by blukatzen » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 12:34:42
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'b')lukatzen, Batman is making quite a lot of money, which means people like it. Maybe it just was not to your taste?
Yes, Hubby and I looked at that when we got home, and there is just marketing hype. He looked at personal reviews like mine, and he saw a LOT of them..they were just as vehement in their dislike as mine.
I remember one of the first "Batman" movies with Michael Keaton as the "Dark Knight" role and Jack Nicholson as the Joker; ENTIRELY different. If you remember, Tim Burton was the director of that film, there was plenty of "dark" there.
There was character development in place of a fleeting storyline you have to piece together to try to assemble a feeling for what the movie was "about" or "for".
There was an over-reliance on special affects without the reason *WHY* the character of the Joker wanted to, or needed to use them.
A main character, central to Bruce Wayne's character, gets killed and you are left wondering why, it was glossed over too much. There was such quick movement in the fleeting plot, the actions never got to sink in to let the audience feel along with the story/plot line.
In today's movie, you get to see lots of action, but no storyline, one is left with the feeling over and over..."now why is this happening?"..."what's up with this, now"....and it was just too confusing to have to piece this together.
I have "PeakOil movie goggles" and I was looking at the movie with those on. I was looking for the REASON Hollyweird wanted to give me that kind of message..don't "think"..just "feel"..just "react" to this terrorism on screen. Just remain scared little sheep.
Hubby is peakoil ready and we've prepared. I tell him about what I truly saw and he agreed with my analysis right away, and he was sorry he wanted to see that movie..you are in essence giving money to the machine that is wanting to propagandize you.
We are seeing a social experiment in the production of these type of film(s) nowadays. What does that say about our society if that is a high-grossing film?
We're in trouble if that is entertainment.
(quote)I give the Mongol movie a shot, That looks like a cool premise. I'll agree that there is a lot of untapped potential for historical movies. Not stuff that is remade to be comic book based either.(quote)
Comic book based things are supposed to be reminiscent of our childhood days. They've taken them and messed with them and thrown in weird premises. They are no longer "Heroes" or "ideals" to look up to, when you were a kid. If the idea is to slash all the premises of an ideal hero, like Indiana Jones, or Iron Man, they worked, but Batman is so confused the idea was to save yourself.
(which is always the idea.)
[/quote]Example, "300" I liked the movie, but I would prefer a realistic portrayal, as realism would have been plenty exciting without the exaggeration .[/quote]
I agree, but it was nice to at least have something setting ideals that it was worth protecting your homeland, and possibly dying for the effort.
Sorry it was used to (possibly) incite young folks with ideals in their head to go fight for (this) war, neither noble nor courageous.
Even the good films have propaganda messages in them. If you thought they were just happening in WWII-era, forget it, they're pumping them out by the dozens in Hollyweird right now.
Mongol may have at it's underlying premise "fear your Asian overlord".....I dunno.
I was looking at a film I never saw when it came out, Apocalypto, yesterday on Youtube. (actually tidbits of the film.) I saw one where the high priest is talking to the crowd and putting on a grand show for them.
Here is the video clip.
If you watch that, look at the crowd, and how it is manipulated.
It is not unlike modern society and the movie house, nowadays.
Gotta watch that show!
(a thoroughly disgusted) Blu
