Battlefield Earth: Part Duh

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

The Commodore gives "War of the Worlds" two thumbs up!

MY ASS!

Hello to the Commodore. Long time listener, first time caller. I have a question: were there any references to Orson Welles in WotW? Spielberg has been known to throw in the occasional classic film homage in his movies (see, Report, Minority). Recognise any? I'll take my answer off the air.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Tref

Hello to the Commodore. Long time listener, first time caller. I have a question: were there any references to Orson Welles in WotW? Spielberg has been known to throw in the occasional classic film homage in his movies (see, Report, Minority). Recognise any? I'll take my answer off the air.

Thanks for taking your answer off the air, Terf. Always nice when a longtime listener calls in. I recognized no references to Orson Welles or the Mecury Theatre. Unless you consider the constant eating of people to be an homage to Orson's corpulence.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

...shocking...carnage...screaming...tears...WTF... sucked...cheesy...downhill from there...annoying...sick...sorry

You honestly weren't offended by the 9/11 imagery? I'm saddened to think that people have become inured to this sort of manipulative filmmaking. I find it ironic that the same filmmaker who made "Schindler's List," self-servingly uses imagery in "War of the Worlds" that should remain sacred.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

that should remain sacred.

I almost want the word "sacred" stripped from language altogether unless someone spits inside Notre Dame and must then be told that it's impolite to spit on sacred ground. Actually, they should be told that it's horribly rude and disgusting to spit anywhere in public, even if they come from a country where it's *okay* to spit in public, because it should *never* be okay to spit in public. I've seen an exhibit on infectious diseases and the final word on that seemed to be, "NO SPITTING IN PUBLIC! DO YOU WANT CHOLERA?!?!?!"

Of course, the mucus and sound alone are enough to make ME against spitting anywhere I have to see you spit, but far be it...........Ah, I'm turning into a farbe.

Anyway, one man's sacred space is another person's sacred space, No it's MY sacred space and I want you out, But I tell you it's MY sacred space and I will stand my ground and fight, Well so will I then because this is the sacred ground of MY people, who have been here for thousands of years, Don't you talk to ME about thousands of years......

Same goes with a nation's history and iconography. Is the flag a symbol or should it be considered a sacred symbol? Should The Last Temptation of Christ never have been written, just because someone told my pal Niko he had no right to reinterpret the dogma of a faith he himself believed in?

Team America could not have been made pre-9/11. No doubt many found that film to be hugely offensive but I thought it was a really fun, rollicking, and decent satire of a post-9/11 world.

We saw people in the United States react to a tragedy on a massive scale a few years back. It will no doubt have altered our perceptions about such an event, and those perceptions will sometimes creep into film, literature, art of all kinds, etc., sometimes in minute ways, extreme ways, "tasteful" or "untasteful" ways. And they may not be to your liking, but I don't think anything that happened that day is sacrosanct.

Granted, until I'm being chased by a pack of vampires into a church they cannot enter because it's hallowed ground, I'm not sure I'll ever look at a church and think "sacred". In fact, in Los Angeles, I usually look at churches and think, "Did a giant child in possession of cinder block legos build this horror?!" However, out of reverence to those who do believe in sacred spaces, I don't stomp around swearing, etc. I do not, however, control my lusty thoughts. That's my business, even in God's house, and if he feels like looking in, hey - who wouldn't enjoy free porn? I half suspect that kind of "free cable" justifies our entire existence.