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Nice this one? She looks like a bulldog, she's a meter tall and has nothing remarkable about her body... but hey, everyone has their own standards, right...

I trust you, tear-jerker of an ugly thing, or is it a half-fake?

Yeah, I would introduce physical elimination in case of defeat, perhaps by decapitation or dismemberment under torture... who knows, maybe then I would start watching it too.

Ah, indeed, I said that Reagan was evil and Nixon was a paranoid bastard, there’s a difference. Compared to Bush Jr., Nixon was a great president.

Truman is often dragged into the debate by people like you, who point fingers at the use of the atomic bomb, but he wasn't a bad president; the Truman Doctrine clearly indicates he understood what would happen in the coming years with the rise of the USSR... the atomic bombs were a demonstration of overwhelming power but quickly settled accounts against a society, the Japanese one, where the emperor was seen as a God and would fight to the last man if necessary. In fact, the mistake of the Americans was not to feed the emperor to his internal detractors, which would have meant liberating Japan from the empire... now instead of celebrating liberation, the Japanese celebrate defeat, and this creates unparalleled nationalism with consequences visible to all. Still with the misfortune of Bush? What misfortune? The hawks were popping champagne bottles after the towers fell, a bunch of idiots who unified a country and mocked it, exploiting pain and fear. The economic crisis? Who pushed banks to lend money to anyone with adjustable-rate mortgages? Who made speeches saying every American should have a roof over their heads? The Bush administration. The banks were reckless, and greed and speculation (direct consequences of a Reaganomics economic model) have been around for a long time, but the kickoff of the crisis belongs to Bush. Hurricane Katrina? To support tax cuts for the wealthy, states reduced budgets for civil protection and law enforcement (and consequently staffing), cut funding for infrastructure maintenance, and just to top it off, Bush placed a friend of his, an incompetent fool who didn’t even know where to begin, at the head of the civil protection agency when the Katrina disaster struck. Did the hurricane cause all that chaos? NO. The levees caused all that chaos; the hurricane was over in a few days and certainly didn't devastate the city. But the levees hadn’t been repaired due to spending cuts, they broke, and that’s where the disaster happened. The tragedy of New Orleans is entirely attributable to the Bush administration. The Democratic Congress didn’t block him much in the second term; he placed the judges he wanted where he wanted, secured huge budgets for the war in Iraq, endorsed his bail-out plans for banks with taxpayers’ money, etc.... Bush will go down in history as a fool, but for his real supporters, those with real money, not the poor fools like you, it was eight years of gold. Paid dearly by the whole world, not just by Americans.

Next year, Tim Burton's reimagining of Alice is coming out, and although it's under the Disney label, the first pictures of Depp as the Mad Hatter remind me of Beetlejuice, which reassures me :D

"And now you can go back to the banality of your comments..." fuck comments if no one is reading you anyway?

it's fine, don't worry, let's put a stone over it :P

Sorry, but it makes me gag; otherwise, great review.

mourning, no one compares CG films of the new millennium to hand-drawn classics from the 40s. But this doesn’t allow you to claim that what Pixar produces today is "banal and insignificant". At this point, I don't even wonder if you've really seen films like The Incredibles or Ratatouille; I question whether you've grasped their many nuances and the depth of certain themes, which in most previous Disney films barely approach a tenth of the thickness offered by Pixar. Pixar has evolved Western animated or CG films from the status of "for kids" to "for everyone, including adults". It's true that the early Pixar films played it safe (especially A Bug's Life, Monster Inc, Nemo, all targeting children), but the productions of recent years have shown courage and undeniable skill in blending interesting themes for older audiences as well. Then Alice is perfect as it is, as if kept in a crystal case and frozen in time, because even today it is beautiful just the way it is. But to celebrate the past, there’s no need to spit on the present, especially when the current standard is so high.