This is just the newest example of the way Elon Musk is an incredible power-fulcrum.
Why will Hollywood be anything “next”? Let it shrink into its own self-congratulatory cess pit. Whatever’s coming doesn’t require us to fix Hollywood- building from scratch is the only way. Trying to change that sick, incestuous, bizarro world is wasted energy - energy that could be directed towards building something new.
I watched in on Amazon Prime Video for $6.00 Canadian Dollars. It was OK as a movie at best; but the fact that anything like this was made at all made it great.
Todd Gilchrist of Variety described the film as "astonishingly bad" and "a violent, incoherent, morally bankrupt slice of exploitation", with Hammer's character being as "xenophobic and entitled as the broadest American stereotype" who delivers "self-righteous monologues". He wrote that Hammer displayed "little of that spark" of his earlier charisma, and Boll's script as giving the character "prejudiced screeds".
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere described the film as a "furious anti-immigration" parable, before adding "I feel so badly for Armie as the film is so blunt and crude and more or less brimming with hate against 'the immigrant other', and lacking in setting up a believable context and a social realism backdrop...lacking even in terms of basic screenwriting craft and rudimentary filmmaking chops."
Thing is "Our Betters" Don't get how truly pissed (frightened?) we the great unwashed are.
The dam the extremism of the Left has constructed against truth and just plain common sense is going to burst and it will be ugly for a while. But it’s just a matter of time. Movies like this represent the first cracks in that dam.
It has been ok for years to portray the death of "rednecks" as a good thing in the movies. ie: Zed’s torture and execution in Pulp Fiction, Dwight Yoakam's murder in Slingblade, etc. Nobody raised a fuss about such scenes ever because they were villians, and you know it's just a movie. But now when the bad guys aren't white? Oh the critics want to shut it down.
Oh boy, I saw your post when you (briefly) cross posted it here and I’m sorry for jumping into the fray. I think I will skip the rest of today’s comments though. lol
You’re a brave woman and I applaud you.❤️
Edited to add: Ewe Boll’s link has already been restricted as “adult content” but Elon’s link still works.
This is just the newest example of the way Elon Musk is an incredible power-fulcrum.
Why will Hollywood be anything “next”? Let it shrink into its own self-congratulatory cess pit. Whatever’s coming doesn’t require us to fix Hollywood- building from scratch is the only way. Trying to change that sick, incestuous, bizarro world is wasted energy - energy that could be directed towards building something new.
I watched in on Amazon Prime Video for $6.00 Canadian Dollars. It was OK as a movie at best; but the fact that anything like this was made at all made it great.
Now I want to see the origin story as the sequel!
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Reception
Todd Gilchrist of Variety described the film as "astonishingly bad" and "a violent, incoherent, morally bankrupt slice of exploitation", with Hammer's character being as "xenophobic and entitled as the broadest American stereotype" who delivers "self-righteous monologues". He wrote that Hammer displayed "little of that spark" of his earlier charisma, and Boll's script as giving the character "prejudiced screeds".
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere described the film as a "furious anti-immigration" parable, before adding "I feel so badly for Armie as the film is so blunt and crude and more or less brimming with hate against 'the immigrant other', and lacking in setting up a believable context and a social realism backdrop...lacking even in terms of basic screenwriting craft and rudimentary filmmaking chops."
Thing is "Our Betters" Don't get how truly pissed (frightened?) we the great unwashed are.
The dam the extremism of the Left has constructed against truth and just plain common sense is going to burst and it will be ugly for a while. But it’s just a matter of time. Movies like this represent the first cracks in that dam.
It has been ok for years to portray the death of "rednecks" as a good thing in the movies. ie: Zed’s torture and execution in Pulp Fiction, Dwight Yoakam's murder in Slingblade, etc. Nobody raised a fuss about such scenes ever because they were villians, and you know it's just a movie. But now when the bad guys aren't white? Oh the critics want to shut it down.
Oh boy, I saw your post when you (briefly) cross posted it here and I’m sorry for jumping into the fray. I think I will skip the rest of today’s comments though. lol
You’re a brave woman and I applaud you.❤️
Edited to add: Ewe Boll’s link has already been restricted as “adult content” but Elon’s link still works.