Letters to the Editor
wintalfs
Published Letters: 18 Editor's Choice: 1
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Ive seen grindhouse as well
[Read the article: "Grindhouse"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to say this was an achievement. Very well done. Planet Terror is hyper and exhilarating fun, a great way to start the proceedings. Its filled with everything you would want in an experience like this. Its clever, but no too clever, filled with gore and humor and even some genuine thrills. Tarantino wins the prize though, in my opinion. Those who peg him as a one trick pony, or a hack concerned with style over anything else have got it wrong. He is an artist and it shows. He is the real deal. Watching Planet Terror and Death Proof in sequence really shows the difference between him and the copy cats he spawned. The haters need to back off. How many of these post-modern ironic violent classics will he have to create before you give him his props. Its been over 10 years now and hes still doing his thing, and hes great at it, no matter at which level you want to enjoy his films. He paints with a much subtler brush then the knockoffs. He's not addressing the human condition here, but he commands all the aspects of his films with a sure hand and a truly original vision. Death Proof is an achievement. I found the Sex and the City dialogue very well done, and the performances great. The women, especially in the second group, really shine. He does stretch the patience of the audience a bit in the build up, but he makes sure to reward you, and its a refreshing change of gears following the comic book mayhem of Planet Terror. A nice palette cleanser. Death Proof is a brilliantly ironic and clever slice of story telling that really sparkles. Planet Terror is the Big Mac you have been craving, but Death Proof is pure Kobe Beef.
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memorial day
[Read the article: Edwards' insensitive move]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]disrupting memorial day celebrations is a bad idea. The fact that so many folks on here don't see that shows why the Dems cant win an election unless the Republicans literally hand it too them. Huge swatches of the country house men in women, boys and girls, who actually served in the armed forces. I know many are not reading salon, or living off the marina in San Francisco, but they are out there. If a 60 year old guy wants to ride in the back of a car and feel good about his sacrifice when he was a young man, let him have it. It is an honorable thing to serve your country, even in a dishonorable war. It is a sacrifice. There are ways to respectfully protest the war and the current administration without attacking some 20 year old kid just home from Iraq, nursing his wounds, hoping he made his daddy proud. Its right to worry about alienating the newly blue hawks who came to the Dem party this last election becuase of a lack of patience and loss of faith in the current conservative party. They have pride in their country and their fellow service men and women. Don't turn that pride into a gulf between what they believe, and what the Democratic party stands for. Its morally wrong, its callous, and its just plain bad politics.
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error
[Read the article: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree that Zacharek should have known the method behind Davey Jones. The creation of that digital character might be one of the reasons that many people actually see the film, whether they realize or not. Maybe they just think he looks really cool. I'm not saying thats what a great film is based on, but the reviewer should at least have some idea what they are reviewing. A food critic hopefully has at least a small clue as to how certain dishes are created, etc... Davey Jones was a milestone in film making. having no clue about something of that scale within the field in which you work, albeit peripherally, is a bit of a shock.
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some shows
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Medium, Battlestar Galactica, and Bones since they have both strong female and male characters
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Battlestar is fairly revolutionary in its depiction of gender roles and the dynamic between the sexes. Medium is also refreshing, and i appreciate how loving and refreshing their marriage is for television, but I do find the husband to be a little feminized and unbelievably understanding, and he is written in a way that caters to how women wish men would behave, and not how men actually behave. The show is still very much about Alison, and hubby is there simply to support her. But yes, it is a nice, fairly honest, and refreshing depiction of a modern loving marriage. Bones is an example of a subcategory of procedural cop drama where you have a brainy, attractive every woman who runs the show, and you have a sexy, macho, but not to sharp tough jock sidekick to help her out and provide the brawn to her brains. Gosh could that be a female fantasy???
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mad women
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]maybe in 35 years we can have a tv show about how sexist and dominating women were in the 90s and 2000s. Wow look how primitive we were! we will call the show Mad Women. I cant wait.
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actually...
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's called classism which is as insidious as racism and sexism.
Of course women with money have class advantage over poor men.
But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.
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Actually I believe the post had to do with the idea that if you take away all outside variables, i.e. money, etc... a female "5" will still have the ability to attract a male and keep him interested, while a male "5" will have much less romantic and social cache. So the women of bygone eras who suffered under a so-called patriarchy still had it better then the men of today and tomorrow in that they still had their "sexuality", which is a source of power. Their is no male equivalent. so strip both genders of all outside powers and the female has the advantage. Thats what the origional post was referring to.