By: Bob Clark
Considering the fact that the movie was shot on digital video, I’m not sure if the bonfire treatment would do you any good. A computer virus, perhaps, or just a whole bunch of high-power magnets might...
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Love the aggression shown here Dennis… I wish you’d extend some to Snyder’s films though, he’s every bit the misogynistic talentless hack Rodriguez is–and not to be sort changed, Snyder throws quite a...
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Jamie– Snyder didn’t inject anything into “300″. He merely recognized the rampant conservative sentiments that were already there to begin with. Both Miller’s comic and the film based on it aren’t just...
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Potato Potato (is that how that expression is typed?) whatever. I agree it’s all about the source material, but the fact that Snyder doesn’t abject to any of it just proves my point–he’s not an artist...
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Of course, a director/film having a soul is all in the eye of the beholder and I would argue that Rodriguez does most of the time – case in point: PLANET TERROR which is a fun ride and I did find...
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Hey, I’m slightly to the left of Karl Marx oftentimes myself, but that doesn’t mean that I’ll begrudge an artist of their own political persuasion. Granted, it’s nice to see when a filmmaker shares the...
View ArticleBy: MovieMan0283
While I find neoconservatism grating (any ideology which posits having your cake and eating it too is going to get on my nerves), classical conservatism has virtues and flaws. At any rate, it’s a more...
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I don’t recall saying I didn’t like several on screen or the discourse, I merely stated which side I detest and have no use for. To me politics are not an intellectual game. Or worse yet–in Snyders...
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“To me politics are not an intellectual game.” In life, I agree with you 100% – but in movies, not so much (though “intellectual game” is to dry a way for me to describe it). Anyway, I though 300...
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Thanks, guys, and thanks, Jamie for the selection from Atkinson. I’m ambivalent about his point – on the one hand the self-seriousness of today’s blockbusters gets grating, and the prominence to which...
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