Anyone that has done some research on Manson, the family and all circumstances that surrounded them before during and after the horrific countless murders that climaxed with the Tate La Bianca ones and the three ring circus that was the trial, knows that there was no need for writers and producers to embellish or go off book. Fact is stranger than fiction, especially in this story, you can't make this stuff up. The cast of characters, hippies, ranchers, runaways, satanic cultists, vindictive hells angels, black militants they re all there along with riff raff of all kind. Just read Ed Sanders The Family and Helter Skelter. There was no need to embellish, and the kids are way to contemporary. Some of the girls sound like jappy valley girls.
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Stonewall
(2015)
Campaign against this movie nauseating
1 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
First off, I am gay. I was mercilessly bullied as a child back in the late 70's early 80s. It's nothing new.
I have read books, articles, and seen documentaries on the Stonewall riots......having said that, the LGBT community's lynch campaign regarding the film Stonewall has once again proved that as a group we are so self indulgent and petty, so mired in our own little dramas that we cannot see the big picture.
We should have lined up by the thousands to see this film (so starved we are about representation of our history, especially since integration) good or bad, accurate as we would want it to be or not. Instead what we have done is gleefully, shrilly and self-righteously and most of all in the most ignorant of ways, we have torpedoed it. What we have also done is send Hollywood a message that we as a group do not want to see movies about our history because we are so focused on being divisive as a group, and so intent into looking out for our own self as opposed to our collective well being.
We always have been selfish, petty, vain, superficial...in the 70s right after Stonewall, the athletic muscle boys scoffed and ridiculed the political queens because they were too busy being liberated and getting laid.
Black America stands together and supports each other....Tyler Perry can crank out countless drivel with his Medea movies and that demographic will flock. Any instance of police brutality towards an African American and that community ,rightly so, will make their voices heard.
For us that is not the case. Countless gay bashings and no one ever riots in the streets.
Two films have been made about the single most important event in our history. One in the 1990's and this last one. And what is our reaction? To squash any chance for some kid in the mid west to see it and have a spark of interest set off to get him or her and everything in between to go read up on the actual event.
POSSIBLE SPOILER: The film is not bad, it's not great, the script is a little weak, but everyone is represented. Martha P. has her moment in the limelight. A Hispanic character very much resembling Sylvia Rivera comes very close to throwing that first brick. And the lesbian dragged out kicking and screaming that howls anguishedly "Why are you just standing there, why doesn't anyone help me?!" is featured prominently.
So there's a white kid from the Midwest that provides the narrative for the story.
Big deal. One thing for sure, this could have been a chance to provide awareness of this event, and like self righteous idiots we have screwed this one up. You can be sure now that Hollywood will steer clear of anything dealing with LGBT issues. Good luck making that movie on whatever fluid sexuality topic now. We've killed it. A round of applause.
I have read books, articles, and seen documentaries on the Stonewall riots......having said that, the LGBT community's lynch campaign regarding the film Stonewall has once again proved that as a group we are so self indulgent and petty, so mired in our own little dramas that we cannot see the big picture.
We should have lined up by the thousands to see this film (so starved we are about representation of our history, especially since integration) good or bad, accurate as we would want it to be or not. Instead what we have done is gleefully, shrilly and self-righteously and most of all in the most ignorant of ways, we have torpedoed it. What we have also done is send Hollywood a message that we as a group do not want to see movies about our history because we are so focused on being divisive as a group, and so intent into looking out for our own self as opposed to our collective well being.
We always have been selfish, petty, vain, superficial...in the 70s right after Stonewall, the athletic muscle boys scoffed and ridiculed the political queens because they were too busy being liberated and getting laid.
Black America stands together and supports each other....Tyler Perry can crank out countless drivel with his Medea movies and that demographic will flock. Any instance of police brutality towards an African American and that community ,rightly so, will make their voices heard.
For us that is not the case. Countless gay bashings and no one ever riots in the streets.
Two films have been made about the single most important event in our history. One in the 1990's and this last one. And what is our reaction? To squash any chance for some kid in the mid west to see it and have a spark of interest set off to get him or her and everything in between to go read up on the actual event.
POSSIBLE SPOILER: The film is not bad, it's not great, the script is a little weak, but everyone is represented. Martha P. has her moment in the limelight. A Hispanic character very much resembling Sylvia Rivera comes very close to throwing that first brick. And the lesbian dragged out kicking and screaming that howls anguishedly "Why are you just standing there, why doesn't anyone help me?!" is featured prominently.
So there's a white kid from the Midwest that provides the narrative for the story.
Big deal. One thing for sure, this could have been a chance to provide awareness of this event, and like self righteous idiots we have screwed this one up. You can be sure now that Hollywood will steer clear of anything dealing with LGBT issues. Good luck making that movie on whatever fluid sexuality topic now. We've killed it. A round of applause.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(2014)
The other 'F" word
15 March 2014
I am going to need to use letters to describe specifically offensive words which Hollywood seems bent on using which IMDb police wont allow in their review even though I am making a very specific just point. You'd think we were in grade school. Why is it that Hollywood feels like its still okay to use the other "F" word (derogatory name for a homosexual)and steers clear of all the other slurs? "F" is still the one socially accepted slur. We all heard it in Wolf Of Wall Street along with plenty of other offense and violence directed at the only gay character. In that one Scorsese made the actual choice of having the characters use the "other F" word quite a few times but when it came to a character using the "N" word, he actually referred to it as "N" word. Why one and not the other. If you are going to be politically correct then you need to do so across the border.
And now Wes Anderson...You'd accept more from a "hipster". I thought they were supposed to be liberal. Oh the hypocrisy. The audience would not have stood for the "N" word being used as it did because they are "just" and "socially conscious" yet they rolled around and laughed at the other F" word. Oh the hypocritical fools. All hipster of them. Ignorant fools.
And now Wes Anderson...You'd accept more from a "hipster". I thought they were supposed to be liberal. Oh the hypocrisy. The audience would not have stood for the "N" word being used as it did because they are "just" and "socially conscious" yet they rolled around and laughed at the other F" word. Oh the hypocritical fools. All hipster of them. Ignorant fools.
Alice in Wonderland
(I) (2010)
Tim's Ego
23 March 2010
And yet again Tim Burton's ego gets in the way as it did with Willy Wonka seriously thinking that he can improve an age old classic by replacing what he refers to as a mere series of events a little girl stumbles through, with a trite paint by numbers good versus evil story a la: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Golden Compass. He leaves out the magic of the books, the cutting wit, the Topsy turvy absurdity which make the stories so special and a little girl called Alice who's precocious cleverness is way beyond her years. It is not about stifling a director's artistic vision (which every artist has a right to) or reworking of the story but the mere greed and egotistical ambitiousness with which he went after this project, clearly to fatten his pockets. Poor Lewis Carrol is rolling in his grave.
Maria Full of Grace
(2004)
HARROWING
27 August 2004
Horrowing like nothing I've seen in a while.What a great movie, it was so disturbing at times I could'nt sleep. Reading Ralph Michael Stein comments I realize how differently people's take on the central character of Maria can be, to me she and people like her are not the criminals in this sad story but definitely the exploited. If it were'nt for drug users in wealthy countries like ours, who considered "partying" a fun harmless escape, girls like Maria would never even have the opportunity of risking their lives in such a miserable way. It's definitely put guilt and thought towards those times I might have indulged in irrisponsible behavior in the past, so taking that into consideration, the film's done it's job.
The Green Berets
(1968)
John Wayne never fought in a war
21 August 2004
After reading some of the war mongering comments on this film I realize that this truly is a nation that categorizes innate bellicosity as an honorable trait. Why should the desire for peace be considered traitor worthy? What is with equating violence and war with patriotism,or what is so honorable in sending of your children to get butchered in foreign lands, remember it is your sons and daughters, not your senators.These children a lot of times are fighting wars to save the faces of elderly gentlemen in the Capitol. The obvious problem with most of the reviewers of this film that have such high ideals of military combat is that most likely they've never experienced it first hand.As a child I got nightmare inducing first hand accounts from my parents and grandparents as to the atrocities they witnessed in Europe during WW2,things I defy anyone who saw them as being honorable. Lots of courage and personal sacrifice unfortunately yes,but there is nothing heroic about your friend or family member dying with their guts exploded in your arms, and shame on any piece of propaganda that falsely advertises into sending our children to their deaths.We owe it to them to expose what they are getting themselves involved in.Oh by the way , about "The Green Berets", here's a bit of trivia, John Wayne never fought a war, and since we are talking of honor Mr.Whud, ever hear of the My Lai massacre? I suggest you do a bit of research on that little piece of American involvement in Vietnam, you might also want to read G.I's first hand accounts in "A Rumor of War" before going off about "Platoon" as the worst movie ever made. Lastly in the immortal words of Earnest Hemingway "Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime ask the infantry and ask the dead."( By the way he did fight during the Spanish civil war.)
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