October 19, 2004
The joke is on you, F*ck yeah!
I saw Team America: World Police yesterday and I would have snarfed my coke and popcorn all over the place had I arrived at the theater in time to get some. Damn my compulsion to see all the trailers!
This warblogger has a roundup of blogospheric opinion on the movie. Many people seem to be saying that this film is a right-wing criticism of the anti-war left, but I don't see it.
To me, the movie was a parody of how the right views terrorism and the War on Terror, leaving egg on the faces of people whose worldview meshes with the (literally) wooden lead charachters. I could almost imagine Glenn Reynolds sneaking into his basement to act out the movie with his Team America playset.
Team America is not just about how right-wingers think about Hollywood actors, it's about how anti-war folks like me think right-wingers view the world. To them (in our minds), Americans are action-movie good guys, going around and killing the easily-identifiable terrorists with WMDs that have little blinking lights to let you know they're dangerous, while liberal idiot celebrities try to stop the fight by conspiring with dictators using their considerable power in world affairs. Intelligence can't be mishandled or spun or selectively interpreted because it comes from an all-seeing computer that takes the blame for mistakes.
What they fail to understand is that celebrities are just like you and me: they watch the news, read newspapers and end up with opinions. However, when we rant at the dinner table or attend a rally or cut a check, it doesn't end up on TV. Ironically, Hollywood liberals only have the power Rupert Murdoch & Co. grant them.
That being said, given my 8-year-old's sense of humor, I found the vomit scene to be the funniest, all politics aside.
Posted by rj3 at October 19, 2004 10:51 AM
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Why would Parker and Stone try to polarize potentially half of their audience? Whether you're righty or lefty, it's easy to see the movie in whatever hue you wish to view.
And yes, the vomit scene was the best part of the movie, especially with the gratuitous zoom out at the end. Was that corn?
Posted by: Chris at October 20, 2004 12:52 PM