tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6628561431052401577..comments2024-03-28T04:12:17.506-04:00Comments on the daily howler: FISH AND FROGMARCH: The creatures from the dark cartoon!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44093734433508620022018-02-14T04:20:43.719-05:002018-02-14T04:20:43.719-05:00Real & Powerful Love spell caster to get your ...Real & Powerful Love spell caster to get your Ex lover back fast online, fix your broken marriage and stop divorce goodluck05spellcaster@gmail.com is the best spell Dr to help you restored back your Broken Relationship/Marriage<br /><br />i was shock and heart broken few months back when i found out my husband cheating was on me with with some from his work! 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How many Oscar nominations would that version of the movie [have] gotten? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26870546594291994432018-02-08T23:22:05.997-05:002018-02-08T23:22:05.997-05:00The one comment missing from this post? Unfortunat...The one comment missing from this post? Unfortunately not 2:26's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62365202390979116722018-02-08T18:36:44.295-05:002018-02-08T18:36:44.295-05:00I agree with 11:59. Del Toro is merely helping you...I agree with 11:59. Del Toro is merely helping young boys individuate. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65702190225093651952018-02-08T18:24:41.777-05:002018-02-08T18:24:41.777-05:00This might be an example of what @5:24 is talking ...This might be an example of what @5:24 is talking about -- using culture (art) as a defense against life:<br /><br />http://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/2018/02/literary-corner-economy-of-abstraction.html#moreNot a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22679978281641319572018-02-08T17:24:45.840-05:002018-02-08T17:24:45.840-05:00I think it is good that grown American men dress l...I think it is good that grown American men dress like boys with jerseys, hats and sneakers and spend their time admiring comic books and comic book merchandise en masse. What possibly could be wrong with that? Who could draw any negative symbolism from something so benign?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19950107248047343822018-02-08T16:33:13.802-05:002018-02-08T16:33:13.802-05:00Anon 3:25, reading your comment was like reading D...Anon 3:25, reading your comment was like reading Dostoevsky. Wow!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91466319993023957822018-02-08T16:25:06.996-05:002018-02-08T16:25:06.996-05:00The movie, which re-imagines Creature from the Bla...The movie, which re-imagines Creature from the Black Lagoon, takes place in 1962. Given that, some of the caricatures are quite apt. But villains, for the most part, can be treated as stand-ins: you can insert a more current villain. I haven't seen the movie, although it's on my short list of films to see. But seeing as Bob bungled his review of Moonlight, I am a little skeptical here. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19810585398776844442018-02-08T15:54:29.582-05:002018-02-08T15:54:29.582-05:00It takes place in 1962, but it's not a documen...It takes place in 1962, but it's not a documentary. Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520998225031485048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44702513174921202132018-02-08T15:28:32.265-05:002018-02-08T15:28:32.265-05:00It takes place in 1962? Bob says Strickland report...It takes place in 1962? Bob says Strickland reports to a five-star general. There were no five-star generals on active duty in 1962.impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70133643330818192112018-02-08T15:25:53.060-05:002018-02-08T15:25:53.060-05:00Of course it's not persuasive and you give an ...Of course it's not persuasive and you give an ad hominem response. Culture has replaced God in your life. Culture is your God. It is your religion. You are a cult member. You instinctually resist any suggestion that your God and religion are not all powerful. Work hard and you can begin to see how you are being fooled and you can begin to climb your way out of it. Maybe. Probably not. But maybe. <br /><br />Haha. It's just me right? It's my demeanor. That's the problem! Ha ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29252656628360615002018-02-08T15:12:46.112-05:002018-02-08T15:12:46.112-05:00Damn. And here I thought it was Mormons.
Anyway, ...Damn. And here I thought it was Mormons. <br />Anyway, why bring up Jared and Ivanka?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68289567409810024582018-02-08T15:07:46.925-05:002018-02-08T15:07:46.925-05:00My, aren't we sententious, Anon 3:00pm. Not an...My, aren't we sententious, Anon 3:00pm. Not an attractive quality. And not very persuasive, I'm afraid. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58140584359053017272018-02-08T15:00:54.184-05:002018-02-08T15:00:54.184-05:00The culture industry has hoodwinked gullible idiot...The culture industry has hoodwinked gullible idiots into thinking comic books are good. Of course these people take the bait, they have nothing else. They don't know how to live direct lives with each other - which is the only way to truly experience life and being. Instead, they exist only as consumers of manufactured cultural commodities. Their lives are not about living, but about being recipients of images. Anyone who takes seriously a superhero movie or the Oscars or consumer fodder like the movie described here is essentially a fetishistic cult member. Anyone over the age of 8 that even thinks about comic books has been drugged by culture and must do what they can to wake up and reorder their inner lives. I would start with Dostoevsky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82241637181173203492018-02-08T14:53:02.220-05:002018-02-08T14:53:02.220-05:00A liberal artist has a liberal world view. Stop th...A liberal artist has a liberal world view. Stop the presses! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73996256126905462742018-02-08T14:26:40.714-05:002018-02-08T14:26:40.714-05:00Somerby respects conservatives so much that he bel...Somerby respects conservatives so much that he believes that they are simple-minded enough to think that a movie character with a Southern accent represents all Southerners, and that their thinking is so hopelessly stereotyped that they believe that a liberal movie maker must of course, a priori, without a doubt, create characters meant to malign all conservatives everywhere. And Somerby takes *del Toro* to task for offending the snowflake conservatives who might be offended by this movie. And Somerby, beautifully and for all the world to see, acts exactly like the caricature of a conservative that he himself has created. Priceless. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86174411598070112462018-02-08T14:26:00.105-05:002018-02-08T14:26:00.105-05:00The one word missing from this post:
JewsThe one word missing from this post: <br /><br />JewsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51433183209006287812018-02-08T14:14:02.712-05:002018-02-08T14:14:02.712-05:00How quickly we forget. It used to be that if you w...How quickly we forget. It used to be that if you wanted to portray a character as bad, you made him gay (and thus deviant, a pervert, a bad person). Peter Lorre excelled in this role. Bond films did it. With a wink of course. Now there are a few good gay people on film and it is the new stereotype. What about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil? Too long ago?<br /><br />Because there are a lot more white men, and even more roles for white men, there are going to be more white male villains. <br /><br />How do you make sure the audience knows who the villain is now that you cannot signal it via effeminate behavior, scars or tats, black hats, accents and so on? Military were the bad guys in the 60s because of the cold war and the Vietnam war. Military men are more likely to be Southern because that's where the bases were (congressional pork). And yes, there is that long history of racism against blacks that can be readily transferred to suggest bigotry against fish.<br /><br />Somerby and @1:47 suggest it is self-righteous appeal to liberal sensibilities as shameless awards pandering. I think it continues cinema traditions and conventions that audiences respond to because they are familiar and get the point across. <br /><br />What I don't understand is the frogmarch reference. Somerby knows that frogs are not fish, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55819097948458690562018-02-08T14:12:46.566-05:002018-02-08T14:12:46.566-05:00I see Somerby appeals to the right wing (@1:47). ...I see Somerby appeals to the right wing (@1:47). I really do wonder if he is oblivious to the stereotype of conservatives that he is subliminally describing and that is bought into by his conservative commenters, who thereby confirm themselves as stereotypical conservatives. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90201996751600622272018-02-08T14:00:31.945-05:002018-02-08T14:00:31.945-05:00fish man = goodfish man = goodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-7266440867259532832018-02-08T13:58:42.770-05:002018-02-08T13:58:42.770-05:00This blog resembles a comic book. Somerby is a lot...This blog resembles a comic book. Somerby is a lot of things, but a good movie critic he ain't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70231407030403531252018-02-08T13:50:00.158-05:002018-02-08T13:50:00.158-05:00Comic books?
Remember when that they used to be e...Comic books?<br /><br />Remember when that they used to be emblematic of a bad and dumb thing?<br /><br />It's not a compliment! You're making Bob's point. This is dumb dumb dumb.<br /><br />Comic books. Perfect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59832203739452588642018-02-08T13:47:58.304-05:002018-02-08T13:47:58.304-05:00No. It's the lip-smacking self-righteousness t...No. It's the lip-smacking self-righteousness that's offensive.<br /><br />It is true too that this gay man/woman = good; white man = bad thing is getting pretty wearying. It's stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37915005605996942492018-02-08T13:36:55.471-05:002018-02-08T13:36:55.471-05:00Well, he could've been a Sheriff Clarke figure...Well, he could've been a Sheriff Clarke figure, I suppose. It's just that in 1962, the year the movie takes place, there really weren't any blacks or Muslims in positions of authority in the military. I mean, here's a thought experiment: what if Sheriff Bull Connor had been black? Except he wasn't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com