TERRORIZE THIS
I saw "Team America: World Police" in a screening last weekend and loved every second of it (biggest laughs: the AIDS song, the hammer and Kim Jong-Il's pumas), but by this point I've obviously lost out on my chance to write an exclusive review/response. What I had is 500 words long, barely halfway finished, and going into my "unfinished" folder. So I'm just going to link to Roger L. Simon's take. He and a few of his commenters say it all, in particular about some left-liberals (that's you, Ebert -- you too, Kos) who can't take a joke when its directed at them.
"Team America" does poke fun at U.S. foreign policy in places, but conservative blogs have cheered it on anyway -- because the anti-war crowd gets hit harder and more frequently. The right is used to being disparaged in the mainstream media, but for the left it's new, uncomfortable, territory.
Besides, I'd much rather have this movie on "my side" than "Fahrenheit 9/11."
P.S. -- The Washington Post put its negative review by third-stringer Hank Steuver above the fold on the front of Friday's Style section. Where was the wildly positive review by Desson Thompson published? On page 33 of the Weekend section. I'm just saying.
P.P.S. -- But the Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers hated it*. That's surely a good sign.
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* This I would never have known if Google News didn't consider them a worthy source.
I saw "Team America: World Police" in a screening last weekend and loved every second of it (biggest laughs: the AIDS song, the hammer and Kim Jong-Il's pumas), but by this point I've obviously lost out on my chance to write an exclusive review/response. What I had is 500 words long, barely halfway finished, and going into my "unfinished" folder. So I'm just going to link to Roger L. Simon's take. He and a few of his commenters say it all, in particular about some left-liberals (that's you, Ebert -- you too, Kos) who can't take a joke when its directed at them.
"Team America" does poke fun at U.S. foreign policy in places, but conservative blogs have cheered it on anyway -- because the anti-war crowd gets hit harder and more frequently. The right is used to being disparaged in the mainstream media, but for the left it's new, uncomfortable, territory.
Besides, I'd much rather have this movie on "my side" than "Fahrenheit 9/11."
P.S. -- The Washington Post put its negative review by third-stringer Hank Steuver above the fold on the front of Friday's Style section. Where was the wildly positive review by Desson Thompson published? On page 33 of the Weekend section. I'm just saying.
P.P.S. -- But the Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers hated it*. That's surely a good sign.
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* This I would never have known if Google News didn't consider them a worthy source.
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