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"Sonic 3" and Grading Movies on a Curve
7 months ago
I just saw "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" on Paramount+.
Here's another of my food-based metaphors for entertainment:
It's like if baking students were assigned to bake a cake. One of them turns in cake that's a little lumpy and lopsided, but still recognizably a cake. And that cake gets the best grade, because somehow, everybody else misunderstood the assignment and baked bran muffins.
That's this movie. It's not perfect, but it is a movie that feels like a movie and nowadays, I've come to appreciate that.
What's funny is that it does have heavy-handed lessons, the very thing that drives me crazy about a lot of other recent entertainment. But the lessons are lazy...and we're at the point where that's a compliment. It's like the screenwriters went "Okay we need some lessons...um...make good decisions...work together...revenge is bad! That should do it! On to the action!" As opposed to "DID YOU NOTICE HOW I WROTE THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON THAT'S GOING TO SAVE THE ENTIRE WORLD?!?!?!"
Here's another of my food-based metaphors for entertainment:
It's like if baking students were assigned to bake a cake. One of them turns in cake that's a little lumpy and lopsided, but still recognizably a cake. And that cake gets the best grade, because somehow, everybody else misunderstood the assignment and baked bran muffins.
That's this movie. It's not perfect, but it is a movie that feels like a movie and nowadays, I've come to appreciate that.
What's funny is that it does have heavy-handed lessons, the very thing that drives me crazy about a lot of other recent entertainment. But the lessons are lazy...and we're at the point where that's a compliment. It's like the screenwriters went "Okay we need some lessons...um...make good decisions...work together...revenge is bad! That should do it! On to the action!" As opposed to "DID YOU NOTICE HOW I WROTE THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON THAT'S GOING TO SAVE THE ENTIRE WORLD?!?!?!"
What would have been 'the Message' would be 'revenge is fine and dandy' so long as it is aimed at the right race / sex (white / male). aka 'woke.'
So they wrote a fairly decent movie which has a few issues. Works for me! I'm watching Sonic 2 this weekend.