zadsterboombox wrote:
rio wrote:
zadsterboombox wrote:
@Rio: "Team America" didn't make fun of all possible targets. What about the actors on Bush's side, Chuck Norris and co, and Bruce Willis phoning the White House to join the army? Surely great material, and yet... bleh.
True. But I suppose what I meant was, although they don't get every target available to them, at least they are prepared to find fault in
both the pro-war AND anti-war movements. Bush etc is obviously an easy target, but it was less predictable that they also had a go at Michael Moore, Sean Penn etc.
Obviously I myself would be inclined to sympathise with Moore ahead of Bush, but I thought it was cool of them to point out the flaws in his arguments as well. (Albeit it in quite a crude way but clearly that's only to be expected).
Interesting. I didn't see it that way, instead that they made fun of everything because they cared for nothing. How does showing Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins as in league with the terrorists prove anything? As you said, crude, especially with the tsnami and all. Anyway, they left Dustin Hoffman out of it, which shows either a strange respect, or simple stupidity, seeing as he was one of the most outspoken about it.
Well, I'm not sure that anything at all was
proved really... I suppose that, to me it seemed like a lot of stars were jumping on the anti-war bandwagon as if it were the latest celebrity accessory. So I think they were just making fun of people who chose sides without really considering both sides of the coin. These people were so desperate to be anti-war, that they just leapt in on the terrorists side, failing to see that there were deep faults there as well. Well this may be horrible over-analysis... It is a long time since I saw it and I can't remember it that well.
Alternatively: Perhaps they are just making fun of the pro-war people that automatically assume that, because someone is against the "war on terror", they must be pro-terrorist. So having Tim Robbins as a terrorist is a sarcastic comment on that type of attitude?
Plus, with the whole F.A.G. thing, I think they were ridiculing the attitude that hawks had towards anti-war people. That whole "anyone not supporting the war is a pussy fag" type of thing.
