An alien life form that is technologically advanced and is able to camouflage around it’s settings. He also just happens to be on safari and has chosen humans as his main target. With hands down the manliest cast ever put into a film Predator tells the story of an elite special forces team led by Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who are sent to rescue hostages from guerrilla territory deep in the Central American jungle however they quickly realise they are dealing with a much deadlier enemy. However his big break came in 1987 with predator which for me still remains one of the greatest action/sci-fi movies of the 1980’s. Of course he is best known today for directing the 1988 film die hard (a film that was frequently imitated throughout the 1990’s but never bettered) and also unfortunately known for spending 10 months in a federal prison camp between 20 after being convicted for lying to the FBI about hiring a private investigator to illegally wiretap the producer of that godawful rollerball remake that he directed. ISSN 1936-0657.If ever there was a director to elevate the action genre to the level of high art that would have to be John Mctiernan. And after the excitement dies down, his campaign workers will realize that they are still pumping gas into the endless tank of the Governor's new limousine.Ĭopyright © 1998-2023 Infocrat, LLC. Jesse the Bodyif not the brainwill soon become just another politician. Nobody ever called the Reform Party a hotbed of socialism.Īnd so, what has captured the country's imagination is essentially, even spectacularly, a growth-hormone enhanced bore. He may be a libertarian on smoking grass, but he will most likely toe a straight line on social spending. But these are not the ones most likely to effect the Americans that worked so hard to get him elected. Sure, Ventura is liberal on social issues. The establishment makes room for eccentrics, even those with bad table manners, as long as they serve a purposeas the governors mansion always has. Ventura may have come up the hard way, but he is part of the club now, and shows little inclination of bucking anything other than the most superficial of elite conventions. Whether this money comes from inherited oil wealth or action movies about aliens has been demonstrated, over thousands of years, to have little impact upon the strong class allegiance it generates. Namely, the interests of people that make a lot of money. But instead of electing a genuine populist that might put certain balls in playas a Green or Socialist mightVentura represents the same interests as his conservative friend and advisor Arnold Schwarsenegger does. For grassroots, shoestring funded victories with no connection to establishment power are rare things these days. For unlike the governor they love so dearly, they do not drive Porches to work, if they are lucky enough to have a steady job at all.Īnd this is the real tragedy of Ventura's election. Which seems to satisfy his supporters just fine, although their own lack of political sophistication has precluded them from seeing that the regressive tax policies he is likely to adopt represents a clothes-line drop to their own class interests. To the extent that it says anything, it is the blunt voice of confused reaction. Indeed, their leader's political philosophy has the depth of a video game and the heartiness of Cheeto. The most sunbstantive excerpts I have read amount to little more than "guns good, taxes bad." His amazing upset, hailed from different quarters as both a success and failure of democracy, is the electoral expression of an active contingent of Sega generation Cheetos eating kids. He quoted Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendirx and articulated the boredom and frustration of the working class youths that constitued the backbone of his campaign, but actually had no ideas that could be considered political in even the loosest sense of the word. Although he ran on the Reform Party ticket, his campaign speeches were even more inchoate than the "throw the bums out" rhetoric of most Perotians. The striking thing about the election of Jesse the Body Ventura to the governorship of Minnesotta this November is not his celebrity status, but his total lack of even the crudest agenda. Jesse Ventura has shown us that the prior alonealong with some moneycan be good enough too. An argument could even be made that in the media age all successful candidates must posess some celebrity qualities as well as a platform. Reagan was of course the modern apotheosis of this marraigewith talk of a Governor Schwarzenegger, Eastwood, and even Heston keeping the tradition alive. The convergence of Planet Hollywood with the levers of State power is nothing new in America. Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura, in Predator "You're all a bunch of slack-jawed faggots." Freezerbox Magazine - Minnesota's New Governor: Yawn
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