21st August 2006, 8:26 PM
I could say "the movie represents all our fears as Americans of foreign invasion, using the symbolic evolutionary fear of the snake as a deep primordial source, and parodies how incredibly irrational our fears have become", but they didn't intend that at all. Sure enough, some college kid is going to write a thesis on that though.
And the music video at the end was just insipid. Perfectly insulting my intelligence in just the wrong ways at every point.
Oh and the product placement, both for PSP and DS (PSP more though). The cell phone one was the best. They spent like 3 minutes building up to it with vastly unrealistic ignorance of the very existance of cell phones with cameras and needing, for some silly reason a photo of a kid's absolutely and amazingly quickly drawn PERFECT drawing of a cobra, and suddenly "MY phone can TAKE pictures" and the woooows by the rest of them. Exactly as demeaning to my ability to think cognacious... thunk as it should be.
And the music video at the end was just insipid. Perfectly insulting my intelligence in just the wrong ways at every point.
Oh and the product placement, both for PSP and DS (PSP more though). The cell phone one was the best. They spent like 3 minutes building up to it with vastly unrealistic ignorance of the very existance of cell phones with cameras and needing, for some silly reason a photo of a kid's absolutely and amazingly quickly drawn PERFECT drawing of a cobra, and suddenly "MY phone can TAKE pictures" and the woooows by the rest of them. Exactly as demeaning to my ability to think cognacious... thunk as it should be.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)