(urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short

[Nathan Spears]

> It was plot-wise fairly faithful to about half of ST. But it utterly betrayed
> the tone and angle of the book; the book is deeply libertarian (though some
> people miss that), while the movie was more or less facistic in tone.

I'm not sure whether the film was intended as a satire or not - but that's certainly the only way it can be enjoyed.



Witness dialogue like the following:

Rico: "You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?"



Who, even in Hollywood, could have green-lit that bit of cheese into a
big budget movie without knowing exactly how campy it was?  Although as
a joke on the audience, it gets very tiresome if no one else in the
room is laughing.



> > (Best propaganda film I've seen in a long while is "Pan's Labyrinth".)

> Better than "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "An Inconvenient Truth"?

When the Levees Broke is good, more relevant than Pan's.




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