"un-rated"

So I netflixed Stepbrothers last night and as many movies these days I was given the choice bettween the verision in theaters or the "extended version".

The various verisions have really gotten out of hand with movies.

Before the reason for extended versisons of films were because the movie was beloved and the director cut stuff for time. Many people really took notice of this because deleted scenes in many movies would surface when they started airing on the networks. Back than people used a device called VCR to record stuff off tv. Many people (my family included) would tape movies that way. So,we had movies taped off of tv. They would be edited for content but many times they would Actually ADD scenes rather than delete them like they do now.

Films such as Back to the Future, Jaws, and the Naked Gun were shown with various of extra scenes. The Naked Gun had an insane amount of deleted stuff put back in, in order to bump up the running time shortened by scenes removed that wouldnt clear the network standards.

Now, they have Unrrated verisions which people always thing are dirtier. They aren't automatically. All it really means is the dudes that sit down and give a movie a rating G, PG, PG-13 or R before it goes to theaters, didnt watch a recut verision of the film. Sometimes it has stuff that would have bumped it up the ratings later. Other times it might just be an extended shot, some extra G rated stuff that was simply not in the presented cut of the film.

Now we also have movies on DVD with totally different endings than people that paid the $10 to see them in theaters. In fact I saw two verisions of 28 days later, that when I saw the sequel I couldnt remember what the REAL ENDING was. Sometimes these verisions have cool stuff that was cut (the older movies people love are hot sellers cause its new footage for beloved filmS) but sometimes its totally different ending. I saw so-so comedy with Zack Braff called The Ex (once titled FAsttrack) that had the one charcter a fraud in one verision and the other one legitmately handicapped.

There is a big difference though for a movie you already saw and never saw. Was the underrated verision of Stepbrothers any better? I have no idea I went with the original verision that I had also never seen. I figured that is the verision everyone saw. But now I hear the extended verision of the exteremly funny Forgetting Sarah Marshal was even Funnier, when I opted for theater verision.

What verision do most people go with when the netflix or are old fashion and rent the movie from a store given the opiton on a film you NEVER saw?

"Best Baseball Team in the History of All Baseball Teams?!"

So some one at work's husband is a big Yankees fan.
She told me he is all excited that they signed someone. Normally I would just tell her how terrible the Yankkes are and they are evil. Instead I simply said, ask him who the world champs are.

Kind of like Jays post on the crew blog last month. I find myself still a fan, but not really caring.

Of course everyone knows I am:
Flyers
PHillies
Eagles
Sixers (could care less)

So, at least I still have the anticpation of my #1 team winning in it all.

But as far as the PHils go, it makes me not want to even give anyone a hard time. I mean what is to get upset about? We did it. We won.

People are talking about who to sign.
I am like who cares we are the world champs!?!?
How could we get better. We are better than the entire world. If we dont win the word series this year we are just like every other baseball team that doesnt win back to back. Perfectly normal. I dont think I would even be that angry when we get eliminated.

I will be like, well we won last year. So big deal. That is my championship! I was at a good age for it. Still young enough to party all weekend and old enough to call it mine and have it mean more with all the seasons leading up to it.

I could care less about Chase being hurt to start the season. Dont care what pitchers we sign. I will be watching games again of course and plan on attending quite a few. Dont get me wrong I am still a fan. But, if things go wrong I will not be able to get mad. Its hard to explain. BUy them all out ? who cares ? we won already. I just dont see how I can even get mad all season long at this team. Happy when they win, but if they lose. Eh, whatever. Which is different than living and dying I did the last several seasons. I knew they would win the world series pretty early into the postseason last year.


I dont care if the Yankees sign Superman, who cares the Phils won!

Now lets get a Stanley Cup!

"Duke of Tampa"

So I just found out Duke will not return to NJ for the holidays. Jay thinks he will be back about as often as the Olympics.

We will have truely lost him to the sunshine state.

I plan on going down there in March to attend Spring TRaining for the WORLD CHAMPS---The Phillies.

While I am down there I plan to crack Duke on the Noggin and drag him back to the Garden State. That is the only way I am getting him back the colder weather.

I will leave a note to his future wife (or sender of Christmas cards) that Duke died on his way back to space.