urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mulkabu mulkabu mulkabu 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mulkabu:5800 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z Fluffed by primary caucuses, I got in line with all the other Sorkinphiles for Charlie Wilson's War and manged to be to be titillated while being administered my cumbersome suppository of morality.&nbsp; <a name="cutid1"></a><div class="ljcut" text="Read more...">If these few words already suggest a ratio less signal-to-noise than tits-to-ass, it's cause I just spent 90 mins in a dark room with an enormous screen used to project forty foot wide tits and twenty foot high ass entirely fucking incessantly.&nbsp; That's an hour and a half of giant tits, I'm still gonna be asking google to filter me for freudian slips tomorrow.<br /><br />Telling a story is like sticking a pin through a melon, the melon being the events, and where you stick the pin through is the route you navigate through 'em.&nbsp; There's a zillion ways of perforating that fruit, but it being a movie, and costing some people some money they'd like the theory of seeing again sometime, movies gotta violate that melon in a way melons have proven profitably penetrable, be it a romantic incision, an action-adventure violation, a buddy-cop-comedy Martin Lawrence fruitfucking, etc fucking etc.<br /><br />Hence the reason we stop going to the movies&nbsp; - once you've seen a hundred hollywood movies, you've seen them all.&nbsp; All that remains is foreign movies and a numbed confusion that the movie didn't go where you've been programmed to know<b> </b>it would go.&nbsp; Which sounds great and adventurous and nou-fucking-veau but usually involves the fucking hero snogging his daughter at the end of the movie to thunderous applause and fireworks&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118756/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118756/</a> - great fucking movie though right up to the incest, which I feel is a fair assessment even if it makes me a country-mouse who likes his nouveau comfortably old-school).&nbsp; The more common hollywood ending is the one that would encourage people to bound out of the cinema on a high and give the flick some word-of-mouth advertisual lurve, that's just common fiscal darwinian sense.<br /><br />Well anyway this melon :pin-&gt;vector caught me by surprise.&nbsp; Sorkin's adaptation of a book on backroom politics of the room next to Ollie North's - you know how this melon's gonna get romanced a mile away, right? Its gonna be A Few More Good Men, Nichols directing, you can see Primary Colours: Bleu a mile off right? Wrong.&nbsp; It's Red Dawn II.&nbsp; Red freaking Patrick Swayze Dawn!!<br /><br />Score one for the forces of Incongruity, great fucking movie.</div><br />