Rogue's Gallery a collection of piratey music released companionly with PotC. (Well, kind of -- it comes out on August 21st.)

Finally got around to watching Kill Bill v2. All in all, I think this movie was Uma Thurman's best performance - at least of her movies I've seen. While the second volume didn't have the hysterical-laughter-inducing fight scenes, I did enjoy how there were no actual swordfights, even with all the dialogue about the sword.

I guess my final take on the movie (vols 1 and 2) is that I liked a lot of the genre-mashing and the homage and the style, but I don't think the story was good or interesting enough to support that long a movie...or any movie, really.

I love both of them, but volume 1 much moreso. I was pretty convinced that she was going to kill the child to spite Bill, and was kind of diappointed when she didn't. It would have been a modern Medea, but I guess the audience was meant to sympathise with her too much.

I guess. I wasn't all that comfortable with her killing the only caretaker the kid had ever known and then kidnapping the girl. I think killing the child would have been interesting...since she didn't know he had the child, it wasn't like she was on a quest to reclaim the child.

I admit I skipped and skimmed, but I also searched the thread before posting this and saw only one post about it, so sorry if I zipped right past discussion of it:

If I see one more commercial for the World Trade Center movie, I'm going to vomit in a box and mail it to Oliver Stone.

I think the entire idea of making a movie about it is exploitive and tacky and crass and in the poorest taste possible.

I swear to you that I thought it was a joke the first time I saw the commercial.

Step right up and begin flaming me. Have at it.

t edit I see, from looking at Rotten Tomatoes, that the movie is getting rather good pre-release reviews. Of course, many of them use phrases like "triumph of hope" and "the undefeatable American spirit," and those don't really ring forth with credibility for me.

I am, however, looking forward to hearing what people here think about it, if they see it.

What did you think about United 93 ?

Teppy, I agree with you. I think it is way too soon for a movie like that to be made. Maybe in twenty or thirty years, but not now. It is still too soon for the people that were effected by the tragedy.

What did you think about United 93 ?

Equally exploitive and crass.

I dislike it when anyone tries to make a buck off of very real, very specific horrific events.

There are, doubtless, people for whom those movies (United 93 and WTC) will be cathartic. And I don't minimize the importance of that, for those people.

But I still find the making of such fictionalized accounts of very real horrors to be utterly repugnant. Perhaps part of it is how close it is, time-wise. Because I don't find, for instance, Schindler's List or Life is Beautiful to be exploitive. But they're based on an event that took place well over half a century ago.

And though I personally don't care to watch them, war movies -- in general -- don't strike me as exploitive, though I admit I haven't seen any war movies that are set more recently than Vietnam.

Maybe that's it -- Hollywood jumping on the WTC attacks and turning it into "entertainment" feels way too soon, for me. t edit And sj says what I was trying to say, only she manages to do it in way fewer words. Teppy needs an editor.

That's probably hypocritical of me, or inconsistent, or something. But that's my knee-jerk (or my Teppy-is-a-jerk) reaction that I have every time that damned commercial comes on.

I certainly don't think you are a jerk - for as much as my opinion of you counts.

I really have no opinion of the movie, other than could they have picked a btter release date, please? I mean, come on. Leave my birthday alone!

I can see how it's crass and too soon, I can see how it could be healing and good.

However, I can't blame Hollywood alone for being exploitive. The families and victims themselves had to give their rights for the movies to be made, and, I'm pretty damn sure they got paid, and quite a bit. I think both parties are jumping on the American Tragedy as Entertainment bandwagon way too quick.

I just saw a commercial for it, and was trying to sort out my feelings. Which are mostly that I don't know if the movie being made is a good thing or a bad thing or some complicated mishmash of good and bad, but I know I don't want to see it. So I won't.