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At least the usual pap some people feel the need to spout when we lose loved ones gets a smackdown here. I hope that’s a sign that the rest of the movie is as honest about grief, and not falsely sentimental about loss and recovery.
Would be it about truly interactive movies, entertainment experiences that combine both intense narratives and gameplay? Would it be about movies created via a new technology, like a crowdsourced screenplay or something similar?
We should pay attention to the Germans. They know what a police state looks like, and they don’t want to be living in one again.
Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore.
Oo, oo! Dark and scary with a spaceship and a Scroogely curmudgeon and a starship and people frozen like Christmas turkeys (before you thaw them out) and the Doctor as a Ghost of Christmas Past (and, I’m betting, of Christmas Future, too) and… is that a shark?
This looks like GoodFellas… but Henry Hill and the mafia could only dream of the kind of crimes Jack Abramoff committed.
Perhaps this TSA bullshit security kabuki will finally be the thing that pisses off enough Americans to rock us out of our complacency. Or perhaps we will continue to shuffle, dead-eyed and interested only in who’s winning on Dancing with the Stars, to the end of America.
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
I can’t deny that it’s true that come the apocalypse, whatever form it takes, many of the problems of our society will remain, and some of them will be amplified: Stupid, violent men will still be stupid and violent, and indeed they will have many more opportunties to indulge, unchecked, their idiocy and their anger. But what we’re seeing here isn’t really looking at that from the perspectives of people who are used to things being a little more civilized: the attitude is, instead, as if they barely notice their lives have changed at all, apart from the lack of coffeemakers and washing machines. And no, having the women lament the loss of those things doesn’t cut it…
Even dinosaurs themselves may have found these little critters cute…
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