small talk with him, It got to the point of being annoying actually, and I'm not fully clear on that tool, but maybe with seeing it again a few times, it may be more clear to me.
And the love scene, while was nice and created good intimate atmosphere, went on a little too long. This film is 90 minutes, and I would estimate the love scene lasted at least 10 minutes, maybe more.
I guess I initially feel this is an original and new movie for Kaufman to make, and working with Duke Johnson was potentially a new good relationship to have. But amongst his body of work, off the bat I would not rank it as high his others at this point. I suppose part of that is how outstanding his other movies are.
But at the same time, this was a movie that I recall seeing, took quite awhile to make. His last work was Synecdoche, NY in 2008. I hope we see something else from him before 2022, but who knows. I think especially since he began directing with this and Synecdoche, he may have become even more of a perfectionist, because he can and isn't concerned about being prolific. But the Charlie Kaufman fan in me wants as much as possible from the guy.
I'm not going to write up a whole diatribe about each of these, but I think it's worth sharing the movies I included in my comments.
Of course these are just lists made, in part by votes on watchmojo.com's user votes, but like more or less all of their lists, these lists are also based on many of the staff who work there's personal taste and feeling about these.
That hardly means those folks or the masses don't have some questionable taste, but that's hardly shocking.
Maybe I'll try and follow this up and rank my favorite 10 or 20 comedies soon.
Dumb and Dumber and Superbad? blech. And showing 21 Jump Street in the HM's among some of the others is just pathetic. Even Anchorman, while isn't bad, hardly deserves to be compared to stuff like Caddyshack or Dr.Strangelove.
Add: God Bless America, It's a Disaster, Sound of Noise, Despicable Me 2, The Lego Movie, Wreck-It Ralph.
Keep: Bridesmaids. Remove everything else
Add: Ghost World, Napoleon Dynamite, High Fidelity, School of Rock, Never Been Thawed, Bruce Almighty, Fanboys, Bridget Jones Diary, Untitled. Keep: The 40 Year Old Virgin. Remove the rest. Add: Buffalo'66, White Men Can't Jump, Free Enterprise, Dazed and Confused, Groundhog Day, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Remove: American Pie, Tommy Boy, Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary. Among many others missing (and not given at least HM): Fletch, Major League, Three Amigos!,Better off Dead, Police Academy, UHF, Moving Violations, Strange Brew, Revenge of the Nerds, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Remove: Tootsie (more Drama), Naked Gun, Planes Trains and Automobiles and even Ghostbusters (it's more Scifi than Comedy anyway). I agree with some other comments, it would probably make sense to make a top 30 for the 1980's as I've believed for quite some time, there has not been another decade as good or as in-depth with Comedies. Also which adds to the fact Chevy Chase should have been regarded as 1 of the top 10 Iconic Actors for the 1980's (How many renowned and successful 80's comedies was he in? a dozen? LOL). Remove Cheech & Chong. Add:Kentucky Fried Movie and Smokey and the Bandit should have at least received HM.
no comment.
The 1950's: The decade where "Comedy" also meant "Musical." Also noteworthy: "Some Like It Hot" was somewhat used as the premise for the short-lived Tom Hanks sitcom Bosom Buddies.
no comment.
no comment apparently. More Marx Brothers movies should have been included though. Duck Soup, I'm fine with as it probably is my favorite and maybe their most recognizable. But Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races among some of the others, were favorites of mine when I was growing up, catching them at my Grandparents.
a better late than never commentary about Psych's series finale, the history of the show, a movie and more. Apologies for it being Shrunk (mpeg file I am guessing).
