The following links are to three pieces by three pals of My...Pants that I've spent the morning so far reading and enjoying immensely and feel you all ought to do likewise. Worth your time!
--- First up is the latest in Nathaniel's Blogopshere Multiplex series at The Film Experience, in which he interviews a somebody from 'round the web: today it's Seth from Defamer, site of LA-based celebrity & movie-gossip glee. VIQ (very important quote), re: the movie 300:
"I hope they spin off Xerxes into his own movie instead of just going the 301 route with the sequel. Maybe he decides being a Dionysian pleasure god isn't his thing, and he goes to an Ivy League school to get the law degree he's always dreamed about, and learns something about the power of hard work and positive thinking along the way."
--- Next is my pal Sean, who posted a thought-provokingly passionate defense as to 28 Weeks Later...'s merits, which he sees as vast, and has got me rethinking my somewhat tepid original reaction to the film. All his arguments are extremely well-thought-out (as is always the case when Sean sets finger to keypad) and he's got me curious enough to want to see the film again to reevaluate some things. Maybe seeing it at 10am with an ever so slight hangover wasn't the optimal viewing experience my first time around? VIQ:"Infecting Don (Robert Carlyle) was a shocking move, one straight out of the Psycho playbook. (Why is it still so surprising, even now, by the way? Is the language of cinema that deeply ingrained in us that we take main characters not dying until the final reel, if at all, as an article of faith?) But it's more shocking, in its way, because he doesn't die a propos of nothing, he doesn't die because of someone else's psychodrama working itself out. He dies because he seeks forgiveness from the woman he loves--and she, loving him, grants it. In other words, they die--ultimately, the world dies--because they did the right thing."
--- And finally, Aaron over at Electronic Cerebrectomy takes that whole Brokeback-lawsuit news from the other week - specifically a comment made at TFE in response to Nathaniel's post on the topic - and runs with it, putting wonderful voice to one of my favorite topics: so what's the deal with Christians anyway? VIQ:"Christians aren't just trying to run everyone's lives because they're jerks: they have to. It's "unreasonable" for us to expect them to just act politely and not force their beliefs on the rest of us. See, they're just trying to help. Because we all need their help. Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Wiccans, Scientologists, Mormons... we're all too blind and selfish to see the good news, so we need it forced on us because we obviously don't know what's good for us. They're just trying to help."
So go check all these posts out; they're good read.
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3 comments:
I agree with electric up to a point but...it always irks me a bit when people are grouped together and it's imlplied that every member of a group is such and such a way. "Christians do this and Christians do that" isn't what I would choose to say.
yeah, I find myself swinging back and forth on my scale of outrage towards religious folks... I grew up in a fundamentalist christian family and saw both sides of the coin, and there were good people with good intentions...
but at the same time, it is a common trait amongst Christians, the need to proselytize like it's a drug or something, and that they're right to a seemingly universally obnoxious degree. Even the good Christian people I've known are so goddamned assured of their right-ness, it's exhausting and there's no arguing to be made with someone whose beliefs are based on invisibile faith.
But yeah, to speak in universals can be reductive.
I think your first reaction to 28 Weeks Later is accurate.
I didn't care for it at all. No soul and no real characters to care about. Plus, I couldn't get past the incompetency of the military. It didn't seem believable, and trust me I'm not a pro-military guy in the least.
What I thought was interesting about it was the statement it made. If there ever was a movie that said "US stay out of Great Britain because you're a bunch of morons" this is it.
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