Unsought Input

I just saw Be Kind Rewind and if you haven’t seen it or heard of it or if you kinda wanted to see it but you weren’t sure, this movie is definitely worth seeing. In fact I think this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It’s funny and has heart and it also has Mos Def and Jack Black. Anyway, this post is not a review of the movie, you can read that elsewhere. This post is all about home sweded movies. The top five that I could find in about fifteen minutes at least. So, as usual, only the creme de le creme from me.

The Shining

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We can agree to disagree about the political messages in the movie 300, whether it was propaganda or gay-bashing.  But I think everyone who saw the movie will agree it was quite violent.

But was the violence excessive or gratuitous?  The only empirical way I can think of to find out is to remove the violence from the epic:

Recently there been a big deal made about the movie 300 and its portrayal of pederasty. After seeing the movie I can’t understand what all the hubbub is about. First off there is really no hard core pedo action in the film, what a disappointment. Not even a little ball tickling. That’s probably why it only got 1 pair of bloody underwear out of 5 on the NAMBLA website.

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The movie 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, has earned $70 million at the box office, breaking some records. But if you read some of the commentary out there you might not be too interested in seeing it.

All the villains are gay. All the good guys are white and the bad guys are black. The whole thing is just Frank Miller’s thinly-veiled cheering for Bush to invade Iran. Etc.

Now, 300 is definitely not a historical documentary. But I don’t think the criticisms mentioned above are completely true-although I can certainly see why many people may have jumped to them.

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