Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Re Craig's comment on Avatar; the frequent claims that this film has a radical, anti-corporate and pro-environment message ignores the fact that it effectively inflated the annual profits of its parent company Newscorp (through 20th Century Fox)--arguably the exemplar of greedy, rapacious corporate power.
I'd say far from ignoring it, that just ramps it up to an all-devlouring Master Control Program of irony that Fox has made billions off two film whose contempt for corporation (be it the white Star Line or Earth Inc.) isn't subtext but blaring neon text. Courtesy of a director who infamously regards "studio suits" with undisguised loathing. I just have my doubts that News Corp or Fox quite get it, or even want to. And why should they: As Liberace said when asked how he responded to bad reviews: "I cry all the way to the bank."
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
Meanwhile, they made a series of behind-the-scenes approaches to
"MFAT and other key decision makers in government, the private
sector, and the media about ways we can improve the bilateral
relationship after the elections," whatever that means. All of which would tend to undermine somewhat their claim to Olympian detachment from the election and its outcome.Um, I know America is the Great Satan but how would than "tend to undermine" anything? I would like to know if our diplomats suddenly went dark in Australia and United Kingdom around their respective general elections.
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Lilith __,
no more Charles Mesure with the sexy running....
I'm hoping that V will continue its sharp de-sucking curve, and Mesure will get more to do than stand around, scowling in a vaguely constipated manner.
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Disney made an anti-corporate film in 1982. There's not a chance it's going to make one in 2010.
Which begs the most interesting question about Avatar -- did anyone in the largest media corporation on Earth actually read the parts of the script where the entire human race has become a genocidal military-industrial complex? (Or Titanic come to that -- where a rapacious corporation racks up a pretty impressive body count in the class war.)
But I digress, yes Leo is a very astute film critic. Tron Legacy has a fucking awful script, but I think the deeper problem is that it's a sequel that's too damn reverential to the original and in all the wrong ways. Yes, it was kind of cool seeing all the design elements of the original getting a digital scrub up and I'm glad I paid way too much to see it in Imax. But it would have been nice to see a point of view -- an attitude -- that would have given things like Michael Sheen's Lady Gaga-trapped-in-Ziggy-Stardust's-body turn somewhere else to go.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
I love how Key "could not comment [on that] because he is in Hawaii." Says it all, really.
What, he goes on holiday around Christmas? Fucking outrageous. Helen Clark used to be rather hard to find this time of year, given her taste for adventure tourism.
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Something else I forgot - I seem to be the only person who really liked This Is Not My Life. Sadly, just heard Rachel Lang on Nine to Noon (with James Griffin) who let drop we're not getting a second series. Bugger.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well, he's still got Jemima Khan and Bianca Jagger ...
And Larry Flynt - publisher/editor of such edifying masturbation aids as Barely Legal and Asian Babes.
And you missed the real money quote from Assange's new landlord:
"I'm not going to criticise Nick Davies. I'm not accusing The Guardian of any wrongdoing. I don't think it delivers any new revelations. I'm sad to read it. The article was critical and I wondered to what extent The Guardian maintains a level of criticism politically to keep off the flak of publishing the leaks. I wonder how much of this is politics. It hasn't made me think that Julian is guilty but it makes me think, perhaps, newspapers feel the need to put in criticism."
*head-desk* Makes me think Assange's celebutard fan club need some alone time with a cult de-programmer.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I don't think that's the case but there is enough evidence, indisputable stuff, of CIA involvement in the odd international incident that such should not be dismissed either. There is a body count.
Oh, for fuck's sake Simon. Post hoc ergo propter hoc much?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
Thanks for the Guardian link, Russell, but just as a small courtesy a trigger warning wouldn't go amiss because the story does still contain epic rape bingo from Assange's supporters/lawyers. Perfectly legitimate to report, needless to add, but there may well be some PAS readers who don't need to come upon it unawares.
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Gosh, this reminds me I forgot to nominate Lhaws for word of the year.
Hush. Laws is like the Erinýes or Voldemort -- a bearer of such dreadful misfortune and malevolence, just speaking his name will bring his pestilential wrath down on us all.
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