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Producers of a new movie that appears to mock a real life killing are being chided by the angry friends of the victim. I mentioned in an earlier post that I’m amazed more people aren’t picking up on 30 Minutes Or Less being an obvious take on the Pizza Bomber case. The new Jesse Eisenberg movie is about a pizza delivery guy with a bomb strapped to him after he claimed to have been abducted and had it strapped on, with removal dependent on him successfully robbing a bank. Aziz Ansari-related laughs ensue. Except, not. Because neither protagonist is funny and because in 2003 someone was actually blown up that way. 46-year-old pizza man Brian Wells died in 2003, when a bomb strapped around his neck exploded after he tried to rob a bank. Conspiracy theories abound as to whether he was in on a robbery plot that went wrong. Police are blamed for the death, as they reportedly waited 30 minutes before calling the bomb squad and the collar detonated three minutes before they got there… Wells died while being filmed, but I’m not posting that video. In any case, his friends are p**sed at producers for profiting off his death. They tell TMZ.com ‘It’s stupid the movie is even coming out. Doesn’t Brian have a right to die? They’re blowing something up that should never have even happened in the first place and now they wanna make a joke out it … it’s really tragic.’ The movie’s reps are playing dumb. A rep for Columbia Pictures tells TMZ, ‘Neither the filmmakers nor stars the stars of 30 Minutes or Less were aware of this crime prior to their involvement in the film. The writers were vaguely familiar with what had occurred and wrote an original screenplay that does not mirror the real tragedy.’

Does Superman have a receding hairline? He’s got so much product in it, it’s hard to tell. This is the first time we’re seeing Henry Cavill in the role someone else was born to play. I’ve seen a lot of very muted responses to this first promotional picture from Warner Brothers. I’m yet to really hear a unanimous group of people who think this looks good. It isn’t a God-awful, Halloween store, budget clusterf**k like the televised Wonder-Woman reboot. But this still looks… off. First the hair thing. Second he looks like a super-hero creeper here… maybe it’s the facial expression but he’s looking a little rapey. Third the rubberiness/ clinginess of the costume. Idk. Maybe the reason he’s leaning over is so we avoid another super-penis like we had to endure with Extra-Emaciated Baby Spider ™.

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