Cody O'Connor

Now, now...that's a little harsh. Happy Feet has a larger target audience than a James Bond movie and one weekend is not necessarily a good projection of how it will do overall. It certainly doesn't mean that anyone was high or stupid. I know I want to see happy feet, and I'm a drug free college student.
 

My brother saw it, invoulontarily, and it seems to be an enviromentalist movie. Sounds kinda cloying to me. And I thought it looked bad BEFORE I heard that.
 

It's a CHILDREN'S MOVIE. Children like penguins. Children like movies. I know plenty of people who have gone to see it VOLUNTARILY, and I plan to be one of them.
 

"Now, now...that's a little harsh. Happy Feet has a larger target audience than a James Bond movie and one weekend is not necessarily a good projection of how it will do overall."

Titanic and Jurassic park weren't childrens movies and they did quite well. There's no reason Casino Royale can't do the same thing. The only problem is that this generation wouldn't know a good movie if it was right in front of them. They'd rather watch some bland CGI movie over something with a strong plot, or God forbid, a storyline.
 

But why does it matter? The point is entertainment. A lot of movies can be good for different reasons.
 

It's a CHILDREN'S MOVIE. Children like penguins. Children like movies. I know plenty of people who have gone to see it VOLUNTARILY, and I plan to be one of them.

Fine with me. I'm not telling you what to think. I'm simply stating my opinions and impressions. There's really no reason to get in a huge arguement over what kinds of movies people like is there?
 

I don't understand why Cody assumes people who see it are either stupid or high. To me, that is reason for arguement.
 

Ah ok, I see. Your use of the word "voluntarily" seemed to me a direct response to my comment where I used the word "involuntarily." Therefore I had assumed it was directed at me. However, I still don’t know that it's that big a deal. Ok, so he has his opinion and you yours. There's no reason to have a huge argument over it. I doubt very much whether he actually thinks you're stupid or high. I believe these words were used in the "dry humor" sense for comedic effect. I do this myself occasionally and I doubt whether he meant to seriously offend anyone. I don't know, I'm not Cody, but I know him pretty well and I don't think he's seriously insulting you or viewers of this movie, and I think there really are more important things to argue over, don’t you?
 

He is insulting viewers of this movie. He hasn't seen it and he's called int's viewers stupid and incapable of recognizing a decent movie. Why would he post controversial things if he didn't want someone to argue about them?
 

This is the problem; you're offended by something that I doubt exists. I'm not trying to be insulting here but you're looking at this way too personally. Look, as you probably know having a blog of your own, it takes consistent posting to run a blog. You know how it is. This is probably just a filler blog (no offense Cody) to keep the thing running until a political issue arises. Again, it's not a personal thing, it's more of a, well, call it a professional thing. And maybe a humor thing. It's not to be taken seriously in any case. I really don't think it matters that much if someone argues about it.

Anyway, you can take it any way you want, I just think you're looking too much into it that's all.
 

^Not "filler blog" I meant filler post. Quite a difference.
 

"I believe these words were used in the "dry humor" sense for comedic effect."

Pretty much, yeah.

"This is probably just a filler blog (no offense Cody) to keep the thing running until a political issue arises."

Yeah. Not to mention I have been working on my secret project a lot too so I have less time for writing longer posts. I'll be talking about that later though. I still have to recieve my secret package and and produce secret documents, and then beg for some secret money to pay for it all. After that I'll say what it is.
 

Heh heh. I know what it is. Good luck with all that.
 

Robert M. said... Heh heh. I know what it is. Good luck with all that.

I thought nobody was responding to the hint dropping because nobody cared. No offense, but I certainly don't care what the secret is.

Regarding the movies you mentioned: I am interested in seeing all of them except for Borat. I'd question the intelligence of someone who paid to see that one.

Regarding the "Democrats" wanting to bring back the draft: that is a FALSE statement. Only two Democrats support this. Charlie Rangel and John Murtha.

No surprise, the issue is now DEAD.

Pelosi says "no" on Rangel's draft bill. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Monday Rep. Charlie Rangel's, D-New York, call for a reinstatement of the draft is something he has long championed to promote shared sacrifice. But Pelosi, having just concluded a meeting with incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, to discuss the Democratic agenda, said the leadership will not support the measure.

"It's not about a draft it's about shared sacrifice in our country", Pelosi told reporters in her Capitol Hill office. "Mr. Rangel will be very busy with his work on the Ways and Means Committee which jurisdiction is quite different, but he is a strong voice for social justice in our country. And that's a way to make a point that this war has not involved or made any shared sacrifice".

When asked directly if she supported the measure, Pelosi said "No. No".
 

I thought nobody was responding to the hint dropping because nobody cared. No offense, but I certainly don't care what the secret is.

Was there a reason for that little comment or are you just trying to be a jerk? If you want to talk about nobody caring go to your blog and check the comments you've gotten. Or lack therof.

Regarding the "Democrats" wanting to bring back the draft: that is a FALSE statement. Only two Democrats support this. Charlie Rangel and John Murtha.

Yeah yeah I know. Still though, the leaders in your party have got to put a stop to this kind of thing. You're in the spotlight now.
 

"I thought nobody was responding to the hint dropping because nobody cared. No offense, but I certainly don't care what the secret is."

I wouldn't expect you to. That would be equivalent to Michael Moore getting excited over Bill O'Reilly's new book. The problem is that I don't have a big enough Libertarian audience yet. But the medium I will soon be using will make finding and audience much easier. And then I will be able to tell you to take your arrogant comments and shove 'em.
 

Borat is hilarious by the way.
 

Cody O. Said... I wouldn't expect you to. That would be equivalent to Michael Moore getting excited over Bill O'Reilly's new book. ...then I will be able to tell you to take your arrogant comments and shove 'em.

If you wouldn't expect me to be interested HOW is what I said "arrogant". You've made claims before that turned out to be wildly inaccurate. One needs look no further than your profile for an example. In it you claim that I'll find that you're a political commentator that I can really relate to. Right. You may no longer consider yourself to be a member of the Republican party, but you still subscribe to many of their ideologies. So why would anyone who is left of center relate to much of what you believe??

Regarding Bill O'Reilly's new book, "Culture Warrior": (from a non laudatory review) Bill is megalomaniacal, anti-intellectual, completely out of touch with reality, and an atrocious writer to boot. We haven't seen a worse example of a vanity project since "Our Socialism Centered on the Masses Shall Not Perish" by Kim Jong Il. The only question left is, how far off the deep end will Bill go before the lifeguard notices he's no longer coming up for air? (11/1/2006. Tom Breuer: Review of "Culture Warrior")

Cody O. said... Borat is hilarious by the way.

I'll wait until it comes to TV. Maybe I'll watch it then. What the following review points out is bad about the movie is pretty much what I expected...

"Borat" review: Cohen’s work is remarkably lazy. Whipping up a few crazy-foreigner accents? Trying to make unsuspecting people cringe when you say stupid things? That’s it? And that’s the catch to "Borat". It’s not that the movie is offensive or shocking -- in fact, the movie is ultimately neither of those things. It is merely unfunny, an unfunniness that grows into total boredom, and eventually into spite. This is the sort of comedy that’s so lazy you actively hate it. Not only is nothing in this movie is good at all, but everything -- every single stinking frame -- is downright awful. "Borat", plain and simple, sucks.

Robert M. said... Was there a reason for that little comment or are you just trying to be a jerk? If you want to talk about nobody caring go to your blog and check the comments you've gotten. Or lack therof.

I ignored his comments regarding this secret multiple times because I wasn't interested. He stated he was surprised nobody asked him about it. I was giving my reason why I didn't. So, no, I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Which is why I said, "no offense". Why would I have said NO OFFENSE if I actually did intend offense?

You can stuff your comments regarding the traffic on my blog. I'd rather have a well written intelligent political blog that nobody reads than a poorly written ill-informed political blog that is read by a few like-minded deluded fools. (offense intended for you, but not for Cody -- even though he does read your blog).

Robert M. Said... Yeah yeah I know. Still though, the leaders in your party have got to put a stop to this kind of thing. You're in the spotlight now.

What type of thing? Suggesting that if our country is to go to war that everybody should be expected to sacrifice? I don't see how this war can continue for much longer without a draft.
 

I'm not even going to bother responding. I don't feel the need to have a debate over everything. I debate politics. Not movies, semantics, and the rest. Sometimes I think people disagree with me just for the sake of disagreeing. If I prefer one movie, people automatically prefer the other. I bet if I said air was good, someone would say it was bad.
 

Yeah you're right with that call Cody. Debating about books and movies is kinda useless anyway, different opinions about those can't be proved. It's actually kind of funny to try and use articles to back up your taste in movies don't you think?

And I'm not even sure where this draft issue came up either. Nor you or I said anything about it this comment thread. In fact he's the first person to say the word
"draft" in this whole stream. I would suspect that he's reffering to a comment I made elsewhere but for the life of me I don't know why he won't debate it there not here...
 

For the record I haven't seen Borat. Plus, the site where I got the bad review from had about 10 other reviews (from different critics) that were all positive. I picked the one bad one because it conformed to what my suspicions were regarding the movie -- lowbrow humor.

Robert M. said... And I'm not even sure where this draft issue came up either. Nor you or I said anything about it this comment thread.

Cody referred to it in his original post. Second paragraph. It wasn't even that long -- and you couldn't read it? Perhaps Cody should be insulted.

For the life of you -- do you have it figured out now? Seriously, you need to do something about your reading comprehension problem!
 

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Oh so I failed to remember one sentence in the post. Ok fine I was wrong. Happy now?

I must tell you though that this "reading comprehension problem" crap is getting really old. Apart from making you look like a five year old, this claim fails to establish any credibility on your part, since it's completely untrue. See I get As on my Advanced Placement English essays. My final grade this quarter was a B+. (Due to a test, which no, had nothing to do with reading comprehension.) So why don't you grow up a little and stop insulting people you don't have a clue about eh?
 

Thought I'd just comment to say that I saw Happy Feet today and really enjoyed it. There was definitely a message about pollution/overfishing, but even with that I dont think you can deny that that's negative. There was a message for kids, and a message for adults, which I think most movies like this go for.
 

Well as long as it just dealt with those two I suppose it's okay. Those are real issues after all. If it had been global warming or oil drilling I'd dismiss it as a hippee movie. I still don't think I'd go see it though. Just not the kind of thing I'd like.
 

Antarctica Becomes Too Hot for the Penguins (excerpt) Penguins are starting to desert parts of Antarctica because the icy wastes are getting too hot.

The numbers of adelie penguins on the Antarctic peninsula -– the most northerly part of the frozen continent -– are falling as global warming takes hold. And experts predict that, as the climate change continues, they may abandon much of the 900-mile-long promontory altogether.

Global warming is also causing them grief in another of their strongholds, the Ross Sea. Two giant icebergs have broken off the Antarctic ice sheet and are blocking the way from their breeding colonies to their feeding areas. As a result they have to walk 30 miles further to get food -– no small matter when they can manage only one mile per hour. And, on the other side of the continent, thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned near Britain's Halley base after the ice broke up early, before they had learned to swim. (Published on Sunday, February 3, 2002 in the lndependent/UK)
 

How does this make it a real issues. Okay so penguins might die, and...? Again, I'm more concerned with real issues like terrorism. Because people are more important than penguins.