Oscars 2017

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Finally Oscars was fun to watch, not because Jimmy Kimmel was particularly funny or I am a big fan of those movies.  It's because the production or Price Water House, a professional firm screwed up.  It was unintentionally funny.  The presenters, namely almost octogenarians Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway seemingly got the Best Actress envelope for the Best Picture.  Warren Beatty later on stage divulged that the envelope says Emma Stone La La Land.  So he was noticeably perplexed but not his co presenter, the always cheerful Fay Dunaway.  Perhaps Beatty thinks OK, let her be the fall gal.  Dunaway was only too happy to announce La La Land like without a doubt.

Within minutes, all hell broke loose.  It was pandemonium on stage.

Beatty was trying to explain himself and Kimmel was quick to chastise him like "Warren, what did you do?" and concurring that "Well, you weren't funny."  When Beatty tried to correct himself inching toward the microphone with the correct envelope, the visibly upset and somewhat livid La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who just gave his Best Picture acceptance speech thanking his wife and everybody was quick to snap the card out of Beatty's hand without so much as acknowledging the man, like he was  some old fart or some nobody.  Poor Beatty.  And Dunaway was no where to be found ...
Even it was Faye who made the actual announcement (though Beatty was kind of let her have it), everybody was ready to just throw Beatty under the bus.
PricewaterhouseCoopers was quick to issue a statement basically admitting that they screwed up.

John Wick: Chapter 2

Could that be his slick unkempt hair, his beard, his immaculate bespoke suits or his mildly bowed gait?  Keanu Reeves' John Wick proves once again irresistible to an audience who craves gun porn and on-screen violence with an R rating.  Enough water downed PG-13 violent content already.  I don't recall any recent action movie that is as satisfying as it is unrelenting and unapologetic.  It harks back to an era when John Woo ruled the on screen gun play in the eighties, except of course, JWC2 is light years ahead in production value in addition to being more realistic, relatively speaking.  JWC2's mute henchman or henchwoman character even reminds me that one character in A Better Tomorrow II who doesn't utter a single word only to kill and be killed.  And then of course JWC2's violence is literally ball busting and eviscerating, a nod to Bruce Lee's kind of street style no holds barred fights.  The final big fight is a homage to the 1973 Enter The Dragon:  A room of mirrors is the choice of hideout for the villain in JWC2 as well.

If you hate on screen violence and on screen gun violence in particular, do not go see it, it will give you nightmare.

The State of Online Shopping, Clothes Edition

My online experience started with Amazon.

That must be over some fifteen years ago.

Still something has never changed.  Shops selling clothes for the most part do a very poor job.  What does S, M, L or 38, 40, 42 mean exactly.  I don't have a clue.

Why is it so lazy not to include measurements?  Because you know size 42 doesn't necessarily mean 42 inches.  Even pants listed as 34 don't mean 34 inches.

When it comes to online shopping especially clothing, we are still in the stone age.  Sure the web site may be HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and all the cutting edge and the company spends a fortune on it but hey they can't tell you what a Large is.