http://crassadon.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] crassadon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] davidn 2012-03-04 07:33 pm (UTC)

are. . .we looking at the same movie trailer..? There was a brief moment where president Obama was shown with voices and graphics which seem to me to best be described as "anti-nazi / anti-republican." So I wouldn't call this film "apolitical." ...Unless "apolitical" means "favouring a political party." Which it might; I'm not an expert on words related to politics...

However, my issue with the film, is actually that they go after airhead Hollywood figures; while the heroes, themselves, are perpetrators of Hollywood motifs: they all have clean skin; their hair is shiny, and well-groomed; their nails are all cut evenly. . . So to me, this film feels like it is example of the pot calling the kettle black! And while the heroes may have the perfect thing to say in every line, the characters they're fighting against are real world people who don't always have a script when they're being recorded by camera. So it's like the pot is all shiny and new, while the kettle is all old and beaten up, and the pot says to the kettle "hey kettle, you sure are black!"

. . .and then the pot shoots the kettle. Which wouldn't even kill a kettle! They seem to mostly shoot for the head in this movie, so, by proxy, it would just make the kettle whistle more, and it'd be alright. And that's about what I think of this movie. Yeah, metaphor worked out pretty well there.. might try using that one more often; hadn't tried it before :o

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