plemur
Meh.
Lighten up for a moment folks..
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ro...Canucks+tribute+with+video/8788099/story.html
I'm really starting to hate how much I'm starting to like Loungo.
Lighten up for a moment folks..
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ro...Canucks+tribute+with+video/8788099/story.html
Yeah man! #freejahar
In serious though if this is the type of person you respect, you're ****ed in the head.
How about the story on senior IRA members flying in to Canada and being met by Southie and Charlestown mobsters who were in Montreal via the Bruins tour bus....they would coordinate travel and meet ups based on the Bruins trips- flying in from Ireland into Canada because they were not admitted into the US because of prior transgressions.
Apparently this is in the book by Kevin Cullen who has been on the case for the Globe and was a guest with Dale this morning- just heard it on WEEI on demand....what a story. Many of the Boston based guys who apparently were funnelled explosives and guns from and including a rougue FBI agent loved their Bruins and explosives. The Boston guys would buck up and see who gets to stay in Montreal and go on a bender and watch the Bruins, the others had to 'work'...yikes
Hey, I hate that guys post as much as anyone.
But lots of people love movies or shows like the Godfather, Sopranos, Goodfellas etc etc. Given the way our culture is it should be no shock that he has his fans.
Lighten up for a moment folks..
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ro...Canucks+tribute+with+video/8788099/story.html
But that stuff is make believe. This ******* is real life.
There is nothing heroic, noble, or admirable about this pos.
Yeah I don't disagree.
I am just making a point. THere are people who love mob movies, the culture, the aura etc in the same way that you and I love hockey. Its many peoples favorite genre of entertainment for them. Just because I might prefer a nice happy movie like Dumb and Dumber (my fav movie) to Goodfellas doesn't mean plenty of people don't like Goodfellas and have that as their favorite movie.
And... maybe people's favorite entertainment will carry strong emotional attachments just like our favorite entertainment (Bruins) do? Especially when you know for a fact that you are never going to become a proffesional mob killer, it makes it easier to romanticize and live vicariously through fictitious characters you know aren't real.
These guys are creeps and bullies and they are men who made large amounts of money because they are willing to do awful things 99% percent of regular people are not. Nothing more nothing less. And I am doing nothing more than being transparent and non hypocritical when I point out the fact that entertainment which encourages and glamourizes behavior like Bulgers is both put on a pedestal and thrown in people's faces. The guys who tell on mobsters and put them behind bars aren't glamourized in any movies, nor are the cops, nor are the innocent people who are murdered.
And I am someone who more often than not agrees with the unpopular party to the public in circumstances like this. I personally don't think Hernandez killed Oden Lloyd. I am 99% certain he didn't pull the trigger or organize and execute his murder. But I also know he is not completely innocent in the eyes of the law of any wrong doing. I know for a fact his hands are dirty in some way shape or form. And to me I don't know where I stand and what he deserves because obviously he was an accessory to a certain level, obviously he knows what happened, and obvoiusly he has to lie. Doesn't make him a murderer though and I hope he beats that charge (but not other necessarily.)
I think can figure out what happened and I think it was that as Lloyd became someone Hernandez trusted (dating the sister etc) he betrayed that trust and Hernandez felt he had to scare him. And then Lloyd pulled when Hernandez and his friends tried to scare him and teach him a lesson and ended up getting killed for doing so.
I brought up the Hernandez situation because I to many people just made tasteless post like Whiskey Seven did saying I think he's innocent. To most people it doesn't matter that my thoughts and opinions are plausable, I am defending a murderer.
And if people dont see the disconnect between movies, TV shows, etc. And real life...then theyre messed up in the head too.
Yeah Whitey, major props and respect for killing those women! Molesting 16 year olds, so badass!
I love the sopranos, scarface, godfather, and stuff like that...but I dont love, respect, or even want to breathe the same air as someone like Whitey Bulger.
So you love the depiction of that lifestyle in movies/tv but hate the real life occurrences that go along with that lifestyle, does it just become to real for you? Personally, the characters in fictional mob movies/shows (a genre that never really interested me anyway) strike me as just as big of cowards as the ones who do it in real life and just glamorize the lifestyle. Then that creates the fascination with Whitey and even those who have "mad respect" for him.
my wife loves horror moives but I am pretty sure she dosen't support every day real life murderers.
there is a difference between reality and entertainment.
I like mob movies - I don't like what real mobsters do to innocent people.
Yes I get the difference but thing is the idea of the mob and in turn mob movies were not just some imagined idea. It has roots in reality, and the reality it is rooted in is not pretty.
Goodfellas wasn't make believe. It was based on Henry Hill.
I said it in another topic but I saw one of the rappers on the label I work at shout out Bulger on is Instagram account saying "Free Uncle Whitey" Some people were responding how he is a "snitch" or w/e others didn't know who he was I tried to educate and say watch "Bullets over Boston"
I just found it funny a rapper would shout out Bulger. You know cuz of how South Boston's history of treating minorities Doubt the rapper knew that tho.
and the Departed was based on Whitey. doesn't mean it was not a good movie even though he is a *******.
The Departed was very loosely based on Whitey but it is really a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs.
So you love the depiction of that lifestyle in movies/tv but hate the real life occurrences that go along with that lifestyle, does it just become to real for you? Personally, the characters in fictional mob movies/shows (a genre that never really interested me anyway) strike me as just as big of cowards as the ones who do it in real life and just glamorize the lifestyle. Then that creates the fascination with Whitey and even those who have "mad respect" for him.