https://godammit.com/the-greed-of-the-hollywood/ And I'm getting madder. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://godammit.com/the-greed-of-the-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-554 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:31:57 +0000 http://godammit.com/archives/2006/08/the-greed-of-the-hollywood#comment-554 you know the truth is i get upset and cry just seeing the previews. i don’t mean that in a maudlin way, so shoot me if anyone thinks i’m just histrionic, i don’t seek this stuff out and it pisses me off that i go in to see something like superman and i have to sit through these previews without warning. i mean it’s a horrible, horrible thing that happened and there is something wrong with me because i have a very difficult time distancing myself from any of these events, not to disrespect the people who actually had to live it, but i can’t watch anything to do with any of 9/11 without automatically putting myself in their place and it totally fucks me up. and i don’t really give a shit if the families of the people who died gave it their blessing or not, it’s just fucking demeaning to make it in to a spectacle. it’s like that asshole filming people committing suicide, and not to reduce what happened on that plane to committing suicide at all, that is not my meaning, but it should not ever be entertainment, it should not ever be the object of some kind of twisted voyeuristic fascination. pornographic is the right word exactly. sadomasochistic might be another – on the part of the audience. if it were me and i thought someone was getting some kind of twisted form of entertainment from watching my agony and fear i’d want to hurt them bad. the ones that decided to fight, i got nothing but respect for them, and that’s why i’ll never see this movie. i don’t need to try to capture some part of it by reliving it from some unreal point of safety to get it. dying is private, facing death is not something that can be approximated, being trapped on a plane with death imminent is pretty traumatizing, so there is really no way any film could do it justice without doing serious damage to the audience, and i kinda doubt folks would be interested if that were the case, so you know they are just there to get just that cathartic experience and convert something that was too real into something digestable and sanitized and manageable, which is really a way of sweeping it under the carpet. fuck’m.

]]> https://godammit.com/the-greed-of-the-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:08:58 +0000 http://godammit.com/archives/2006/08/the-greed-of-the-hollywood#comment-549 Too bad Oliver Stone wimped out on the conspiracy angle

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