stories about america
Feb. 22nd, 2009 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalThis isn't a story about America as much as it's a story about myself, but "And When She Was Bad" is up at Nossa Morte. I'm quite fond of this little story. It's fair to say it's close to my heart. Do you like that I mention The Beast of Bray Road? I wrote that before I saw the movie with the cute sheriff in it. That's how crypto-smart I am.
Boy, I have to say, I really do not understand what Tarantino is going for here. I really want to give him credit for putting WW II's Europe Theater in this light, because I get really tired of the sentimental and sobbing Band of Brothers bullshit (esp. if you think about what Kubrick has done to the Vietnam War...). On the other hand, this just seems so stuck in the WW II ideology the U.S. already has, just crasser. I mean, what made Tropic Thunder fantastic was that it made fun of our Vietnam War narrative. Without that there's really no new ground being tilled.
That said, I admit a bit of hypocrisy when I say I can't wait for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, even though it doesn't look as good as the first (natural history trumps statues, sorry). Those movies are a boon to American education, even though based on what I know now of TR I'm not sure if Robin Williams is a rational choice to play him at all. Nor do I think TR would have been all into Sacagawea. He probably would have shot Sacagawea. But at least General Custer is a national punching bag.
Also, Eden Log looks great, but who knows what kind of showing it'll get here. The extremely small amount of European horror I've seen upsets me.
The Oscars are just as boring and predictable as I thought they'd be this year, except Hugh Jackman was funnier than I thought he'd be, and I can't believe I actually laughed at James Franco and Seth Rogen, given that I hate those fucks. Come on, Sean Penn for Harvey Milk? How much more politically correct can we get?
Boy, I have to say, I really do not understand what Tarantino is going for here. I really want to give him credit for putting WW II's Europe Theater in this light, because I get really tired of the sentimental and sobbing Band of Brothers bullshit (esp. if you think about what Kubrick has done to the Vietnam War...). On the other hand, this just seems so stuck in the WW II ideology the U.S. already has, just crasser. I mean, what made Tropic Thunder fantastic was that it made fun of our Vietnam War narrative. Without that there's really no new ground being tilled.
That said, I admit a bit of hypocrisy when I say I can't wait for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, even though it doesn't look as good as the first (natural history trumps statues, sorry). Those movies are a boon to American education, even though based on what I know now of TR I'm not sure if Robin Williams is a rational choice to play him at all. Nor do I think TR would have been all into Sacagawea. He probably would have shot Sacagawea. But at least General Custer is a national punching bag.
Also, Eden Log looks great, but who knows what kind of showing it'll get here. The extremely small amount of European horror I've seen upsets me.
The Oscars are just as boring and predictable as I thought they'd be this year, except Hugh Jackman was funnier than I thought he'd be, and I can't believe I actually laughed at James Franco and Seth Rogen, given that I hate those fucks. Come on, Sean Penn for Harvey Milk? How much more politically correct can we get?
