I think that because US Foreign Policy and self-image really has grown to irriate me a great deal over the years, it's kind of gotten to the point where I'm seeing it everywhere now, even though it's not really there.
heh, tell me about it. ^^; and really, thinking on it more, the movie's not entirely innocent by any means.. I mean, ultimately it is pretty damned pro-American and anti-terrorists, but I figure they tempered that message well enough with the "but the Americans are corrupt too!" that it didn't bother me too much by the end of the movie. Plus I figure, hell, it's a superhero movie - they're always pro-American/patriotic/etc (remember the last shot in Spiderman 1? Of Spiderman landing on a flagpole with an American flag on top of a building? Course, this was less than a year after 9/11, so I suppose it was to be expected. ^^;) Anyway, they could have done a better job of not making the terrorists such flat and typical villains, but I suppose the movie was never really meant to be a pointed political commentary of any sort. ^^ More of a "big metal suit! big guns! big explosions FTW!!" type of thing. lol. Fortunately it had good acting, good characterization, and sharp writing at its core to elevate it beyond a typical 'big robots smashing each other' action movie (Transformers, I'm looknig at you...).
Heh, yeah, Canada's not especially innocent, either... though I'm inclined to say that we're not as bad as they are. XD ...i hope.
Poor baby. Well, Gwenyth Paltrow is attractive, and she did get to wear a backless dress. :) but really, it was all about RDJ and the bulging muscles and... mmmm... *goes to happy place* Funny, cuz I wouldn't have necessarily found him attractive before (though granted a lot of people do, heh), but he brought so much charisma and intensity to the role that it made him damned sexy.
*ahem*
Sorry. XD
*stares at clock* 1 more hour... I wanna go home and draw Tony Stark. XD And try to make a wallpaper with OpenCanvas, since I'm lacking Photoshop at the moment (on that note, you get my email? no more to be said here ^_^).
...I should do some work. Boss is away this week, which means that I'm not especially inclined to work hard. ^^;
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Date: 2008-05-13 11:07 pm (UTC)heh, tell me about it. ^^; and really, thinking on it more, the movie's not entirely innocent by any means.. I mean, ultimately it is pretty damned pro-American and anti-terrorists, but I figure they tempered that message well enough with the "but the Americans are corrupt too!" that it didn't bother me too much by the end of the movie. Plus I figure, hell, it's a superhero movie - they're always pro-American/patriotic/etc (remember the last shot in Spiderman 1? Of Spiderman landing on a flagpole with an American flag on top of a building? Course, this was less than a year after 9/11, so I suppose it was to be expected. ^^;) Anyway, they could have done a better job of not making the terrorists such flat and typical villains, but I suppose the movie was never really meant to be a pointed political commentary of any sort. ^^ More of a "big metal suit! big guns! big explosions FTW!!" type of thing. lol. Fortunately it had good acting, good characterization, and sharp writing at its core to elevate it beyond a typical 'big robots smashing each other' action movie (Transformers, I'm looknig at you...).
Heh, yeah, Canada's not especially innocent, either... though I'm inclined to say that we're not as bad as they are. XD ...i hope.
Poor baby. Well, Gwenyth Paltrow is attractive, and she did get to wear a backless dress. :) but really, it was all about RDJ and the bulging muscles and... mmmm... *goes to happy place* Funny, cuz I wouldn't have necessarily found him attractive before (though granted a lot of people do, heh), but he brought so much charisma and intensity to the role that it made him damned sexy.
*ahem*
Sorry. XD
*stares at clock* 1 more hour... I wanna go home and draw Tony Stark. XD And try to make a wallpaper with OpenCanvas, since I'm lacking Photoshop at the moment (on that note, you get my email? no more to be said here ^_^).
...I should do some work. Boss is away this week, which means that I'm not especially inclined to work hard. ^^;