Seil
01-07-2013, 06:11 AM
So I watched Inglourious Basterds 2: Spaghetti Western tonight, but this thread isn't about the silent "D," no. It's about Robocop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqK5OC3BWE). And Sylvester Stallone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTrELyA8prM). And Metal Gear Solid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHGRJEi4QY).
Yeah. I was watching Robocop today, because Robocop is awesome, and I was thinking "Why do most early nineties movies depict the future as some sort of horrible crime ridden wasteland?" Well, actually I was thinking "Robocop is awesome." Because he totally is.
Then I Was thinking, what about the films we've had in the past couple of years? The 2000's? Is it called the 2000's? DO I have to call it "The new millennium?" 'Cause that takes wa-a-a-ay too long to type. Imma stick with the 2000's. Anyway, in the 2000's, we had all these end of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o) movies. ...Okay, we had just a few (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDSAiPiEDU). A few-ish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43InzvBm-k).
And it go me thinking - all the great films of the day had to do with important issues of the era; War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8bVG8XC-4I), Corruption in media (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQXFMDpBtw), Giant alien bugs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07I_KER5fE), booze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIF_WdPUBFo), STD's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4B9AU45P4), Multiple Sclerosis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SrV13F3x7Y), Racism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAqrMtB-Qg), Alien invasions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZvtQtdbzM\), and Alien Squatters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk), Austrian Future Robots. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Jo8QoOTQ4)
Now, you could say that most movies have metaphors for fears and trials that regular people face every day. For some people, movies are an escape, a fantasy to distract them from day-to-day drudgery. For others, movies provide a window into the human condition, the subject matter mirroring our own phobias and faults. For everyone else, there's Robocop.
But seriously - throughout the ages, film, television and books have provided an insight into the human condition. Our art is representative of the state of society; it's hopes, fears, economic woes and foreign policies. When film began, we had talking pictures of what? A man sneezing? Because we were amazed at our own brilliance.
Well, a little because we just invented a new medium and that was all we could do at the time, but it during the Age of Wonders and the World Fair and Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Disraeli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMshQ-7F5A) and I don't know anything about history. But I also don't know what the newest decade of film is saying about us.
Yeah. I was watching Robocop today, because Robocop is awesome, and I was thinking "Why do most early nineties movies depict the future as some sort of horrible crime ridden wasteland?" Well, actually I was thinking "Robocop is awesome." Because he totally is.
Then I Was thinking, what about the films we've had in the past couple of years? The 2000's? Is it called the 2000's? DO I have to call it "The new millennium?" 'Cause that takes wa-a-a-ay too long to type. Imma stick with the 2000's. Anyway, in the 2000's, we had all these end of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o) movies. ...Okay, we had just a few (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDSAiPiEDU). A few-ish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43InzvBm-k).
And it go me thinking - all the great films of the day had to do with important issues of the era; War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8bVG8XC-4I), Corruption in media (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQXFMDpBtw), Giant alien bugs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07I_KER5fE), booze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIF_WdPUBFo), STD's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4B9AU45P4), Multiple Sclerosis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SrV13F3x7Y), Racism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAqrMtB-Qg), Alien invasions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZvtQtdbzM\), and Alien Squatters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk), Austrian Future Robots. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Jo8QoOTQ4)
Now, you could say that most movies have metaphors for fears and trials that regular people face every day. For some people, movies are an escape, a fantasy to distract them from day-to-day drudgery. For others, movies provide a window into the human condition, the subject matter mirroring our own phobias and faults. For everyone else, there's Robocop.
But seriously - throughout the ages, film, television and books have provided an insight into the human condition. Our art is representative of the state of society; it's hopes, fears, economic woes and foreign policies. When film began, we had talking pictures of what? A man sneezing? Because we were amazed at our own brilliance.
Well, a little because we just invented a new medium and that was all we could do at the time, but it during the Age of Wonders and the World Fair and Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Disraeli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMshQ-7F5A) and I don't know anything about history. But I also don't know what the newest decade of film is saying about us.