Tag: crime

video review : RoboCop

video review : RoboCop

RoboCop is a Detroit police officer that’s part man and part machine. His advantages on the force include superhuman strength; he can bend the barrel of a gun with his hand; and precise computer-aided calculations. This thoroughly entertaining sci-fi action flick also reveals some Frankenstein-like psychological drama as “deceased” cyborg Alex Murphy comes to terms with his new identity.

my rating : 4 of 5

1987

video review : RoboCop 2
video review : RoboCop 3

my email response to John B Wells making a radio comment about hitting Jerry Sandusky in the head with a baseball bat and his reply to my response

First listen to this audio clip from Coast To Coast AM :

Then read the emails :

me :

I’m sending this message in response to you talking on-air about hitting Jerry Sandusky in the head with a baseball bat. I’m just curious whether or not you have the same reaction to all the adult female teachers who are found “guilty” of having sex with their underaged male students; many of whom are younger than Jerry Sandusky’s alleged victims. There’s no difference in my mind, yet it seems most of society has a gender bias when it comes to pedophile men versus pedophile women, as opposed to considering them equally “abominable”. Are you one of those people? Or would you also like to see the women get hit in the head with baseball bats?

John B Wells :

Marcellee,
My question was ‘where was a man with the baseball bat to take the swing that counted?’. That’s as close as I can remember at this moment.
It meant : ‘why was nothing done by anyone to stop this?’. In most abuse cases, somebody knows something but does nothing. Including the victim.
Make of it what you wish.

2012 June 24

video review : The Score

video review : The Score

Perhaps it should be The Heist. It’s a score, but only for the men involved. It’s a big one too, worth 30 million dollars. All lead thief Nick Wells has to do is make it to the basement of the Montréal Customs House, break into the safe and get away with a valuable French scepter while partner and House janitor Jack Teller manipulates surveillance cameras from the inside.

It’s not quite as easy as it seems. It never really is. That’s where layers of criminal-siding tension begin to build. Some of the characterization is overplayed; a computer hacker named Steven is particularly silly; and the romantic side story is unnecessary, but the plot, which mostly consists of compelling planning until the final third, provides a nice pay-off at the end.

my rating : 4 of 5

2001

question : Should it be illegal to desecrate a national flag?

Desecrating a national flag is considered a crime in many countries. I think that’s stupid. A flag, in the physical sense, is nothing more than cloth or similar material. Desecrating it hurts no one because even a person with a phobia of desecrated flags is only affected by his or her psychological condition, so I don’t think it should be a crime unless the flag is someone else’s personal property and that person, or those people, never gave you permission to desecrate it.

 

Allen L. Wenger :

A flag is just clothe with a pattern. Do what you want to it.