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Mega Piranha
CGI has become an excuse for a lot of wanna-be directors to be lazy. Were model piranhas so hard to come by? Would it have been so hard to use a few five-dollar air hoses to generate the thrashing in the water? Was it so prohibittive to rent one helicopter, instead of the computer-generated blob that we see, then use a split-screen to reproduce it? The one thing you can sort-of feel good about in this movie is that nothing was wasted. No good actors poured their talents into a hopeless script. No quality special effects were wasted on a stupid concept. All the components of this movie deserve eachother.
Black. White.
Unless and until the races are willing to sacrifice everything that makes them who they are – not entirely desirable – racial consciousness and, therefore, “racism” will probably never just disappear. That’s no reason cross-racial friendships can’t occur (as they often do). But they’re not going to occur through racial reconciliation conferences or lots of kumbaya singing, and certainly not through the races taking each other out in disguise and then yelling at each other when the other race doesn’t see things the same way. They will occur, if at all, the same way all friendships occur: through people simply being themselves and finding things they have in common. Programs like Black White, even when they have the best of intentions, need to back off and let this happen. It can’t be forced.
Lions for Lambs
Robert Redford is one of the most distinguished individuals in Hollywood today: his decades-spanning film acting career includes such classic titles as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President’s Men, and Out of Africa. As a director he has produced indelible works like Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, and The Horse […]
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