Nolan vs PC?

Nolan vs PC?

There are days that I wonder what Nolan, the man behind Tenet, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, is up to. He's obviously in the system, and regarded enough to have men like Michael Caine and Mat Damon eagerly take part in his movies. On the other hand, almost every recent movie is a giant fuck you to globalist and leftist shibboleths in some way shape or form. Memento This is one that doesn't quite fit the mold, as the trend I'm noting is a more recent change. I think the point Wright made in his…

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Tenet

Tenet

A while back I said I would write of Tenet, and didn't - in large part for the selfsame reasons that John C Wright points out in the beginning of his multi-part review of the movie [https://www.scifiwright.com/2021/03/tenet-part-i/], that to say almost anything of it is to spoil it. I generally don't believe in spoilers, and the movie holds up to multiple viewings, but I also want to maximize how much of it is caught fresh the first time, so I'll try to stick with what is obvious, or…

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Red Sea

Red Sea

If you told me 10 years ago that I'd prefer watching outright chinese commie propaganda more than most of what comes out of Hollywood, I'd have called you nuts. While I'd previously seen Wandering Earth and a few other movies originated out of China, and you could see the worldview/assumptions working in the background, it wasn't until watching Operation Red Sea - filmed entirely in cooperation with the PLA Navy as a "Chinese Navy Seals go to the Shores of Tripoli" - that I'd watched such an…

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Interstellar, Again

Interstellar, Again

MOTW has a post up on "Peak Hollywood [https://www.menofthewest.net/?p=25681]" and how everything coming out in the near future is a sequel. I fully agree that Interstellar is likely the best film of the last several decades. Dunkirk was also amazing. Time to queue it back up and watch it again. Don't miss the link to the review by John C Wright [http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/12/interstellar/]. As an aside, the number of clueless idiots who bashed on the treatment of love in teh film as "n…

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Pop Kult

Via Castalia house, an excellent post on how pop culture is more accurately, as Brian Neimeier puts it, Pop Kult (or "Cult"). > The Epistle of Captain America – The Pop Cult is Truly a Cult [https://dvspress.com/the-epistle-of-captain-america-the-pop-cult-is-truly-a-cult/] That said, I do think he's overlooked something: > When my viewers were upset about the corporate destruction of Star Wars, calling the franchise a cultural institution, I thought it a bit hyperbolic – after all, these are j…

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