just remember when you're being inundated with all this fourth of july brew-ha-ha what you're really celebrating: the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white guys didn't want to pay their taxes. attack the gas station...
so it seems as if landmark is trying to go all boss hog on us and get the new errol morris game. but i have to admit, their behavior lately has made me cynical. i wonder this...if i go see standard operating procedure on the fourth of july, is this goning to leave me subject to some sort of patriot act illegal search of my persons? cause if so, that shit isn't even mine...i let a friend borrow these jeans and he must have left that stuff there.
but seriously...you might as well watch it because i guarantee(without having seen it) that it is a better made film than hardcock or indiana jones and the moron palace. i mean for real...errol morris once got a dude off of death row with one of his films(how many times has old satan spielberg done that?)
in all seriousness though, i don't usually like documentaries or films about wartime activities. but some of them you just ought to see. and standard operating procedure is the one. it is probably(an assumption made without the aid of an actual movie schedule) the showcase of the greatest filmmaking talent available in this city right now. for real...read the interview in the last cinemascope and i guarantee you will have your mind blown in a joe wisner film type of fashion at least once during the interview.
just go see it...if only to express the small inner anti-american sentiment all americans secretly keep in their hearts. see it just to prove me wrong on this point:
in the sixties the counterculture used to stage sit-ins as a form of protest...i would be delighted if our generation could merely sit still for any significant duration. given, counterculture probably doesn't even exist any more in the youtube-iverse we live in. but still i can hope.
prove me wrong...please
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I went home and read the cinemascope article after watching Standard Operating Procedure last night. I wasn't really wanting to watch it, but I did like it. Not as good as No End In Sight. The one war time doc above all others. With SOP, I learned more about the people and their outcomes from looking them up on Wikipedia afterwards, but still far more interesting than I expected.
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