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Five videos show American soldiers at their worst

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From Valleywag

The Digg story "U.S. Soldier throws puppy off cliff" had, at last count, 5,527 votes. Digg commenters, never a demure crowd, aren't holding back their rage. One comment, itself voted for 540 times, reads "Wow. I hope he got shot in the face later that day." This video exposes something about the dehumanization of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that most of us don't want to think about. Here are five more videos that show just how far gone our troops are. A warning: These videos are explicit and -- with the known correlation between violence toward animals and violence toward other humans in mind -- savagely disheartening.

You might need to go to the Valleywag link to see the first video, as Google has taken many copies of it off of their site. The others may soon follow.

If there was ever a case for ending or at least reining this war in, here it is. This is almost worse than Abu Ghraib. At least that could be seen as angry troops taking their frustrations out on “enemy combatants.” But puppies, farm animals and random motorists? Come on!

Update: Apparently the case is being investigated by a Hawaii Marine base. Good.

Jimmy Kimmel responds to Sarah Silverman

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In response to Sarah Silverman’s video, Jimmy Kimmel strikes back with an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Robin Williams, Don Cheadle, Pete Wentz, Perry Farrell, Benji and Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Huey Lewis, Josh Groban, McLovin and Meatloaf and more. Good grief, I didn’t know Kimmel had that much pull.

Brilliant!

Trailer Park: The ‘Sometimes I hate Hollywood’ edition

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Three movie trailers that will make you hate Hollywood and question why you aren’t making millions as a screenwriter.

  • The Hottie and the Nottie
    Yes, this is a Paris Hilton rom-com. As if you didn’t dislike her enough, they’ve created a movie to reinforce the stereotype that only blond, thin and dumb women are the preferred trophy among men. Really? Did we just step back into the 1970s or something? It blows my mind that someone actually pitched this, it got written and that people acted and directed it with a straight face.
  • Postal
    Now there is nothing wrong with the idea here, the video game was quite cool. But Uwe Boll is quite possibly the worst director ever. His notoriety as an extremely bad director is sort of the draw now. People can’t wait to see what horrible piece of tripe some Hollywood paid him millions to produce. However it is not in the cool, Troma sort of bad. It’s more of a “wow, they paid someone to make that?” kind of bad. This will no doubt be yet another fine example. Just by the trailer you can tell the “jokes” are nothing more than rehashed racial stereotypes and action movie clichés.
  • Prom Night
    Didn’t they do this movie in the 70s, and then the 80s? Once again, horror movie clichés win over any sort of original thought. Hmm, psycho ex-student placed in a mental institution escapes and seeks revenge on the kids that shunned him. Wow, that’s brilliant!

Another odd thing is this round of trailers, Abigail Breslin, aka the girl from Little Miss Sunshine, is in three movies coming out soon. That’s crazy. After her Oscar nomination studios snatched her up and are putting her in everything.

While I applaud her career, I fear this may burn the little darling out quickly and turn her into another Lindsay Lohan. Let’s hope not, Breslin is far more talented and it would be a horrible thing.

Notables that might be worth watching:

  • Cassandra’s Dream
    Woody Allen directing Ewan McGregor and Colin Ferrell in a dramatic thriller. Awesome.
  • Don’t Mess with the Zohan
    Adam Sandler meets Zoolander, sort of. It looks to be a good redemption from Sandler in the wake of 50 First Dates, Click and Anger Management (though I hear Chuck and Larry was OK, but I would probably disagree).
  • Wanted
    Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie as assassins, um, OK. Plus James McAvoy in the lead. McAvoy is going to be big. The kid is awesome (ref. The Last King of Scotland) and I give him a year before he gets an Oscar.
  • Chicago 10
    An animated re-telling of the Chicago Seven featuring the voices of Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber, and Jeffrey Wright. Sounds good to me.

Now if only the movies could live up to the trailers.