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April 19, 2008
High culture and fine dining
When Ben's eight hours of basketball viewing finally came to an end, the TV somehow landed on a show called "War Birds" tonight. It's about the end of World War II, a bunch of Americans and a handful of Japanese crash their planes onto a remote Pacific island where they are attacked by flying dinosaurs.
The flying dinosaurs are just about the most believable aspect of the movie. The Japanese characters all look very American and speak with fake-Japanese accents. They wimpily don't want to die and hope to be treated well by their captors. Most of the American fighter pilots are women. Women who swear a lot and swagger. They wear semi-realistic clothes, but to hide the fact that waistlines were higher than is fashionable now they also all wear low-slung hip-hugging gun belts. The handful of American men on the dinosaur island treat the women as warrior equals, men, practically. Nobody blushes at rather explicit sexual innuendo. And the women seem to have a large supply of lipstick and curlers, considering how groomed they remain. Like I said, the dinosaurs are just about the most believable part of the show.
After 20 minutes or so we flipped the channel to something more realistic. Vampire in Brooklyn, starring Eddie Murphy.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at April 19, 2008 09:51 PM