Inevitably a film that parodies the worst clichés of Hollywood action movies is unlikely to rise above the quality of its source material, but this is actually a lot of fun - especially if you like the targets of its humor. This gets the emotional immaturity of much Hollywood output along with the inherent yet still-in-the-closet homosexuality of trying too hard to prove that all problems can be resolved through the extensive use of military ordnance.
Val KILMER is especially good as the villain and he really enjoys camping it up. Ryan PHILLIPPE is the necessary corrective to the general mayhem since he maintains a po-face throughout. Not as good as something like Airplane because it never rises enough above its own undergraduate sense of humor.
Friday, 22 October 2010
MacGruber
(2010)
60%
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Science:
Sleep of Reason:
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
(1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.
Humans & Aliens:
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
(circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.
Führerprinzip:
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.
(1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)
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