Five down, two to go. And tomorrow is the killer. Well, here goes nothing.
I was gonna review, “The Fifth Element.” I hadn’t seen it in a long time so I couldn’t remember my overall impression. Well, I rewatched and remembered. It’s a movie that has a few “elements” that are interesting or fun but there are enough factors that are awful to make the sum negative. Gary Oldman has a small but pivotal part as a villain and as always, he is great fun. Bruce Willis plays Bruce Willis as he always does and he has a few fun moments but it’s a very silly movie so he can only succeed at moments. The movie itself is a live action fairy tale/cartoon with very broad humor and very wooden characters. Chris Tucker’s character was among the most bizarre. But in fairness he was also one of the funnier aspects of this comedy(?).
I’m sure some folks will enjoy this exercise in science fiction fairy tale but I have to give it a thumbs down. There were just too many annoying factors to allow me to wholeheartedly embrace it.
So, President Trump is really playing up the international agenda this month. Even his enemies are intrigued by his efforts to talk to the Iranians and normalize our situation with the Arabs. Of course, the pundits on the Left were horrified by Trump’s speech where he said he is backing away from nation-building and demanding the Middle East adhere to Western mores and customs. But from my way of looking at it, that’s exactly the message we should be putting forward. “You live your way in your country and we’ll live ours over here.” Seems reasonable to me. But Capon and Books got the vapors hearing it.
As for his efforts to get a ceasefire in Ukraine, I tend to doubt it will come to anything. The Russians don’t want to give the Ukrainians a breather. Apparently, they’ve calculated that they will finish off enough Ukrainians before the Ukrainians finish off enough Russians so that Kiev’s defense will collapse this year. The question is whether Trump has the sense to just walk away from the whole thing and let it end sooner than later. But looking at the tiny geographic gains that account for thousands of deaths a week on both sides is gut-churning. Well, I don’t see any change before the fall.
As for the fact that Joe Biden has some kind of cancer; well, he’s eighty-two. Is it surprising at that age that cancer has come on the scene? I think as we get older that possibility becomes more real every day. The only question I have is when did he actually get the diagnosis? Three, four years ago? Well, I don’t celebrate his ill-health but I consider him an evil man and maybe this is a good time for him to think about his finish and maybe consider making amends.
I saw that James Comey was trying to get his name back in the news by acting like a moron. In my youth in Brooklyn, we would have described someone like that as a lousy scumbag. And that would be playing it down. I think having the IRS audit him a few times just for fun would be very appropriate. Just a thought.
Well, that’s enough for today. Waiting for Friday.