Somebody who's seen 2012 review it ...please.
The Movie Thread
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Are you into recreational drugs? Take everything you can get your hands on if you plan to see this classic. If you don't dumb yourself down to at least the typical pro wrestling fan, you'll be ready to shove pencils in your eyes after about an hour. It has everything: Dukes of Hazzard style jumps, rookie pilots flying between and through collapsing high rise office building, pompous hollywood messages followed by more pompous hollywood messages, lead characters performing Houdini-like escapes from lava filled chasms that presumably extend to the center of the earth, 30000 foot tsunamis, and a simultaneous disintegration of the earth's ENTIRE crust with the accompanying volcanic activity yet somehow the earth's atmosphere either doesn't notice or shakes it all off in about 5 minutes. Did I mention the earth's crust manages to rearrange itself 1000's of miles from its original position and re-solidify in not just a single human lifetime, but a few weeks into a single human lifetime? Other than that is was a great movie.
After that review I've got to see it. Wrestling fans should be shot on sight.
Agreed
"Crossing Over"
So bad my wife and I turned it off barley half way through. Nothing but a continuous non stop attempt to make the viewer feel sorry for illegal aliens.
"Orphan
Not bad, a little on the predictable side but there is a small twist near the end.
"The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"
Probably not the main stars best work but still worthy of watching, if you have time to kill.
District 9- The most politically meaningful film to come out since 'V For Vendetta', a film that precisely encapsulates why "there's something wrong with human nature". (Don't bother reading this post until you've seen the movie- It just won't make any sense to you.)
The parallels between 'District 9' and how people treat foreign immigrants and other ethnic minorities have already been drawn by every film reviewer and his mother... but on top of that, I also see strong similarities between District 9 and the war on drug users:
Prawns/Junkies- The oppressed and segregated minority, nearly all of chaotic-neutral alignment. Can be destructive and poorly behaved at times- perhaps in part due to the harsh treatment we receive from the rest of society. All we really want to do is collect as much of 'the fluid'/our drug of choice as we can, and use it to 'go home'/escape/feel content in our own skin.
Prohibition enforcement thug, type A- This is the brutal bald MNU (D.E.A.) colonel, and many of the other MNU troops shown in the film. As far as they're concerned, government oppression of prawns doesn't go far <i>enough</i>. If left to their own devices, they'd probably just massacre every one of us prawns without batting an eye.
Prohibition enforcement thug, type B- This is Wikus, the protagonist. Good at following orders/rounding up harmless drug users and putting us in camps without any moral qualms about doing so. However, this type of prohibition enforcement goon isn't a true sadist. He'd never commit 'excessive' brutality against prawns/junkies, and would even request that his fellow 'type A' prohibition thugs refrain from doing so in his presence.
Nigerian gangsters- These are the South American and other drug cartel bosses who deal with us prawns/junkies in order to make a profit off our misery.
Now, sufficient exposure of one's body to 'the fluid'/prohibited drugs can turn any person- even a prohibition enforcement thug- into one of us prawns/junkies. When a relatively enlightened prohibition thug like Wikus undergoes this transformation, strong empathies for the plight of those on the other side are suddenly developed, and he quickly realizes that his former 'friends' are in fact anything but.
What would have happened to the psychology and ideology of one of the 'type A' (sadistic/brutal) prohibition enforcement thugs, had he been exposed to 'the fluid' instead of Wikus? District 9 doesn't tell us that, but we can look no further than Rush Limbaugh for the answer. He wouldn't switch sides, but rather he'd do everything he can to deny to himself and everyone else that he's actually 'turned prawn'. That's when he even bothers to discuss the issue at all, which is not often. He prefers to avoid the topic entirely, unlike before he became one of us... when he'd go out of his way to advocate even harsher measures of oppression against us.
~RM, a bit sharper than the average prawn.
The parallels between 'District 9' and how people treat foreign immigrants and other ethnic minorities have already been drawn by every film reviewer and his mother... but on top of that, I also see strong similarities between District 9 and the war on drug users:
Prawns/Junkies- The oppressed and segregated minority, nearly all of chaotic-neutral alignment. Can be destructive and poorly behaved at times- perhaps in part due to the harsh treatment we receive from the rest of society. All we really want to do is collect as much of 'the fluid'/our drug of choice as we can, and use it to 'go home'/escape/feel content in our own skin.
Prohibition enforcement thug, type A- This is the brutal bald MNU (D.E.A.) colonel, and many of the other MNU troops shown in the film. As far as they're concerned, government oppression of prawns doesn't go far <i>enough</i>. If left to their own devices, they'd probably just massacre every one of us prawns without batting an eye.
Prohibition enforcement thug, type B- This is Wikus, the protagonist. Good at following orders/rounding up harmless drug users and putting us in camps without any moral qualms about doing so. However, this type of prohibition enforcement goon isn't a true sadist. He'd never commit 'excessive' brutality against prawns/junkies, and would even request that his fellow 'type A' prohibition thugs refrain from doing so in his presence.
Nigerian gangsters- These are the South American and other drug cartel bosses who deal with us prawns/junkies in order to make a profit off our misery.
Now, sufficient exposure of one's body to 'the fluid'/prohibited drugs can turn any person- even a prohibition enforcement thug- into one of us prawns/junkies. When a relatively enlightened prohibition thug like Wikus undergoes this transformation, strong empathies for the plight of those on the other side are suddenly developed, and he quickly realizes that his former 'friends' are in fact anything but.
What would have happened to the psychology and ideology of one of the 'type A' (sadistic/brutal) prohibition enforcement thugs, had he been exposed to 'the fluid' instead of Wikus? District 9 doesn't tell us that, but we can look no further than Rush Limbaugh for the answer. He wouldn't switch sides, but rather he'd do everything he can to deny to himself and everyone else that he's actually 'turned prawn'. That's when he even bothers to discuss the issue at all, which is not often. He prefers to avoid the topic entirely, unlike before he became one of us... when he'd go out of his way to advocate even harsher measures of oppression against us.
~RM, a bit sharper than the average prawn.