Chuck, maybe so, but experienced editors have gone the way of the dinosaurs. PCC- I'm guessing yes. I've seen worse that got by over the years. I'm thinking of an obit photo in particular that still makes me smile.
I just saw the film Goldmember, the latest Austin Powers "comedy" . People throughout the cinema were laughing all the way through. But I wasn't, fellow travellers. He didn't even get a chuckle from me! It was probably the most appallingly racist, sexist, and right-wing film since Triumph of the Will.Firstly there was the title: "Goldmember". Can you get any more phallocentric and capitalist! Myers is saying, "I love my peenie. My peenie is valuable. My peenie is the most valuable thing in the world!" And no one complains. I mean there were women in the audience, just falling about. What's going on?Then of course there is the relentless abuse of the actor playing Mini-me. Considering that dwarf-tossing has just been banned in Europe, it is truly appalling that such a disempowering representatiuon of the vertically challenged -- he is after all, the clone of Dr Evil -- be shown on our film screens. Myers himself may argue that it's a celebratory characterization. But if this was the intention, then the realization falls very short indeed.
This was a real boner by the editor.
ReplyDeleteIs that real?
ReplyDeleteChuck, maybe so, but experienced editors have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
ReplyDeletePCC- I'm guessing yes. I've seen worse that got by over the years. I'm thinking of an obit photo in particular that still makes me smile.
THIS IS HILARIOUS!
ReplyDeleteTELL US about the obit photo, please??~!!
Yeth, JJ. Would that be the dine out more often picture? Did anybody save that? Ya gotta love Burton. I was explaining it to Al at lunch today.
ReplyDeleteI just saw the film Goldmember, the latest Austin Powers "comedy" . People throughout the cinema were laughing all the way through. But I wasn't, fellow travellers. He didn't even get a chuckle from me! It was probably the most appallingly racist, sexist, and right-wing film since Triumph of the Will.Firstly there was the title: "Goldmember". Can you get any more phallocentric and capitalist! Myers is saying, "I love my peenie. My peenie is valuable. My peenie is the most valuable thing in the world!" And no one complains. I mean there were women in the audience, just falling about. What's going on?Then of course there is the relentless abuse of the actor playing Mini-me. Considering that dwarf-tossing has just been banned in Europe, it is truly appalling that such a disempowering representatiuon of the vertically challenged -- he is after all, the clone of Dr Evil -- be shown on our film screens. Myers himself may argue that it's a celebratory characterization. But if this was the intention, then the realization falls very short indeed.
ReplyDeletelol oiy!
ReplyDeleteCOME BACK, SHANE! (you okay?)
ReplyDeleteIt just a LOL.......
ReplyDeleteZ, I'm fine, albeit a little unsettled still. Working on it. Thanks for asking.
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