Posted on 07/05/2005 7:47:27 PM PDT by CaptIsaacDavis
Are you kidding me?
I agree with what's up! Batman Begins was an anonomous genre movie with no personality to speak of.
What disappointed you about the current Batman movie?
Um...no it isn't. The film is clearly set in the fall. Is the author confusing this movie with Independence Day?
Oh please. Bill the Galactic Hero is a satire of Starship Troopers.
The movie was a lame hacky attempt by a pathetic self aggrandizing liberal hollywierd screenwriter (or a comittee of the same) to overlay his own pathetic ideologies and weak criticisms of a work he neither understood, nor probably even read. Calling it a "satire" is just an equally lame attempt to explain away the crappy insult to the audience (not to mention R.A. Heinlein) that resulted. It was hardly "brilliant" by any definition.
That article really has a Lyndon Larouche feel.
I don't idolize the past greats because I don't see them as "past." Their work still lives and remains vital. Citizen Kane is still a great movie. Faulkner is still a great writer. And I expect as much from movie makers and writers today as I expect from those who lived 50, a 100 or 400 years ago. Guys working today may have a different written or visual vocabulary, but I refuse to accept that art has to devolve under the burdens of money and international markets.
And it seemed lifeless thereafter as well.
I understand that fans of the novel didn't like it. But director Paul Verhoweven is a satirist. The whole thing was made in the form of a fascist propaganda movie. It's a big goof. The characters were played by blond blue eyed bleached Aryan types. All by design. It's also a formally adept piece of filmmaking. Remember the same director made Robocop.
And while I'm at it, what the hell does "hollywood elite" mean, anyway?
I do not regret seeing it, but I was dissapointed overall. Maybe I was just expecting too much.
I couldn't have said it better. That first act in Bhutan was painfully dull. And Nolan can't stage fight scenes to save his life.
I don't know it's a stupid term. So is 'Hollyweird'. Do they talk about the New York elite or the Chicago Elite?
This essay is simply awful.
You actually read the essay?
You're kidding, right?
I'll quote Laura Ingraham:
Elite is a state of mind. It doesn't mean working in a particular profession, living in a special place, or making a certain amount of money. When I talk about the elite in New York and Hollywood I'm talking about people who believe that America's traditional values are a thing of the past. The part of America outside their orbit is considered ignorable, merely fly-over country.
Actually I wasn't kidding. What some people on this board call "Hollywood elite" are actually some of the most scared and timid people you would ever hope to meet. They're in a profession that is not only fickle, but in which you get to make very, very mistakes.
On the other hand, I would say -- from my limited experience -- that many in Hollywood have either an inflated idea regarding the salt of the earth nobility of flyover country folks or harbor the petty ugliness of a superior attitude that comes from growing up among the country club set in flyover country.
I thought the movie was ok. I live in the UK. My girlfriend is Swiss/Italian. We saw the film together.
One line in the movie had Tom Cruise explaining to his son that the tripod had come from 'somewhere else'. His son replies with his own question- 'Somewhere else- like Europe?' We both thought that was hilarious.
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