Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Million Dollar Baby Controversy

As long as this is hot topic, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. How come these same conservatives aren't going nuts over crap like the Assault on Precinct 13 remake? Thats a movie in which just about all but one cop is corrupt and we're supposed to root for the murdering master criminal played by Laurence Fishbourne; we are supposed to cheer as faceless cop after faceless cop is killed. Just to make my position clear, I'm not saying I would like them go after Assault on Precinct 13 for these reasons, but as long as general killing is no problem, can't they lay off Eastwood for what happens in MDB?

As long as I've brought up Precinct 13, just to make my position more clear, it is not a bad film because we are supposed to like a murderer, many films such as the original Precinct 13 have a similar premise and are great. Rather, the new Assault on Precinct 13 is bad because it fails the most simple test I give a movie: Is it better than staring at your own feces for 2 hours?

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