My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Detroit
Kathryn Bigelow got her groove back since her sycophantic "Zero Dark Thirty." The movie is well made and instilled with documentary and mock documentary parts. "The Game of Thrones", as always, appears as a star-making factory (Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner and now, Hannah Murray).
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Valerian
Luc Besson dedicated Valerian to his father. Unless his father would appreciate his son's ability to undress a large number of models, among them some top-bracket and at least one supermodel (Kara Delevigne) and also Rihanna, there is little in the movie, which can make his dad proud. But, as an experience of the Mad Max demonstrates, that it now takes very little besides special effects to impress modern audiences. But Valerian failed even in that. Characteristically, on imdb, there are few stills of movie itself but plenty of photos from post-film party events.
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