Bluesky comment
I’m not going to pretend these are bad films (I don’t even mind the Woody film) but this doesn’t exactly scream “voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema” so much as “dad who watches a lot of TNT.”
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Dunkirk (2017)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Zodiac (2007)
- Unstoppable (2010)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Battle Royale (2000)
- Big Bad Wolves (2013)
- Jackass: The Movie (2002)
- School of Rock (2003)
- The Passion of the Christ (2004)
- The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
- Chocolate (2008)
- Moneyball (2011)
- Cabin Fever (2002)
- West Side Story (2021)
a lot of those i can respect, but Black Hawk Down is legitimately a fucked up ass movie with the most disrespectful, racist, and demonic messaging.
i saw it when i was in high school and loved mil slop, so it washed over me like a foamy tide of hamburgers + french fries. i watched it again about a month ago. it has some incredible big names in it, but the story and its telling are vicious and cruel marketed as cool and awesome. it’s probably the most glaring example of how diseased american media is when it comes to portraying empire.
we all rip on the “shoot dark-skinned civilians and feel bad about it” genre, but Black Hawk Down was literally “shoot dark-skinned civilians and feel awesome about it because you shot so many”.
i guess i shouldn’t be surprised that it’s the guy who makes movies where 14% of the dialogue is the N-word, but damn Black Hawk Down is not what i would have expected at #1 on anybody but like David Duke Jr. and J.D. Vance’s list.
Also - he married an Israeli and they have a house in Tel Aviv and they have three kids.
That’s why I separate the art from the artist… through piracy.
we should consider an update to that turn of phrase, I suggest “separate the head from the artist”
I propose “separate the body from the artist”
It means the body of work at first glance, but maintains the vague pretense of beheading them.
If I had to guess, BHD coming out in January 2002, just four months after 9/11, was extra popular because it was a grotesque revisit revenge plot with a Muslim enemy
It’s also disappointing because this is the dude who basically made a fanfic about offing Hitler in the most gruesome, cathartic way possible.
Not to mention the actual events are the origin story of a new caliber because of the made up stories of “we had to shoot them multiple times to drop em’”!
Not the first time some racist shit head who either can’t shoot or doesn’t understand adrenaline has lead to a new special boy caliber.
.458 SOCOM if you’re curious. It’s basically a short .45-70 govt. The type of round you use to drop a charging grizzly bear…