Pitch perfect: surprisingly good, dissapointingly homophobic.

So after hearing a bunch of people mention this movie, I decided to see it since is it was this vs Loopers. Yes, Loopers has gotten a lot of praise, but I really think its time we stopped glorifying mob violence. Media and cultural behavior have symboitic influence on each other, and we can't demand change in one without accepting change in the other.

Anyway, back to Pitch Perfect. It really was surpringly good. I was laughing within the first 30 seconds, and did so many times more. This is a movie that understands the importance of having fun. All of the characters have their own little quirks, accept for the main character, a good call. It allowa us to see just how absurd some of the other characters can get.

On the music side, the singing was nice. I'm no expert, but you could tell there was a lot of talent and polish to their voices, however, not so much like with glee and musicals where the difference is so jarring that it breaks cognitive dissodence. On that not the corigraphy was well done as well.

Plot and story were simple. Characters were 2.5 dimentional AT BEST. However, that not what anyone seeing this film was there for.

On that note, the derogatory nature of much of the humor of this film really bothered me. It wasn't as bad with the fat chick, or the dumb blond slut, and that's what I'm calling them because that's all they are there for, to be mocked and steotyped. The really bad thing was with the leturous lesbian pervert.

Pretty much all the humor around her is based in the most cruel and unfounded sterotypes of the lesbian community. This is perticularly bothersome in fact that this really is a movie targeted at kids, which is surprising as one of the jokes involves seeing a girl's massive areolas through her shirt. The main problem with this is while a lot of people understand that not all fat girls are lazy, or completly comfortable with their weight, and not all blond girls are simple-minded sluts (neither is anything to be ashamed of BTW) many people and kids have never knowingly met a gay person. Many people really do think that anyone who isn't both straight and cisgendered is some kind of vile leture. This film in part builds on very negative sterotypes that many don't understand aren't true, and thus reinforces them.

Remember what I said about how culture and media reinforce eachother? How if one thing needs to change,both need to? Yea, it applies here as well.

Look, its an all around good, fun movie. Its something I would recommend to see with your frends, but don't bring the kids or anyone with existing bigotry issues.

I give this movie 7 arbatrary points out of 10.

The girl with the what the fucking hell why is she being raped tattoo.

So I'm watching a movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I thought when I watched this I would see a murder mystery movie with a feminist twist.

What I got was a murder movie staring an almost all male cast, with a exploitation film subplot. Yay! I love watching exploitation films where lesbians bisexual women get raped buy fat sadists. NOT.

The thing that really bothers me is that this entire subplot was completely unnecessary. It didn't grow her as a character, it bares no importance to the plot, and it actually inflates the length of the movie to its detriment. It's like the author wanted to appear dark and edgy, which it probably was.

I wouldn't mind seeing a movie where rape is invovled. It's a part of life. A gruesome, vile, contemptible part of life. Like war, murder, starvation, racism, and Michael Cera. These things that healthy minded people would wish not exist, but they do. It's unfortunate, but pretending these things don't exist gives the viewing public the impression that they don't and make the victims off them feel isolated and outside reality.

So we need to portray these things for their sake, albeit responsibly. Making a movie about a woman who is violently raped and then pursues an unrealistic scheme doesn't help.

It's like movies like Avatar. They point out an important social problem, then resolve it in an unrealistic mater.

...and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling smurfs!

Some movies need a depressing end to wake the world up. Yes, it was nice and uplifting, but no one gave a shit about it. They were all "OMG, amazing 3D!" I haven't heard one person, read one review about this movie where they were actually moved by the environmental moral. Why? Because the story was resolved, every single person walked out of that theatre satisfied. Complacent. Unmoved.

What they should have felt was pissed off. If in the end of the movie Jake Sully and the smurfs were dead, and the corporations had won, everyone would leave the theatres pissed off.

Pissed off like they should be about the environment. Like they should be about war. They should be about rape.

Anyway, I don't know where I'm going with this. It just felt good to write.

Those fucking morons!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/16/canada-jets.html

The fuck is this? We don't need to spend 9 Billion Dollars of fighter jets! FIGHTer Jets! Who the hell are the consertatives planing on going to war against? The US? England? France? Russia? The only nations we could use these agaist are our damn allies! Iraq, Iran Afganistan, North Korea, most of these countries don't even have a damn air force, none of them a competent one!

The goverment has just deciced to waste 8 billon dollars of our money to build jets that will just sit there and do nothing! Not to mention the hundreds of millions it will cost every year to maintain the damn things!

Steven Harper just reached into every canadians' pocket ripped out $300 and set it on fire!


Look closely, you can even see the money buring!

You know what really pisses me off? The fact that these morons waste billions of dollars on useless shit like this, and then complain that we have money problems and say we need to cut social programs and privatize healthcare. We wouldn't have money problems if you didn't waste our money!

...and don't get me started on that bullshit they're pulling with the long form census. God I hate these guys.