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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4335788" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah, and because of the language they used, they completely failed to convey that to, I would guess, a reasonable fraction of the audience. I know quite a lot of people I've talked to came away with a bad taste in their mouth from that movie.</p><p></p><p>It's not a matter of being a "philosophy major" or "looking too close", the FIRST THING that popped into my mind when he said that was that if we were supposed to think this was "automatically bad", then the writers of the movie clearly thought we were all deeply small-c conservative-minded knee-jerkers of the worst kind, who assume status-quo is always better than change.</p><p></p><p>I was instantly offended, I can tell you, in that the film was both putting out a pretty lame message and totally assuming that I'd swallow it whole. I was entirely behind the beating seven shades of smack out of the guy before that, but that damn line broke my suspension of disbelief with near-audible snap and made me think "Hey what exactly are these jerks trying to say here?".</p><p></p><p>Frankly, most of the rest of the movie, at least when Frozone wasn't on-screen, as kind of a let-down. Like Mac, I thought it was pretty trite, frankly, and lacked any real depth or emotional warmth (surprisingly, imo, given the subject matter).</p><p></p><p>Then again, I love to play knights and nice nobles in D&D, so maybe I should stop whacking on <em>noblesse oblige</em>. I was just really peeved to be expected to swallow that whole, without, at the time it's said in the film, them really earning it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4335788, member: 18"] Yeah, and because of the language they used, they completely failed to convey that to, I would guess, a reasonable fraction of the audience. I know quite a lot of people I've talked to came away with a bad taste in their mouth from that movie. It's not a matter of being a "philosophy major" or "looking too close", the FIRST THING that popped into my mind when he said that was that if we were supposed to think this was "automatically bad", then the writers of the movie clearly thought we were all deeply small-c conservative-minded knee-jerkers of the worst kind, who assume status-quo is always better than change. I was instantly offended, I can tell you, in that the film was both putting out a pretty lame message and totally assuming that I'd swallow it whole. I was entirely behind the beating seven shades of smack out of the guy before that, but that damn line broke my suspension of disbelief with near-audible snap and made me think "Hey what exactly are these jerks trying to say here?". Frankly, most of the rest of the movie, at least when Frozone wasn't on-screen, as kind of a let-down. Like Mac, I thought it was pretty trite, frankly, and lacked any real depth or emotional warmth (surprisingly, imo, given the subject matter). Then again, I love to play knights and nice nobles in D&D, so maybe I should stop whacking on [I]noblesse oblige[/I]. I was just really peeved to be expected to swallow that whole, without, at the time it's said in the film, them really earning it. [/QUOTE]
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