Comments on: White African Christ from Space

By: John Presnall

John Presnall — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:27:06 +0000

Peter, you oughta be a(n) (established) movie critic. We need a Tocquevillian Roger Ebert. I don’t get out to see movies too often–probably out of laziness. I can’t explain why I don’t go because I enjoy the experience of watching movies on the big screen. So I will go see Get to the Greek–the trailer looks amusing. Generally you have good taste in movies, i.e., I like similar movies as in Almost Famous–but especially in My Favorite Year.

Ben, interesting thoughts. I’ve seen enough of the TV show Sex and the City to get a gist of its ideological premise, and I must say that it annoys the hell out of me for the very same reasons you adumbrate. So I won’t be able to make the comparative points between Get to Greek and Sex and the City 2 that you make because I will never watch the latter–unless compelled under extreme duress by a beautiful female companion. After all I have my limits!

Nonetheless, from my experience in life and video watching, your connections between the two movies are probably spot on without having seen either.

BTW, Bob Cheeks is not bad as a movie critic either.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:29:01 +0000

A similarity between this movies interpretation of modernity and sex and the city 2 was thev”designer lifestyle” about marriagevor sexuality. In sex in the city 2 we fins the characters attenptingvto create their own necessities ie in marriage they attempt to only live with each other 5 nights a week and in the end decide how wrong it was and how important real obligations are. In get him to the Greek we see a similar designer these in women as they are around to be ogled and exploited, and also sometimes to provide emotional sustenance, a duality that makes this movie both a hymn to, and a subversion of, the ideal of heterosexual monogamy. In the end what is right wins out as is your main thesis: the designer life style just “feels wrong” and that is where your idea captures the day.

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:54:34 +0000

Thanks for the praise for My Favorite Year, Peter; an old favorite of mine, one that few people remember these days.