Star Wars with the far away galaxy being India about 100 years ago? Visually stunning and loads of well choreographed action, the film dispenses with nuance or credibility in favor of fun. And it succeeds — tons of funs. A spectacular (as in massive spectacle) and fun movie but doesn’t challenge you much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I have no doubt that most brits exploiting India committed every cold hearted atrocity conjured up for this script, just a touch of nuance might have benefited the film. After one particularly haughty British atrocity, I expected the English commander to pick up his hairless cat and wait for his mini me to join him. Which is fine. One of the great pleasures of watching this film is seeing most of the English as souless devils. And right on to RRR for rectifying over a hundred years of the opposite. I was recently trying to find a a short clip of Clint Eastwood saying “Make my day,” or “Feeling lucky, punk,” and the only clips I could find were of him saying that to a crazed black guy — in one case holding a white woman in a position to kill her (i already forgot if it was a gun or a knife he was wielding — does it matter?) Now I’m sure Eastwood says that to bad guys that are white too, they just don’t come up on the first twenty searches of youtube. So sure how about a little payback. And if there was a country that deserves it, I can think of no better than the most rapacious (same root as… ya know) colonialist power of all time. I mean say what you want about national socialism… they stuck to one continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Excellent fun and hands down (sorry Top Gun and Avatar) the most satisfying and entertaining popcorn seller of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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