I agree except for the schoolteacher part. Unions protect their failing asses, no matter how poorly they perform their job in public schools.

Celebrities, politicians, and weathermen get paid way too much money to fail at their jobs. Yet we all spend so much time focusing on them. (Myself included.)

I'm surprised Will Ferrell's movies don't make enough to justify his pay. I thought he was the new religion there for a while.

Did anyone see The Invasion? It was so incredibly bad and nonsensical! People puking in coffee is the mode of invasion???

I think the movies make money after release on DVD and Blu-Ray. Probably true of The Invasion.
But generally speaking, there's a problem with spending too much money on movies. Not just for stars' salaries, but for FX and other stuff.
Robert Rodriguez has never had a budget of more than $40M, yet he made great visual feasts like Sin City. So why did James Cameron need $150M to make Titanic? I guess Cameron just isn't as good a filmmaker.

I know nothing about budgets, movies or my own, but I would think that Titanic had lots and lots of extras, costumes, and was filmed on location in Mexico, etc. I think Sin City was mostly filmed in an LA sound stage and there weren't that many people in it.

You're making my point, kittenpaw. A good movie - no, a great movie - can be made for much less than $100 million.
Titanic had a bloated budget for a Harlequin romance set on a shipwreck.

Suck it! - you left out cops, let us not forget that their union saves people all the time, like from dismissal after pulling a loaded gun on family members, which would be assault with a deadly weapon for you or I.

Oh well, yeah I guess so. It still did really well and people liked it enough to see it a hundred times. Doesn't mean it was the best movie of the year but it entertained me enough. I wouldn't consider Sin City a great movie either though. So whatev.

Tangerine cops have to be able to protect themselves. They shouldn't pull out their weapons all willy-nilly but they can't be overly reserved either. Making the correct decision in the blink of an eye could be the difference between life and death. Sometimes, yes, they make the wrong decision because they are fallible just like everyone else. My father is a police officer who was shot by an AK-47 on the job, lost his leg and nearly died. I'm quite sensitive about this subject.

Kidman's movie suckage is directly proportional the the amount of botulism in her face.

I've never even heard of The Invasion. Ever. Maybe if Nicole Kidman was marketing the thing instead of starring in it, it would have brought in some cash.

How good lying feels… *are*, right? Did I find a typo?? Did I? I love it when I find Cord's typos. So human!

typo trolling is about as cute as tattling

Sar - The Invasion was a crap mess re-do of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (that was done twice already). Donald Sutherland starred in the 80's version and it was pretty good fun because there were POD PEOPLE! And POD DOGS! This one is just all about vomit and weird skin.

And wasn't that Pod Dog actually Jerry Garcia? Am I remembering that wrong?

I have a funny cop story:

I was mowing my lawn last Saturday. Well, I was at the end of my driveway, when this pit bull, with a lame leg, hobbled past me and onto my neighbors lawn. Suddenly a cop cars comes by. It stops, the officer rolls down his window, and asked me if I saw a dog. "Yeah, he went over to my neighbors lawn." Well, instead of getting out of the car and looking, the cop asked me if I could "go look to see if he was still there". Mind you, this is a pit bull, and a cop is looking for it, which makes you kind of wonder. Not thinking (at the time) I went over to where I saw the dog last, and he was gone. I told the officer as such, to which he replied by rolling up his window and taking off. I went back to work, when suddenly TWO squad cars come up the alley next to my house, roll down the windows, and ask me about the dog. I told the officers it left. There ended up being at least five squad cars circling around my neighborhood looking for this dog. None of the officers got out of there car.

Word of advice. If you ever want to coax an officer to get out of his cruiser and actually LOOK for a dog, have plenty of powdered donuts on hand.

Its so true but thats the system, killorn! Teachers make tattling so appealing. They create this environment with hall monitors and line leaders and bathroom passes and whatnot, then you are practically programmed to tattle!! It's a sick system of government they have in the first grade, it is.

Biggest surprise is no Alba.

I wonder if teachers the world over get a little misty when they see their hard work pay off in the blogosphere.

"HEY YOU BIG STUPID, IT'S 'THEIR' NOT 'THERE' WHAT ARE YOU A FAG NANCY???. YOUR RETARDED LOL 1"

Yeah, that's gotta be worth upwards of $17,000 a year.

oh my god someone watch idiocracy for me so i can quote it!!! so perfect right now.

and lol thanks for making my day better killorn :)

idiocracy = amazing

"go away I'm 'batin' "

Well, I'm telling on Cord right now. Right now.

Milly it is kind of odd that they didn't send out animal control instead. I wonder if the Pit Bull robbed a bank or was caught with Heroin.

It wasn't even a typo. I was kidding. "How good lying feels are" doesn't even make sense.
My jokes always fail, man.

yaaaaay killorn!!!!

"Uh, it says on your chart that youre fucked up."

Guard: Okay, sir. Now we will begin to proceed to obtain your IQ and aptitude test.

Joe: What for?

Guard: Okay, sir. This is to figure out what your aptitude's good at, and get you a jail job while you're being a particular individual in jail.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

The Welcome to Costco, I love you line made me think of Family Guy … Cheney working at Wal-mart as a greeter …

Welcome to Wal-mart, Go fuck yourself.

Camacho for president!

Don't worry, scrot. Now, there are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded." She's a pilot now.

I'm just waiting on Burrito Supreme ..

suck it - i'm sure there are some bad teachers out there. but most are not.

especially not the ones in the successful schools where all of these bad ass kids are being sent because THEIR school is failing. failing due to bad ass kids mind you, not bad teachers.

now these once successful teachers are responsible for huge classrooms full of hoodlums. and surprise surprise! now that school is failing too.

if only "no moviewatcher left behind" was so successful.

Carl's Jr. Computer: "Enjoy your Extra Big-Ass Fries. Thank you. Your account has been charged. Your balance is zero."

Woman at Carl's Jr.: "What?"

Carl's Jr. Computer: "Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase."

Woman at Carl's Jr.: "Come on! My kids are starvin'."

Carl's Jr. Computer: "I'm sorry you're having trouble. Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. 'Fuck you, I'm eating'."

Frito: "Uh, Rehabil– Rehabilate– Rehabilation."
Cameraman: "Why do you keep trying to read that word? You a fag?"
Frito: "I'll fag your face!"

Fortunately for Nicolle, there are plenty of gossip blogs out there keeping her name in the public eye, so the work keeps coming in.

I cant believe you like money too!

OK… I know everybodys shits emotional right now.

Brawndos got what plants crave!!

lmao. cate is a good actress though and nicole is pretty good too, but they choose movies that people clearly won't want to watch in large numbers

I don't remember Nicole Kidman EVER being in a decent movie. Even that thing she won an Oscar for. Now, perhaps the people in charge will stop throwing their money away on this botoxed Aussie.

On the other hand, I love Cate!!!