Movie review: The Ruins

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

A new (federally funded?) anti-marijuana movie has just come out of DVD and let me tell you, it's some great family entertainment.

(You have to skip past the first 30 minutes, which has the obligatory visible nipple, gambling, and two drunken greeks sleeping side by side (I don't have to tell you how suggesting THAT is!) This is a horror movie, so the standard "debauchery before the fall" template has to be followed. And that means for Christian viewers, the standard "fast-forward past the first 30 minutes" rule has to be followed.)

The story goes like this: after the aformentioned 30 minutes of debauchery, a group of elitist college students decide to end their vacation with a visit to a Mayan ruin. Obivous mistake there: as anyone who has seen Mel Gibson's Apocalypto knows, the Mayan civilization self-destructed. Liberals like that Jared Whatsisname who wrote "Collapse" claim that the Mayans cut down their trees and ruined their environment, but anyone who has been there knows there's trees everywhere. It's a JUNGLE. The Ruins shows us the TRUE reason: the Mayans didn't kill the weeds, the weeds killed the Mayans!

Specifically, reefers killed the Mayans. And then, they start killing the elitist college students, in some very entertaining ways. (You also get to watch a would-be illegal alien and a eurotrash kraut die as well).

The movie systematically debunks all the the pro-reefer propaganda out there:

Myth: Reefers can be used a medicine
Fact: Reefers will break your back and force people to amputate your legs with a knife and a blunt stone before cauterizing the stumps with a hot frying pan.

Myth: Unlike alcohol, Reefers make people content and peaceful
Fact: Reefers make people grab knives, cut themselves up like emosexuals, then stab their boyfriends to death.

Myth: Unlike alcohol, you can't overdose or get addicted to reefers
Fact: Reefer roots get under your skin and grow all over the place until you turn into a psychotic reefer-zombie

Myth: Jailing otherwise lawful people for possessing a scrap of a harmless plant is an unjust and wasteful use of the law enforcement and justice system
Fact: Take it from the local Mayans, the people who know cannabis best: the moment their kid touches a cannabis plant, they shoot him. No tears, no regrets. Take it from the experts, folks.

The special effects are spectacular: I don't know how they managed to make their plants look and behave so much like real cannabis, but they really did. See for yourself:

I don't know how much money the federal government spent on this masterpiece, but I can say this: it's taxpayer dollars well spent! Two thumbs up!

[Nobar King]

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I watched the movie, but all I saw was dancing marijuana plants. Am I high now? Where's the anti-drug message?

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

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I watched the movie, but all I saw was dancing marijuana plants. Am I high now? Where's the anti-drug message?

I should clarify: the still image on top is from the movie, The Ruins. The youtube video below it is actual footage of marijuana trying to strangle and devour the cameraman.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Is that what the marijuana does, squirm around like that? Amazing! I've never seen anything like that before in my life!

I hope I don't have any of those flashbacks.

[Ebenezer Wright]

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I had to back away from my computer! That video of the attacking marijuana is just to creepy.

[Brother Temperance]

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This looks like sterling stuff. I believe it could have great potential in developing aversion therapies to keep kids off the drugs - you know, like when you make little kids watch queer porno and then electrocute their tallywhackers. To this Godly end, I'd like to request that LBU funds my purchase of a dozen copies of the DVD.


And, um, certain other unspecified research materials.

[Brother_Percy]

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Our Government need to do more movies like this 'Ruins' - to warn Parents how dangerous this drug is to children.

Have a look at THIS -

[snottyduck]

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Our Government need to do more movies like this 'Ruins' - to warn Parents how dangerous this drug is to children.

Have a look at THIS -

That's the most crap loaded video I've seen in a long time. Pot does not give you suicidal behavior like shown in that idiotic video. They should better send addicted kids to the morgue and show them what drugs do to a human body, that's more effective than stupid movies nobody believes to begin with.

[Ebenezer Wright]

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That's the most crap loaded video I've seen in a long time. Pot does not give you suicidal behavior like shown in that idiotic video. They should better send addicted kids to the morgue and show them what drugs do to a human body, that's more effective than stupid movies nobody believes to begin with.

Everyone needs to stay away from this reefer! It apparently smells like a skunk and kills our youth at will.

[Brother Temperance]

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That's the most crap loaded video I've seen in a long time. Pot does not give you suicidal behavior like shown in that idiotic video.

Hmmm. You admit to smoking the drugs pipes, and you're a depressed, suicidal emo goth. That seems like pretty good proof to me.

[snottyduck]

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Hmmm. You admit to smoking the drugs pipes, and you're a depressed, suicidal emo goth. That seems like pretty good proof to me.

And where exactly do I say I do drugs?? I've been always against drugs but I'm clever enough to realize you can't stop it, it's too widespread for that. And depressed Emo?? Nah, being a depressed Emo is for kids.

[Nobar King]

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And where exactly do I say I do drugs??

If you don't do drugs then why do you know so much about them?

Anyway, we're here to warn people about the dangers of drugs and encourage them to look for better ways (Jesus) of altering their perception. You're just arguing with everything that is said here. How is that helping?

[Brother_Percy]

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Pot does not give you suicidal behavior like shown in that idiotic video.

From THIS evidence it's clear that Cannabis makes kids extremely violent - especially GOTHS! Take note, Snot!

Cannabis blamed for Goth murder!

CANNABIS is not a harmless recreational drug and may have played a role in the murder of schoolgirl Jodi Jones, a High Court judge said yesterday as he sentenced her killer to life in prison, with a minimum of 20 years.

In comments which have fed the debate over the safety of cannabis, Lord Nimmo Smith said he believed that, in some instances, cannabis can "seriously damage the mental processes of those who habitually consume it".

Giving Luke Mitchell the longest sentence ever passed on a youth in Scotland, Lord Nimmo Smith added: "I think it [cannabis] may well have contributed to your being unable to make the distinction between fantasy and reality, which is essential for normal moral judgments, and that this, along with other factors I have mentioned, may have meant that when you killed Jodi you were unable to recognise what a truly wicked deed this was."

The judge’s comments triggered strong reactions from those on both sides of the cannabis debate, with the Tories calling for the reversal of the drug’s reclassification.

Lord Nimmo Smith told Mitchell, 16, he believed cannabis was one of four factors that might have caused him to slit Jodi’s throat and mutilate her body. The other three were the teenager’s interest in satanism and in the rock star Marilyn Manson and by a character trait of a lack of emotion.

Lord Nimmo Smith said he thought Mitchell’s interest in satanism was a sign that he found "evil attractive" and thought "there might be a kind of perverted glamour in doing something wicked".

The judge conceded that he could not fathom why Mitchell, at the age of only 14, had committed one of the country’s worst murders. "Perhaps you do not even know yourself," he told the teenager.

Mitchell was convicted three weeks ago, by a majority verdict, of murdering Jodi, 14, his girlfriend, on 30 June, 2003, by striking her repeatedly with a knife in woods at Roan’s Dyke path, a short-cut between their homes in the Newbattle and Easthouses areas of Dalkeith, Midlothian.

Lord Nimmo Smith was required by law to impose a life sentence which, for someone of Mitchell’s age, is described as detention without limit of time. Also, he had to fix a "punishment part", the period that must be served before a murderer can even be considered for parole. In Scotland, 18 years had been the longest punishment part imposed on a teenage killer. Adults have received up to 30 years.

Lord Nimmo Smith said that nothing in background reports on Mitchell would have led anyone to think he was liable to commit such a serious crime although, with hindsight, aspects of his upbringing may have contributed. Without specifying those, the judge moved on to several points which had occurred to him.

"Over the past months, you have appeared before me on more than 50 separate occasions. On none of these do I recall having detected any sign of emotion in you.

"While this may not mean much in itself, it fits with evidence from other sources of a striking lack of emotion on your part. It may be that a lack of emotional response made you more readily able to inflict harm on others," said the judge.

"Your lack of emotion may account for the callous charade in which you pretended to help search for Jodi, and inflicted on members of her family the pain of the discovery of her body.

"I do not think that your interest in satanism can be ignored as mere adolescent rebellion. I think it is a sign that you found evil attractive and that you thought there might be a kind of perverted glamour in doing something wicked.

"I remain of the view that this is one of the worst cases of murder of a single victim to have come before this court in many years. If you were older, I would have no difficulty in deciding that the seriousness of the offence merited the imposition of a punishment part among the longest that there have been. It is only your age that has led me to decide that a lesser period will be appropriate ... 20 years."

The defence counsel, Donald Findlay, QC, said that, in spite of the jury’s guilty verdict, Mitchell continued to plead his innocence, and an appeal would be sought. "As long as that young man maintains to me he did not kill Jodi, the fight to clear his name will go on," Mr Findlay said. He had submitted that the Luke Mitchell he knew was not the Luke Mitchell who, the jury said, committed this awful crime.

"He is intelligent and I have never found him other than courteous and respectful ... a polite, charming and actually quite entertaining young lad," Mr Findlay said.

Last night, politicians and drugs campaigners said Lord Nimmo Smith’s warning on cannabis should be heeded.

Annabel Goldie, the Tory justice spokeswoman, demanded a reversal of the reclassification.

She said: "Maybe all those who have claimed that cannabis was a harmless drug will sit up and take notice of Lord Nimmo Smith. Maybe, too, the Labour government will think again about the ridiculous reclassification of cannabis. The Tories have pledged to restore it as a class B drug should we win the general election."

Alistair Ramsay, director of Scotland Against Drugs, said the judge’s comments highlighted the danger. "It has been known for some time that the strength of cannabis available on the streets can produce paranoia which will often have unfortunate consequences," he said.

[snottyduck]

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If you don't do drugs then why do you know so much about them?

Anyway, we're here to warn people about the dangers of drugs and encourage them to look for better ways (Jesus) of altering their perception. You're just arguing with everything that is said here. How is that helping?

I know so much about them because I did quite some research around the subject, you don't have to use them to actually know about stuff like that.

And trust me, if you want to encourage people to look for a better way then you may be sure It won't help by showing crappy movies about how bad this stuff if. That doesn't work at all. People are already numbed down by all the things they see on TV, so some half ass movie just doesn't cut it.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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That's the most crap loaded video I've seen in a long time. Pot does not give you suicidal behavior like shown in that idiotic video. They should better send addicted kids to the morgue and show them what drugs do to a human body, that's more effective than stupid movies nobody believes to begin with.

You forget, these people think "Reefer Madness" was a documentary.