Things I meant to blog about #2

Are you looking for cinema reviews- with a twist?

Then pop on down to Maoist International Movement's Maoist Movie Reviews! Sure, we've all wondered what a hardcore totalitarian would think of such classics as Small Soldiers and Gladiator; well, we can wonder no more. These folks will be more than happy to bend, twist, spindle, mutilate, crumple, squeeze and even liquify their target movies into Chairman Mao's paradigm; the results of this can be best expressed by the fact that they sort of liked Episode Two*.

And they even solicit reviews! Not that I'm encouraging anybody to spoof them, of course. Why on earth anyone would think that I would ever suggest that a bunch of would-be dictators and censors be inundiated with subtly mocking movie reviews is beyond me completely**...

(Via Amygdala)

Moe

"Although this comment on the acting:

So what on the surface looks like a matter of bad acting vs. good acting reveals itself as a conflict between subjectivism and post-modernism on the one hand and dialectics and materialism on the other.

...wins points for, well, not so much originality as for sheer stubbornness.

**I admit to a certain interest in seeing how the folks over at Socialism in an Age of Waiting would play with this; I suspect that they loathe Maoists more than I do, and they're certainly more likely to be able to do the lingo better than, say, I would. Not that I'm suggesting anything, mind you.

Comments

[siaw]

It's tempting, but we suspect that (a) they edit whatever reviews they receive in order to fit them to their party line; (b) we'd give ourselves away by spelling "women", "person" and "American" correctly.
In any case, why try to parody stuff that's beyond self-parody already? The "capsule review" of "Citizen Kane" says it all about this site - notably in the (very un-Marxist) elitism of the reviewer's sneers at the "pornified" US public. "Pornified": now that's a word worth stealing.
But thanks for mentioning us anyway!

[Slartibartfast]

Are you quite sure they're not parody to begin with? Sure reads that way to me.

[Factory]

I vote parody, whould a real marxist have Amazon links?

It also looks like the site has a bit of a bias towards sci-fi, and there is a serious lack of movies made in communist countries.