Two Great Movies: Monster and Some Kind of Monster

HEY GANG! LET'S HAVE A "MOVIE MINUTE."

Man, I loved "Monster." Charlize Theron's Oscar(TM)-winning portrait of a woman whose moral center had been abraded by years of desperate, bitter conflict was positively chilling. Remember her last line? The sarcasm was toxic:

"'Love conquers all.' 'Every cloud has a silver lining.' 'Faith can move mountains.' 'Love will always find a way.' 'Everything happens for a reason.' 'Where there's life, there's hope.' Well. . . they gotta tell you something."

Ouch! How'd you like to have that charmer in your life?

I also dug "Some Kind of Monster," which examined a group of dysfunctional has-beens whose endlessly rehashed psychodramas prevented them from doing anything productive. They had turned themselves into such an institution-- such an industry-- nobody had the courage to tell them:

A.) They had sold out and become uninspiring parodies of themselves, and
B.) They hadn't written a decent song since. . . oh, maybe. . . the 1990s?

Don't know what made me think of those two movies today. I guess I'm bored?

Comments

[Tane]

Ha! Very keen observation.

[ceti]

Good catch and analogies.

I'm sad Get Your War On is going on hiatus. Maybe, if Hillary or McCain attack Iran, you'll start it up again, unless it's too depressing as hell to see Hagee's end times hard on come to fruition.

[tea in the harbor]

I must be equally bored, I just downloaded "Monster" by Stepanwolf,a Nam era war protest song that was one of my favorites back then, one line in particular seems relavant; "Don't matter who's the winner we can't pay the cost"

[DasBoot]

Attacking HRC and the lame post-"And Justice for All" Metallica in the same blog? Priceless.

Scary Monsters by David Bowie is a good album though.

[MarineBugler]

Wait ... she looks just like ...!!!

[Tejano1]

hilarious.

[aceholiday]

C'mon guy, S&M was great, and while St. Anger was their worst, it certainly wasn't the worst album ever. I'm not a troll, don't feed me.

[andits123]

I was thinking about the song

"The Monster Mash" today.

[research]

Then oozing derision, she cracked, "Now, I could stand up here and say, 'Let's just get everybody together. Let's get unified. The sky will open. The light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.'"

[mamacat]

"Monster" was an amazing movie. Sad, Sad, Sad. There, but for the grace of fortune, goes you or I.

[gerontion72]

Actually, the title track for St. Anger kicks ass.

[silenttristerosempire]

Bob Rock played bass on that sad excuse for an album. I thought they were supposed to be a band. When your producer plays bass as a fill in, you suck band-wise

[Paw1]

They never really recovered after Cliff died. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL could have been a new beginning but they mixed Newstead's bass completely out of it and that was that. Sad.

[PioneerKing]

dysfunctional has-beens - sounds like the Clintons

[mlaiuppa]

You forgot "Monster's Ball".

Let's hope that's not what they're going to call the inauguration ball.

[MaxMarginal]

Metallica hasn't written a good song since the 1980s, not the 1990s.

[Norm]

Don't know about the movies, but I don't believe Samantha Power should have lost her job over what she called Hillary Clinton. Whole thing is silly, a mountain out of a molehill. Monster is a pretty mild epithet and her job loss after Hillary complained -again - makes it appear that every time Hills throws a nutty, everyone jumps. Powers should simply have said she misspoke. This resignation gives the Obama campaign an appearance of weakness, kowtowing to Hillary's demands. Hire her back, Barack!

[TheRealMacDaddy]

I disagree and am a fervent supporter of Sen. Obama. By accepting Ms. Powers resignation Sen. Obama has demonstrated that he IS a man of his word, he is not about the same politics we have been forced to live with for the past 16 years.

Additionally I think Sen. Clinton should FIRE Howard Wolfson, not because he compared Sen. Obama to Kenneth Starr, but because he is a liar. "Senator Obama was confronted with questions whether he was ready to be Commander in Chief and steward of the economy, he chose not to address those questions but to attack Sen. Clinton, and that's what we're pointing out. And I for one do not think imitating Kenneth Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary for President, but perhaps that theory will be tested." I heard these words from Howard Wolfson with my own two ears and so can anyone else by listening to the Keith Olbermann video files right here at HuffPost..

He had the unbridled temerity to say "I did not say that Senator Obama was like Ken Starr,and I think there is a difference between engaging in the kind of ad homimen personal attack on someone's character that Samantha Power did, and talking about the kind of campaign that team Obama has been running since Ohio and Texas."

This man must think we are all imbeciles. His attempt to twist his own words into a Clinton plus is assinine. So again I call for the firing of Howard Wolfson, because he is either a pathological liar or because he has denigrated the American people by thinking we don't know plain English when we hear it.