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OK children and true believers: The holiday season is upon us, so I have a challenge. To get you all into the Holiday Spirit, lets see what we can all produce. Find some of your favorite holiday clips and stick them here. Please, don't place some lame 20+ minute opus like "Batman and Joker Chirstmas" (Jack B. this means you). Now, we have 12 days till Christmas (hmmm, is there a song in that idea? ). So lets just see how many DIFFERENT items we can paste into this blog. Oh and if you wish to sen… Continue

60 Minutes had a real interesting piece on the new AVATAR due out 12/18:




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Hmmm, For what ever reason, I am not getting the embed link thing to work. F***ing CBS.

Anyway, the more I see, the more I want to see. Do you have your tickets? What say you "True Believer's" ??

Are you ready for the next "Citizen Kane" the next great land mark ground breaking film?

Or will this be a 400 million 3D ride down the p… Continue

The Prisoner:

Where the fuck did this come from? It debuted tonight on AMC. It is a remake of the popular cult classic from Great Britain in the 60’s that stared the late Patrick McGoohan (hope I spelled that right). The new show stars Jim Caviezel ( Christ himself) a damn good but not often seen actor and the great Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto, Gandalf). Well now we know how Sir Ian is spending his time. In an interview to plug this show, Caviezel was complaining how it was hard to find good part… Continue

Ok children, I have a question for all of us: Just what The Hell do we want to see made into a movie? What do we want to spend our hard earned $$ on over the next few years. Grandpa Cranky here has been hanging with you all for about a year. There are a lot of opinionated people, male and female hanging out. You freely (sometime a bit too freely) toss out opinions. We scream there are no fresh ideas.

So, I am throwning down the guantlet. It is the end of the Year and while there are a few prese… Continue

OK Children, settle down. Let Cranky Old Dude tell you how this one will go down. Hollywood will go down on this idea like a cheap hooker on Hollywood ave. Here is why:

For the record, I know a few things about this game. I have 2 sons, 32 and 20 who love the game. They are on (my) computer 24/7 if given a chance. They have multiple avatars, go on raids, belong to guilds argue and trade goods with others using VOIP. In short, they don't have much of a life. But hey, they don't drink, do drugs o… Continue