Okay, I tried this before with Howie Carr and it almost worked when people really thought I was Ernie Boch’s grandson. But the point was made.
Now it’s time to make another point. Nobody should be making a movie called Patriots Day which glorifies the way the police handled the situation after the first responders got everyone to the hospital.
But Mark Wahlberg is. Based on Ed Davis. Really Ed? Really?
No bows should be taken by anyone yet Wahlberg plans on spinning a fiction making local cops look like heroes.
If this movie is made the blow back will be swift. Everyone knows how much the police screwed up. No need for me to repeat what I’ve stated on here many times.
Harvard wrote a report detailing the ineptness and wondered how on earth the T cop was the only injury from the thousands of rounds of friendly fire during the two episodes.
I hate to break the news to you folks but every person in America west of exit 11 on the Mass Pike hates Boston; with a passion.
We have become the Donald Trump of American cities. Boasting, boasting, boasting. Nobody does it better than us. Boston Strong. Yankees Suck! Go Bruins, Southie, Kelly’s Roast Beef, three deckers, and even the faux Irish. I’m tired of it.
You know what? Nobody is more Boston than me and I really hate it now. Capiche?
Why? Because it’s been hi-jacked by Mark Wahlberg, Boston Strong, and this phoney neo-Boston cartoonish persona given steroids by Hollywood and lapped up by us locals. So much so we heave lost a good amount od self-respect and now most of the country laughs at us not with us.
Anyway Marky Mark and his director Peter Berg are making the rounds and buying everyone off. Writing checks to Boston police funds and hob-knobbing with Bill Evans on down.
And Marky ain’t kidding. He’s casting real actors to play real cops. Like the corrupt Danny Keeler; Wahlberg is going to make America believe he’s Andy Taylor wrapped around Sherlock Holmes.
It has to stop. Has anyone made a movie of Custer in which he looked good on his last day? No. Because as we all know Custer sucked that day. Didn’t bring his A-game.
Just like the BPD, MA State Police, Watertown Police, MBTA Police and anyone else who fired a gun in Watertown on either day.
And don’t forget the idiots who led the search yet failed to check the boat.
And there’s the mounting evidence that the FBI knew who these guys were but wouldn’t say. Then they released the pics with the intent of drawing them out and hopefully getting them killed by the men in blue.
Had they not done that the young MIT officer would not have been killed.
And don’t forget the assassination in Orlando/
Soooo, here’s what I wanna do. Flood the right people with tweets. Pass the word. Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Mayor Walsh, Commissioner Evans, Watertown PD, the MASS ACLU (shelter in place should not be glorified) the production company and the distributor. The people who worry about the money also take negative tweets and pushback seriously.
It’s a numbers game
You can cut and paste the following and tweet. It’s fits. Has a link to this post and u still get 4 extra characters.
#BostonSaysNoMarathonMovie @Mark_Wahlberg @BostonPolice @marty_walsh @ACLU_MASS @CBSFilms @Lionsgate @ernieboch3 http://bluemassgroup.com/2016/03/use-twitter-and-hollywood-and-wahlberg-and-others-that-we-dont-want-the-phony-marathone-bombing/
Link to twitter and please pass it on.
P.S. This is not the same movie now being made about Jeffry Bauman. I love that kid.
SomervilleTom says
Kelly’s was ok a generation ago when it was a walk-up on Revere Beach.
Today, it’s just another fast-food franchise, no better than any other. If you’re looking for something like the original Kelly’s experience, check out Bill and Bob’s in Salem. Great roast-beef sandwich, great sides, and a great view of Salem Harbor from the harbor-side parking lot and picnic tables.
TheBestDefense says
IDK about Bill & Bob’s but I took my family to Revere for the clams whenever I could. Pack the kids in the car and eat outside. Today, I would not go to Kelly’s under any circumstances.
JimC says
But it’s not the same without bits of Revere Beach sand in it.
lodger says
Salem harbor is around the corner, and Marblehead harbor around the next.
You ‘re right about B&B’s. An institution… and they don’t cheat on their taxes like another north shore Roast Beef spot.
SomervilleTom says
When I’m parked at the edge of a harbor in Salem and eating great a great roast beef sandwich and rings (NEVER fries, for me at least), then it’s “Salem Harbor”.
You’re absolutely correct, though, that it is actually Beverly Harbor that unfolds its magnificent panorama from those tables.
jconway says
Hadn’t eaten there in six years and but I got dad lunch there yesterday and it came to $23 for two people, and that’s with splitting a small fry and getting 2 small drinks. Billy’s in Wakefield down the street from our house is better and cheaper, and as a Salem native he’s taken me to Bill and Bobs many a time. I used to watch the old drawbridge from there back when I was real little.
Rumor has it Portillos will be going national and coming to Boston, and it would definitely give the local roast beef purveyor a run for its money.
Christopher says
…though the historian in me says that if you are going to make a movie set in Massachusetts called “Patriots Day” it had better be about Lexington and Concord!
Pablo says
Longfellow couldn’t rhyme it, but the bloodiest fighting on April 19 1775 took place in what is now Arlington.
Christopher says
…which is why we all no the name of the ride who DIDN’T make it to Concord!
Christopher says
Must not be awake yet. Of course the above should say “we all KNOW the name” (and ride should be rider).
jconway says
Dragged my ma and granma there plenty of times and loved the re-enactment. Arlington puts on the finest Patriots Day parade in my opinion, for what it’s worth. Beats the hell out of Lexington’s, that’s for sure.
fredrichlariccia says
followed by pancake breakfast. When friends visit from out of state that’s where I take them. Then I give them a personally guided tour along Battle Road to Concord with stops at The Wayside home of Nathaniel Hawthorn, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Emerson, Thoreau et al. Most are buried at Sleepy Hollow cemetery where I’d spend long summer days reading their master works.
Fred Rich LaRiccia
fredrichlariccia says
marking the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1775.
When I was an undergraduate at Northeastern University majoring in American history and working my way through on the Co-op plan was a park ranger at Minuteman National Park in Concord giving tours at the Old North Bridge in Concord. Best job I ever had.
” By the rude bridge that arched the flood there the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON
To this day there is town rivalry between Lexington and Concord as to where the war actually began. The British killed colonials on Lexington green but they didn’t suffer casualties until the Americans pushed them back at the Concord bridge.
P.S. I have always believed that it was that rabble rouser revolutionary Sam Adams or one of his spies that fired that first shot at Lexington green. Adams was in the area at the time and when he heard the fighting start said : ” Oh, what a glorious day” or words to that effect.
Fred Rich LaRiccia
jconway says
And the next ten like it.
hesterprynne says
…Mark Wahlberg not only intends to build that movie, he also intends to make Massachusetts pay for it.
Andrei Radulescu-Banu says
Remember the overreaction with police shooting in Watertown, that left a cop hurt for life? The lockdown order issued for Boston and Watertown by Gov. Patrick, when Barack Obama had to call the good Governor to remind him that “the lockdown could not last indefinitely”?
Or the unsolved triple murder in Waltham? The still unsolved Todashev affair in Florida?
No doubt the Walhberg movie will showcase all this. Or, it could be the usual film of the gun slingers, by the gun slingers and for the gun slingers. (But funded by Massachusetts taxpayers.)
petr says
… you’re phony Boston and you’re phony brave hiding behind somebody elses name: shitting on everybody who’s at least out there using there own names.
So go fuck yourself.
johnk says
it’s Hollywood. Nothing is factually correct, it’s a story not a documentary. It’s “based on a true story”.
I haven’t even watch The Departed or half of the other Boston movies. Can’t watch the same thing over and over again myself. Anyone see Argo. Do you think that’s the exact story?
kirth says
The same Hollywood that turned the cold-blooded killer Wyatt Earp into a hero, and has made innumerable movies and TV shows excusing and even glorifying torture and routine violations of civil rights now wants to celebrate a local clustercop fiasco. Led by *former* racist bad-boy Mark Wahlberg, no less. We don’t need this but Wahlberg, the cops, and Hollywood do, so it’s going to happen. Since Watertown declined the honor of being in the film, Peabody has apparently chosen to stand in.