Trailers Undone

The “escape from the underground city” movie is a metaphor for nonconformists (and children) escaping from society’s rigid expectations, and (at another level of metaphor) from death.

The child protagonists’ grappling with the mysteries of the ancient past is a metaphor for the drive that all intelligent children possess to understand themselves in the context of a world larger and more complicated than the one they inherited from their parents.

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Now that Lucas has completely forsaken meaningful storytelling, there’s no reason to get excited about a further descent into complete digital abstraction.

Clone Wars Trailer

Don’t be deterred by the fact that this movie is ostensibly based on a novel published in 1864. If you have no patience, no tolerance for intellectualism, no ability to suspend disbelief, and no imagination of your own, you can still enjoy it.

Witness: It has that guy from The Mummy in it. Remember how he kept swinging swords and stuff to disable monsters at the last second? More of that here.

And isn’t it funny how he stops screaming mid-fall to comment on how far he’s falling? Conveniently, this will also ensure that you’re not scared about what’s going to happen to him…little chance of a likable character ending up impaled on a stalactite after that.

The more typical editing choice would be Continue Reading »