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[ebonlock]

V for Vendetta

Faithful Assistant actually had the two men beside her get up and leave after 35 minutes, because of the "politics". Which, all in all, was a good thing, because they were talking nonstop, and were therefore fuckwits.

So it has come to our attention that some people are not able to get past the "politics" of V and enjoy the flick. Which is odd, as the "politics" consist pretty much of "Fascism is bad." I'm not one to make blanket judgements, but you cannot simultaneously root for Luke Skywalker and be offended at V without revealing something ... curdled in your understanding of your self and your relation to the world around you.

Heh. Reminds me I need an icon...

Comments

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everyone? =)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Good point. BTW, while I've got you, did you get my work emails or are you just avoiding me? ;)

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got 'em, but I have been moved again and am still scrounging for stuff. As it stands right now, we are in pretty awful shape for available gear, but I hope to scare something up...

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Ok just need to know soonish if we need to maybe lay hands on them elsewhere, but thanks!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that the 'politics' of a movie like Miracle are not a problem, or of Rocky III, or of Munich, or of White Nights, or of Wargames, or of The Manchurian Candidate, or All Quiet on the Western Front, or....
'Politics' happens in movies, kids.
Of course, I'm one to talk. I still haven't bothered to see Top Gun or Red Dawn.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Dude, go here (http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/) and read the Red Dawn piece, "The Movie That Made the Red States Red", and the follow up "Redder Dawn", it's much more pleasant than actually watching the thing.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Wah! It only has the first two parts! Where's the rest of my review?

What is it about Tom Cruise?

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Top Gun, like Jerry McGuire, is a chick flick skillfully disguised as a guy movie. However, I am not fooled. No guy flick takes five minutes for oiled-up volleyball scenes.

Red Dawn, however, is one of those guilty pleasures, like A Few Good Men, Highlander, or That Thing You Do, that I am congenitally incapable of turning off when I inevitably stumble across it at 1 AM on TNT. It may be the single biggest work of Reaganist butch camp ever created. And it works for everything - when that blasted serial ATA cable finally gives way and you rip the hard drive out of the G5 case, hold it over your head and yell "WOLVERINES!!!!!!" and see if you don't feel better. Then think of something to tell the HR people. I favor drugs. Nobody in the tech sector ever caught a case because their LSD count was too high. BTW I'm probably drunk again.