Posted on 01/09/2010 2:43:32 PM PST by MindBender26
Original subtitle: “Wall Street and Dick Cheney Kill the Smurfs”
The Unattainium term was juvenile as was the use of the Bush-era reference “Shock and Awe”.
I agree. Same for Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Pearl Jam, Springsteen, and on and on. I often say that if I limited my entertainment choices to only those artists with whom I agree politically, I'd be watching and listening to a lot of crap.
So I'll happily enjoy their art and roll my eyes when they start running their mouths.
There is a word for folks who are mesmerized by special effects: children.
Ditto. I always laugh at the people who urge us to see some flick with a weak story line because of the special effects. That's like listening to a symphony orchestra with nice, shiny instruments played by great musicians, but the music is lousy.
I groaned inwardly when I saw Nora Ephron was the screenwriter. I was not disappointed. The anti-conservative barbs were predictably stupid..."if I was a Republican, I would have fired you." I had to be silent because I watching the flick with my step-daughter who is hard-core lib. I doubt she even noticed the anti-Republican statements.
The key: “... get a big buttered popcorn, a drink, kick back, let your mind drift...” What, exactly, are you recommending I drink, PB? ‘Cause, as a buddy & I have posited, if you are drunk enough, every movie’s a fairly-well-made comedy. I’m guessing “The Blue Pocahantas, or The Last Samurai Dances with Ferngully Wolves in Space” would go best with a couple-two-t’ree of the standard well-rummed Coca Colas.
If you have to get drunk to have a good time - have at it.
When I go to the movies I have a Coke with my popcorn.
“If you have to get drunk to have a good time - have at it.”
From what I’ve read, and what a moviefan friend has told me, getting a little drunk may be the key for a fat, old, bald guy like me enjoying the big, blue, cat people.
“....getting a little drunk may be the key for a fat, old, bald guy like me enjoying the big, blue, cat people....”
Be sure to wear your raincoat.
:-)
And no doubt an advertising campaign budget bigger that the last top ten movies all put together.
Apocalypto was an EXCELLENT movie!
As an aside anyone else notice what’s missing in every review of this movie? It’s any mention of the music. Most blockbusters have at least one song that sells or is fairly good. This seems to have none.
That was actually a double happy ending, i.e. the slave-raider crew gets whacked and THEN the honkeys arrive in ships to end the cannibalism and devil worship. It can’t get better than that.
My teenage daughter took me to see the movie just like recent Star Wars and Batman sequels, and I didn’t think of it as anti-American per se. It seems to me that the military force was an international mining company with mercenaries from all over, and the hero is the only person specifically identified as an American (the wounded Marine), although I could have missed some references. Like I am sure other viewers, I kept thinking of historical analogues, like the Spanish explorers in Mexico, and Mongols killing entire cities of 100,000. So, beyond all the special effects which we saw without 3-D stuff, it just seemed to me to be about human nature and not a political statement.
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