Originally Posted By: Pablo
Originally Posted By: MarkC
You tend to have a knee-jerk reaction against anything that doesn't glorify our past (or present), which is pretty amusing.
Talk about knee-jerk. Almost every post I make that doesn't agree with your world view, you have to respond. Hilarious. What you say is simply not true....what I "tend" to do in your mind, your fantasy thought of the hour, is of your own making.
Originally Posted By: MarkC
...most such things are taken from events in the past and used in storylines a lot....
Thank you for making my point. Overuse of a theme, exploitation to the point of diminishing returns with a skewed point of view via the movie media comes across as "preachiness" to me. Take it or leave it.
I enjoyed the movie, but the thin theme is old and haggard. If you want to tell me historically how evil white man is, we can have an open truthful discussion. Because I have a point of view on a fictional movie does not fit me into some devolved category any more than it makes those who see gaia in this movie more evolved humans.
Whatever you need to tell yourself, P. But you have no idea what my world view is.
It isn't just "white" men who have a history of exploiting and oppressing, it's part of the history of practically every culture on the planet at one point or another.
I do agree with you, however, that many themes get used too often in movies, but it's not a new thing.
Originally Posted By: MarkC
You tend to have a knee-jerk reaction against anything that doesn't glorify our past (or present), which is pretty amusing.
Talk about knee-jerk. Almost every post I make that doesn't agree with your world view, you have to respond. Hilarious. What you say is simply not true....what I "tend" to do in your mind, your fantasy thought of the hour, is of your own making.
Originally Posted By: MarkC
...most such things are taken from events in the past and used in storylines a lot....
Thank you for making my point. Overuse of a theme, exploitation to the point of diminishing returns with a skewed point of view via the movie media comes across as "preachiness" to me. Take it or leave it.
I enjoyed the movie, but the thin theme is old and haggard. If you want to tell me historically how evil white man is, we can have an open truthful discussion. Because I have a point of view on a fictional movie does not fit me into some devolved category any more than it makes those who see gaia in this movie more evolved humans.
Whatever you need to tell yourself, P. But you have no idea what my world view is.
It isn't just "white" men who have a history of exploiting and oppressing, it's part of the history of practically every culture on the planet at one point or another.
I do agree with you, however, that many themes get used too often in movies, but it's not a new thing.
