The Bourne Supremacy drove me insane with it, but it didn't too bother me
during District 9.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote:
Apparently, I saw a different District 9 than Prarie Miller and Armond
White did!
After seeing
Behold, you anti-shaky camera fucks, and weep:
http://www.strimoo.com/video/15601236/Chimes-at-Midnight-1965-by-Orson-Welles-Veoh.html
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David McDonald wrote:
Behold, you anti-shaky camera fucks, and weep:
http://www.strimoo.com/video/15601236/Chimes-at-Midnight-1965-by-Orson-Welles-Veoh.html
big deal, so Orson Welles watched Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky one day
and decided to try a battle scene himself (a guess)...
Personally, I'm afraid I'll never see another medieval battle scene
without waiting to see Peter Cook as Richard III wandering around like
he did in Black Adder.
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I have not seen this movie yet, but two of my colleagues in NYFCO did
not care for it very much.
Prairie Miller, a hard-core leftist like me, wrote:
Relentlessly clunky and grating in the extreme, District 9 takes its cue
from Cloverfield's contrived artsy vertigo to situate the futuristic
Louis Proyect wrote:
I have not seen this movie yet, but two of my colleagues in NYFCO did
not care for it very much.
went to see it yesterday, it's the first movie i have walked out on
since i walked out on Cujo in 1983.
District 9 is a very very evocative film ... see it if you want
Louis Proyect wrote:
full: http://newsblaze.com/story/20090807123235mill.nb/topstory.html
Meanwhile, Armond White, an African-American reviewer who does not
suffer foolish movies lightly, wrote
wow, great review
there were several deeply disturbing scenes in the first half of the
As an allegory to apartheid the film for me was a complete failure.But
compared to other mainstream films, it was a rather entertaining sci-fi
movie.
Les-- that was an unusual point to walk out on a film. I didn't see the
overt Nazi
comparison, but even if I did I still don't quite understand
I saw the whole movie. I have mixed feelings about it. I agree with the
comment that the person who wrote/produced this was immature
politically. The very obvious comparison with Apartheid was the main
comparison, combined with a sort of faux-Nazi approach as a Final
Solution to the Alien
: [Marxism] District 9
To: Adrian Bankhead invisibleman...@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, 17 August, 2009, 9:08 AM
I have not seen this movie yet, but two of my colleagues in NYFCO did
not care for it very much.
Prairie Miller, a hard-core leftist like me, wrote:
Relentlessly clunky and grating
Adrian Bankhead wrote:
Despite their bizarre appearance, the prawns are immediately anthomorphized,
so we are made to feel pity for C.J. - the child prawn, and we come to
identify with the wise and smart Christopher. We feel no such pity for the
Nigerians
all well said, i am glad someone
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I have not seen this movie yet, but two of my colleagues in NYFCO did
not care for it very much.
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