Hilarity from the great critics of the IMDB
POSTED BY: Stentor
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 13:46
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Looking at the reactions to Serenity on the IMDB they've been overwhelmingly positive, but the shiny ones are peppered with the odd blast of vitriol. I have quoted, in it's entirety, the unique analysis offered by one individual, as I find it incredible to the point of physical collapse that someone could miss the point so utterly and with such conviction. I wonder if anyone here knows of a word which describes the act of the dumb denouncing the smart as dumb? It keeps happening, and it's dreadfully annoying.
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Sleep inducing right wing propaganda
Author: CharlieCalvert from Santa Cruz
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This is one of those movies in which there are no fully formed characters, little conversation, and endless violence. The theme of the movie is also a fairly straight forward instance of right wing propaganda. The core seed of the film is that people who want peace are destroying the world by creating hyper-violence. (I know, it doesn't make any sense.) In particular, the people who want peace are trying to do so by giving everyone a drug called Pax (latin for peace.) According to the movie, the drug suppresses people's natural and healthful impulse toward aggression, and thus makes them hyper-violent. I really prefer the right wing when they are in their WMD and yellow cake mode. That kind of propaganda may be based on lies, but at least it makes sense. The idea that a longing for peace generates violence is just silly, and contradicts everything we read in the New Testament.
The second major theme of the movie is that violence is the solution to all problems and that it is okay to do really, really bad things if you feel threatened. (But don't forget it is the people in this world who want peace who are really responsible for creating all this violence! What?)
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Yes, this is what we are up against...
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Oh yeah...HUH!
This guy has a lucrative job as a film critic...go figure.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Wow, Joss must be the first of them wacky liberals I've heard of to go out and create a right-wing propaganda film. Who's next, Michael Moore?
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Was I even watching the same movie as this guy?
He is talking about 'Serenity' right...?
yours sarcastically
shw
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*blinks*
*blinks*
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm
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Originally posted by RelFexive:
*blinks*
*blinks*
My thoughts exactly. *reads again & stares blankly*
Sherie @-)---
The Nathan Fillion Archives:
http://www.apocalypse-monthly.com/nathan/
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(I know, it doesn't make any sense.)
That's the only thing in that review which I can agree.
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I really prefer the right wing when they are in their WMD and yellow cake mode. That kind of propaganda may be based on lies, but at least it makes sense. The idea that a longing for peace generates violence is just silly, and contradicts everything we read in the New Testament.
I honestly have no idea what this clown is talkin about. I was going to attempt to discect this paragraph,but it's simply incoherent. We're talking Joss Whedon here, and Calvin goes off on some rant against the right wing??? ( And there were no lies on WMD, but that's another thread ).
I think this moron is a wanna be troll. That's the only possible explanation I can offer. There's nothing that makes ANY sense in this review. A troll who simply is begging for attention.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Quote:There's your problem.
...and contradicts everything we read in the New Testament.
Scary religious people aren't really our demographic.
Just look at how many times "Buffy" & "Angel" made the Parents Television Council's "Worst Family Viewing" list!
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/20
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"What about homeschooling? It's not just for scary religious people anymore!"
--Buffy
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How about us non-scary religious people?
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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.
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I think this moron is a wanna be troll. That's the only possible explanation I can offer. There's nothing that makes ANY sense in this review. A troll who simply is begging for attention.
NEVER underestimate a persons ablility to be stupid. Most likely his argument makes all sorts of sense to him.
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