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To: BushCountry

wow...the WSJ didn’t give it a great review ...now the terrific review..i thought about going..now all the freepers that saw it that said its horrible....

Guess I won’t go, just because i hate endless carnage..anyone else see it that liked it or agreed with this review?


15 posted on 07/21/2012 7:00:12 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I’ll see it when it comes out on TV and don’t really care what critics think.

When I finally saw Avatar, I decided that it was visually stunning and great with music. The plot was idiotic, overdone, and made no sense to a critical thinker. The stone age natives drive the light speed capable humans off the planet yet the humans couldn’t nuke them from orbit. You know, just to be sure.


26 posted on 07/21/2012 7:09:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

The writer is smoking crack, or rather he’s seeing what he wants to see. Nolan wasn’t slamming occupiers (as if the occupy “movement” was even worthwhile enough to slam). He’s not criticizing anyone. The main villain, Bane, speaks with a preacher’s tongue and has a large coterie of selflessly devoted followers - features indicative of being ultimately driven by adherence to some sort of ideology. But if that’s the case, what is it? If you want to see him as driven by a variant of Marxism - you can; and if you don’t so desire you’re free to see otherwise; his rhetoric is kept scrupulously vague.

Nolan’s not trying to make a statement with his movie, he’s trying to entertain. That’s why there’s no shortage of explosions, and fistfights, and a latex clad babe performing high kicks. The movie flirts with ideas in order to create the illusion of depth; but ultimately anything you see therein is nothing but what you want to see. I have no doubt that some occupier has walked out of a movie theater this weekend convinced that Bane was the exact epitome of an extremist right winger who needed to put in his place by our socialist champion Bruce Wayne.


41 posted on 07/21/2012 7:40:53 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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