I don’t know what surprised me more: that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had a $104 million opening day worldwide or the House Intelligence Committee’s announcement it will investigate whether Dick Cheney ordered secrecy about a CIA hit squad. Given the global recession, and the fact almost nothing about Cheney stuns me anymore, the movie wins.
But imagine if we had movies of Cheney’s tenure as vice president.
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Rob Rogers
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jul 16, 2009 |
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That’s pure genius. Of course, it helps having such exceptional satire material to work with… but inspired, all the same.
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It is wonderful, isn’t it? So often I see similar ideas executed different ways, but this is the only one of its kind I saw. Glad you liked it!
You clever political chef, you. How you tied the two stunned-ishments together! It is well and away time for both those franchises to be history!
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HA! It wrote itself, to be honest. But, Muse…you don’t like Harry Potter? Srsly? I’m very surprised if you don’t, since you enjoy science fiction. Srsly?
Yah, Srsly!—go figure! For whatever reason (and believe me, I’ve tried) the fantasy tales don’t pull me in. I saw the first Potter film—so nu? I made several attempts to read “The Hobbit”—didn’t make it through. I did see all three “Ring” films, but {says in small voice} I don’t get it?!?
Even Star Wars has a large number of fantasy elements, and I liked some of those films in spite of that.
But, it general, give me straight-forward, hard(ish) SciFi, any day. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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I’m amazed, Muse. Have you read the books? I inhaled them but the movies did nothing for me. In fact, the first one was the only one I watched all the way through. And I’m not a fan of fantasy (hadn’t even thought of Potter that way) — couldn’t finish reading The Hobbit, never even considered the Ring films. There’s just something awfully charming and witty about Rowling’s writing that appeals to me. Go figure.