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Honda Display at the 2013 Denver Auto Show
Mar 25th
We check out the new Honda cars on the Denver Auto Show floor, the Honda Accord, Honda Fit and Honda Pilot.
2013 Honda Accord – The All new Ninth Generation Honda Accord offers a new direct inject Earth Dreams engine in standard, automatic and hybrid powertrains,. It’s less bulky in styling and has improved interior features like HondaLink for connecting on the road with your smart phone and favorite social media accounts. Generation after generation the Honda Accord has offered its buyers reliable transportation with the added lilt of fun-to-drive attributes missing from other midsize cars. This new-gen Accord evolves that theme with two fuel-efficient gasoline engines, both four-door and two-door body styles, plus innovative features like a side-view camera that supplements the passenger-side mirror.
Honda Fit – With our countless technological innovations and legendary, race-inspired engines, Honda has always roared ahead of the curve. The Honda Fit has always been known for its nimble handling and comes in 5 door or 100% EV electric models.
Honda Pilot – The 2013 Pilot has a stylish, upscale look, both inside and out. The interior layout is comfortable and easy to use, while the exterior design will complement any driveway. Innovative features inside make for plenty of good times. And the large interior, fold-flat seats and multiple storage bins provide exceptional utility for this powerful performer.
“This Is 40” Can Just Be Skipped
Dec 30th
“Can Just Be Skipped”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
This Is 40 is written and directed by Judd Apatow, and some are calling it a sequel to his 2007 Knocked Up, but it is only an elaboration of two of the characters in that earlier movie.
Paul Rudd plays Pete, and Leslie Mann plays Debbie, and she also happens to be Apatow’s wife.
Pete and Debbie have two daughters, Sadie, who is 13, and Charlotte, who is 8, and they also happen to be the real daughters of Apatow and his wife.
But before you start thinking, “Oh, isn’t that nice,” be aware that the language used by the two girls is so profane that they wouldn’t even be allowed to see their own movie in the theater.
Not that they, or anyone else, for that matter, should want to see this movie.
Pete and Debbie are both turning 40 in the week of December 5, and the movie opens with a scene of both of them in the shower, but the conclusion is not expected, and we hear, “That is the worst birthday present you could ever give anyone.”
Yes, the beginning is gross, but supposed to be funny, which could also be said about the entire movie.
Then we get a cliche scene about Debbie’s birthday cake, which claims that Debbie is only 38, and Pete explains to the daughters that their mother doesn’t want to be 40, and so the cake indicates 38.
You couldn’t write this stuff, and if you read a recent story about Apatow, it might not have been written, because the story says that Apatow likes to shoot a lot of footage of the actors improvising the scene, and if Apatow thinks the improvisation is good, he will go back and keep shooting the scene with the new ideas until he has what he wants.
And even then, that scene might not make it into the final cut.
Meanwhile, back to the movie, we see Pete planning his own elaborate birthday party, Debbie having to figure out if one of her employees is stealing money from the store, the girls constantly fighting while being obsessed about watching episodes of the old “Lost” television series, many references to modern celebrities and excessive use of modern technology, and disjointed scenes that don’t really fit together.
This Is 40 can just be skipped.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”