Posted on 12/21/2009 1:27:57 PM PST by AreaMan
My wife got pissed at me after we saw dances with wolves because I said at the end of it that if I were a soldier I would hunt that bastard to the ends of the earth and string him up at the first available tree for helping the Indians kill the troopers at the end. But hey, that’s just me. ;^)
Think I'll skip this one................
I won’t see this movie, at least I won’t pay to see it — but ‘unobtainium’? Seriously? I despise that all video games are made for the 9-13 year old intellect and that just simply wreaks of hollywood talking down to us stupid people — trying to edumucate us on that thar kommunism thingy majig.
"Beowolf" was all that and cool!
Your comments and responses seem to be brief, cryptic and bereft of any kind of meaning.
To which I respond:
"There was once a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first."
Thomas Carlyle
I haven't seen Avatar yet but I'll probably see it once just to check out the visual effects. The big question will be whether people want to see it again and again, and how it plays on DVD.
Dont forget the 1911.
Avatar sounds truly billous.
It was ok, 162 minutes of cliche though. I just have this feeling that the Weelky Standard - DailyKos Alliance versus the evil isolationist tea party yahoos might not last too long after reading Poddies review.
"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! - of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
Winston Churchill
My wife wants to see “The Blind Side”, but I heard that it is basically a story of a poor black, underpriveleged boy being helped by a typical rich, white family, out of a sense of ‘white guilt’ and the black boy faces discrimination from all the other whites, but the white mother just complains that everyone should show tolerance, again showing white racism against blacks.
Is any of this true?
I am so tired of every black person being shown as a victim and every white person shown as the racist oppressor. On the other hand, my wife has heard that it is a movie with a conservative Christian theme. What is your take on the movie?
Took my 11-year-old son to the 3D version at the IMAX (best part was the new memory foam seats!) I was a bit worried about the anti-miltary, enviro-kookiness basis of the film having a negative effect on him. When we were leaving, he just said “I loved those machine-guns!”
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!
I assume your hyperbolic comparison of Shakespeare to this steaming pile was just to make a point.
So, from my comment that is all you were able to discern?
All I said is don't ignore that all art pushes a world view.
but...
If Shakespeare were alive and well and was using his royalties to finance a philosophy that hated America, the military, capitalism etc...then no, I wouldn't PURCHASE any Shakespeare and put money in the pocket of that monarchist skidmark.
Sometimes a movie IS just a movie.
I saw the 3D version of “Avatar” on Friday night and loved it. Once you get past the obnoxious 3D goggles (I wear glasses), the movie is beautiful. It’s detailed and I kept wanting to see more plants and animals, especially the “DaVince Bug” as my son described it.
At the risk of defending a bland plot...a thicker one would’ve weighed down the movie. There was so much to see on a second-to-second basis that one more involved would’ve bogged it down. Cameron needed a villian so he fell back on the good ol’ “corporate military” standby, but the reasoning was so thin I forgot about it and just thoroughly enjoyed the visuals. I had no problem with 10’ blue aliens (but my favorite characters are Kermit the frog, Pilot from Farscape...) and watching them move was amazing.
Please don’t let politics keep you home. This is a must-see on the big screen, and as a loyal conservative I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The only war flick worse than Apocalypse Now was the Deerhunter.
Maybe he'll grow up to design some of those.
I remember someone say the same thing about that silly film "Star Wars".
Lighten up Francis.
Ya gotta admit...with that 1911 he sure looked the part. Great role!
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