This podcast we hit everything from slasher films affect on the culture to the historic 9/12 march (interviewing the woman behind the 2 million rumor) to rules of engagement with Afghanistan, Iran's nuclear time table and a trade war with China.
For another perspective on this movie, I suggest reading John Rosenthal's review titled "Inglourious Basterds: A German Fantasy, Not a ‘Jewish’ One". Rosenthal posits that the movie is written to make the Germans look sympathetic, and the joke is on the buffoonish Americans--who are neither cultured nor competent and barbaric to boot. The movie glorifies German fantasies of vengeful Jews, when in reality, the Germans were the barbarians. One wouldn't know this watching the movie, according t…
Inglourious Bastards might be Quentin Tarantino's best movie so far. As expected, it's full of gruesome violence, gratuitous splattering blood, and revenge fantasies. For the subject, it's all to the good: Nazis die.
...how stupid was Gwen Ifill's question? What is it with the Left's sick perseverating on McCain's decrepitude? Really, it's to stoke fear over Sarah Palin: only problem everyone likes her.
How is it that I can love Abigail Breslin, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, Glenne Headley and even like a lot Julia Orman and HATE with hateful hatiness this movie? And it got an 81% Tomatometer reading? WTF? Did these people see the same suck ass movie as I did? (Pardon the expletives, I've been marinating in the "message" of this kids film for 24 hours and I'm feeling rotten, myself.)