Don't Sell 'Em Short

Nathan Spears · 13 Apr 2007, 01:40 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: spearofsolomon at yahoo.com (Nathan Spears)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short
Message-ID: <66024.18034.qm at web54401.mail.yahoo.com>

> It was plot-wise fairly faithful to about half of ST. But it utterly betrayed
> the tone and angle of the book; the book is deeply libertarian (though some
> people miss that), while the movie was more or less facistic in tone.

I'm not sure whether the film was intended as a satire or not - but that's certainly the only way it can be enjoyed.

Witness dialogue like the following:

Rico: "You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?"

Who, even in Hollywood, could have green-lit that bit of cheese into a
big budget movie without knowing exactly how campy it was?  Although as
a joke on the audience, it gets very tiresome if no one else in the
room is laughing.

> > (Best propaganda film I've seen in a long while is "Pan's Labyrinth".)

> Better than "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "An Inconvenient Truth"?

When the Levees Broke is good, more relevant than Pan's.

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