- Very
smart, Bruce Willis. Your last attempt to add on to the legacy of one of the
most iconic action franchises in movie history went poorly, so this time you
just give the idea of another “Die Hard” movie a thumbs up and keep your
distance. Willis brought back action hero John
McClane in 2013's “A Good Day To Die
Hard,” which was slammed by fans and critics and yet still made $304
million worldwide. The movie was an unequivocated disaster and tarnished the
three great films that came before it, so Willis wanting no part of another one
makes sense. It helps that the next “Die Hard” movie will be a prequel set in
1979 and focused on McClane's early
career as a New York City police officer. The prequel, which currently has the
working title “Die Hard Year One,”
would feature a younger actor playing McClane in the late '70s, setting up the
first movie in which Willis appeared and flew to California to meet his
estranged wife and their two children for the holidays. Len Wiseman, who
directed “ Live Free Or Die Hard” in
2007, came up with the concept for the new movie and is set to direct
it. He and the film's producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, are in search of a
screenwriter. "It's a very good idea, a really tricky idea, and I'm very
happy about it. It's a really cool idea, because it's the origin story,” Willis
said of the project. “It's gonna happen at the beginning of this. We're going
to bounce back and forth." Wiseman and di Bonaventura are reportedly
keeping Willis looped in on their new endeavor and a safe distance away is a
nice place for him to be……….
- Quick…what
do a well-known fortune teller, a veteran police
officer and a civilian in Thailand have in common? As it turns out, all three
are involved with an alleged plot to cash in on the name of the country’s royal
family and in Thailand, that’s a much bigger deal that it would seem reading
those words on a computer screen. The fortune teller, cop and random third dude
have been arrested under a law that protects the royal family and the three men
were heavily guarded as they were forcefully hauled into a military court in
Bangkok. In Thailand, a lese majeste law makes criticism of the royal family
punishable by up to 15 years in prison and over the past year, the royal family
has grown increasingly oversensitive, which has resulted in a massive uptick in
lese majeste convictions. From the outside looking in, rights groups have
wisely decried what they call a wider crackdown on dissent since the military
seized power from a civilian government in May 2014, but there is no actual way
to slow down this runaway train of injustice. The hearing for the three most
recent suspects in this campaign of terror had their hearing closed to the
public and officials refused to give any details of the case. Word on the
street is that the men are accused of using the royal family's name for
personal benefit, which could mean they lied about being related to the royal family
to get a dinner reservation at a good restaurant. Hope that was worth 15 years
of hard labor in a Thai prison……….
- How
do you know your college football season isn't going the way you wanted? When
your head coach is using the bye week to send out an "all call" for
kickers on social media after your starting kicker got trampled during a
kickoff and may not be able to play when you host your most bitter rival on
Halloween. Enter the Florida Gators, who suffered their first loss of the
season last week and in the process, saw kicker Jorge Powell suffer an injury made
possible when he made the cardinal mistake of being a kicker who got anywhere
near the action on a kickoff. Austin Hardin, the Gators' top kicker, is also
dealing with a leg injury but is tentatively slated to kick against Georgia on
Oct. 31. Just in case, head coach Jim McElwain wants to scour the student body
to find a backup kicker in the event Hardin can’t go. "As long as they can
flip it up there through the uprights, I'm good with it," McElwain said after
216 students answered the school's call to be the walk-on kicker. Having a bye
week means a chance to give a possible walk-on kicker as much preparation time
as possible, but yanking some frat bro from a great season of intramural soccer
or flag football is going to be a disaster regardless of how much practice time
he gets. College football kickers are under immense pressure to make extremely
difficult kicks and even the ones recruited to their school to do the job know
they’ll probably get death threats from Internet trolls if they miss a
game-winning field goal. How the hell is some walk-on who last kicked for his
high school JV team in Sarasota going to cope with that kind of heat? Not
well………
- Humanity,
we’re in trouble. Every day, we’re locked in a battle and most days, we get our
asses kicked by a foe that surrounds us on every side and outnumbers us by an
alarming ratio. The enemy, simply put, is oblivious ass hats in grocery stores.
You know these fools. You deal with them every day when they haphazardly push
their cart in an erratic pattern through the aisles, unaware that they are
cutting off and impairing the progress of other shoppers. They park their carts
stupidly in the middle of the frozen foods aisle so no one can pass and when
they come to the end of that aisle after blocking it for 10 minutes, they
careen around the corner without giving a damn who they might run into. You can
also spot them in the checkout line with 175 items that will take approximately
55 minutes to check out with because apparently, they only shop once every
three months and don’t give a sh*t how much they hold up the line with their
morass of items. It’s bad enough dealing with these fools when they’re at their
limited best and sober, so what the hell chance do the rest of us stand if
alcohol is thrown into the mix? Credit Georgia resident Danny W. Mitchell for illustrating this very real danger courtesy of
his arrest on suspicion of DUI and
public drunkenness while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a Kroger
supermarket in Conyers. A police report lays out a bizarre scene in which
officers were called to the scene found a disheveled Mitchell backing into the
building and driving over plants. He submitted to a breath test after drunkenly
informing the arresting officers that he had taken Valium, trazadone and a pint
of booze and mixed them together. He also claimed that he can barely walk and
was at the grocery store to get a prescription filled, although one has to
wonder if they’re giving out prescriptions for Kettel One these days……..
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