Friday, November 21, 2008
Film Re: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM
As The Stranger's resident squealing goth, I have decided it is my duty to keep on top of Twilight reviews. There's Metacritic, of course (56: Mixed or average reviews), but there's also the conservative movie blog I linked to a few days ago.
Here is what Mr. Red State Movie Watcher has to say about the Twilight, in an e-mail to a friend he posted online:
Dude, I’ve just come out of the most subversive film since … who knows when. This isn’t a vampire flick, it’s a total piece of cinematic propaganda disguised as a vampire flick and aimed right at your children. Only — get this - it’s subversively upholds traditional values.Not only is it a high school movie set in a small town filled with likable characters of different races where race is never mentioned but the whole film is about restraint and discipline; the teenage girls aren’t sexualized, the boys are chivalrous, and the parents caring and real.
Hell, the the good family of vampires even play baseball because it’s “the American pastime,” and on a shelf in a bookstore owned by an American Indian sits Rush Limbaugh’s first book.
We know none of this stuff happens by accident and I’m still processing it.
I noticed Rush Limbaugh's book in the movie—it's not actually on a shelf in a bookstore, it's a battered mass market on a bargain spinner rack in front of a bookstore—and I would've mentioned its presence if I thought anybody else would have noticed it. I've got a pretty sharp eye for books in movies—I can usually tell what a character's reading from just the spine.
(There's one scene in Zodiac where a modern-day Baker & Taylor book distributor box is clearly shown in a basement scene, even though the rest of the movie is pretty strict in strictly representing the 1970's period. That box fucking drove me nuts, but only one other person I've talked to has ever noticed it.)
But I agree with the Republican Gene Shalit: It's a conservative movie. It's a very conservative series. Bear that in mind before you go in.
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Can't you get them at the library? Buying them at a used bookstore would also keep the money from benefitting Mormons, assuming the bookstore isn't owned by Mormons.
How come the conservatives couldn't restrain themselves from barging into Iraq with no plan? How come conservatives coudln't restrain themselves from record budget deficits under Reagan, under Bush, and again under Bush? How come Sarah Palin's 17 year old is pregnant and the conservatives think that's fucking hunky dory? How come they can't restrain themselves from tapping your phone? Can't restrain themselves from driving six ton SUVs and can't restrain themselves from running around with guns and can't restrain themselves from trying to run everyone else's life with their religion's rules. What do conservatives restrain themselves from?
Somebody re-explain to me what restraint is.
Also, in Interview with a Vampire, Louis chooses not to suck human blood and has rats instead. Same with those guys in Nightwatch. Pig blood, right?
I call bullshit on everything everywhere.
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