Go take a look at this over at BRM’s site.
That book just moved to the top of my “need to read” list.
When I first saw the trailer for the movie, something beyond the over the top bad accents and cartoonish nature rubbed me the wrong way. I like a good escapism movie and there’s nothing better than “killin’ Natzis” except for maybe killing Commies… but really, a socialists is a socialist is a socialist. Commie, Nazi, Marxists, Stalinist… The all want power and to oppress. What’s not to love about sending them across the veil?
But a nagging little tickle kept poking me in the back of the head. There was something wrong with it. WTH! I like anti-hero movies too. Kelly’s Heroes is one of my favs and it paints the war effort in WWII in a rather dim light. Was it just my intense dislike for Brad Pitt???? Was it the fact I sat through Benjamin Button? Why did I have such an adverse reaction to the idea of this movie?
I think I’ve finally figured it out. I’ve grown up a little. I can watch make-believe destruction and mayhem just fine. I can even watch factual destruction and mayhem without batting an eye. But when the historical is turned into irreverence for the sake of destruction and mayhem… I don’t find that funny or entertaining. The “violence porn”, as the movie is described, is bad enough. But when you attach it to a time in history when men, real men, died for honor, for God, for country, for comrades in arms… I think “poor taste” is an apt description of the endeavor.
So I think I’ll let Quinton’s blood fueled rape of historical facts pass me by.
Conservative, educated, understands history, distrusts government, distrusts politicians, dislikes pop-culture, and carries a firearm. In short, I'm what The Framers of The Constitution were counting on and everything your government wants you to fear most.
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