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So here's Proud American: The movie begins with a bunch of sweeping shots of America, while people talk about how much their country sucks compares to America. Which is awesome. Then we get Yakov Smirnoff doing his comedy, and he talks about how awesome America is. The first vignette concerns Dawn, who comes to America from Vietnam on a boat. Dawn knows no English and struggles to fit in with her dubbed over thick Vietnamese accent. But she knows who the Roosevelts are. This draws the ire of Ruthie from 7th Heaven and her cleavage. Ruthie wears an outfit that makes her look fat. Ruthie and these other girls make fun of her, but then Dawn meets some nice girls. Dawn then graduates from high school with a 4.5 GPA and even Ruthie begrudingly claps for her. Suck it Ruthie. Dawn marries someone in software, whose plans are rejected by his boss. Dawn decides they should start their own business (she has the business plan already!) and they do. But they're struggling, but then they land some software contract, and everything is happy. More swooping shots of Americana as someone sings a song called You Can Do Anything. Then we see Mr. Belding and his family celebrate Christmas. And a Jewish family lives on their block too! But some white supremacists break into the Jews home and wreck their menorah. The Jews know they shouldn't tell grandma, since grandma's entire family died in Auschwitz in 1944. But have no fear, as Mr. Belding and some other neighbours are outraged and super nice, and they help out the Jews, including buying them a menorah! Later the family is driving down their block....and every house has a menorah. Awesome! Then we cut to a bunch of swooping shots of houses of worship as someone sings about freedom of religion. And if you're atheist, it's cool, they show someone getting married at a non-denominational wedding chapel. We also have some vignettes about how Coca Cola and Wal Mart started! The movie was funded by, you guessed it, Coke and Wal Mart. And some small business owners talk about owning a small business. Because America's awesome. Next we meet Curtis Jackson. No, not 50 Cent, this Curtis Jackson is played the kid in the Friday Night Lights movie, who runs onto the field without his helmet. Yep, that guy. Curtis lives on the South Side of Chicago with his friend. One day his friend goes and plays basketball with his gangbanger cousin (we know he's a gangbanger because he has tattoos) but Curtis goes home. Curtis gets chased by gangbangers on his way home, and cuts himself. Grandma takes him to Dr. Malcom, and Dr. Malcom is such a cool guy and now Curtis wants to be a docor. But Curtis' family is black and they have no money, so he ends up going to community college. At community college, some nice guy recommends Curtis to a pre-med program in California and Curtis does that. Then Curtis fucks up his MCATS, but one year later, he passes them! Curtis is on his way to med school with Ken Howard and Doogie Howser's dad! But uh-oh, Curtis still has some street in him. But med school is hard, and Curtis falls behind. Then Grandma dies. Curtis almost quits. But then he returns to med school and joins a study group to catch up. He later returns to Chicago and meets Dr. Malcom again, and Curtis is inspiring other people to be a doctor! Next a mom and a daughter talk about love. Then they go to Ground Zero. Yep, it's 9/11 time! But that's it. They just say hi to daddy. Then we hear two firefighters talking. If you think a swooping shot of firefighters driving down NY is next, well you're right! Then we meet Carlos. Carlos comes to America from Brazil and speaks no English but winds up working at some at some restaurant with some guy who I recognised, but whose name I don't know. Within a year, Carols is basically running the place, but decides to become a Navy Seal. Carlos becomes a Navy Seal but then gets shot down in Panama, and is paralysed. After being paralysed, Carlos becomes a douchebag. His physical therapist tries to push him, but Carlos gives up. Then Carlos' old Navy Seal buddies show up and go off on him for being such a cunt. Carlos realises he's being an asshole, and then pushes himself harder. He hand bikes all the way from Miami to Virginia! He races! Yay! But then he gets an infection and is bedridden for two years. Two years later though, Carlos is back and kicking ass. Because he's awesome. The film ends with more sweeping shots of America, and how fucking awesome it is. And then the movie quotes Ross Perot. And then it ends.

Who has two thumbs and saw Proud American in theatres today? This guy!

But why can't he lose to them? I hated the Taker-Cena Vengeance match, I never saw what people liked about that match. Taker picked him at 2 at one point just to be awesome, and the ending was the same as every other Taker match. Don't punch Taker in the corner.

Why does McCain keep running Tucker out there? Didn't he get owned by Campbell?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...over_john_.html Uh-oh.

And that ladder match with Hardy is pretty bad too.

I explained why my reasons went past 2002 earlier. He's an uninteresting character. 90% of his feuds are: I'm not afraid of you Undertaker! ::cue special effects:: Oh wait, I am. Tombstone, goodbye. And I lost interest in the streak when I realised that he's never going to lose it, so there's no real drama with those Wrestlemania matches. He, rarely, if ever, puts anyone over, and if he does lose (except to Batista), you know there were shenanigans involved. And it's annoying how he gets to take more vacations then anyone on the roster. The guy had off from April-September last year with injury, and then got to take another two month break this year.

No, there's hatred there. The guy's reign of terror from 2000-2001 where you just couldnt hurt him caused me to really dislike him. And then in 02 you had the classic Taker trilogy against Austin, Hogan and HHH. And that feud with Ric Flair that just involved Taker finding new ways to fuck with him and then squash him in the blowoff.

Every feud he has is basically the same. The guy never seems to lose. He takes more time off than anyone, and I really hated him during the Invasion when he just decided to stop selling for anyone. And his character is just boring. The "conscience" of the WWE? I guess.

HBK-Angle is one that divides a lot of people, I know on this board it caused a lot of debate. I felt HBK-HHH-Benoit was able to differ from that. HBK superkicking Benoit while he had HHH in the Sharpshooter...I was about to rush the ring. Angle-Benoit also got ****3/4. I think at times Meltzer is just paranoid about awarding the full 5

I hate Undertaker and his streak, so that would make me laugh really hard.

****1/4 for Warrior-Savage ***3/4 for Rumble. Meltzer doesn't seem to be a big Rumble fan

Triple H v. Benoit v. HBK stands out for me, but that's because I was there, and the emotion for that match was off the charts. Meltzer gave it ****3/4. He also gave Triple H v. Cactus Jack RR streetfight. ****1/2 Those two are up there for me. He gave Steamboat-Savage ****1/2 and Bret-Davey ****1/4

What WWF/E matches do you think deserve ***** post HIAC though? Meltzer is obviously a harsh grader and is not just going to dish out 5 easily.

National Military Family Association In honor of the men and women who defend our wonderful country, past and present a substantial portion of proceeds will go to the NMFA National Military Family Association To find out how you can donate or help in the funding of this project contact : [email protected] What's a substantial portion of $0? Ruthie from 7th Heaven and the backup running back from the Friday Night Lights movie is in it too.

Kamala, Man up and see it on the big screen like me.

Wait, Mr. Belding is in it? Fuck yes! Ken Howard is in it too! I'm so excited

I'll write more about this tomorrow after I see it, but Proud American had the worst wide release opening of all time. The movie averaged approx 1.69 people per show.

I've seen the trailer too many times at this point. It looks like Children of Men, but with blindness. Hell it even has Julianne Moore.

The bleachers suck, I've never got why anyone would want to sit there. It's terrible. But as long as you're not in the bleachers, I love going there, and I hate the Yankees. It felt weird going by 161st street and seeing the new stadium. There won't be one.

Yankee Stadium's a pretty nice place to see a game.

I forgot how painful football can be. This one just hurts, since it would've been a huge lift to pull this off with everyone injured. If our defensive players can't come back next week, Cutler is going to torch us. Aww shucks. :-(

No. He's going for a youth movement, so the Chiefs being terrible was to be expected

How can a day where Bush and Meachem score turn out so badly?

The rule that you can't cut away from games is BS. There's no reason anyone should be watching this Rams-Giants game