So, I don’t go to see many movies at the theater only because I can’t stand the crowd of teenagers on Saturday nights. So DVD’s, HBO and my DVR are my salvation. Here along with my witty repertoire are the most recently watched.
Star Wars: HBO showed the Star Wars movies, over a two week period. After watching II and III I realized that Anakin Skywalker was a whiny bitch – I mean Luke suffered more losses then him and he resisted the dark side.
Soylent Green: It is one of those cult movies I had to eventually watch. It is a great story but it’s also made in the 70’s and the attempts to look sort of futuristic is a laugh compared to today’s standards. But the back story about the Greenhouse effect and the lack of food was very poignant. This might not be the movie to watch if you have something better in your queue because it so needs a re-make. I tried to come up with recent actors who I think should play the title characters. I am still working on this list but so far the only person I can imagine playing the lead is Mike Rowe from Dirtiest Jobs (discovery channel) – he sort of reminds me of Charlton Hesten.
Side Note: I have been having an online conversation with friends about the fascination with apocalyptic themed movies. My conclusion was, that watching an attack on our basic foundations, food, shelter, safety etc… can show the true nature of humans and if you then throw in there some sort of commodity (blood, brains, gas) bam you have a movie of survival at any costs. I think apocalyptic movies are about fear, what we as a society are scared of, somebody destroying our safe worlds. And that godless technology will be our undoing. We will be enslaved and become part of a machine that either uses us for battery power (matrix), or food (soylent green).
Jesus Camp: speaking of apocalyptic themed movies the most recent movie I watched was Jesus Camp and talk about being afraid of somebody messing up my safe little sinned filled world. These people scared the crap out of me it is a mix of Nazi Youth training and Children of the Corn. It was exhausting to watch and it reinforced my fears of the religious right. I recommend this only as research to see the indoctrination of children and how dangerous it is.
People always say I have too much time on my hands, but I have plenty of things to do but I would rather be doing something fun.
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This is so odd, I was at a workshop today where the presenter asked the crowd who knew Soylent Green. It was a question to show how cultural knowledge is different from one age group to another.
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