I recently listened to the Slate podcast "Reality is Statham" in which they discussed a number of things including the new Jason Statham movie The Mechanic. The main speaker of the podcast gushed, if gushed is enough, over Jason Statham. How he's the best action hero ever etc, etc. I'm sorry, but what has Statham been in that actually made anyone's radar??? Certainly not Crank, not really The Mechanic, and for sure not The Expendables. And if the last did make anyone's radars it wasn't for him. Sorry, Lady, The Mechanic won't be making my list anytime soon.
Next they talked about Tho Onion News Network from IFC. Tehy claim it is "everything you need to know in America" and they claim their host Brooke has more stalkers than anyone anywhere. However, the host is a character not a real person. All the news is satirical bits that do have elements of news in them. I'm sorry, but can you say Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart? You're act has been done already.
Lastly they talked about how video games are pretty much taking over the world, which is a fair claim. They go on to say that video games better us. Video games apparently are portable devices of happiness. However, as one of the cohosts accurtley pointed out, you feel good when you're playing it and you're happy when you win but then you stop and realize you've just wasted four hours playing some stupid game. Jane Mcgonogal the person behind the study goes on to say that this is true of people who only play for short amounts of time, but I have never ever met a person who got on a video game and only played for five minutes. There's a reason that video games are so addicting.
This podcast was a wild waste of time.
Waste your time here http://www.slate.com/id/2282599/
I used to be a videp game freak, but I realized how much it wastes my time away. It kills me that they say that video games make you happy, that may be true, but in reality it just dumbs down the brain. It is the technology of forgetfulness.
ReplyDeleteGirl I agree 100%!! It seems like every movie he plays in doesn't make a huge impact on the ratings... He, himself is only known for these tough guy roles, but can the guy actually portray a family man? That's what acting is all about, being about to change your character to fill different shoes... Can he even do that?
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