...We KNOW it's a horror movie, we don't need to be beaten over the head
with it! Couldn't the presentation been more natural instead? Apparently
those who produced this film didn't think the audience could handle that
kind of subtlety. When something bad was actually happening, we were
too desensitized by fake shock moments that came in between...
...Apparently the Earth Goddess Gaia has decided that
homo sapiens is a vermin that has sinned upon her Divine Bosom
for too long, so our species has been marked for extinction.
...What this really is, is a version of the concept of Original
Sin in which Man is born guilty by virtue of the cerebral cortex.
Our very consciousness, self-awareness and consequent penchant
to adapt our environment to suit us make us incompatible with
Nature and thus an abomination.
It really is a shame that Liv Tyler was in a pointless
slasher movie. It started off promising enough, with Liv's character
and a guy who had proposed to her and she apparently didn't say yes.
They were working their way toward a reconciliation when the stalking,
scaring and slashing started.
They could have left that part out and continued with the original
storyline between those two characters, which was promising and
enjoyable for about a quarter of the film. The rest of the movie,
they're just being hunted down by some lame people who are inexplicably
a step ahead of the designated victims when most normal people
would have dispatched the killers within the first half hour.
There are a lot of exaggerations and plot contrivances
to drive the point home, but that is by design. For someone experiencing
a breakup, that is how it feels -- it seems everything conspires to make
things all the more painful. The characters are not stick figures either;
even the \'bad guy\' who "steals the girl" has his positive attributes.
Dramatic music floods the movie in an attempt to
show us that running around talking on the phone [which is what
is happening most of the time] is more interesting than it appears.
The only reason I watched it to the end was to see who was doing
the nasty work and why. It is neatly -- and improbably -- tied up
in the last 5 minutes.
If the script were cut down to less than an hour and submitted to
a crime drama series, it may have been worth doing -- and
watching.
From
the very beginning, it becomes clear that one must be more than
sympathetic to a certain political perspective in order to obtain
maximum enjoyment of American Dreamz. We are given saturation doses of
the film makers’ clichéd Leftist portrayals of the Bush
administration. If Janeane Garofalo sets your political agenda, you
will howl at the sledgehammer-subtle renderings of President Staton
(Dennis Quaid) as a well
-meaning, but ignorant boob who is puppet-mastered from sun to sun by
the evilly manipulative Vice-President Sutton (Willem Dafoe.)
...I think that anyone who suspects that a friend is
going off of the deep end over a romance should arrange a viewing.
My take is that the plotline portrays an obsession taken to its
logical conclusion.
The childhood flashbacks, the piteous groveling by the perpetrator
and the mercilessly accurate assessments by the captive demonstrate
the true nature of obsession: It has very little to do with love
or even the desire's object. It is about an unhealthy perspective
of self and world.
I don't give a damn about whether a film is 'derivative' or 'predictable;'
is it watchable? Sex or good food is predictable too, what's your point?
I don't know if Jennifer Lynch was imitating her father. I think that
those who compared the two were prejudicing themselves.
Apparently
the
ill-advised heat is coming to Oliver Stone from all sides in the United
States, so he is abandoning us to our galling ignorance. Quoting the
clearly exasperated director from a recent New York Post article: “The
gays lambasted me for not making Alexander openly homosexual and in the
Bible Belt, pastors were up in the pulpit saying that to watch this
film was to be tempted by Satan.”
Chronic
teasing,
name-calling, threats and
violence at a middle school are causing a California school district to
face litigation for the second time. According to his father, a seventh
grade boy has endured over 120 incidents of name-calling since starting
the sixth grade at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle School in Pacifica, Calif.
last
year.
There
is a cadre of elitists
who will stop
at nothing to impose their vision for society upon children. They will
brook no competing point of view, nor will they allow parents to
opt-out.
How is this done, and why?
A
little known youth-media
educational organization’s
activities illustrate in microcosm a larger effort to influence
children’s
hearts and minds with a certain agenda. Although parents are mentioned
as being among the intended audience, the resources are geared mainly
for
professional educators and youth organizations. It merits a closer look:
In the
book Power
Grab, we find that the National Education Association (NEA) has
sued
teachers for revealing its political activities to their colleagues.
Teachers
who are reluctant to participate in strikes sometimes face violence.
One
found her cats and dog dead near her home. Strikebreaking substitute
teachers
have been pelted with eggs, spat upon, and had their vehicles damaged.
While on the way to class, a 12-year-old Los Angeles girl was struck by
a rock meant for a ‘scab’s’ car.
Does
the U.S. Constitution protect free speech and allow people to organize
based upon a common value system? Given the American Civil Liberty
Union’s
actions, the answer apparently depends upon who is involved and what
values
are promoted.
With an
eye for the future,
the battleground for gay activists is in the schools and children are
the
targets, a new book, The
Homosexual Agenda reveals. Developments in at least one state
capital
seem to bear the authors out.
Author and former Accuracy
In Academia director Dan Flynn at AIA's June 2003 Conservative
University
conceded that the title of his latest book “Why the Left Hates America”
is provocative. It is deliberately so, he said. He then proceeded to
back
his assertion with example after example and to explain the Left’s
hatred.
A classic late
bloomer/ugly duckling story based upon the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty. Charlotte Vale (Bette
Davis) is the unwanted
youngest daughter of a hypercritical, controlling Boston matriarch.
Concerned about Charlotte’s escalating anxious
reclusiveness, other family members summon a psychiatrist (Claude
Rains) to surreptitiously evaluate her. The empathetic Dr. Jaquith
quickly perceives the unhealthy situation and whisks the frumpy auntie
away to a sanitarium set on a sprawling, bucolic campus.
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