tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5532079299425732641..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "The Avengers"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78617488433700248932012-05-10T14:24:22.484-07:002012-05-10T14:24:22.484-07:00Out of power, Trotksy was a vehement enemy of the ...Out of power, Trotksy was a vehement enemy of the Russian military. He and his ilk even went so far as to undermine Russian military effort in WWI and aid Germans win the war in the Eastern front. <br />But once the Bolsheviks came to power, Trotsky played a significant role in the creation of the Red Army that defeated the whites. I don't think it means he turned 'right'. <br />When Jews didn't control elite institutions--held by Wasps--, they were combative. But once Jews began to gain huge power in government beginning with FDR, they became less and less and anti-government. Now they control the government. But are they conservative?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51268240227924185812012-05-10T08:08:47.017-07:002012-05-10T08:08:47.017-07:00"Jackson wasn't a Magic Negro in this mov..."Jackson wasn't a Magic Negro in this movie. He was hard-nosed, practical, and didn't offer any cheap redemption or fuzzy moral insight to anyone. "<br /><br />Which IMO is a definition of a Magic Negro. How many of those do you meet in real life?<br /><br />Now, in reel life, they are all over the place.Aging Hagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17431453326098625992012-05-10T07:08:44.047-07:002012-05-10T07:08:44.047-07:00Heck, Whedon's own Serenity/Firefly had the &q...<i>Heck, Whedon's own Serenity/Firefly had the "Civil War in Space" Union government as the bad guys. Complete with villainous Black super-agent. That's Hollywood dogma.</i><br /><br />If you really think Firefly's "Union bad, Confederacy good" thing was standard Hollywood dogma, you've totally lost the plot. Firefly was an <i>inversion</i> of the usual, and decidedly apolitical at that. It was about the losing side/underdogs being the "good" guys ("protagonists" is a much more accurate term here, given the moral shading of <i>Firefly</i>), and that was the extent of it. And the black villain was another reversal, with Whedon being very much the exception in allowing him to shine, rather than hide under a bushel for PC's sake, which is what the rest of Hollywood does.Svigorhttp://svigor.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65988704285061973652012-05-10T06:54:17.004-07:002012-05-10T06:54:17.004-07:00I did not recognize the last name but image search...<i>I did not recognize the last name but image search reveals some one who looks like a back-to-future iSteve (Chi-town office job did smell like a cover story). Were you irked about having the fewest lines in Predator? Of course, only about 50 in the film total, all good ones though</i><br /><br />The funny thing about Shane Black is that he wanted to get into acting. He wrote his first script in the mean time, and his gig in <i>Predator</i> was a favor in return for that hit script (can't remember which one it was, but you've heard of it).Svigorhttp://svigor.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21010128533545195302012-05-10T05:59:44.040-07:002012-05-10T05:59:44.040-07:00"JFK was reputedly a big employer of them. So..."JFK was reputedly a big employer of them. So was G.W. Bush"<br /><br />Well it worked out pretty well for them. And I'm a No_Limit Patrician fo life!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70779431950677553492012-05-09T22:22:28.344-07:002012-05-09T22:22:28.344-07:00"More one-dimensional nationalistic chest-thu..."More one-dimensional nationalistic chest-thumping from Steve Sailer. What else is new?"<br /><br />Not only was the link itself succinct and humorous, these are some the best comments I've seen on any "politics" blog. After failing to deliver a 39-point geeky repudiation of the deep, deep imperialistic ontology of a preposterous superhero movie, iSteve's latent neocon perfidy is at last uncovered. What did we do before the web...through the looking-glassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11779975220449638642012-05-09T21:46:31.916-07:002012-05-09T21:46:31.916-07:00"Truth said...
""I remember when m..."Truth said...<br /><br />""I remember when movies were made for adults, not for 12 year old boys.""<br /><br />Back when you were 12, Sport, they showed back-to-back movies, prefaced by a news serial, and a cartoon."<br /><br />Sorry, Nitwit (my term for "Sport"), but newsreels and cartoons avant-film were way before my time.<br /><br />You might note, I would have been entirely civil towards you in my reply had you refrained from using a pet-name. I don't like them - they are demeaning, and a cheap squalid little way of attempting to, in some small way, own the person so addressed - the power to name, you know. JFK was reputedly a big employer of them. So was G.W. Bush. It's a very common patrician tactic, and a loathsome one.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16030998181775639852012-05-09T20:39:06.353-07:002012-05-09T20:39:06.353-07:00Renner just look ghey, something obvious from the ...Renner just look ghey, something obvious from the minute you see the guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71780342815036656992012-05-09T19:54:02.986-07:002012-05-09T19:54:02.986-07:00Jackson wasn't a Magic Negro in this movie. He...Jackson wasn't a Magic Negro in this movie. He was hard-nosed, practical, and didn't offer any cheap redemption or fuzzy moral insight to anyone. <br /><br />Whedon stories always have an element of meta in them; he can't stop himself from commenting on the genere he's writing in. "Cabin in the Woods" was a critique of horror movie audience manipulation ethics using a horror movie as the vehicle. In Avengers we had Agent Colson asking Cap to sign his trading cards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58232179334457693952012-05-09T19:29:50.687-07:002012-05-09T19:29:50.687-07:00"Hate to be the grinch here, but isn't th..."Hate to be the grinch here, but isn't the brains behind the operation a Magic Negro?"<br /><br />I hate to kill the tooth fairy here, chief, but the reincarnated Norse Gods with magical hammers and 9' tall 600 green guys with 1% body fat were a signal that you weren't watching a documentary.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85296269379351450442012-05-09T19:26:40.526-07:002012-05-09T19:26:40.526-07:00"I remember when movies were made for adults,..."I remember when movies were made for adults, not for 12 year old boys."<br /><br />Back when you were 12, Sport, they showed back-to-back movies, prefaced by a news serial, and a cartoon.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69799607992608153322012-05-09T19:25:32.177-07:002012-05-09T19:25:32.177-07:00" Interesting to compare the success of th..." Interesting to compare the success of the white Avengers movie (even with the ludicrous substitution of Samuel Jackson for the white Nick Fury of comic book lore) with the failure of the 'black' RED TAILS film."<br /><br />Is it? Let's see; a comparison between a $40m WWII movie and a $200 fantasy picture...no, no not interesting at all.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56897735908014389102012-05-09T19:23:36.370-07:002012-05-09T19:23:36.370-07:00"Which is what Hollywood has come to: relying..."Which is what Hollywood has come to: relying on English writers generating old-school nostalgia"<br /><br />Comic books were written by English writers? I thought they were the domain of your Scots-Irish kin?<br /><br />"No more Han Solo, or Indiana Jones, or John McClain."<br /><br />Well, it did create John McCain.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72882303296019027612012-05-09T16:29:44.223-07:002012-05-09T16:29:44.223-07:00Aging Hag said...
Hate to be the grinch here, but...<i>Aging Hag said...<br /><br />Hate to be the grinch here, but isn't the brains behind the operation a Magic Negro? (Nick Fury, played by SL Jackson.)</i><br /><br />Samuel L. Jackson = the High Fructose Corn Syrup of the US film industry.<br /><br /><i>Slightly OT, but this Travolta thing has the capacity to get very big. Not that he paid masseurs for sex, but that he said to one that he had to service rich older Jewish pedos for jobs early on, and that they control Hollywood.</i><br /><br />Here's a Rich Cronin interview talking about his boy band experiences and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cahs0_CthVI" rel="nofollow"> old Jewish Pedo who ran the show.</a>DYorknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36136790410695473002012-05-09T15:54:15.204-07:002012-05-09T15:54:15.204-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.K(yle)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61197000140246271302012-05-09T15:52:02.375-07:002012-05-09T15:52:02.375-07:00"Government was the bad guy in the X-Files.&q..."Government was the bad guy in the X-Files."<br /><br />More accurately the bad guys were a conspiracy of ex-government Rich Old White Men that still ruled despite no longer being formally in positions of power.<br /><br />Any 'anti-government' sentiment in Hollywood in recent years has been about Rich Old White Men and not about the actual government or the role of government.<br /><br />Your Firefly example is off-base as well since according to Whedon his Alliance government is a corpotocracy where literally half of the government is effectively owned by the 'Blue Sun' interplanetary megacorporation and that most of the Alliance forces are actually 'private security' mercenary armies.<br /><br />It's 'anti-government' in the sense that it is opposed to the most OTT nightmare fuel imaginings of a corrupt USA. It's the horror of the best possible thing in the world(s), a unified government for all people, becoming a Banana Republic.<br /><br />I don't view Whedon as being as completely loony left as a lot of Hollywood writers, but he's far from expressing some kind of generic yearning for minarchist/small government or federalist style civic nationalism. <br /><br />It's like how people mistake Orwell for being some kind of 'libertarian' rather than the socialist he was because of Animal Farm and 1984. <br /><br />The world Whedon constructed is done in the same fashion as the one Orwell did in 1984. It's a cautionary tale to his own side, on the kind of things that need to be guarded against so that the desired big government isn't corrupted by them (in this case State Capitalism). Of course the clarity of the message is much less in Whedon, the professional entertainer, than Orwell, the journalist, polemicist and critic.K(yle)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82193939945969816652012-05-09T14:38:55.410-07:002012-05-09T14:38:55.410-07:00It could have been better, maybe they should have ...It could have been better, maybe they should have cast John Travolta as the Detumenescer, the super hero who sucks the power out of evil Jewish homosexual movie executives, to gain energy for his battle against armies of nefarious masseurs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18180295092475664182012-05-09T13:20:52.215-07:002012-05-09T13:20:52.215-07:00Government was the bad guy in all three Bourne mov...Government was the bad guy in all three Bourne movies. Government was the bad guy in all those anti-War movies made during Bush's years. Government was the bad guy in the X-Files. Government was the bad guy Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.<br /><br />Default, since the 1960's culture is to assume the US Government and White guys in it are the bad guys. Like anything else, going from avante garde to just garde, produces a revolt in style if nothing else.<br /><br />Heck, Whedon's own Serenity/Firefly had the "Civil War in Space" Union government as the bad guys. Complete with villainous Black super-agent. That's Hollywood dogma.<br /><br />As for all the non-Americans, the lock gay casting directors have on Hollywood prevents anything other than man-boys and thinly closeted types from emerging. Masculine style is out, too.<br /><br />I thought compared to say, any Woody Allen movie the acting and writing was BETTER. Johansson was in both the Avengers (and the second Iron Man movie) and that Allen movie about adultery, only with really rich people that can afford bwhahahahaha! to marry their step-daughters (because there is no God bwahahahahaha! and they can do what they want bwahahahaha!).<br /><br />Johansson has three killer scenes, the first where she appears to be interrogated and facing torture, and only uses the appearance to get the old Soviet era holdovers to spill, the second in a face-off with Banner (the lurking danger of the monster not far), and the third where she gets the better of Loki, provoking him to rage and revealing his plans, again playing vulnerable.<br /><br />Her character's motivation? To balance the killing she's done, with saving people. A big step up from wife-girlfriend-mother-victim that most actresses get. Yes the kick-ass is silly. But it allows for a greater depth of character than an "arty" film like Allen's, which is the real childish series.<br /><br />Yes the settings are silly, so are operas from Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner. Dragons, Rhine Maidens, fat ladies singing? Tragic clowns? So too is Shakespeare: fairies and mistaken identities?<br /><br />What was remarkable in the film was a bit of dialog early on from Thor to Loki that the essence of ruling was being a protector and servant of the people, not a tyrant and master. Coming from an elite of the elite, and a hereditary nobility himself, that's a remarkable bit of dialog saying responsibility must be taken by those with power.<br /><br />I quite literally have not heard anything like it for ages in any film I've seen.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55838572870775372012012-05-09T13:07:16.464-07:002012-05-09T13:07:16.464-07:00+1 for shane black reference.
are you telling me ...+1 for shane black reference.<br /><br />are you telling me hawkins was killed by a F_ing lizard?!jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87024752771110160582012-05-09T12:51:37.054-07:002012-05-09T12:51:37.054-07:00More one-dimensional nationalistic chest-thumping ...More one-dimensional nationalistic chest-thumping from Steve Sailer. What else is new?<br /><br /> And I am almost 100% sure that Jeremy Renner is gay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61666397429208376212012-05-09T12:46:11.284-07:002012-05-09T12:46:11.284-07:00I see The Avengers as a huge garbage can of pop cu...I see The Avengers as a huge garbage can of pop culture. That's all. <br /><br />Anonymous, can you please make up a more distinctive nick and substantiate this: "Soldiers must sit through 'pro-gay' sessions"<br /><br />Really? Prove it.Aging Skeptical Hagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61502744365291723202012-05-09T11:26:44.154-07:002012-05-09T11:26:44.154-07:00Actually, I take back what I said earlier. Having ...Actually, I take back what I said earlier. Having given us a comic-book version of Norse mythology in "Thor", Hollywood may well broach the subject in earnest. If that film is anything to go by, we can probably expect the mythical landscape of primordial northern Europe to be populated by a diverse mix of blacks, Asians and wisecracking Scotch-Irish. In fact the more I think about it the more I think it's time for Hollywood to give this hideously sinister wellspring of white identity and spirituality "the treatment".Londonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33945462157149248672012-05-09T11:00:23.434-07:002012-05-09T11:00:23.434-07:00Also, government is not the bad guy (because in th...<i>Also, government is not the bad guy (because in the Marvel universe it isn't) and because in the (Age of Obama it isn't) and because no one wants to be a loser like the Occupoopers, or some Ghetto thug like Ice-T in the sequel to the Vin Diesel Triple X movies. SEALs took out bin Laden. Of course they are the good guys not the bad guys.</i><br /><br />Government is also not the bad guy because the neocons. The neocons love big, imperial government and military.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35125786154855466862012-05-09T10:45:17.953-07:002012-05-09T10:45:17.953-07:00Me thinks Sailer is a closet neo-con. This review ...Me thinks Sailer is a closet neo-con. This review is absolutely mindless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68384533197093298042012-05-09T10:45:11.088-07:002012-05-09T10:45:11.088-07:00Other than that: standard prolefeed.
What does th...<b> Other than that: standard prolefeed.</b><br /><br />What does that even mean? I bet you're one of those commenters who talks about "nihilism" all the time.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11136908200424850553noreply@blogger.com