Movie Watch://2010

Last year I tried to keep track of all the movies I've seen that year. Not to brag mind you but to see how much of my time was spent watching other people's stories. I forgot to update most of the movies and ended the list in the 90's. Well new year, new list.

1. Four Christmases
2. Invictus
3. It's Complicated*
4. Adventureland
5. It Might Get Loud
6. The Road
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
9. He's Just Not That Into You*
10. The Express
11. The Soloist
12. Appaloosa
13. Good Dick
14. Gomorrah
15. Role Models
16. Dear John*
17. The Secret Life of Bees*
18. Deliver Us from Evil
19. This is It
20. Shutter Island
21. Cop Out
22. The Crazies
23. The Hurt Locker
24. Up
25. Precious
26. Brothers
27. Couples' Retreat
28. Where the Wild Things Are
29. Armored

Movie Review://Watchmen

Ahh yes...

Watchmen. One of the best and most controversial properties around. "The Citizen Kane of Graphic Novels" state by most, "And completely unfilmable" by others.

Short Review://As fine as a adaptation possible.

Long Review://It is filmable, but damn near inaccessible.

Some things are passed down through history. Beowulf survived near a thousand years to bore high school freshman and become a marginal cartoon. Homer's works weren't written down for years and yet here we are perverting his work so Brad Pitt could look good in a toga.

I have to believe that the recipent of these works through the years before mass consumerism felt special, like part of a clique or a club.

In my years as an English Major, James Joyce was sort of this elitist secret handshake. If you got his work you were considered a higher sophisticate than the other lowly students.

My secret club was Watchmen.

I struck up a casual conversation with an acquaintance. I professed my spotty memories of comics books as a kid/teen. I didn't know much. The only comic book I got with any regularity was GI Joe. All that led to was playground beatings.

The guy I with whom I was speaking just slowly nodded his head and left. He came back with a beat to hell copy of Watchmen. Frayed and discolored.

He said, "This is all you need to know about comics."

I thanked him and went back to my dorm room. By page 10 I had left to buy my own copy. By the next morning I had finished the novel for the second time.

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is one of the great catalysts of my life. As a work of narrative fiction it thought me the great skill of concise expansion. Of speculative realism. Of perfect catastrophe.

In short, I loved it.

Over the years I've been able to be the great wizard of knowledge and pass my copy on to a few people, all without fail return it to me the next day having already bought copies for themselves.

I have one friend that had an amazing collection of comics who after reading Watchmen told me that he could never read another book. A little dramatic but speaks to the dividing line this book creates.

So they made a movie of it.

Actually this is the third major attempt at making this movie. Terry Gilliam declared Watchmen, "unfilmable" and ran to the hills to fail at making Man of La Mancha for 20 years.

I never understood Christianity's opposition to Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ. But the prospect of some dude destroying Watchmen and perverting, made me sympathetic at least.

I was terrified and excited about this movie for so long that the fact that I've seen it twice already barely registers.

But I did see it. And it was Watchmen. Every single frame of the movie was Dave Gibbons. Rorshach was Rorshach, Nite Owl was Nite Owl, and Dr. Manhattan was in the blue flesh, swinging genatalia and all.

Jackie Earle Haley knocked it out of the park. I haven't been that impressed with a character since Ledger's Joker.

I've written 500 words about how much I love the book before I talked about the movie, just to show that I have a great love for the work. My wife however, never read it.

Correction, she started to read it and I took it back from her. Sort of mean, I know.

So she sat next to me and watched it twice.

She enjoyed the film. She got it. However, I kept feeling the need to explain, to fill in the holes.

One thing we both agreed on was the new ending may have worked better than the original.

So to sum up. The movie did not dissapoint. I loved it. But the movie did not seem to give the impression of a great work. The permanence of the piece, the lasting effect, the legend wasn't there.

I don't see in fifty years in a college dorm somewhere, some kid that smells faintly of hashish passing on the DVD to some other bright eye kid. The book will still remain the legacy.

Check out this comic, man. Oh yeah, they didn't fuck up the movie either.

Hitfix Must-See

To Begin:

I am a big follower of movie inside baseball. I love watching rumors turn into leads and turn into lies.
That's fun. One of the guys I read the most is Drew "Moriarty" McWeeny.

Yes that is his real name.
Yes that still makes me laugh.

On his site he posted this article. A plan for a sort of primer for building a foundation for cinematic consumption. A reading list.

While one man's list is never exhaustive, I'm too lazy to come up with one on my own.

His first post is the "Duh" list. Movies you should have seen by now. And it really shows the holes in my database. The following is what I haven't seen on that list

"Rebel Without A Cause"
"Freaks"
"Taxi Driver"
"Mean Streets"
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
"Cool Hand Luke"
"Suspiria"
"Triumph Of The Will"
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)
"American Graffiti"
"Annie Hall"
"Manhattan"
"Casablanca"
"Brazil"
"The Deer Hunter"
"Chinatown"
"The Nutty Professor" (1963)
"Forbidden Planet"
"Dog Day Afternoon"
"Grizzly Man"
"Pink Flamingos"
"The Dirty Dozen"
"The Great Escape"
"Steamboat Bill Jr."
"The General"
"The Wild Bunch"
"Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"
"The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre"
"Raging Bull"
"All The President's Men"
"Easy Rider"
"The Bridge On The River Kwai"
"Point Blank"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
"Seven Samurai"
"An American Werewolf In London"
"Network"
"Young Frankenstein"
"Dr. Strangelove"
"Ed Wood"
"The Graduate"
"Unforgiven"
"Lawrence Of Arabia"
"Glengarry Glen Ross"
"Duck Soup"
"The Adventures Of Robin Hood" (1938)
"The Thing" (1982)

That's 47/141. A full third of the initial list I've not seen. Guess I have a lot of films to catch up on.

Click here for the full list

Movie Watch://2009

This is a list of all the movies I've seen in the calender year 2009. The second number is a link to it's rating on Rottentomatoes.com.


1. Stardust (2007) 76%
2. The Wrestler (2008) 98% My review
3. Gran Torino (2008) 77%
4. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 94%
5. Next of Kin (1989) 43%
6. Talk to Me (2007) 81%
7. Back to the Future (1985) N/A
8. Back to the Future II (1989) N/A
9. Back to the Future III (1990) N/A
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 71%
11. Ghostbusters (1984)
12. Juno (2007) 93%
13. Taken (2008) 58%
14. Frost/Nixon (2008) 91%
15. Revolver (2005) 16%
16. 21 (2008) 35%
17. Eagle Eye (2008) 27%
18. Foot Fist Way (2006) 56%
19. Mad Max (1979) 95%
20. Road Warrior (1981) 100%
21. Coraline 3D (2009) 87%
22. Teen Wolf (1985) 44%
23. Ronin (1998)
24. He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
25. Milk (2008)
26. The Reader (2008)
27. Watchmen (2009)
28. Blade Runner
29. Dan In Real Life
30. 40 Year Old Virgin
31. Schindler's List
32. Syriana
33. Cool Hand Luke
34. When Do We Eat?
35. Let the Right One In
36. The Grand
37. Redbelt
38. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
39. Best In Show
40. Timecrimes
41. Star Trek (2009)
42. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
43. Henry Poole Is Here
44. Kung Fu Panda
45. Grindhouse
46. Wall-E
47. Shaun of the Dead
48. The Hangover
49. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
50. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
51. Year One
52. The Goonies
53. Public Enemies
54. Striking Distance
55. Superbad
56. Generation Kill (mini-series)
57. Bruno
58. Moon
59. Clerks X Extended Cut
60. Mallrats Extended Cut
61. Doubt
62. G-Force 3D (Special Screening)
63. Chasing Amy
64. Dogma
65. Small Town Gay Bar
66. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
67. The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
68. Holes
69. Shrek 3D
70. Jersey Girl
71. Frailty
72. District 9
73. Funny People
74. Clerks II
75. Tin Cup
76. Inglorious Basterds
77. Charlie Wilson's War
78. Zombieland
79. Kalifornia
80. Something the Lord Made
81. Sunshine Cleaning
82. Paranormal Activity
83. The Men Who Stare at Goats
84. The Box
85. Rock N Rolla
86. Band of Brothers
87. Seven Pounds
88. Avatar IMAX 3D
89. King Kong
90. A Christmas Story
91. My Sister's Keeper
92. The Goods
93. The Ugly Truth
94. Observe and Report
95. Chicago

Curious Case of Hollywood Melodrama

I watch a lot of movies. I love the art form dearly. I do not find film/movie/television to be some sort of Low art that pales in comparison to the higher snotty arts. I love the didactic argument.

However, I can't stand being pandered to.

(And I can stand ending sentences with prepositions.)

I've seen two movies this year that seem to be harbinging a new Hollywood model, one I'm going to fight with all my power. The villains are: Marley & Me and Benjamin Buttons.

"Why Brandon, those seem disparate movies. One is a family film that is formulaic and cheap while the other is nominated for 13 Oscars and considered a high water mark for the filmic art."

"Bullshit." I say derisively.

"That's pretty harsh, what if children are reading this post?"

I snort, "They've heard that word before...."

Anyway, Marley & Ben Butt, are two films that have widely varied plot points, characters, conflicts, and dogs, yet they have one central purpose: A cheap, unnecessary ploy to get me to cry in public.

Me crying in public isn't that hard really. Just walk up to me and do one of the following:

A. Punch me in the balls
B. Mention the words "Field of Dreams"
C. Kick me in the balls
D. Tell me Fraggle Rock sucked
E. Have my wife punch/kick me in the balls
F. Tell me that Tom Brady really did throw an incomplete pass in the Snowjob Bowl

Ben & Marley didn't try any of that. They went straight for the jugular. The jugular of my balls.

They closed their eyes.

Bastards! Finks! Fiends!

Spoiler Alert!

Marley and Ben both die at the end of their movies

How does the movie handle their respective deaths? By showing a close up of a dog and a baby slowly closing their eyes for the last time.

End Spoiler Alert!

How cheap, how god damn low can you get Hollywood?

This low apparently

Oscars://The Nominees

My wife and I are obsessed with movies so we always look forward to the awards, as old fashioned and out of touch as they are.

Here are the nominees:

The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced by Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Gannis and Academy member Forest Whitaker who won the Leading Actor Oscar for his role in 2006's "The Last King of Scotland."

The nominees are:

Best Motion Picture of the Year://
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Slumdog Millionaire"
"Milk"
"Frost Nixon"
"The Reader"

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role://
Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"
Sean Penn, "Milk"
Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role://
Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie, "Changeling"
Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Kate Winslet, "The Reader"
Melissa Leo, "Frozen River"

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role://
Josh Brolin, "Milk"
Robert Downey, Jr., "Tropic Thunder"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt"
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon, "Revolutionary Road"

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role://
Amy Adams, "Doubt"
Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Christina Barcelona"
Viola Davis, "Doubt"
Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"

Achievement in Directing://
Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Stephen Daldry, "The Reader"
Gus Van Sant, "Milk"
Ron Howard, "Frost/Nixon"

Best Animated Film://
"Bolt"
"Kung Fu Panda"
"WALL-E"

Best Original Screenplay://
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Martin McDonough, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Wall-E

Best Adapted Screenplay://
Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
John Patrick Shanley, "Doubt"
Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
David Hare, "The Reader"
Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Foreign Language Film://
"The Baader Meinhof Complex," Germany
"The Class," France
"Departures," Japan
"Revanche," Austria
"Waltz With Bashir,"Israel

Best Documentary://
"The Betrayal" (Nerakhoon)
"Encounters at the End of the World"
"The Garden"
"Man on Wire"
"Trouble the Water"

Best Original Song://
“Down To Earth," "WALL-E"
“Jai Ho," "Slumdog Millionaire"
“O Saya," Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Original Score://
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance," James Newton Howard
"Milk," Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E," Thomas Newman

Best Film Editing://
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
“The Dark Knight,” Lee Smith
“Frost/Nixon,” Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
“Milk,” Elliot Graham
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Chris Dickens

Best Cinematography://
“Changeling,” Tom Stern
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Claudio Miranda
“The Dark Night,” Wally Pfister
“The Reader,” Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Art Direction://
“Changeling,” James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
“The Dark Night,” Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
“The Duchess,” Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
“Revolutionary Road,” Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

Best Costume Design://
“Australia,” Catherine Martin
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Jacqueline West
“The Duchess,” Michael O’Connor
“Milk,” Danny Glicker
“Revolutionary Road,” Albert Wolsky

Best Visual Effects://
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
“The Dark Knight,” Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
“Iron Man,” John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

Best Sound Editing://
“The Dark Knight,” Richard King
“Iron Man,” Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Tom Sayers
“WALL-E,” Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
“Wanted,” Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing://
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
“The Dark Knight,” Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
“WALL-E,” Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
“Wanted,” Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Makeup://
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Greg Cannom
“The Dark Knight, John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

Best Documentary Short Subject://
“The Conscience of Nhem En,” Steven Okazaki
“The Final Inch,” Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
“Smile Pinki,” Megan Mylan
“The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306,” Adam Petofsky, Margaret Hyde

Best Animated Short Film://
“La Maison de Petits Cubes,” Kunio Kato
“Lavatory - Lovestory,” Konstantin Bronzit
“Oktapodi,” Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
“Presto,” Doug Sweetland
“This Way Up,” Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes

Best Live Action Short Film://
“Auf der Strecke” (On the Line),” Reto Caffi
“Manon on the Asphalt,” Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
“New Boy,” Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
“The Pig,” Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh
“Spielzeugland” (Toyland), Jochen Alexander Freydan

This year's show will be hosted by Hugh Jackman and telecast on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST on ABC.

Movie Review://The Wrestler

I wrote here about the circumstances of how I was to view the movie. It in fact happened and now I can discuss just what in the hell I saw.

Perfection in every sense of the word.

Darren Aronofsky has come to be one of my favorite directors for his vision. Every single frame of his movies Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain are beautiful and very very precise. His vision is one of controlled abstraction. The Wrestler is made by someone else completely. Not only is the look grainy and hand held, for the most part it is claustrophobic. A continuing theme is to film the actors walking into their performances with the camera directly behind their head. It is stifling and fitting.

Mickey Rourke not only put in the performance you've been reading about, he put anything you heard to shame. This guy was supposed to be the next De Niro and drugs and attitude nearly made him the next Danny Bonaduce. The final act of this film is such a testament to the character and Rourke's career. I had goosebumps on the drive home.

Marissa Tomei appeared to give a small little cameo until later in the movie when the focus shifted a little. She was brazen, gutsy and channeling Rourke's need to legitimize herself as an aging actress looking for respected. She plays an aging stripper looking for respect.

The parallels between the two characters in their respective twilight is haunting.

The film is not happy and raises more questions than it answers. You are in an entirely different place at the end of the film than you were at the beginning but maybe not for the better, emotionally.

As a former columnist about wrestling I can say that for the most part it was very real as it showed the "sport." It did not pander.

This is one of my favorite movies of the Oscar season and I hope Rourke can follow up his Golden Globe with a little gold man. It is his to lose.

Grade:// 10 Ram Jam's out of 10

PS://The QA with Marissa Tomei was an absolute abortion. Whoever was the moderator was more impressed with himself than he was the actress. Marissa looked like she forgot she was supposed to be there and was on her way somewhere else.

PSS://Note to the marketing people for a movie entitled "The Wrestler" and in which your lead actress is naked 85% of the time: Wrestling fans are goons, don't give them a venue to talk to an actress that they just saw play a stripper. It got uncomfortable quick.

Watchmen Watch:// News 1.09.2009

Posted on a few sites.

Fox and Warner Bros are asking a federal judge to delay hearing as they are trying to settle.

Basically means, Warner's is wising up and just paying the bastards.

Sometimes I wish I could punch Rupert Murdoch in the face. Only by his face I meant his balls and by my fist I mean Badgers trained in kung fu.

Hitfix.com

Oh yeah that open letter from the producer of Watchmen got an update

Daniel O'Brien from Cracked.com: "Dear Fox, Eat all the dicks"

The Wrap-Up:// 2008 the best of's in the life of Brandon

I notice around this time there are a lot of best of lists for every web page. Makes sense, the party's over and time to take stock of everything the last year had. So why not I?

The following is the way I see it, regardless of critical reviews.

So here's my listing of the Top (Whatever) of 2008:

Top Movie of 2008:

The Nominees:
The Dark Knight
The Hammer
The Bank Job

The envelope please: The Dark Knight (shocker!)

Best TV Show of 2008:

The Nominees:
Sons of Anarchy (FX)
Dexter (Showtime)
True Blood (HBO)

The envelope please: True Blood

Best Book I read in 2008*

The Nominees:
Dexter in the Dark
No Country for Old Men
Schindler's List

The envelope please: No Country for Old Men

*Nominees were selected based on 2008 was the first time I read these books


Best New CD in 2008:

The Nominees:
Metallica Death Magnetic
Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy
Portishead Third

The envelope please: GNFR baby!


Best Videogame in 2008:

The Nominees:
Fable II
GTA IV
Fallout 3

The envelope please: Fallout 3


Best Sports Moment in 2008:

The Nominees:
Giants defeating 18-0 Patriots in Superbowl
WVU upsetting Oklahoma in Fiesta Bowl
Pat White's last game as a senior throwing for 300+ yards

The envelope please: Super Superbowl


Favorite Live Music Moment of 2008

The Nominees:
Glassjaw Reunion
Me playing the Knitting Factory
My bassline on Tricky

The envelope please: Glassjaw Reunion (I'd assumed I'd win this category)


Greatest Writing Achievement in 2008

Learning how to write and completing my first screenplay


Greatest Life Moment of 2008:

The Nominees:
New puppies Rocktobertron and Charley Charley BBQ
Moving to a new apartment
First full calender year of being married to the most wonderful woman in the world
Said beautiful woman buying me a 42" Plasma Screen

The envelope please: A tie! My wife wins everything.

Movies of 2008:// What I've Seen

Normally I watch something like 4-5 movies a month theatrically, which is up to like 60 a year. I don't profess to be a expert, critic, or anything like that, it's just I love the artform and can't get enough of it.

This year, however, was a very down year for me (in the movie going sense. In Life it was my best year ever.) That's not to say 2008 wasn't a good movie year, I just had a lot of other stuff pulling me away from ye ol' cineplex. And even though I saw a bunch different movies, I saw some of them 2 or 3 times.

Here's a list of movies I saw that were released in 2008. There might be more but I forgotten them and maybe that's for the best.

In no particular order:

Cloverfield
The Bank Job
Burn After Reading
The Dark Knight
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Hammer
Hancock
Hellboy II
The Incredible Hulk
Indy IV
Iron Man
Mamma Mia!
Pineapple Express
Rambo
Semi-Pro
Step Brothers
Tropic Thunder
Wanted
Wild West Comedy Show
The Happening
Marley & Me
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Choke
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Strangers
Made of Honor
Sleepwalking

I'll attempt to rank them soon and perhaps through up short reviews for each. Isn't going to be to hard to rank the worst of the bunch though. The worst movie o f 2008 is the worst movie I've ever seen...And I saw Japanese Girl's Suicide Club and lots of German Porn.

Movie Review Prequel:// The Wrestler

This will be a place holder as I've not seen the movie yet, although if you scroll down my columns you can see this is a movie I'm dying to see.

I will be seeing it tonight. With my wife and the star of the movie Marissa Tomei.

One of the benefits of living thirty minutes outside of LA is that from time to time opportunities to go to special release as a civilian is always around the corner. So a simple click and our special passes are at the Will Call.

I used to write for a wrestling website, so I was obviously way into the sports-entertainment field. I stopped all of that that though about 10 years ago because, really I should've stop way before then. But this movie isn't really about wrestling, or so I've been told. It's about a man who's better days are long gone getting his second second chance.

And that man is Mickey Rourke, an actor dying for his second second chance. What he could of been sends chills up my spine.

The buzz he is getting for this movie is that the Oscar is his for the taking.

I will post the review tonight or tomorrow but here are some other opinons:

Rotten Tomatoes.com: 98% Fresh Pick

Watchmen Watch:// 56 days or not

I am not a big fanboy. A small fanboy. I can accurately quote Star Wars and Wrestling from the 80's. I used to write for a Wrestling website. I love GI Joes and Transformers. All these things however, are in the past. I just remember them, I don't actively search out toys or conventions.

However, there is something that is absolutely vibrating my brain. Watchmen, the movie.

I can't think of something written in the last 20 years that is more universally loved than the graphic novel of all graphic novels. Watchmen set a bar that cannot be surpassed or raised.

I tend to think that Maus is actually better artistically but that's nitpicking

Finally they are making a movie of it and we'll see it on March 6th. Or we won't because Fox is a company of assholes.

Here's a link to the latest story.

For those that need catching up, Fox owned the rights in the eighties and did nothing. Then in 2007 Warner Bros. started filming. Fox allowed them to budget, cast, create sets, film, edit, market, and put up all the money for it, then they said, "Hey wait a minute that's ours." Then they sued.

To say I'm angry is an understatement. I am far less eloquent describing my rage than Daniel O'Brien, so I'll let him sum up the geeknation's rage.

Everytime there is news on this I will link the new story and DOB's article.

News 1/07/09:// Hitfix.com

Daniel O'Brien from Cracked.com