Thursday, November 19, 2009

Blind Side'd

The critic Melissa Anderson is saying that the new Julia Roberts movie The Blind Side is racist.

Okay, it's a Sandra Bullock movie. It's a Julia Roberts movie in spirit. She'd pretty much cornered Saintly Meddling Liberal in that abomination Erin Brockovich. I guess Sandra Bullock wants her job.

I tend to agree that The Blind Side is racist (in the Liberal way of racism), but I'm not terribly concerned about that. My thought is that if you're a racist, your movie has a problem if its protagonist is helping a member of the race you despise. Other racists have to ask - why bother?

I gather the target demo is 40-something white females whose "best friends are black" as long as those friends don't live anywhere near them.

Labels: bullshit, critique, liberals, race

posted by Zimri on 17:05 | link |

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The worst music ensemble in American history

It burns me up that the Black Eyed Peas gets played, and played, and played some more while the KLF catalogue remains deleted and "The Black Album" will never be made.

But in the House of David, I alone am King, and in that capacity I hereby deliver this writ of attainder -

• I first heard about the BEPs from a mildly-amusing but offensive cannabis anthem, "Let's Get Retarded", played in the more-amusing first Harold & Kumar movie. This was subsequently bowdlerised for the radiowaves "Let's Get It Started" - in retrospect, a first hint that something was wrong.
  
• With, I believe, Justin Timberlake: they wrote a despicable "anti-war" anthem which slandered America and, by extension, Israel.
  
• With Fergie: they wrote "My Humps". Enough said; plenty nuff said.
  
• will.i.am wrote some of the more insipid Obama cult songs last year. I Googled "will i am obama" and got too nauseated to continue.
  
• And now we have I Gotta Feeling.
  

For all that I hereby confiscate every song they ever made, and condemn every last member of the band to the Tower Of London. (Oh, if only.)

Labels: critique

posted by Zimri on 22:10 | link |

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Avatar is going to be worse than the Matrix sequels

I'm aware of Avatar's insectile "buzz".

I'm hearing it's going to be Dances With Blue Space Wolves. Difference is, Kevin Costner was and remains a genuine blood-and-soil patriot, with a deep understanding of America, who didn't shrink at showing the dark side of Indian life. James Cameron is a man I do not trust to tell a similar story; we're going to get Rousseau's noble savage from him.

It'll do okay among film geeks and Leftists. The critics will rate it highly, like they rated Wall-E.

Whether it will be any good, I do not know. I haven't seen a Cameron film I can endorse since the mid 1980s. The shine from "Aliens" has rather worn off by now.

Labels: critique, progressives

posted by Zimri on 20:01 | link |

Thursday, November 05, 2009

The "Terminator" series

I'm watching the "Sarah Connor Chronicles" now.

I loved the second "Terminator" movie when I first saw it. But then I saw the first one, which despite some special-effects problems was far superior to the sequel.

I then started to question the very need for a "Terminator 2". In the first movie there is a character arc for Sarah Connor. The second movie abandons the arc wherein the Connors grow up on the lam. T2 starts with Sarah and John apart, and then puts them back to the endstate of T1. That makes the sequel pointless, no matter how technically well-written and -implemented.

While we're on the subject of James Cameron's filmography, I also saw "Alien" after I saw "Aliens"; the original did not leave me feeling any worse about that sequel.

(I know I've said that it didn't matter how good T2 was, so I probably shouldn't raise any problems with that one as a standalone, but I'll say this here anyway. The bad cyborg in T2 struck me as Bad Movie Science. I had less disbelief to suspend of the baddie in T3; which is sad, because T3 really was a rotten movie which I wouldn't say of T2.)

I think that T2 - beyond the chase-scenes - was aiming for an exploration of whether humanitarian cyborgs have "souls", worthy of moral parity with humans. I don't think that worked for a single movie.

With "Sarah Connor Chronicles", the writers are basically redoing T2 with Summer Glau standing in for Arnold Schwarzenegger. We start with a more natural sequel to T1 (although the storylines of T2 and T3 are referred to). Then, the good cyborg doesn't die as quickly as Arnold dies in T2, allowing for a fuller understanding of the cyborg mindset and ethic.

If you liked "Terminator", you really owe it to yourself to watch "The Sarah Connor Chronicles".

Labels: critique

posted by Zimri on 16:42 | link |

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