MOVIES : Chronicles of Riddick
This was a pretty average action film. A bit laboured, a bit of 'bridge building' but overall acceptable.
The main thing that occured to me (apart from the woeful Macbeth like antics of 2 of the characters) was inspired by watching the preview of the Bourne Supremecy. Mr Bourne, a trained CIA dude, is supposed to be some amazing killing machine. One man army. They show lots of scenes of him beating the crap out of people and blowing things up, and the last scene is of him calling someone on their mobile and letting them know that he's got a sniper rifle trained on them. This inspires a lot of terror in the recipient of the phone call.
In fact you might say that Mr Bourne was a terrorist.
I then watched C of R. This starts with the planet Helios (sun) Prime being attacked. The main city of Helios that we see is a mediterranian feeling city with mud brick 2-3 floor buildings and lots of geometric shape art. The invading army sends down devastating bombardments and then an overwheelming and technologically superior force to assimilate or destroy the populace.
Sound familiar? And I'm not talking about the 'Borg.
It struck me as very like the US invasion of Iraq. Did they do it on purpose? I doubt it.
What other information can we gleen from this observation? Apparently it is ok to resist the invasion. And once you have lost it is dishonourable to simply bow to the victors - you must continue the fight or die. If you can, try to assasinate the man in charge, the president if you will.
And ultimately - might is right.
The main thing that occured to me (apart from the woeful Macbeth like antics of 2 of the characters) was inspired by watching the preview of the Bourne Supremecy. Mr Bourne, a trained CIA dude, is supposed to be some amazing killing machine. One man army. They show lots of scenes of him beating the crap out of people and blowing things up, and the last scene is of him calling someone on their mobile and letting them know that he's got a sniper rifle trained on them. This inspires a lot of terror in the recipient of the phone call.
In fact you might say that Mr Bourne was a terrorist.
I then watched C of R. This starts with the planet Helios (sun) Prime being attacked. The main city of Helios that we see is a mediterranian feeling city with mud brick 2-3 floor buildings and lots of geometric shape art. The invading army sends down devastating bombardments and then an overwheelming and technologically superior force to assimilate or destroy the populace.
Sound familiar? And I'm not talking about the 'Borg.
It struck me as very like the US invasion of Iraq. Did they do it on purpose? I doubt it.
What other information can we gleen from this observation? Apparently it is ok to resist the invasion. And once you have lost it is dishonourable to simply bow to the victors - you must continue the fight or die. If you can, try to assasinate the man in charge, the president if you will.
And ultimately - might is right.
1 Comments:
hmm... there are so many movies out of HW that share this theme... 'Total Recall', 'Star Wars', 'Braveheart' - just to name a few on the shelf above my head. basically, if you're invaded, then grab any ol' weapon and attack the leader of the invaders!?! I'm surprised you haven't had any comments thus far. cheers, Mark
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