Underworld: Evolution comes out in just a few weeks (January 20 release date). Underworld is probably one of the better vampire/werewolf movies and I loved the idea of the two species fighting it out to see who gets to sit at the top of the food chain.

Honestly, when I heard about the sequel, I was scared. I couldn’t see Kate Beckinsale signing up for another go at the franchise simply because of the typecast possibility. Having the original cast back should make this as much fun as the first – though I have an issue and a favor to ask.

First, the issue is the role of Lucian. I hope his role is limited to depictions of past events only. He pretty much defined “dead” in the first film, so a typical he-wasn’t-really-dead story would piss me off.

As for the favor, I just ask that they please kill Kraven. He should have been killed in the first flick. That’s the point to having a spectacular asshole as the villain – you rejoice when they meet their end. But he didn’t. He’s going to snivel along into the second film. He really needs to die in a horrible way in this movie. Please let it be so.

Ok, now this is just stupid. This is what happens when you don’t have everyone’s pictures on a deck of playing cards. Sure, everyone laughed and made fun of the administration when they did the deck of 55, but damnit we caught those people.

Now we have no deck. We have no “Know Your Terrorist Flash Cards” and you see what happens? The Iraqi security forces (the same security forces that Democrats want us to leave in control as we turn out the lights and leave the building) caught the biggest bad guy in Iraq, and let the bastard go.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. We learned that in Tora Bora, and it looks like we learned it again here…

The RNC just sent out a statement regarding the John Kerry Impeachment joke. It illustrates everything that is wrong with the GOP. Rather than just hitting Kerry (and hitting him really hard) for saying something so astoundingly stupid, they decided to overreach, yet again, and make this about something it has nothing to do with.

For one of the leaders of the Democrat party to begin a push for presidential impeachment, in seriousness or jest, on the eve of the Iraq elections is both foolish and shortsighted.”

This has nothing to do with goddamn Iraq! It has to do with the fanatic lunacy of the Democrat party. It has nothing to do with the war on terror. It has to do with the far-left gasping for air and grasping at power.

The RNC tries to make everything about Iraq, then they wonder why everyone beats the shit out of them because everything is completely fucked in Iraq. You do it to yourself, guys.

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John Kerry, widely recognized as one of the funniest men alive (erm…), was back to his old stand up routines while drinking it up with last year’s big losers (his staff) at a poorly conceived Christmas cocktail party. One of his “jokes” brought down the house.

Now before Kos gets all spun up about the hypocrisy of me opposing talk of impeachment, let me say I thought the GOP impeachment of Clinton was a staggeringly bad move. It was dumb politically, and it was an epic waste of time and taxpayer funds. That’s why I think stupid comments like this, from a presidential has been no less, are ridiculous and have no place in politics.

Impeachment should be reserved for the worst crimes – things like orchestrating a break-in in an effort to win a campaign. They should not be used as yet another partisan weapon. That repulses the electorate and contributes to the already dismal regard for government demonstrated by our citizens.

Kerry should immediately apologize to everyone he can find. His spokesman claims it was said in humor, but Kerry ends up looking like the only joke in this situation.

Update: A friend wrote me to say:

Organizing a break-in to win an election you were going to win by 20 points anyway isn’t evil. It’s stupid. Dirty tricks can be forgiven. Stupidity cannot be.

I have to agree. I just think that getting some friends together to ransack the DNC in the middle of the night is a crime. Perjury, whether committeed by the President to cover up a cigar-bang with an intern, or by a White House aide who can’t recall who he talked to or when, is a stupid crime to charge. Either charge me for the crime you’re investigating that led to me lie under oath, or forget it.

You knew it was bound to happen. TiVo ruined the advertising game because people were suddenly free to jump past the annoying ads that broke up their TV shows. Well the execs in Hollywood are smarter than you and your TiVo. If you won’t watch ads between segments of their shows, then, by God, you’ll watch ads written into the show.

That’s right! Their writing ads into the shows themselves. It shouldn’t really be a surprise. Everyone remembers the Wayne’s World product endorsement scene – where he holds up a string of different products and works them into the story line. That scene was improved upon in The Truman Show when Truman’s wife, talking only to Truman in the kitchen keeps plugging the products in their home.

But now it’s coming to a TV near you. The latest example involves the NBC show Medium and a deal NBC made with Sony to work Memoirs of a Geisha into the script three times.

But the writers are revolting. They’ve issued a call for ethics and honesty in disclosing who has paid for ads on TV shows and launched a web site called ProductInvasion.com to bash the industry for forcing them to become commercial copy writers.

Don’t expect the writers’ actions to get very far, however. TV advertising is big business and the networks aren’t going to give up that revenue just because you have the ability to skip the commercials. Instead, they’re likely to make a 30 minute program actually run 30 minutes, and embed 8 minutes of product placement in the script.