I just came back from the movie "The Messengers"

[sasquatch]

My God did that movie suck. It sucked so bad that I cheered when Dylan McDermot's character got stabbed with a pitchfork. Basicly this idiot decides that since he's unemployed in Chicago and his daughter got in trouble once when she threw back a few beers with her friends and went to pick her brother at the babysitters house and wrecked the car; let's commit economic suicide and start a small farm in North Dakota where he'll raise sunflower seeds and his daughter can get away from the "City Life".

-First of all, my father taught Vo-Ag for 20 some odd years and he'd tell this guy to his face he's crazy on all fronts economic and personal, and my crazy A-hole dad that beat the shit out of me would be right I'm sad to say.
-Second of all, have you ever seen the Meth Statistics in rural areas, hell you think your daughter drinking a few cold ones with her girlfriends is bad, wait till her new rural friends hook her up with this new drug everybody's trying. And by the way, IT'S WAY MORE ADDICTIVE THAN ALCOHOL.

Now me and my dad have a better relationship now if you're wondering after me and him locked horns once and after a few years of therapy as well. I sometimes find myself unleashing my anger on others sometimes, verbally not phisicly, and sometimes it involves people on DU, at work, and school. Don't cry for me your tears will serve no functional purpose I'm afraid. I don't know why I'm posting about this in this thread, maybe the movie brings back old memories that I try not to think about but my blessing/curse of a great long term memory makes me. It makes me a very good History major in college but a bad human being sometimes because I'm sometimes without emotions, can't empaphize or uncaring about what I say to others and how it hurts them. I need to go to bed I think.

[girl gone mad]

1. Why...

didn't you check out the reviews on rottentomatoes? I think this one got about 90% negative reviews.

Having lived in both rural and urban areas, I would say meth is more prevalent in cities, along with just about every other drug. Rural people don't have the same access to drugs that city people do, but meth can be cooked up at home. I've met plenty of big city meth addicts, and the stuff they get is the harder stuff smuggled in from Mexico.

[sasquatch]

4. I live in a rural area right now

I'm just making an observation

[wildhorses]

5. me too--

lots of drugs in these here hills and down on the farms...just sayin'

[sasquatch]

6. When you tell people that they look at you like you're stupid too don't they

I tell people about those problems and they just seem amazed.

[wildhorses]

7. yeah, they think we are stupid but the thing is they are ignorant

education is where its at:shrug:

[sasquatch]

8. No you misundertood what I was saying

They think we're crazy when you tell them about the drug problems in rural America.

[wildhorses]

9. yeah--okay

but, it is here in rural america BIG TIME, from what i have seen the dealers come from the city out here to the country to take it into the cities...

[sasquatch]

10. Espeicially when it comes to meth, oxycontin, marijuana and moonshine

Marijuana and moonshine don't really bother me, it's the meth and oxycontin that are what we need to worry about.

[wildhorses]

11. i have seen more meth houses out in the country

they make it in the country and take it into the cities to sell.

also they make that crank stuff

crackheads will do that crank when they can't make crack...

[bluecrush]

2. One week wonder?

I'd venture to say the movie won't be on top when the Monday box office figures come out. The weekend will probably go to the guy wearing the fat suit.

[terrya]

3. Yes....Eddie Murphy's new movie will be number 1 at the box office.

[skygazer]

12. Well, you have to remember people are idiots

And city folks so often have this idyllic picture of some sort of Little House On the Prairie fantasyland when they think about living on a farm or in a rural area.

I grew up in Vermont and we had idiots moving up from Connecticut or Long Island all the time thinking they were going to turn into a fucking Norman Rockwell painting or something.

Their kids, bored stiff, would be at complete loose ends - the same kid who'd tell you how bored they were in the city with stuff happening all around them - you really think they're going to be happy tramping around in the woods?

There are tons of drugs in rural areas and the reason is simple - people are poor and bored. Selling drugs can make them some money and boredom causes them to do drugs. In my little hometown, you can find a substantial quantity of anything you like within 24 hours - pot, coke, heroin, meth, you name it. The thing you can't find is a decent paying job.

As for farming, people who've been farming for 12 generations can't make money off a family farm - what makes people who've never even seen a live sheep think they can make a go of it? :wtf:

[sasquatch]

13. My thoughts exactly

My family had been farming since they were in Deutschland and got off the damned boat with a damned pitchfork in hand and yet we had to get out of it cause there wasn't any money in it and a lot of others are doing the same thing. Me and you need to start a government agency like the Men In Black and just go around and beat these people with pipe wrenches until some sense is knocked into them.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. The commercials just looked stupid/sucky. If even the commercials and previews

look bad, and those consist of the distilled essence of the best of the movie, it's rare for the movie not to suck.

[sasquatch]

18. God was it awful

I was about ready to leave after 5 minutes.

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. Did you think it would be anything else?

:rofl::evilgrin:

[sasquatch]

16. I'm obviously gonna need to break out the paddle again for you

:spank:

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. I pose the question to you again..

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

19. I was hoping it would be a decent movie

Not a crap fest.

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. But isn't that what most "scary" movies are these days?

Giant steaming piles? :P

[sasquatch]

21. Yeah, they have been like that as of lately unfortunatly

I saw a great movie last Saturday, "The Departed", and I guess my movie Karma is now balanced out I guess.
:shrug: