In Space, No One Can Hear You Wonder Why David Fincher Is So Weird About Jesus
WordPress has a plugin that scores each post title per some algorithm of clickability. On a hundred-point scale, that one got a 69. Nice. Anyway, I burned through the Alien movies the other day. Which is to say, the Ripley films. I skipped the first one entirely, because honestly...
All the President’s Horses and All the President’s Men
My writing style has become reasonably casual, parsed with a pompous vocabulary in pursuit of legitimacy (ha). I’ll construct essays like stories, and there’s nothing wrong with a joke every now and again. I like to think it conveys a comfortable confidence with the material, a “yeah I know...
Wrapping the Old School Old School: Meet Citizen Doe
This wraps up the first week of writing for Politics and Film. I’m pretty sure he had a rough word limit on the essays, which was handy after the pages and pages of questions for the individual films. Each module was due on a Sunday night, so of course...
Politics and Film: Meet John Doe. And then forget all about him.
I have …almost NO memory whatsoever of watching this one. There’s a rooftop scene I mention of which I have a vague impression, but that’s it. Otherwise this one made no dent at all. Meet John Doe How are questions of class, wealth and poverty dealt with in the...
Citizen Kane takes it up the Rosebud
I’d started midyear and knew after that first spring that CSUCI kinda sucked, so I enrolled for a few summer courses to move things along. This was killing my summer so I leaned heavily into what I already knew. There was a Nonprofit Management class that was almost word-for-word...
The B-Movie Team
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The A-Team. But I don’t remember them ever actually working for money… I was looking for something to watch and somehow wound up with the modern vision of an...
Iron Mannerisms: Flight of the Fe Nitwit
I’m working thru SGU again so I’ll get to that one. Yesterday was Iron Man day. The first one still holds up really well, considering everything it introduces. The third on the other hand is among Marvel’s worst. I have fond memories of IM, we opened Glendale with that...
Thor Redux: The Cheer of an Aryan Nation
No fear, no Black planets either. I’ve been spending some time watching the Marvel films through quarantine goggles. Thor didn’t really hit his stride until ‘Ragnarok’, but ‘Dark World’ has been unfairly shelved. The first Thor has probably aged the worst. Branagh was a good choice for director, he...
Star Trek 2: The Rote of Khan
I didn’t want them to do Khan again. It just didn’t make any sense. In a LOGICAL world, the first thing Spock Prime does after the reboot curtains is find a ship and destroy Khan’s. The very first thing. So bringing him back sounds creatively lazy. Besides, how on...