Saving Private Ryan Ripped Off A League Of Their Own

Justin, 10/29/2009 01:00:05 PM

Lets take a look at the parallels shall we faithful readers?

At the beginning of SPR the family goes to visit the graveyard, then it zooms in on old guy Ryan and flashes back to WWII era.
At the beginning of ALOTO the family convinces Geena Davis to visit the Baseball Hall Of Fame and then it zooms in on old gal Henson and flashes back to WWII era.

In the beginning of both films a suit drives up to a farm, kicking off the main storyline.

In both films there is a battle sequence (well in ALOTO the battle is the tryouts, but thats a battle of sorts, right?) that introduces us to the main cast.

In both films a woman breaks down crying when informed that someone was KIA in WWII.

Finally, the most glaringly obvious comparison is Tom Hanks managing a group of people above all odds, starting off distant and alone in both, but growing closer to his group by the end. In both films he has a physical isue (knee in ALOTO and hearing loss due to explosives and hand shaking in SPR) and he ends up dead and the end of both films.

So someones got a lot of explaining to do. Because Vin Diesel pretty much ripped off Rosie O'Donnell verbatim in Saving Private Ryan. Crazed I know, but completely true.

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Go Go Go!

Mike, 10/29/2009 12:44:28 PM

I declare this website still open for business.

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Reduced Sugar Frosted Flakes

Mike, 8/16/2009 11:35:09 AM

Today I saw a commercial for something that brought me out of the shadows of my quiet exile from this site: Reduced Sugar Frosted Flakes. Perhaps this has been around for a while and I just don't buy breakfast cereal that much (definitely true), but I think something needs to be said. Frosted Flakes have one purpose and one purpose only: delivery of early morning sugar into the bloodstream. Why must everything in society have a watered down counterpart? Diet coke, decaffeinated coffee, reduced fat potato chips, low emission gasoline... if you're looking for a cereal with less sugar just eat cheerios or raisin bran, don't bastardize an American classic.

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5 Years Hasn't Dulled The Pain

Justin, 8/12/2009 01:16:17 AM

Flipping through channels tonight I landed on Sex And The City. I watched for a couple minutes. I feel like I'm sometimes drawn to watching shows I hate. It's like when I'm driving and I hear a song on the radio that I highly dislike, but I let it play out anyways. Anyways its already been 5 years since this show about whorish leathery cougars has gone from the first run airwaves, but I still feel the pain it inflicted on society weekly. It's not just the show itself, with its insanely unlikeable characters, in the city I don't like all that much. It's actually meeting people who love the show, watch the show, and then ACT LIKE THE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW IN REAL LIFE. I'm sure you have met chicks like this at some point. It's like hanging out with Miranda or Kim Cattrall in real life. It's like my nightmares actually came to the waking world. I probably can't describe it to you properly unless your a dude who has seen the show a few times, and then hung out with girls who love the show and then started acting like the characters in it. In fact this screams of something Chuck Klosterman could write a chapter or two about. Maybe I should contact him about it. And none of the women on the show have appeared in anything that has even come close to letting me forgive them for infecting humanity with this disease. At least Chris Noth was in the magnificent Mr. 3000.