tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post3215232775780696573..comments2023-05-29T06:41:13.319-04:00Comments on Jettison Cocoon: Film Review: Drum (1976)Cary Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696172496012966959noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-52867906217400459062014-11-21T11:41:05.652-05:002014-11-21T11:41:05.652-05:00Thanks, Anon. I have to admit some of my other rev...Thanks, Anon. I have to admit some of my other reviews are probably pretty snarky.Cary Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696172496012966959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-23456218233013836932014-11-19T06:45:49.854-05:002014-11-19T06:45:49.854-05:00Cary, I like your review.
Too many bloggers amp ...Cary, I like your review. <br /><br />Too many bloggers amp up the snark or attempt to crack wise in their reviews. <br /><br />"bad" movies are the perfect foil for every too cool for school snarky blogger who makes it all about me, me, me as they crack jokes and eviscerate a movie for no discernible reason other than to perform. <br /><br />You reviewed the movie. Told us what it was about, who was in it, the story being told and your opinion of the story, the acting and everything else and in between. <br /><br />As a result, I can make a decision to view the film or not view it based upon an educated opinion of someone who set out to deliver a review and not an article for Cracked. <br /><br />THANK YOU!<br /><br />Solid stuff and I now am going to see what else you have reviewed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-16190174070698202722013-04-30T19:23:08.230-04:002013-04-30T19:23:08.230-04:00Since Tarantino douses his films with the "N-...Since Tarantino douses his films with the "N-word" it seems silly and excessively pious to not use the full spelling in a review of one of his films, and I was making the point that his use of the word is, in my view, done for shock value. But does Tarantino's use of the word make him callous and reactionary? I don't think so. Cary Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696172496012966959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-73946397336487201882013-04-30T14:00:58.332-04:002013-04-30T14:00:58.332-04:00You could avoid the n-word in your reviews, JC. It...You could avoid the n-word in your reviews, JC. It's usually and rightly avoided nowadays, and spelling it out appears callous (not to mention reactionary), which I'm sure you don't intend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-42407459679434145862013-04-20T15:23:05.329-04:002013-04-20T15:23:05.329-04:00In the context of the genre/exploitation films he ...In the context of the genre/exploitation films he idolizes, he is a prude. And as I said in my review he completely sidesteps the issue of miscegenation which is central to any kind of story about slavery in the South. And if he isn't "selling" his films with female nudity, he's surely selling them with graphic, and often gratuitous, violence. Unless you regard nudity as fundamentally wrong, why not have it films? Do you find the sight of someone exploding in a cloud of blood less unsettling than seeing a naked woman? If you prefer to see graphic violence over nudity, that's what I'd call creepy.Cary Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696172496012966959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279287839749320028.post-56858551795353765162013-04-20T14:46:30.643-04:002013-04-20T14:46:30.643-04:00I'm not a Tarantino fan but your descriptin of...I'm not a Tarantino fan but your descriptin of him as a prude is preposterous.<br /><br />Sex and what is almost always female nudity in films is entirely exploitative. To call Tarantino a prude because he doesn't try to sell his films by getting his actresses to take their clothes off is astonishingly ignorant and backward thinking. That makes you far creepier than he is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com