A priest, minister, rabbi, Polish guy, and a duck walk into a bar. The bartender says "Hey, what is this, some kind of joke?".

On Labor Day, I went to see Exorcist: The Beginning. I guess that makes it the last of the summer movies. I had low expectations, but it turned out better than expected. Certainly much better than the sequel that came out a few years after the original. The sequel was not only incomprensible, but even worse it was boring. In The Beginning, the priest, who was the older priest in the Exorcist, has his first contact with the evil demon or demons. He has lost his faith during the brutality of World War II and no longer believes. After confronting the demon, his faith is restored in the power of God. The special effects were kind of cheesy, but the plot was at least much clearer than in the sequel. I particularly liked the performance of the Priest as he goes from someone who is embarrassed by his earlier devotion to God, into someone who feels the presence of God and is strengthened by it. In todays world it is very easy to lose ones faith. At times, it seems like God is very distant. But when that happens, it is good to realize that God hasn't really moved, we have. I just wish that more films displayed priests as role models, rather than the Dirty Harry, Rambo, and Kill Bill types. Killing everyone in site is not the solution.

I went to see Wicker Park at the St. Louis Mills theaters. What a horrific piece of trash. I don't know exactly where Wicker Park is located in Chicago, but I hope that I never go there. The main character, I don't recall his name let's call him Loser1, is about to get married, but he thinks he sees his old girlfriend, lets call her Bitch1. He decides to skip going to China for a huge account deal that he's just been offered and track her down. He tells his new girlfriend, Bitch2 that he met in New York, that he's actually taking the trip, so she'll stay out of his hair. He proceeds to dump on his best friend, let's call him Loser2, while stalking Bitch1 by breaking into both her hotel room and her apartment, stealing notes from other boyfriends, and cheating on his fiancee with Bitch3 who actually owns the apartment and has designs on Loser1. Bitch3 strings along Loser2 so that she can get close to Loser1 while stabbing Bitch1 in the back by stealing her boyfriend. Eventually, Loser2 introduces Bitch3 to Loser1 whom he has slept with in attempt to find Bitch1. Bitch3 admits that she interfered because she was hoping to get rid of her old boyfriend Loser3 who has been stalking her and become Bitch1 to Loser1 who she's been stalking. Bitch1 meanwhile is on her way to London for no apparent reason. When Bitch3 tells Loser1 where she is, Loser 1 catches a taxi to the airport while Bitch3 tells Loser2 that it's over between them even though he hasn't even laid her yet which makes him feel like a bigger loser because Loser3 got to sleep with her and he only has 30 seconds of screen time. In the end, Loser1 dumps his fiancee Bitch2 who verbally emasculates him, and rehooks up with Bitch1 where they both cry together at the airport. I predict that they will proceed to conceive Bastard1, get married, get divorced, and live out their lives continually trying to find someone who loves them as much as they love themselves. Loser1 will have long since lost his job because of the China fiasco and have to sell hotdogs at Wicker Park. Bitch1 will lose her dancer's body after Bastard1 is born and resort to selling Mary Kay products. Loser2 will become a pimp for Bitch2 and Bitch3 and live comfortably in Shaumburg, while Loser3 will disappear altogether in some Indiana cornfield. Wicker Park will be renamed George W. Bush park.