Questions to wrap up your weekend

[sabotabby]

Everyone's sick of talking about the stupid cartoons (although I have a new-found confidence in gaybortion, which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot. So hah!), so let's talk about more interesting subjects.

Baby Godwin is a sad panda.

Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez to Hitler.
Then Chavez said that Bush was worse than Hitler.

[Poll #667317]

(Hat tip to roter_terror and springheel_jack.)

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Also, OCAP and Uprising are doing joint movie nights and are looking for recommendations for movies to show. They must be fun (that means no didactic documentaries, kthnx) and political in some way. Until the spring, exceedingly long movies like The Battle of Algiers cannot be shown because Uprising has no heat.

La Haine, They Live!, Life and Debt and The Harder They Come have all been recommended, and I'm being told to quash any suggestions of Bread and Roses. (Heh.)

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

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Marinetti thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and fealty. He is now passed out in the living room.

Comments

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

lol! i say to meself, what does it mean, baby godwin is a sad panda? she is just being silly.

and then i understood. hah! sad hah. oy. ow.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

"I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,"

!!!! (in the sense of, hee!)

well, i think rumsfeld wins for nuance, im sorry. but lol again.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

Bread and Chocolate! at the end its sad and funny. chickens and sandwiches. you'll see.

[sabotabby]

Thanks for giving me an unforgettable mental image. Eeek.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hard to beat that one!

Land and Freedom? Bit obvious I guess. Les Mis? Is there a film version? Motorcycle Diaries? (OK, ok, everyone's already seen it.)

I do worry a little about Chavez making the most of the prospect of US invasion and Bush is teh Hitler and buying lots of new weapons and creating a million-person army and so forth. Even for the good guys, that sort of thing is a great way of instilling unquestioning obedience in a population. Mind you, the US under Bush really might invade, if only out of frustration that they don't have any good way of invading Iran. And 1,000,000 Kalshnikovs will cause the Americans a lot more trouble than the Spanish fighters they're buying that'll be vaporised before they leave the ground.

[sabotabby]

Oh, that looks good. I like chocolate better than roses.

[sabotabby]

People keep giving me looks when I recommend Spanish Civil War movies. (I also suggested The Devil's Backbone for Halloween...)

And I haven't seen The Motorcycle Diaries. It's the #1 question I get asked when I wear my Che t-shirt, though.

I doubt he'll do that. Although I don't think it would hurt, other than being a likely waste of resources. I mean, who is Chavez going to invade, really?

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

I saw Motorcycle Diaries at my stepdad's when I was up in Scotland. I was decidedly impressed. It was political, but it brought the politics in quite subtly and very non-preachily. It was basically a human story but where part of that story is the experiences that shaped this guy and his political beliefs.

How can anyone not like Spanish Civil war movies? Unless they, say, like happy endings.

Chavez will invade Harlem to liberate America's poor and huddled masses and incorporate them into the Bolivarian Republic.

[sabotabby]

I don't think it's a matter of people not liking Spanish Civil War movies. It's more of a reflex:

"Oh, you're an anarchist?"
"Yep."
"STFU about the Spanish Civil War."
"But I haven't said anyth-"

Chavez will invade Harlem to liberate America's poor and huddled masses and incorporate them into the Bolivarian Republic.

Can I defect?!

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

La Haine is a truly awesome movie, in my humble opinion. I qatched it in my French Cinema and Society class.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

*Watched even.

[sabotabby]

I'd never seen it before; it was supposed to be the first film they showed. There were only four of us, and Uprising was freezing, but I thought it was fantastic.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Bush was also elected legally.

[sabotabby]

I hear there's some debate about that.

[aaronfreed.livejournal.com]

So was Hitler.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

The 2 or 3 arguments I've heard saying there was cheating sounded pretty far-fetched and desperate. It's time for people to realize that roughly half of America is a bunch of Bible thumping, arrogant, ignorant idiots, and enough of the liberals are repulsive enough that voting against Democrats isn't that much more difficult to understand then voting against Republicans.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the whole point.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

"which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot"


>>>>>> Aw c'mon, that just means you're not trying hard enough! lol.

But seriously, I've heard really good things about an American documentry called Why We Fight, though I haven't seen it myself.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

The Les Mis film version is very very bad. Very bad.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079815/

This movie rocks.

Very little plot, but people do take the power back. Heh.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Try Claude Faraldo's utterly fantastic and original Themroc, or (possibly a more controversial choice) Makavejev's unforgettable W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism. Thing is, I doubt whether Blockbusters will have them.

Oh, and avoid _anything_ about the Spanish Civil War. Trust me.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Ah. I had a vague recollection that might be the case. (Or that it was generally said to be the case.) A shame, as I rather liked the musical.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Mind you, the US under Bush really might invade

You don't seriously believe this, do ya?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Kenneth Brannaugh had an okay one... :P

i'm confused

[ironed_orchid]

Why does the cow have an udder and a penis?