We don’t eat real food in our society. This is something I suppose I’ve always had an intuitive awareness of. I mean, you can’t grow up eating Pop-Tarts for breakfast without realizing that the stuff we put in our mouths is anything but natural. However, the extent to which our food is “not real food” is unbelievably troubling. The market has succeeded in putting a wide array of affordable and filling options in our face without anyone really stopping to ask, “should we really be eating this stuff?”

It’s all just corn. One of the more striking points in Food, Inc for me was when the narrator said, and I’m paraphrasing here, “when you go into a grocery store, it seems like you have a ton of options, but most everything is really just a clever rearrangement of corn [or soy, or both].” The film dives a little bit into the economics of corn and how farmers are basically “priced in” to growing corn because of government subsides to do so. Since corn is plentiful, corn is therefore cheap. Since it’s cheap, food manufacturers can afford to flood the market with corn-based products at a low price for consumers thereby basically “blocking” the consumer from really eating anything other than “clever rearrangements of corn.” In effect, we’re using tax dollars to make it so that the only thing it makes financial sense for us to eat is variations on corn. Do you think Joe Farmer is going to use his field to grow blueberries thereby driving down the price of blueberries when he can make significantly more money producing corn? Not a chance. Joe is only human, after all.

Greed is the main problem. The real crux of the food problem in America, and the crux of most (all?) problems for that matter, is greed. Greed is what has caused food manufacturers to put whatever cheap and tasty crap they can onto the market. They profit wildly from doing so and are able to use some of those proceeds to lobby Washington to create friendlier and friendlier laws for the industry. The FDA is in bed with American food manufacturers. It’s really little more than a front to make you feel like there’s a governing body looking out for your interests with regards to food. It might have originated with the right intent, but over time the FDA has basically sold itself out to the food industry. The food we currently eat are like what cigarettes were in the 1940s: awful for you but consumers have little access to information to help them realize this because regulators are in bed with the manufacturers too much to do anything about it.

I’ve been thinking a lot more about how greedy our culture is lately and how much we romanticize the idea of making another buck or seeing a stock price go up. But rarely do we ask, “at what cost?” In this way, we are a very foolish culture.

Poor people are screwed. People on fixed-income budgets who are living paycheck to paycheck are the real losers. They are almost certainly eating a bunch of processed crap. After all, a frozen pizza is a lot cheaper and has a lot more calories than an organic salad topped with grilled, organic chicken. What choice do you think they’re going to make? In short, people have less money than they think. People “think” they have enough to get by on what they’re currently making, but that assumes they settle for eating processed sugars, salts, and fats. Suppose these foods were no longer an option to them because they decided their health wasn’t worth selling out. They’d have no choice but to pony up a considerably more amount of money for organic, non-processed foods. On the back-end, however, they’ll recoup a lot of this money, and then some in the opinion of my friend Nat, through lowered health care costs.

We’re fat because it’s affordable to be fat. We’re fat because our policymakers and corporations have allowed a system to arise in which it is affordable to stuff your face with yummy fats, sugars, and salts. Since we naturally crave these items ahead of the spinach, and since they’re cheaper than the spinach anyway, we stuff our faces. This is why even the poor people in this country are fat. Everyone can afford to be fat because being fat has been made to be so cheap!

Non-organic meat is disturbing. No text authored by me can come remotely close to doing the scenes from Food, Inc justice. You really just have to see the film. The source of our meat in this country is just downright troubling. Take for example chicken. Chicken is healthy and yummy, right? Well because Americans like white meat, companies engineered the chickens to have breasts about twice the size as they are in nature. Additionally, since a chicken that can grow to full size in 48 days is cheaper to produce than a chicken that takes nearly twice that long to grow to full size, we figured out a way to make chickens grow so fast that their bones and joints simply cannot keep up. What does this mean for the chicken? It means that in it’s final days, the weight of its breasts is so immense that it’s underdeveloped legs don’t stand a chance. The chickens can take one, maybe two steps (not like they’ve got very much space to work with anyway) before they plop back down onto the ground waiting for death. All so we can have a big, fat, juicy chicken breast on our plate for dinner at half the cost of the organic ones that are half the size. I’ve always avoided veal since I thought it seemed pretty cruel to keep them chained to the ground. I never realized that if I applied that same logic to chickens, it would have made sense to go organic before now.

Corporations are remarkably capable. This movie really demonstrates the brilliance that companies are capable of. When left to their own devices, they are able to create jaw-dropping “optimizations” (I put that in quotes because putting a toxic chemical on something we plan to eat so that we can have more of it to eat shouldn’t really be viewed as “optimal”). What our corporate food companies have managed to do is really quite remarkable. It’s depressing and seemingly void of any ethics, but remarkable all the same. They have directly engineered an entire country full of people who unquestioningly eat stuff that they don’t even know where it came from and balloon to unparalleled sizes in the process. I mean think about that, how many of us can truly say that we’ve ever thought about where our food comes from? How many of us can honestly say that they’ve thought, “hmm, I wonder what xanthan gum is?” I know I can’t say that. Since I was a toddler until just recently, I never questioned the origins of the food I put into my mouth. I just ate without really knowing what it is. Remarkable, isn’t it? Do you think humans from a century ago could have said that?

Where corporations succeed, they also fail. When left to their own devices, corporations are only concerned with one thing: profit. Profit does not have to be an evil word, but to many people, increasingly myself, it has an evil connotation. This is because any entity concerned only with profit will do anything, including things detrimental to the health of humanity if they think they can get away with it, in order to see that “profit” number increase. Our society has become more concerned with seeing a stock price go up on one day than it is with asking if what they had to do to make that price go up actually added value to society or just stole from many to give to a few. And make no mistake, food corporations are stealing from the many, in this case, their health, in order to increase their own bottom line. Our obsession with money is literally killing us and will continue to kill us until we decide that it is not what’s most important.

Consumers are incredibly powerful. Food, Inc succeeded in restoring the viewers’ feeling of power after spending most of the film making them feel helpless and disturbed. They did this by reminding everyone that every time you scan an item at a grocery store, you are “voting” for that item. If enough of us begin to “vote” for the items that we are meant to eat, companies will get the message. The film recommends buying organic foods wherever possible, buying locally-grown foods wherever possible, and basically getting used to the idea that food is supposed to require more work than we’re used to. Food was not meant to be something we could get from a window out of our car for $1 and be full. Food is work. For the majority of human history, the majority of the work humans did was directly related to cultivating food and sustaining life. We have found a way to cheat ourselves out of having to do this work and in doing so, we’re cheating ourselves. Budget more time and money for the gathering and preparing of food. Real food.

I’ll close with two links to related stuff. First, the story of aspartame. Read that and tell me if it doesn’t make you want to burn Donald Rumsfeld at the stake. Finally, read here the text of a New York girl’s valedictorian speech from a few months back as she bashes the very system decorating her.

Anyway, here are the movies I saw in the second quarter of this year along with a letter grade on how much I liked them and a brief comment about them. I saw Inception a couple days ago (that will appear in the 3Q grades) and I was really disappointed. Based on all the things I had heard people saying, I went into it expecting it to have a good shot at surpassing Shutter Island for my favorite movie of 2010, but it didn’t even come close. The storyline concept was cool, but I thought the movie did an inadequate job of making you empathize with the hero. The whole movie hinged on DiCaprio’s struggle to get back to his children which was a struggle that I thought the movie did a terrible job of getting the audience to support. I could have cared less whether or not he succeeded, so the movie was very unsatisfying imo.

A-

Usual Suspects – I saw this when I was a teenager but don’t think I was really able to follow it then.

Kick Ass – I can’t think of another movie where gratuitous violence was so hilarious.

El Secreto en sus Ojos – Coulda done without the romantic storyline, but was otherwise an awesome murder mystery thriller.

B+

Law Abiding Citizen – A poor man’s Se7en.

Nordwand – German mountain climbing movie. Started off slow, but got really good by the end.

Syriana – Never really got as suspenseful as I was hoping it would, but a good movie nonetheless.

The Damned United – Brian Clough reminds me a little of Phil Hellmuth.

B

Edge of Darkness – Got a little over the top with the villain figure.

B-

MacGruber – I laughed my ass off a few times, but overall should have probably just waited for it to come out on video.

Rendition – I normally like the war on terror genre, but this kinda sucked.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – This had stretches of being pretty good and stretches where I nearly shut it off.

C+

Dog Pound – Succeeded in being violent and captivating but the storyline was simply too far-fetched.

Robin Hood – This could have been a good movie, but they let it get too cheesy in some parts.

C

Men Who Stare at Goats – Stupid.

Tenderness – Mediocre psycho-thriller.

D

Streets of Blood – This was just a trainwreck.

She went big and ordered the sample platter.

Knowing I would be downwind of her leftovers, I decided to go with a small dish of the Cajun mac’n'cheese.

The Cajun mac was awesome; there was nothing in her sample platter that I liked more, although the La Mancha was close. Who knew fennel could taste so good in mac’n'cheese?

After dinner, we killed some time sitting in tiny, cramped, over-crowded bars while waiting for our 8:45 showing of Dog Pound.

I had never been to a film festival before so I didn’t really know what to expect. For the most part, it was just like going to a regular movie except there was a little more buzz in the hallways and before the film started the French director, Kim Chapiron, and one of the featured actors, Adam Butcher, who was fantastic, were introduced. They thanked the audience for coming and said they would be available for a short Q&A session following the film’s conclusion.

Dog Pound is about a fictional juvenile correction facility in Montana. I had hoped it was going to be a documentary. Since it wasn’t, I was hoping it would at least be true-to-life and provide some type of a thought-provoking message regarding the juvenile correction system. It didn’t do that either.

Instead, the film was basically a low-budget prison movie that served viewers a king’s portion of violence and sensationalism. To that extent, it was actually pretty good. I think anyone who showed up hoping for a Tarantino-style blood bath probably left the theater pretty happy. The film held my attention most of the way but was nothing special overall. My girlfriend spent the cab ride home explaining how utterly unrealistic it was (she works in the juvenile corrections field) and how it seems unlikely that Chapiron did his homework before shooting. It made me sort of wish we had hung around for the Q&A. I would have liked to have seen how seriously he took himself. If he tried to act like the film made some social statement in regards to juvenile corrections, it would have been pretty laughable. But maybe his intent was just to make a gory prison movie and if that was the case, he should give himself a pat on the back.

At any rate, it was kind of neat watching a film that only a handful of people have ever seen while the director was in the room.

Alright, it’s the end of the quarter and as usual I kept a list of the movies I saw this quarter with a letter grade. Hope this is useful to someone out there. I haven’t watched as many movies in the past couple of weeks, and probably won’t for the next several weeks, as I normally do thanks to a newfound addiction to Entourage. What an amazing show. I can say with full confidence it’s the best TV show I’ve seen in terms of dialog. I watch it with subtitles on so as not to miss any muttered gems. I’m already through the first two seasons and will probably start on season three after I finish this post. Watching several seasons of awesome TV shows in chronological order is the nuts.

Here are a couple of links I want to post before I get to the movie grades:

1. I wrote a knockout tournament strategy article for PokerTips that might be interesting to tournament players.

2. My buddy Timex wrote a blog entry about semi-retiring from poker that I think is worth a read. He’s had a ton of success in the game and is finding himself in a bit of an existential crisis at the age of 20. I think Timex is one of a handful of young guys out there who have made tons of money playing poker such that they’re no longer super-motivated to keep playing and also a little out of touch with the rest of society and people their age due to their submersion in poker and rapid ascension to a state of wealth. It’s a tricky and unique place to find yourself at 20 and I find it interesting to observe from a sociological standpoint. I think the key for guys like Timex will be to find another arena in which they can compete for high enough stakes to hold their interest and still feel they’re +EV at whatever they’re doing. To me, the business world sounds like a clear (and perhaps only) option. I hypothesize that in a decade or two you’ll see a lot of guys who were formerly really successful and big into poker make waves in the business world and only play poker for fun on rare occasions (ie: WSOP Main Event).

3. My buddy Jason Day started a humor blog on various social issues. His latest entry is about the ridiculousness of Tiger and Jesse James playing the “sex addict” card when they got caught cheating. Check his site out, I think you’ll find his writing to be really entertaining and on point.

Alright, without further ado, first quarter 2010 movie grades:

A

Wall Street – Fantastic. Can’t believe it took me so long to see this.

A-

Funny People – A very complete comedy. Check it out.

The Book of Eli – Love Denzel and post-apocalyptic stuff, so the combo of both of them rocked.

Brooklyn’s Finest – I’m a sucker for a cop drama.

B+

Sex Drive – Hilarious comedy kind of cut from the same cloth as American Pie. Seth Green’s character killed me.

Invictus – Somehow, at the age of 79, Clint Eastwood finds the time and energy to make at least one, but usually multiple movies each year. And every single one of them is usually damn good at worst. This is no exception.

A Serious Man – Coen brothers film that is kind of a modern day (well, sort of, it was set in the late 60s/early 70s) story of Job from the Bible. This is one of those movies that you appreciate more by reading about it after seeing it.

The Blind Side – I had been really reluctant to see this after reading the book for fear that the movie would ruin it, but it was mostly solid.

Green Zone – Very concise storyline, didn’t try to do too much like war movies can tend to do. Solid.

Hot Tub Time Machine – Made me laugh more than I thought it would

C

Repo Men – Pretty damn terrible, but it had its moments.

D

Couples Retreat – This was so disappointing; rarely laughed.

Tell-Tale – Just awful.

Henry Waxman made himself look like an idiot. Keep in mind he was the Congressman who led the witch-hunt on interrogating MLB players about steroid use yet during his interview he seemed completely clueless regarding very basic facts about steroids including whether or not anabolic steroids are legal or illegal in the U.S. It’s terrifying how incredibly stupid most Congressmen are.

The film went into other aspects of performance-enhancers in American culture such as musicians who use beta-blockers to remain calm during performances or students who take Adderall to perform better on tests. Should they have an asterisk by their name? Or what about pilots who are mandated by the Air Force to take amphetamines during long flight missions, the same type of amphetamines that if taken by a baseball player might land them in a Congressional hearing. It was definitely thought provoking and eye-opening and gives viewers a different viewpoint to consider regarding steroids than has been hammered into our heads by after school specials.

I played some online poker tournaments today for the first time in a while. For the past several weeks I’ve either been busy traveling or waiting on a laptop arrive which prevented me from playing the regular Sunday tournaments. Up until just a few days ago, I was down to just the desktop I have in my room. I don’t have a TV in my room (I need to fix that) so watching the NFL playoffs in the living room and thereby skipping the Sunday tournaments has been my preference for the past few weeks.

Today I got to do both. The NFC Championship game was great, but I didn’t like how it ended. At the start of the playoffs, I bet that the Saints would not win the Super Bowl at odds of -515, so I’m disappointed that I’ll have to sweat that bet to the end. I really thought they would have lost by now, and they probably would have if Brett Favre had scrambled rather than thrown across his body on what might have been a horribly lackluster final play of what was otherwise a brilliant career. The Saints should feel really fortunate to be going to the Super Bowl. Minnesota should have won that game notwithstanding having turned the ball over four times before Favre’s ill-fated decision.

The Colts are 4 to 5.5 point favorites in the Super Bowl depending on where you look. The over/under is 56. I love the under. I could see it getting up to 57 and when it does, I’ll probably try to get a decent sized bet in so I’ve got more rooting interest than just the big Saints fade.

Two Super Bowls ago I enjoyed the sporting event of a lifetime not only because was it the best Super Bowl ever played, but also because I was on the Giants, unhedged, at 70:1 odds to win. Last year was another really good game but it didn’t go my way at all. I was on the Cardinals moneyline so it was pretty painful watching that freak defensive TD to end the first half by James Harrison and then the sick catch by Santonio Holmes to seal it in the end. If my money is on the right side of the Super Bowl every other year, this year should be pretty good!

What do you like?

A-

Up In the Air – I’ve seen this movie three times now. Definitely one of my favorite releases of the year.

Man on Wire – Beautiful, inspiring documentary about the man who walked on a wire between the World Trade Center towers. See it.

This Is It – I got lost in this movie. Nothing else mattered for two hours while watching one of the best entertainers of all-time do what he did best. Awesome!

B+

Heat – Above average good guy vs. bad guy action flick where you don’t know who to root for.

Avatar – I wasn’t like wild about the storyline, but the visuals on 3-D IMAX were unreal. Easily the prettiest movie I’ve seen.

B

The Escapist – Pretty cool prison break movie set in England.

B-

Point Break – Has some memorable lines (”back off, warchild!”) but was otherwise pretty meh.

Léon – For being #35 on IMDB’s top 250, this was a complete disappointment.

Brothers – The movie itself had its flaws, but the acting was tremendous, especially Tobey McGuire I thought.

D

The Other Man – The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life. You would think it’d be pretty good, right? But you would think wrong.

Good Night and Good Luck – Never seen a movie so far up its own ass.

The Box – Kind of a bummer to see one of the coolest thought experiments drug around like a cheap hooker in the name of a few lame thrills.

A

The Hurt Locker – The best release I’ve seen this year and it’s not close.

Apocalypse Now – I had considered this the most famous movie I’ve never seen. Maybe Gone with the Wind is now that movie. This was my favorite Vietnam movie and I think I’ve pretty much seen all of them now (the praised ones, anyway). About halfway through it occurred to me that I was probably watching one of the best movies I’ll ever see in my life. Enjoyed every second.

A-

Inglourious Basterds – Was everything I was hoping it would be, only more funny.

A History of Violence – Viggo Mortensen has gotta be one of the more under-appreciated guys out there.

B+

Tyson – Very broad and complete documentary on Mike Tyson as told by Mike Tyson.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Didn’t even know this movie existed until the remake came out. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. A little slow though. Maybe moviegoers in the 70s were quite as huge of action-junkies as people today?

Primer – A pretty interesting movie that was very difficult to follow. But what I appreciated more than the complex plot was the fact that this movie was made on a budget of $7,000.

The Informant! – Hilarious and entertaining.

B

The Hangover – Rarely stopped laughing.

The Terminator – I had never seen this before now. I’m not really into Sci-Fi movies all that much, but this was pretty entertaining.

Crossing Over – A movie about illegal immigrants that reminded me a lot of Crash. Good, but also very one-sided and idealistic to the point where I was like “oh gimme a break!”

I Love You, Man – I had no interest in seeing this movie until hearing from multiple people about how funny it was. By and large, they were right.

Home – Documentary about our planet. Was a little depressing actually, but the visuals were spectacular making this film worthwhile.

B-

Lakeview Terrace – Entertaining, terrifying, but also overly dramatic, unrealistic and predictable.

Brüno – I kept letting thoughts like “I wonder if this scene was staged or not” distract me from what was a funny movie.

The Great Buck Howard – Pretty good, pretty heartwarming.

American Psycho – While entertaining, it seemed incomplete in a couple of ways.

Bart Got a Room – Decently funny movie about a kid who struggles to find a prom date.

Big Fan – Disturbing

C+

Moon – Meh

Transsiberian – For having a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, I was thoroughly disappointed.

C

Public Enemies – This was disappointing, but not terrible. Still, a movie about Dillinger could have been much cooler than this was.

C-

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – This was really disappointing. I was looking forward to it a lot but hardly laughed.

Major League – Am I the only one who doesn’t think this is a very funny movie?

D

Made in America – Very disappointing documentary that was supposed to be about the Bloods and Crips but instead was really disorganized and focused more on broad racial issues.

D-

Killing Room – Even a bad movie centered on the MK-Ultra CIA experiments would have been pretty worthwhile, but this was just downright awful.

The Flock – Movies like this make me wonder if even the director is able to realize it’s bad.

Best of all, you can read a short briefing of what’s going on in the movie while you’re relieving your bladder. This app will revolutionize movie going and make me buy so many more $6 colas that I otherwise would not have purchased for fear of missing a key part of the movie.

I bolted out of Inglourious Basterds tonight at the :38 mark as recommended by Run Pee. One other guy was right on my tail in the race against time to urinate. As we stood there doing our business, I inquired, “Run Pee?”

“Yup!”

He beat me back to the theater, though. I had to stop and get a refill on my large Coke Zero.

A
American Gangster – 2 hours 40 minutes, and not one second of it was boring.

A-
Michael Clayton – Awesome movie, but Clooney should get a lot of credit. Swap out him for some b-list actor, and this might have been entirely mediocre.

Into the Wild – This didn’t grip me emotionally as much as I was hoping it might, but still a fantastic film. Emilie Hirsch deserves an Oscar.

Gone Baby Gone – This could have had more depth. I found myself more interested in the next cheap plot twist than I did the characters’ dilemmas.

Flags of Our Fathers – Maybe the most honest war movie I’ve ever seen.

B+
Zodiac – A little dense and lengthy, but worth the viewing.

Hollywoodland – Didn’t insist on resolving itself, which made it intriguing. Could have been shorter, though.

Breach – Kinda boring, but that can be partially forgiven by the fact that this is based on a true story.

B
Lars and the Real Girl - Ryan Gosling is clearly a great actor, but this was a little dull. It reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite, just without all the funny.

No Country for Old Men – I’m bothered by movies that leave you with tons of “what do you think happened?” type of questions. In a work of fiction, if the story doesn’t tell you what happened, than nothing happened!

Bobby – The all-star cast was distracting but I think this movie accomplished what it (probably) set out to: paying tribute to one of our country’s most hopeful politicians who was taken away much too soon and much too needlessly.

B-
Owning Mahowny – Not only was this set in the 80s, but it was filmed to appear as if it was made in the 80s as well (it was made in 2003). I thought that was a neat piece of moviemaking, but the film itself was pretty mediocre.

Bugsy – Long and often boring, but at least it was a gangster movie.

C-
Deja Vu – I’m okay with having to take a small leap of faith with regard to a movie’s premise, but this was asking for an Olympic-caliber triple jump.

F
Saw IV – Movies, especially mainstream blockbusters, shouldn’t require thirty minutes of reading IMDB message boards to figure out wtf happened.

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Top 10 Movies I Saw in 2007:

1. 3:10 To Yuma
2. In The Shadow of the Moon
3. Sunshine
4. American Gangster
5. Into the Wild
6. Once
7. Michael Clayton
8. The Prestige
9. Alpha Dog
10. Babel

A
Sunshine – I don’t pretend to think this movie will be regarded as a “classic” by reputable critics, but I loved it to pieces.

3:10 To Yuma – The most “Best Picture” worthy movie I’ve seen in 2007. It had some parallel’s to last year’s winner ‘The Departed’. (Calling it now: Ben Foster will be twenty-fold more famous in five years than he is now – incredible actor).

In the Shadow of the Moon – As enjoyable of a documentary that I’ve ever seen.

A-
The Kingdom – I was on the proverbial “edge of seat” for probably more than 95% of this one.

B+
The Hours – Little too geared towards chicks for my liking, but overall quite good. Nicole Kidman’s character was awesome.

12 Monkeys – I don’t generally go for sci-fi, but sprinkle some Bruce Willis on a badass script and I’m a fan.

Simpsons Movie – TV show is overrated, but this movie was pretty hilarious.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism – Documentary about the Fox News Channel. Anyone who isn’t apathetic towards politics might be glad they watched this. Overall, though, I disagreed with the maker’s belief that, since Fox News lies and corrupts the minds of its viewers, we should have government oversight of news organizations. Government control being the solution to corruption seems counterintuitive.

B
Inside Man – Entertaining enough heist flick.

Superbad – Little excessive on the awkward moments and conflict resolution, but mostly worth the hype.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters – Weird, but unwaveringly captivating.

B-
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry – This movie epitomizes why mainstream critics can’t always be trusted. Rotten Tomatoes gave this a 14%, but I thought it was consistently funny.

Bourne Ultimatum – Incredibly corny, but ultimately I couldn’t help but feel entertained.

The Crying Game – Spoiler: the chick is a dude.

Year of the Dog – The hero’s worldview and courage was cute and all, but I didn’t exactly rush out to buy the DVD when it was over.

C+
Sicko – Entertaining, but ridiculous as an argument for national health care.

Live Free or Die Hard – Who knew John McClane was impervious to injury?

Half Nelson – Depressing as hell, but a decent enough movie, I suppose.

C
The Grifters – Interesting synopsis, but really weird characters distracted from it.

C-
Big Nothing – Started off well but too many plot twists and my short-fuse for putting up with whiney-ass David Schwimmer made this forgettable.

D+
The Ten – The first couple of scenes were hilarious, but about halfway through I was anxious for it to be over.

Easy Rider – I don’t even know what this was. It just made me glad I don’t live in 1969 Deep South.

D
Rick – There’s a reason I hadn’t heard of this movie.