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[Queequeg]

Anyone watched Soderbergh's Ché movies with Benicio del Toro yet? Pt. 1 is coming into a cinema here this weekend, Pt. 2 in two weeks.

Why would anyone watch an excrutiatingly long propagandistic movie glorifying a sadistic mass murderer?

Have to admit, I agree with Hans.  Though that girl is fantastically cute and looks a little like a girl in HS that I had a crush on. 

[Habsburg]

Have to admit, I agree with Hans. 

Have you seen the film?

[Queequeg]

Have to admit, I agree with Hans. 

Have you seen the film?

I like my communist propaganda by Eisenstein and to have a barely submerged anti-Stalinist subtext, thank you very much. 

[Neil]

But they never bite girls... and they're all buff and oiled up all the time... hmmm are Lycans gayer than Vampires? say it ain't so.

On the other hand, there are only a handful of female characters in the entire movie, and most of those are vampires.  The only humans are the wife and daughter at the beginning that get killed by werewolves and then immediately burned by vampires, when David Frost is rescuing the low-budget knock off of Kate Beckinsdale.  Virtually the only female characters in any Underworld movie are Bill Nighy's vampire sluts.

[Habsburg]

I like my communist propaganda by Eisenstein and to have a barely submerged anti-Stalinist subtext, thank you very much.

Okay, comtempt prior to investigation, what I thought. 

[Queequeg]

I like my communist propaganda by Eisenstein and to have a barely submerged anti-Stalinist subtext, thank you very much.

Okay, comtempt prior to investigation, what I thought. 

If someone could convince me that the view of Che is balanced, let alone that it comes close to the murderous, hypocritical, sociopathic truth, I'd be the first in line.  But none of the reviews or word of mouth I've heard have even hinted at that. 

[Habsburg]

Regardless of how Che is portrayed (and I don't think Soderbergh takes a hard stance pro-Che), it is amazing filmaking. 

[Savonarola]

Double Feature: Way Out West and Blockheads

Laurel and Hardy from the late 30s.  Stan is really starting to show his age in these and (a vaudevillian at heart) he recycles gags from earlier shorts.  Even so they're a treat, loaded with slapstick, surreal humor and the boy's dimwitted verbal gags.  In Way out West we even get to see Stan and Ollie sing and dance.

What I find most interesting about the silent film comedians is how they treat women.  In Charlie Chaplin films women are goddesses; he was married four times, each wife was considerably younger than he was.  Buster Keaton was married three times; his women are always a pain in the ass.  Harold Lloyd was engaged to two of his leading ladies, but only married one, Mildred Davis; the women in his films are sweet but believable.  Stan Laurel was married four times and had another long standing domestic partner; any women portrayed as a wife to either he or Ollie in his films is always a shrew.

[Eddie Teach]

Have to admit, I agree with Hans.  Though that girl is fantastically cute and looks a little like a girl in HS that I had a crush on. 

Looks like a young Julianne Moore.

[Admiral Yi]

Looks like a young Julianne Moore.

Yeah, especially the smile. 

She also has Vulcan ears.

[Syt]

Regardless of how Che is portrayed (and I don't think Soderbergh takes a hard stance pro-Che), it is amazing filmaking. 

That's what the reviewers over here said; that they show Ché not as a hero or idol or icon but rather as a charismatic dogmatist.


I re-watched Nixon yesterday (being 2/3 finished with Dallek's "Nixon & Kissinger: Partners in Power" helped put some details in perspective); and I was bemused by his "YES WE CAN" speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPY_pfrTmnQ

[Habbaku]

If someone could convince me that the view of Che is balanced, let alone that it comes close to the murderous, hypocritical, sociopathic truth, I'd be the first in line.  But none of the reviews or word of mouth I've heard have even hinted at that.

Just like that, Spellus, you have wiped out months of your insanity, in my eyes.   

[Malthus]

Anyone watched Soderbergh's Ché movies with Benicio del Toro yet? Pt. 1 is coming into a cinema here this weekend, Pt. 2 in two weeks.

Why would anyone watch an excrutiatingly long propagandistic movie glorifying a sadistic mass murderer?

Have to admit, I agree with Hans.  Though that girl is fantastically cute and looks a little like a girl in HS that I had a crush on. 

The hell with the Che movie - who is the chick in the clip? 

[ulmont]

The hell with the Che movie - who is the chick in the clip? 

Isn't that Winona Ryder in Heathers?

[jimmy olsen]

Regardless of how Che is portrayed (and I don't think Soderbergh takes a hard stance pro-Che), it is amazing filmaking.