Tuesday, February 17, 2009

People Who Clearly Know Nothing About Films Should Avoid List-Making

There are so many easy things to pick apart on the movie-equivalent of this ridiculous music list a few years back. Let me just say that, no, The Dark Knight is not "conservative" - you clearly missed that entire bit about surveillance and "this is wrong" and "no man should have this much power". And Brazil's criticism and portrayal of "national-security scares, universal police surveillance, bureaucratic arrogance, a callous elite...and government use of torture" hardly renders it a paragon of conservative virtues. And just because people still discuss Red Dawn doesn't mean it's great - people still discuss Manos: Hands of Fate, after all...