Just watched it two weeks ago and I thought it was much better than the reviews gave it credit for. However, I do agree with some of the critics' comments. For example, I felt the romance was forced plus the kiss scene just felt off to me--it would have been more natural if they had just been friends in this film and they saved the romance for a sequel.

There were also some just plain weird scenes--Superman flies to his Mom's rescue but only plows down Zod while leaving his mom alone with five or six of Zod's officers...wtf?

I tried showing the movie to my 2.5 year old (she likes action movies) but the fighting and effects were a bit too realistic for her and she got too scared to watch it. Star Wars (the prequels and the Clone Wars series) are more her speed.

This is the guy who made his fortune by getting a loan from his mom, and then repackaging Shareware and Freeware (made by other people) onto CD's to sell in stores.

There's a statement in there about how dad views and treats mommy where the kid is more worried about his bike than his mom.

That's what I paid at Costco for a Snap-On (I went and looked at it, it's not the same) I was just making a half-assed attempt to discredit your line of reasoning since it seemed to be based on the existence of the pressure washer...

Which can be explained away:

1)He borrowed it.
2)He rented it.
3)He stole it from the guy who made the complaint to the police.
4)He bought it on Craigslist from the guy who stole it from the guy who made the complaint to the police.
5)It's cheaper than you think it is.
6)He's got lots of money, but his kid has to pay for his own damn car because there's no way the kid's getting his irresponsible, slacker, dopehead hands on dad's classic Camaro, his 20" lifted Sierra, AND ESPECIALLY NOT his mom's Lexus LS600h.

All of this is just my personal opinion.

I just keep thinking the kid is gonna walk away thinking his moms a liar and just intentionally scared the shit out of him. I don't think he would learn anything about consequences of bad behavior. Also I don't believe its worth the trade off of potentially damaging the trust of your child.

Just seems like an end justifies the means kind of argument. Parents who hit their children also justify it in the name of curbing bad behavior. It may work but imo also lazy and or bad parenting.

Im guessing the way one parents, or believes in what proper parenting is, has much to do about the way they were raised and varies greatly. I think most parents do the best they can.

... although i did laugh at first.

OK, OK... I know I'm talking to a person who can't see a kid's head hit the ground in a video where a kid's head clearly hits the ground but please do me one favor:

Look at the park layout from google maps that Eric posted above. Really zoom in and get a good look. What I see is a skate park on the left with some soccer fields further on and a parking lot on the right. In between, there's a narrow pathway leading from one part of the park to the other. That's why we see all those people walking through there in the video. They're not walking through the skate park, they're walking along a path.

Now, by your rational, this guy is allowed to skate wherever he wants in this park with no responsibility for running into anyone who happens to be walking through(since a toddler runs at about a normal person's walking speed, maybe a little faster). So I'm curious, where do you draw the line? Is this guy literally allowed to rail slide up the play equipment? Slalom between the swings? I really want to know where you think the line is. Are you really saying that the only path from one end of this overall park to the other runs right through the skate park portion of it? And everybody that walks through is supposed to expect skaters that aren't watching where they're going?

I only get so specific because a skateboard is a vehicle. You can ride one in many public places and I'm all for that but you bear a responsibility for hitting someone just like you would on a bike or in a car.

And I wasn't saying that the kid was running towards the picnic tables. I was saying that the skater was heading toward them, which it seems you agree with since you said the kid was running away from them. (BTW: Where do you get the idea that this kid "barrels out from behind an object?" What object?)

What it looks like to me is that this kid and his mom were coming from the north end, maybe the kid gets excited running to the play equipment on the south end when a guy, skating down the middle of the only path through the park, runs right fucking into him with a skateboard.

And the first reaction everyone has is to blame the kid and his mom? For running down a path through a park?

I like the one with his mom on the phone.

I used to teach kids to swim. A lot of kids were scared and we had to coax them in and get them swimming. There was one little toddler though who would swim EVERYWHERE. I couldn't stop him I just had to try and keep up. His mom spied on us one day and was scared that I was letting him swim to the bottom of a 12 foot pool, but also impressed.

Back in '86, I slept over at a friends house and we stayed up late watching this movie. When we got to this part, we started rewinding the tape and replaying it over and over again, laughing our asses off.

But what we forgot was my friend's parents had a Rabbit, which was a device that allowed you to wirelessly hook up multiple TVs to one VCR in the house, and his Mom had also been watching it in the back bedroom too. After the 14th replay, she finally came out and read us the riot act.

Good times.

Tell you what. If a news reporter comes up to me on the street, and asks me about something I have no idea about, I'm damn well gonna bullshit.

Hi Mom!

F REA K S H o W

Ok can we trust these factoids?

Letter mountain: Who commisioned it?
Ballooned form what weight after his mom died? Was he skinny then suddenly fat or on his way already? He's eating himself into an early grave who cares, fuck you.

Who cares when he was born or why he is a head of state? A state of what? Children with nuclear weapons? Who cares, fuck you.
Daddy paid his way into Switzerschool, free case-study for Jungian opportunists. All the better to fuck him with, SCORE 1 for the demise of Pok Choi. Maye he can get in the douchebag protection program.

Who hasn't been found with a bondage-porn magazine during an exam?: Non-information.

Scared of barbers and calling his new self-crop the, "Ambition?" Uh, paranioia, need more cocaine and advisers, maybe that chemist with the syringe of happy-splooge...

SO he used to be like a regular kid and then he got groomed for dad's seat because the other son was kinna weakly for wanting pussy...OOOooooKay. Son with no ambitions for fageena gets to play with bombs....Riiiiight.

Gotta give it up to his new propaganda campain
of bad-hollywood-nods with 30-yr-old CG technology, cheesy bastards are as cheesy bastards do, ad infinitude. He can't help it, he's retarded.

Plastic surgery to look like the first-Reich cunt?? Brilliant. Keep up the Shatner until you destory an entire culture, fuck you Kim, yer a cunt.

(Anyone well-versed in my rants on the NK clan will remember, I fear and grieve and always have for the people of Korea, north and south. We make fun of this cunt, but let other cunts tell us we need to let him live, and that's fucked.

Start with him, and work your way up to the rich white folks who run the world into the ground, and then you have a party.

Which button was it to call his mom?

His mom's reaction looked great-He's poised to find himself along the way just fine. He may be better off without the baggage of the Mormon cult but people get over religious indoctrination if they have a mind to evolve, which this guy looks like he's got.

You find love when you give love man, pretty, fat, gay or straight-Go hug somebody and climb outside of your own bullshits' a good way to start....

I hope it wasn't his mom that picked him up...

....Said he lived in Vegas with his mom-His profile pic was allegedly himself (at 16-yrs-old), sitting with a virgin Mai Tai-After reading his banter I imagined the kid (if he really was a kid) had an I.Q. of around 160