You ungrateful $%*@

With this week's release of The Pursuit of Happiness I decided I would rant about why I refuse to ever see that movie.

First off, I hate sappy "inspirational" movies, even if they are based on real life events. Life is an uphill battle and you have to fight for every inch you get. I don't want to see some chump get lucky and fall ass-backwards into money, love, achievement, or whatever he falls into that is supposed to be so "inspirational." Lets make a movie about someone who never finds true love, is miserable, goes from job to job, never has money, lives in a shitty apartment, and never "figures it out" and finds happiness. Now that movie I would see.

Secondly, Chris Gardener (Will Smith's character) was born and raised in Milwaukee and attended MPS schools until he went to Chicago and someone fell ass-backwards into a great job and climbed the ladder. This spring MPS high schools are putting together a Leadership Conference for youths to attend and gain experience in leadership. They are looking for a guest speaker to come in and inspire the students. It was thought to try to get Chris Gardner to come and speak, seeing how succesful his movie was he was from MPS originally. MPS was then told by his "reps" that his speaking charge was $30,000 and no discount for MPS. Hey asshole, way to forget where you came from, nice. There's nothing like pretending that you want to motivate and inspire others to find the same success as you did, and then hiding behind your money. Charging $9 a head to see the movie and then charging $30,000 to speak. "Hey I made is out successfully, why would I care if anyone else does." Didn't anyone tell you that you shouldn't forget where you came from.

Well, a wise man once said, "What goes around, comes around."