I love movies!
Not gonna lie, I love long weekends. Plenty of time to not do homework and all sorts of other fun stuff, such as watching lots of movies. This weekend I saw Crash (excellent, if a bit strange), 40-year old virgin (hilarious), Interstate 60 (fairly good, even though you've never heard of it), Syriana (very good), I, Robot (very enjoyable) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (well, if you know me, you know how much I love them all.)
One thing that I've been noticing is that it seems that movies are getting more and more preachy lately. Maybe it's just a winter movie phenomenon, but out right now are three movies trying very hard to make a statement. There's Brokeback Mountain (which I won't ever see), there's Syriana (which kept trying to make you feel bad for the foolish Arabs, but being an American, they failed miserably), and Munich (which I understand is Spielburg's $70 million vengeance is bad speech. Crash very much pushed the topic of racism in America, which is a problem that has never gone away, and shows no signs of doing so. There's definitly something to be said for the light-hearted movies like I Robot and 40-year old virgin with one linear plot and no overarching statement on how bad America or our society is.
One thing that I've been noticing is that it seems that movies are getting more and more preachy lately. Maybe it's just a winter movie phenomenon, but out right now are three movies trying very hard to make a statement. There's Brokeback Mountain (which I won't ever see), there's Syriana (which kept trying to make you feel bad for the foolish Arabs, but being an American, they failed miserably), and Munich (which I understand is Spielburg's $70 million vengeance is bad speech. Crash very much pushed the topic of racism in America, which is a problem that has never gone away, and shows no signs of doing so. There's definitly something to be said for the light-hearted movies like I Robot and 40-year old virgin with one linear plot and no overarching statement on how bad America or our society is.
posted by Josh Sheldon at 12:15 AM
1 Comments:
They are getting very preachy. I like to call them "message movies." ;) I'm more for great plots than societal messages, myself. I mean, I figure that people go to the movies to forget about all of that for a few hours, but then, I'm not Hollywood, either.
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