What the heck is wrong with people these days? Everyone’s a critic, but 99% percent of critics are frauds anyway. It’s as if the only way to be a critic is to make sure to give nearly EVERYTHING a thumbs-down. People go into theaters or pop in albums basically waiting for the art to be bad. And when they do make their judgement, they say it in an almost objective kind of way…like there’s no other way to see it.

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Word?

Looks like the Fresh Prince has his hands full lately. Now, I don’t know the timetable on these movies, and it looks like the ‘In Development’ category has a relatively new format for IMDb.com, but still…this negro has TWENTY-FIVE movie projects lined up. Great googly moogly!

Looks kinda cool, but they could’ve used a different narrator. He made it sound too dark. Also, I’m not convinced with the new B.A. yet.

via IGN.

It’s funny how into these end of the world movies I am. It all probably started with Deep Impact, then Armageddon, then kinda mutated with the Matrix (in a metaphysical kinda way that I only understood after the fact), and on and on with movies like the new War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still remakes.

The point is that my mind is way farther into outer space than the average citizen. It’s not just about wanting the world to blow up or some sh!#, but it seems that to get the gist of the wide scope of what’s going on in the world, you can’t just focus on each issue. If you look at one cell of your body, that’s not necessarily gonna help you diagnose an affliction. This article mentions how Newtonian physics may not apply outside of the solar system. This long-ass video talks about Hyper-Dimensional Physics that most conventional scientists don’t give credit to yet.

So, of course when 2012 came out, I was excited to see it and see what method they picked to kill us off (of all the possibilities they’ve been coming up with).

One of the many ways we're done for.

Well, I went to see it, and lemme just say this: I was entertained for about 2 hours of the 2:45 runtime. Somewhere along the way, it hit me that Africa was not being represented in the WORLD POPULATION TO BE SPARED for the oh-so-important survival of the Human race (and if you’ve seen the film, you know how much that or a similar phrase was emphasized). This was upsetting, because while a lot of countries were not represented in the 3 or 4 ships that were able to set sail, the only black people that were actually shown as getting on these ships were Chiwetel Ejiofor (the guy that convinced the world leaders to get a project together to save us all) and Thandie Newton (President Danny Glover’s daughter). However, and this is a BIG ‘However’, Africa ends up being the final landing place of the Arks that made it through the flood that ensued after the *event*. So…like…what the heck happened??? The logic that the writers gave as to whom made it on the ships had a lot to do with money/bribery, and let’s be honest—there aren’t a lot of African countries that can pony up One Billion Dollars [Dr. Evil pinky], but it’s just funny that a lot of those same Africans probably didn’t die, since their land wasn’t touched by the same waters that sunk L.A. and filled up the Himalayas. Ironic is probably a better word.

Apparently water is attracted to electricity.

Anyway, the other point is that the main character (or co-main character, as IMDb would have it), and the savior of the world for all intents and purposes, was a black man…really an African-American man in the purest since of the classification. This is an allegory on so many levels to how people of color get the s***ty end of the stick in so many different facets of society, yet the media always wants to put out some figurehead (*cough*Obama*cough*) to keep the people satiated while little slave kids work the manual turbine under ground to keep the lights on the guy’s picture lit. Can you visualize that? Cause I don’t wanna have to draw it. In the movie they were gonna let the Chinese guys working on the ships die as the ships they worked on set sail in front of them. WTF?

The other part is that this is at least the third movie—if you count Idiocracy—where the whole world (by which of course I mean America first) goes to sh!# under a black president’s term. I’m surprised they didn’t/haven’t tapped Sidney Portier or Louis Gossett Jr. to play in Transformers or Know1ng or some other Extinction-Level Event movie. They DID mention Obama in Transformers 2, though. So, 4 movies.

Ok, I’m done ranting. I just started listening to Attention Deficit by Wale, so I can’t concentrate on my rage toward the blatant imbalance of people of color’s portrayal in the media. Bye.

P.S.; Then I’ma go write some of my own ish. And work on the strip after that.

Besouro

This is actually a pretty dope concept, and seems to have the kind of viral appeal a Jet Li movie could incite. I’m actually gonna look into this movie and see what it brings to the table! You should check out the vid: