The Worst Movie I’ve ever seen, Period.

*Warning: Explicit Language

What could you say about Mel Gibson? Well, a lot of things. He can be a brilliant actor, an iconic figure from Hollywood, a controversial person and even can make a decent film once in a while. But, if you look back and analyze the worst things that has ever done in his life, there is one thing that define the figure of Gibson from a respectable figure to a miserable creep who deserves to be beheaded… a movie: The Passion of the Christ (insert dramatic music here)

I just expect that Mel Gigson will go to hell after this...

Oh my god, this movie is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever seen… I’m dead serious. This “movie” is one of the most puerile, vulgar, tasteless, profane, mean-spirited, offensive and just plain disgusting film that I ever watched… and I saw Bad Teacher, Son of the Mask and Foodfight for crying out loud. And being that 10 years have passed since his theatrical release, I think it’s time to rip on it and give this movie the proper punishment that deserves.

I mean, I’m not even Christian and I just hated every fucking minute of this atrocity. Watching this damn thing, it’s just uncomfortable… and maybe you could argue that the point of the film is making you feel the same amount of pain that Jesus suffered when he was crucified, but when I watch a movie, and especially when is about one of the greatest stories ever told and about one of the most iconic characters in the history of mankind, I expect a little bit of charm and empathy… not this shitfest of morbidity made by a religious fucktard who apparently not only loves Christ, but also wants to have sex with him.

But why I despise this move so much? You could find the answer in the very beginning of the movie… We start the film with Jesus being arrested while he was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane… that’s right, instead of showing him interacting with his apostles, Mary Magdalene or his own mother (who only appeared in very brief cameos) Gibson shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said: “Who really cares?, I just want to get to the torture scenes because that’s the only thing about Christianity that really matters” lazy jackass.

We get through the scenes where Peter denies knowing Jesus, Judas committing suicide in repentance and all the things you already read in the Bible. But the main problem with these scenes, apart from the god awful acting of all the actors, it’s the lack of empathy that the movie has for them. We know absolutely nothing about them, there’s NO character development at all.

 And maybe you could argue that because the history of Jesus is so big and known to a lot of people, but… again, it’s a movie… and that equals entertainment… the idea is sympathized with the characters… and yes, there’s plenty of people in the world that don’t know the story of Jesus Christ… if a non-follower watch this film without knowing the source material… that person probably would convert to Judaism, Islam or Buddhism.

But none of these things would bother me that much if at least the technical aspect was tolerable. But no, the angles, the shots and the overall cinematography sucks really bad, and I mean BAD. This looks like S&M porn with budget. The way that Gibson directs the scenes it’s so cheap and clumsy that looks like if Michael fucking Bay had directed it.

And that doesn’t even touch the explicit violence in this film. I mean, look… I’m not one of those overly sensitive people who vomit when watch some blood (in fact, one of my favorite TV shows of all time is Game of Thrones), but the way the torture him it’s just unbearable. There’s too much cruelty with no rhyme or reason. And yes, I know that all this things happened to him, but in this movie it seems like the main point of the story to describe us every single minute of a man getting tortured and that’s NOT the most important thing in religion.

Sacrifice and devotion works because we believe in something, we sympathized with something, we mold our life teaching with that. So Gibson missed the whole point focusing on the torture.

The moral lessons of the Bible are secondary because the lack of screen time of the other characters (like I said, the scenes when Jesus interact with them are so short that you wouldn´t even notice them) and apparently, there’s a lot of historical facts that this piece of crap overlooked. Like the Roman Guardians that arrested Jesus in Gethsemane, but they never beat him. That is just a cheap excuse to watch more gratuitous violence. But don’t worry, there’s more unjustified cruelty coming, so don’t leave the theater yet.

And at last but not least: the anti-Semitism issue. Yes, it’s true that there were a lot of Jewish priests that wanted to punish Jesus Christ for his allegations of being the son of God. But Mel “Hitler-lover” Gibson portrayed them in the most cartoonish, stereotypical and unlikeable way so every viewer of this film gets brainwashed with anti-Semitic views. News Flash Gibson: Jews are NOT evil. There’s no such thing as the greedy Jew, or the Muslim terrorist or the annoying Jehovah’s witnesses… all of them are retarded stereotypes created by scumbags like you. Evil exists on everybody, that’s why we created religion, to straighten our lives you crazy fuck.

People… this movie is THE worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life… no talent, no effort, no charm… just pain, horrible, HORRIBLE pain. And if you got the terrible luck to find this god awful dicksauce of a movie on your TV one of these days: KILL YOUR TV WITH FIRE and you will be saved from the traumatizing experience of watch “The passion of the Christ” Take care and Happy Easter everybody.

Class #3: Caesar Salad... I love it... any questions?

Like I said in my previous post, I love the italian culture and stuff. But I forgot to mention other great thing about this milenarian culture, and that is the food. Yes, I know that the Caesar Salad is from mexico, but it was created by an italian inmigrant, so it still counts.

How can look that thing without getting hungry? Seriously...

The reason I love this salad in particular it's sort of like a nostalgia factor. This was one of the first salads I tasted as a child and I loved so much that I annoyed the hell out my mother to prepare me more. I was a little brat back then.

Unfortunadely, I can't eat it as often as I would. But I think is better that way. If I ate Caesar Sallad every day in my life, I would get tired of it very quickly. As I said before, I like being moderated about the things I like because I don't want to be too extreme or overreact when it's not a big deal.

Well, now I'm going to talk about the salad itself. The ingredients are: roman lettuce, croutons, olive oil, parmesan cheese, vinaigrette and sometimes lemon juice or grilled chicken. To prepare it, you need to wash the lettuce and tear it into bite-size pieces, then put it a bowl and take the parmesan and grated it. Then you put it all al together and add some croutons in the top. And finally you add the vinaigrette and olive oil and dinner's ready.

Very easy to prepare, but the result it's quite satisfactory. I strongly recommend it for all the peole who love salads and think that it's just than a simple side for the meal. Just taste it, you're not gonna be dissapointed.

And that's all I have to said for today, goodbye and bon appetit.

By, the way, this is my source for the Caesar Salad preparation:
http://startcooking.com/how-to-make-caesar-salad

Class #2: Any country would it be great... but if I had to choose... Italy

It's kind of difficult choose an especific country, partly because there's too many choices to pick just one. But for the purpose of this post I'm going to choose Italy. Why? because my grand mother had italian descendants and so do I. Do you need more reasons?

As a Kid, I Always thought that Italy was a Boot kicking a rock, because the people are always fighting against everybody... this country kicks ass...

There's so much things about Italy that are fascinating in terms of influence in society. I mean, in terms of mainstream entertainment you got composers like Ennio Morricone, movies like The Godfather and awesome TV shows like the Sopranos. Italy is so prominent when it comes to culture, when italians arrive in some place, they left their marks the same way the Romans conquered every country in Europe.

And when we talk about tourism, you got the tower of Pisa, The Roman Colosseum, The Vatican city for just to name a few. But the real beauty of this country you can find it on the small towns. The italians got this big pride about their culture. They always preserve the old constructions and celebrates their tradition with such a passion. Now, these days it's very hard to find that in Latin America, especially in Chile, but in Italy, being a proud Roman descendant a thing from every day.

Oh, and also I LOVE the Italian food. The Caesar Sallad it's probably one my favourites. And then there's Spaghetti, Pizza, Mozarella Cheese and a lot of other foods that makes Italy so awesome.

Well, There's a lot of other Things I'd Like to said, but I going to keep it for antother moment. So Adios, Ciao, See you later folks.

And as a bonus extra for all of you, a song by Ennio Morricone. Enjoy it:

And Now Something Completely Different

It's...

What’s the big deal with childhood? Why people gets so obsessed with the things that they watch/read when they were kids. I mean, come on, Nostalgia is the most subjective way to judge reality. Not everything was great in the past. If that’s true, people from 2000 years in the past should it be worshipped as a God… oh, wait a second.

Yes, as you could figured out, I’m not a big fan of the “My childhood is awesome” thing, mostly because I find statements like those bigotry and unfair. Yes, it’s true that today there’s awful movies, awful shows and awful music, but that doesn’t mean that the world today is a horrible place to live… you know what I’m talking to, those 90’s kids always saying: “oh, no… my favorite show from my childhood is cancelled, everything is bad now bubu bubu” screw that.

I prefer to see the world and things evolving. The things that I loved from my childhood I love them even more because now I have a new perspective to compare with, but I don’t disdain the present.

Overall, Nostalgia is for dummies… grow up people, its evolution baby…

Class #1: My Dream Job/Welcome to my Blog

Hello english class level 4 and welcome to the re-opening of my blog.

Before I start to talk about my dream job I'm going to introduce you to my old level 3 class Blog called "Atheism and Religion are the same" which lastly I been used to talk about the things that I like and already has a lot of previous posts this 2014. But now that I'm on a new english class that requires using a blog as well, I need it once again.

But that doesn't mean I'm not going to post things every two weeks on tuesdays, I'm going to continue with that. But, from now on the posts that are related to the class are coming on wednesdays and the non related on tuesdays in the night.

And with that said we can start with the post.

If I have to choose one job that I love to do in the future is make docummentaries. Why? because I'm a very curious persons who always want to investigate about the things I like and being a documentalist is the best way to take that curiosity to a professional level.

Who doesn't wanted to to work in this channel when it was a little kid... Anyone?

I mean, when you make a documentary is like make a movie. You create something that makes the viewer care about something. In a film you care about the story and characters, in a documentary you care about a real life issue introduced in the film.

Unlike the news, when you use that information in order to create an informative work, you can present it using the techniques you want in order to give it an artistic look that makes it more enjoyable.

This format give filmmakers so many possibilities to create something that appeals to people who loves movies and care about social issues. I always want to know how does it feel to research things and introduce new points of view to my viewers.

And that all you need to know about my dreams and aspirations. See you next time folks.

10 Things that I love and even I declare being a sucker for…

You know what I really, really hate? Create labels for groups of people.

That’s right, when it comes to classify people for their tastes, beliefs of whatever, It just sickens me. Why people call you a hipster just because you hate extremely popular things? You are no different than a guy who loves following trends and “apparently” doesn’t like to think like an “individual”. Even that word makes little sense now. In this world nobody is unique when it comes to things that people enjoy like movies, shows or any kind of entertainment.

“Being number 1It's like being number 16, only even more people kiss your ass.”
-Kurt Cobian

For example, If I were a fan of Star Trek, the last thing I want is people referring to me as a “Trekkie”, because when that happens, people associate me with stupid, dated and unoriginal stereotypes that you see in shallow 2-dimensional TV series like the Big Bang Theory (By the way, I don’t hate that show, I just found it too formulaic sometimes), and because of that, I refuse to use labels like Trekkie, Metalhead, Hipster or Otaku, partly because I’m not any of these things.

But that does not mean that I hate everything in this world. I also love things like movies, shows, music and food. But I don’t want to annoy everybody around me shouting my devotion to those things. I want to enjoy it by myself instead of try to convince the others, and that’s why I have certain disdain for people who use labels as a form of identity. If this world were a Sitcom, those people would be poorly-written characters.

Now let’s move on to the main theme of this post: The things that I love the most and I celebrate in a list.

10-Create lists: Surprising, Huh? I´ve always been organized when it come to classify things in order to indicate what are my favorites. Not because I want the people know what I prefer the most, I just like the concept of create a competition between my favorite things. It makes me appreciate the stuff I love even more.

9-Documentaries: Either Infotainment or serious investigation, documentaries are the most enjoyable form of learning that I had. It’s so admirable the way that filmmakers use this medium to not only educate and inform, but also create art. For example, when you see a documentary about sea creatures, the magic is in the way they film by showing us the beauty, inviting us to be part of this experience while we learn about it. Like in a movie, the same way you create a story with characters you supposed to believe can sympathized with, it’s how you connect with the things showed in a documentary.

8-Gothic Artwork: A lot of people like to think that gothic is a person who always talks about the pain or how cruel the world has been done. Or I think those were the emos, I’m not sure. But the thing is that when it comes to art, the gothic style is awesome. The way they create a dark, depressing environment that, for the most part is based in dark colors, sharp forms and blurry backgrounds is so nice to watch. In fact, when I was a kid, my favorite Disney movie was “The Hunchback of Notre dame” because the gothic art style in the music, the backgrounds and the story. The same thing I can say about Tim Burton’s movies.

7-90’s Cartoons: First I thought it was nostalgia, but then I realize that I’m too cynical for that. I mean, it’s not only the fact that is something from the past, but the way these people managed o get away with a lot of stuff that in previous decades would have been unthinkable. The reason I mention this, is because when you grow up, your sense of humor changes. And things you found funny in the past now are just simple memories, but when you re-watch a 90’s Cartoon, and if you’re a 90’s kid like me, you realize that the jokes that you don’t get it or don’t found especially funny are hilarious now. Like the cartoon grew up with you and create a feeling of confidence between the followers and the show.

6-Juvenile Humor: I don’t consider myself the most sophisticated person in the world, but I do not consider a fan of Happy Madison productions either. I just love juvenile comedy whet it’s done right. I like shows like South Park who relies in off color humor the same way I like to read books about other cultures. The main reason I defend this kind of comedy it’s because makes people laugh hard. And just like Charles Chaplin said: “A day without laughter is a day wasted”. And if you try to deny that jokes involving shocking value made you laugh your ass off, then you’re a phony. But, it’s not just the humor, but also the way it’s used. When you make a penis joke, can be funny the first three times, but it gets old really quick. But if you use it in a context that generates a specific reaction, the joke gets more value.

5-Alternative Rock: Again, beyond the nostalgia, it’s the way these people connect with their followers. Either the grunge with their heavy sound and sad lyrics, or the Brit pop with their catchy tunes and optimistic attitude, the rock in the 90’s managed to gave an entire generation a reason to be alive in this world. The way they challenged the conventions of rock n’ roll, and their fight against the domination of the mainstream over their music, a lot of them reacted in their own way. Some of them broke up, some just decide to change the system entirety while were famous and some others just release what they want without thinking in what the others would say. DIY.  

4-Stanley Kubrick movies: This man was so cool that I needed to get him his own category. I don’t how he did it. There’s something about the way he directs, the angles he use, the long shots that create an uncomfortable atmosphere that is so unique that you can guessed that is Kubrick by watching just one scene. And the writing, it’s just perfect. Everything about the plot, the characters and the resolutions are so cold and calculated that makes you feel like you were there, not as a character, but as Kubrick himself. I’m a sucker for Kubrick’s cinematography.

3-Experimental films: When a movie goes beyond that just entertain you, but also challenge you to accept unpleasant realities through the strangest ways imaginable, you came across with an experimental film. A type of movie that doesn’t care what you think about it, a film that creates his own world, his own rules and invite you to reflect about anything. I love this kind of movies because their sense of self-reflection. It’s like finish in a place that you’re not supposed to be, where you live a changing-life experience and survived. That’s the experience I enjoy the most. I know that other people don’t like it because they prefer to see movies as simple entertaining, and that´s fine, no problem with that. But if you ask me, films must be an entertaining and unique experience, and the most unique and entertaining thing that comes to my head in moments like those are experimental films.

2-Meta jokes: If there was a reason to put “create lists” on this list, it’s because the more Meta my humor is, the more I feel that I’m evolving and moving forward. Everything it’s laughable in this world, even the comedy itself. That ubiquitous way the comedy works allow so many possibilities for all the funny people out there. Meta-humor it’s not restricted by standards or rules of comedy, it creates their own style while pay homage to others, and in the same time it mocks them. The reason I love Meta humor it’s because creates a sense of self-awareness about us. It’s the way we can comprehend the world and try to improve ourselves. Philosophical, cynical and self-referential, the Meta-humor is our biggest accomplishment as human beings.

1-Internet Reviewers: And just when I though there was nothing funny or original about the Internet, I came across with a man called Nostalgia Critic, with the premise of analyze films, making fun of them to entertain the millions of anonymous users that praise cynical dark humor combined with social interaction with the entertainer himself. There’s a lot of Reviewers like him, so go and check it. You won’t regret it.

And that was my list of things that I love. I hoped you have enjoyed and good night and take care.

A tribute to Harold Ramis

Well, it seems that is true and the last chance of Hollywood to create the third Ghostbusters movie is gone forever. Harold Ramis, the man who not only played Egon Spengler but also co-wrote the film died from a Vasculitis the last February 24.

I wonder If his Epitaph will be a quote from Ghostbusters, which would be kind of ironic considering he's dead... who knows

That’s exactly what I thought the first time I read the news, but the thing is: I don’t find correct associate him only with Egon or Ghostbusters, although is a great role and, of course wonderful movie. So I decided to do some research to talk about him and dedicate a post about his legacy. And for research I mean look up Wikipedia because unlike Ramis, I’m a lazy writer.

Now, I got to confess I never been a big ban of Ramis and his work due the fact that I was in the 90’s, so I’ve never got the chance to be part of the Ghostbusters fandom the time it was released in theaters. I guess I born too late to enjoy the wonders of the late 70’s and early 80’s (that and the fact that I born in a country that was under a dictatorship during that time, but I digress)

Harold Allen Ramis was born in November 21, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Ruth and Nathan Ramis, a Jewish couple that had a grocery store and raised him as a Jew, although he never practiced any religion in his adult life.

During his childhood and adolescence he studied in public schools and he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1966, where he embraced the rebel contra-culture of the 60’s writing satirical plays that would lead him to become editor from the legendary National Lampoon Magazine and their subsequent radio show spin-off and movies.

The success of the Magazine opened the door to new opportunities as a screenplay writer and Hollywood actor, writing and starring the successful Ghostbusters franchise, directing the cult classics Caddyshack and Groundhog Day (that was the first Ramis film that I saw)

Recognized by his writing skills, Ramis works frequently attacked the smugness of the upper class and bigotry through pep talks and clever observations.  His work in movies has been praised for his speed and energy mixed with subtle social commentary about the elitism of American society.

For example, a film like National Lampoon’s Animal House shows an accurate depiction of the rebellion of the students during that time. It’s a story about a fraternity who gets constantly marginalized both from the faculty as from the other students due his rebel behavior and rejection of the close-minded life of the institution.

They may have no specific ideals but they’re aware of the hostile environment surrounding them. But instead of follow the mentality of the group they decide to live as they wish. It doesn’t talk about the consequences of their acts; it just shows the over-the-top extremes from both sides and leave the message of the importance of be an individual.

And I wish to talk about more of this wonderful man, but I haven’t seen enough film yet. My point is that the few works I have seen from him are solid, clever and, of course funny as hell. And because of that, he earned this post and maybe more in the future. So I salute you Harold Ramis, rest in peace, go to heaven and eat God for Breakfast. Good Night everybody.