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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review
Alex C:
People don't couch it in those terms, but I think it'd be pretty hard to argue that there is nobody out there who disapproves of the lyrical content in heavy metal or even the way the fans communicate and dress.
Now, one thing that this movie review and many heavy metal bands have in common is that for the most part they're just cheerfully wallowing in their own style of camp (for lack of a better word) and parody as often as not. Schlock is often their stock and trade, after all, and I don't honestly have a problem with this nor am I really a big fan of censorship. It'd take some real mental contortions to really argue that any of this stuff genuinely endorses violence and I'm just not a fan of the mind crime concept in general.
But with all that said, it's still possible to come across as unfunny and clumsy when dealing with a subject, and some subjects are trickier to tackle than others simply because they're not things we normally think of as enjoyable. Rape is one of those subjects that's a bit harder for me to just put aside, I guess.
Christophe:
--- Quote from: Christophe on 22 Dec 2009, 23:04 ---WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?
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jhocking:
--- Quote from: tricia kidd on 26 Dec 2009, 16:46 ---- analysis of lightsaber duels
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Oh yeah this part was pretty great too, I forgot that.
Ikrik:
Great at parts...but really, the narrator as a creep has completely turned me off of it. Jokes about rape and murdering prostitutes are not funny or tasteful and the way it was delivered it was especially distasteful. It seemed like he could have easily gone the "bitter old guy" or "50 year old never been kissed" guy route way better. Considering the angle he played had absolutely no leaning on what his review was saying made it much more disturbing.
But the review itself was absolutely terrific. Lightsaber battles especially. I've noticed it happen a lot more in like Sanjuro and Yojimbo where it's less about the swords and more about the characters but I've never transferred that thinking over to Star Wars. I wish that he would have brought up the fact that the technology they have in Phantom Menace and the new trilogy in general is that the technology (in the movies) far surpasses that in the originals.
->tricia kidd
You would rather be raped than killed? The choice between being killed and being raped is, to me, an incredibly easy decision. Being killed, even painfully is an ending event. You're killed and it's over. I'm a dude and watching something like that scene in Irreversible with Monica Bellucci terrifies the living crap out of me. Violent rape, to me, is such a terrifying thing to imagine because knowing who I am, I would have an insanely hard time ever going outside, ever meeting new people, actually ever rebuilding my life. I would rather be lit on fire 1000 times than be raped.
Alex C:
That's kind of screwed up.
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