Browncoats UNITE!! **Movie Spoilers**
POSTED BY: FallenAngel
UPDATED: Saturday, December 31, 2005 14:10
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I wish I could take credit for it, but it's actually a newspaper headline that Jane Espenson wrote for the Buffy episode, "Earshot". Glad you like it.
Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.
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Originally posted by BlackoutNights:
I don't see what the big deal is. He wrote he didn't hate the movie and that some things could be tightened up in editing.
You guys gotta loosen up some. Geeez.
"You're either in or you're out, and I'm playing to the in."—Greg Dulli.
I'm not quibbling with his review, although he certainly did pre-judge the movie before he ever went into the theatre. I'm saying he shouldn't go around calling people Nazis unless they really are Nazis.
Maybe you don't mind being called a Nazi. I do.
Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.
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Wow, a color and an item of clothing. This borders on paranoia. Pretty ridiculous to get in an uproar about. Anyone remotely foolish enough to think this is more than a coincidence in color/wording should not be take seriously. If being a "browncoat" meant you were involved in an anti-immigrant rightwing political party then there might be concern, but there were fascist groups of most colors of shirts in Europe. They area all pretty much dead and no one ever associated the crips with their blue clothing to the Spanish fascist of WW2 era. I have a degree in history and have some experience in political sphere. Ignore any similarities of name and anyone who actually looks at who/what the browncoats are will make no mistake. The browncoats of Firefly are fighting against fascism (alliance).
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looking at the review again (yes punishing my eyeballs for a second time, so i'm a masochist, hit me [please!])
haha, sorry, couldn't resist the bad joke, hmm.
*cough*
where was I? ah, looking at the review again, his exact words were
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'The evening progressed steadily downward as it became apparent to me that not only was this crowd an obsessive sci-fi geek squad, but they called themselves browncoats, a reference that had me thinking of them as some sort of pitiful offshoot of the Hitler youth... ...I really don’t think they gave a rat’s ass about the immense devotion of the brownshirts to their buried show.'
I took a word he had no concept of the origin of, and applyed to it a completely innapropriate and offensive connotation in an attempt to be, for lack of a better word, mean.
Then compounded it by switching the two words.
It was every second his intention to be offensive and degrading.
But to be absolutely honest, he presents himself as someone who's opinion 'equals the worth of a turd'
What worried me more was his total lack of grip on the actual point -
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'Along the way this tackles the background of a spacefaring group of mad zombies called the Reavers. These guys just flat out didn’t work for me. Am I supposed to believe that a group of bloodthirsty berserkers that seem to have little in life beyond mutilating themselves and others while screaming incessantly can pull it together enough to pilot a starship? I simply cannot imagine them plotting courses and repairing complex equipment when they seem to do nothing but rampage about looking for people to mutilate. I guess the fans were probably amped up for a background on these ghouls but I could have done without the entire subplot.'
hang on, wasn't the movie about the reavers?
with out his 'subplot' there wouldn't actually be a movie beyond the first teaser scene - River would escape and no-one would care
so I'm just not gonna bother getting annoyed above my usual contempt for those people who give imbeciles net access.
(yes, today I have been mostly eating dictionaries)
silly bunny...
ps, I love the apathy on the rise thing, can I steal it?
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