{"id":10220,"date":"2006-05-25T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/25\/10220.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:51","slug":"mutants-threat-or-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/25\/mutants-threat-or-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutants: Threat or Menace?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of Mick LaSalle, but surely his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/05\/25\/XMEN.TMP\">review of X-Men: The Last Stand<\/a> takes the proverbial. I don&#8217;t expect to like the movie much, myself, but surely it&#8217;s a little ... insane ... to object to it because <I>mutants are bad<\/I>.\n<p>No, seriously, his main objection to the movie is not that it&#8217;s &#8220;noisy and busy&#8221; and &#8220;grim and self-important&#8221;, although he does make a point of that. No, in almost every paragraph of the review, Mr. LaSalle emphasizes that &#8220;mutants and Homo sapiens not only can't get along but shouldn't get along&#8221;, and that the movie&#8217;s bogus tolerance is what is <I>really<\/I> wrong with it. Now, perhaps Mr. LaSalle was attacked by mutants as a child, and is now entirely incapable of rational thought on any tangentially related subject, but ...\n<p>Quite aside from the absurdity of the argument (are even the X-Men that much more dangerous than people with guns?), there&#8217;s the basic idea that a summer blockbuster should be graded on its socio-political premise in a newspaper review. Sure, if the <I>Nation<\/I> wants to examine the subtleties of the summer blockbuster, they should go ahead (and they do a much better job of it than Mr. LaSalle, putting the thing into, you know, cultural context), but this is a newspaper review. Get the proverbial grip.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I\u2019ve never been a big fan of Mick LaSalle, but surely his review of X-Men: The Last Stand takes the proverbial. I don\u2019t expect to like the movie much, myself, but surely it\u2019s a little &#8230; insane &#8230; to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flim"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17759,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}