tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post4335344357434226387..comments2023-10-19T05:36:56.844-07:00Comments on "Let's Not Talk About Movies": Sucker PunchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-28925936297384872542011-03-31T12:44:04.390-07:002011-03-31T12:44:04.390-07:00I'd like to hear that argument because I saw n...I'd like to hear that argument because I saw nothing empowering about that movie—any empowerment was a fantasy, and the only escapee did so from the others' sacrifice and charity. But, I'd like to hear the argument.<br /><br />If I gave a shit about this movie, the Nazi mistake would bother me. Someone else on another site was all bent out of shape because they weren't supposed to be "steam-punk" but "diesel punk." That wasn't diesel I saw coming out of their wounds, but it points out to me of not just not seeing the forest for the trees, but arguing over what variety of tree is burning in the forest fire."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-66227477913907238632011-03-31T08:26:01.540-07:002011-03-31T08:26:01.540-07:00Funny, Coco and I have been talking about this mov...Funny, Coco and I have been talking about this movie since we saw it Saturday, and while I leaned more toward your response, she saw it as an empowering feminist film. This from a woman who was made physically ill by <i>Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle</i> because of its sexist attitude. I won't try to parse her argument, but it was persuasive, at least to me.<br /><br />Oh, and one thing everyone keeps getting wrong - there were no zombie <i>Nazis</i> - they were zombie Germans of the WWI era, agents of the Kaiser (Scott Glenn uses a phrase just like that). Totally different.Walaka of Earth 2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15937932225623126280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-5182326155818719172011-03-29T21:51:47.044-07:002011-03-29T21:51:47.044-07:00"Oh," indeed....(emphasis on the disappr..."Oh," indeed....(emphasis on the disapproval)<br /><br />Check out my review (in verse) of Bright Star, Si'. Click the title. I was proud of it.<br /><br />Your <i>SP</i> review (or comment) was better than mine..."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-63957975463373133782011-03-29T19:32:50.330-07:002011-03-29T19:32:50.330-07:00Oh, Abbie...Oh, Abbie...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.com