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		<title>Eight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the morning at an old friend&#8217;s house pitching Jerry Bruckheimer on my new movie idea. The film is titled &#8220;Eight.&#8221; Basically, it borrows from the &#8220;007&#8221; franchise. But it&#8217;s better. And American. I know what you&#8217;re thinking. Why Jerry Bruckheimer? I&#8217;m not really sure. And, now that I think about it, it was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spent the morning at an old friend&#8217;s house pitching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000988/">Jerry Bruckheimer</a> on my new movie idea. The film is titled &#8220;<em>Eight</em>.&#8221; Basically, it borrows from the &#8220;<em>007</em>&#8221; franchise. But it&#8217;s better. And American. </p>
<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking. Why Jerry Bruckheimer? I&#8217;m not really sure. And, now that I think about it, it was actually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson">Sir Richard Branson</a>, but he wasn&#8217;t speaking with an accent.</p>
<p>Anyway, the film opens with George W. Bush watching &#8220;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/"><em>Casino Royale</em></a>&#8221; and getting irritated with the bad poker scene. So, W (played by <a href="http://www.hbo.com/events/willferrell/img/core/homepage_bg.jpg">Will Ferrell</a>) calls Cheney and charges him with putting together an &#8220;Amer&#8217;can spy team.&#8221; &#8220;One that kicks ass. And knows how to play poker.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, Cheney gets George Clooney to recruit a team of base Amer&#8217;cans for his <em>008</em> outfit. An NYC firefighter (played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515296/">Peter</a> from Office Space,) a NASCAR driver (played by Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore, and Cameron Diaz,) an MMA fighter (or maybe an Irish boxer,) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302108/">Zach Galifianakis</a>.</p>
<p>Something goes wrong during training &#8212; I haven&#8217;t fully worked this part out yet, but there&#8217;s an explosion &#8212; and Zach, Peter and the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011038/">female pimp</a> from &#8220;<em>Hung</em>&#8221; get lost in small town America with partial details of their mission. </p>
<p>Their training&#8217;s also incomplete, so random stimuli (e.g., a barking dog) make them go all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Bourne">Jason Bourne</a>. But they hadn&#8217;t gotten to the hand to hand combat or weapons training yet. So, basically, the fight scenes are like the narrator&#8217;s first fight outside the bar in &#8220;<em>Fight Club</em>.&#8221; (Zach punches a townie in the ear.)</p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s about the time I woke up, because details go fuzzy from there. I know there was a hang glider incident, and I&#8217;m pretty sure Sarah Palin was expected to make a cameo. But that&#8217;s about it.</p>
<p>I tried to twitter this, but it was like -2000 characters.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still confused</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Donnie Darko would have made more sense had I understood the hero possessed telekinetic powers and ripped the jet engine off the passenger aircraft with his mind. I mean, I got that Donnie knew when and where the tunnel would appear. I even understood that the jet engine was the glitch that signaled [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/">Donnie Darko</a> would have made more sense had I understood the hero possessed telekinetic powers and ripped the jet engine off the passenger aircraft with his mind. I mean, I got that Donnie knew when and where the tunnel would appear. I even understood that the jet engine was the glitch that signaled the tear in the universe. But, telekinesis never occurred to me. And it wasn&#8217;t quite clear that the jet engine had to go back to keep the world from ending.</p>
<p>Seven years later, it all makes sense. Not really, but thanks all the same <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2004/07/23/darko/index.html">to the Internet.</a></p>
<p>Also, I should mention I wasn&#8217;t able to sleep last night.</p>
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