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...navigator and their plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, leaving no trace but spurring hundreds of theories about their fate. The movie dutifully covers the high points and a few details you didn't learn in grade school - including Earhart's great passion for Gore Vidal's father and how much of her celebrity was contrived and manipulated - but it leaves the odd impression of being merely a very long trailer for a film you'd actually love to see. (See the top 10 famous disappearances...
Then there's her friendship and apparent long-standing affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), a West Point flying instructor who became head of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce during the Roosevelt Administration, thanks largely to Earhart's advocacy with Eleanor Roosevelt (a jolly Cherry Jones). Gore Vidal, a child at the time, confirmed to Butler much of the relationship, sharing details like Earhart's habit of wearing Gene's underwear while aloft (helpful with that midair funnel). With tidbits like this, who needs flashbacks to ticker-tape parades? But both romances are bloodless. Even when Earhart...
...like 1991’s “Europa” as its peak leaves “Antichrist” on the level of an aesthetically-conscious “Evil Dead.” The second half is a mixture of out-loud laughable dialogue and uncomfortable gore (an exceptional combination of the two, when the talking fox devours its own entrails) that, however unintentionally, makes for terrific popcorn-viewing...
...ideas: this happened millions of dollars (and gallons of fake blood) before “Saw VI,” and cinematic originality has never been “Saw’s” strong point. The appeal, of course, is the blood and gore, and “Saw VI” delivers exactly what audiences have come to expect. Writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, also responsible for “Saw IV” and “Saw V,” essentially re-combine the elements of earlier films into various permutations...
...Gore-porn, like sex-porn, follows a strict set of rules: it will present the explicit content we desire, but in a codified format which neutralizes any emotional attachment or psychological impact. Just as pornography’s implicit prohibition of kissing allows us to experience exploitative sex without any discomfort, so does gore-porn’s implicit prohibition of relatable characters and substantial plots allow us to experience unthinkable brutality with utmost detachment...