Three noteworthy films premiering soon...

When I went to see An Inconvient Truth this past weekend, the trailers were very interesting. Three stuck out in my mind:

Who Killed the Electric Car?,

Sir No Sir and

The Road to Guantanamo. I'm definitely seeing all three. (Scroll down the right side of this page to see all three trailers.)



Who Killed the Electric Car looks excellent. It's a behind-the-scenes account of why the electric car is effectively dead in the American market. Of course, this is all the more interesting since gas is topping $3 a gallon. An American public should want answers, and I'm hoping this film provides many. I had no idea before seeing this trailer that the electric car was dead; I was under the impression it was still around and selling. I guess not, save a few hybrids. Let's hope it makes a comeback, and that this film kickstarts such a movement.



Sir No Sir is definitely going to kick up plenty of dust. Just look at the trailer and come back. ... I'll wait. Okay, see what I mean? Just the presence of "Hanoi Jane" is bound to piss off plenty of veterans, and with good reason. As a child of this generation, I can honestly see both sides of the debate. Having said that, there never has been and never will be any excuse for what Fonda did, so she can shove her apology straight up her ass. But, the government also fucked with her for having an opinion. Ahh, Richard Nixon - the good old days. He made abuse of power chic. But, I also feel (with the benefit of hindsight) that the protestors had a point. Vietnam was a tragic mistake - 58,000+ lives, and for what? A country that did not want us there.

It's also personal to me - when I think of returning Vietnam Vets, I think of my uncle, who has told me stories of being spit on when he got home. Any protestor who did that was and is a grade A motherfucker. Regardless of whether a war is just or not, our soldiers will always be heroes in my book - many/most didn't ask to go, but they are doing their duty. Got a problem with the war? Take it out on the politicans who made the decision to fight it. (Much like I feel now toward our president and the ill-conceived war in Iraq.)

I'll get into this a whole lot more in the coming days, and definitely in my review of this film after I see it. A great deal of this debate is apropos today with our fighting in the Middle East.

This is a good segue into the next film...



The Road to Guantanamo - a movie about the Tipton Three, who wree detained at Guantanamo Bay without being charged, and were later released. This movie poster above was banned by the Motion Picture Association of America. God, I just love censorship. This has got to easily the most sanitized and censored war in history. What's that? You've never heard of the Tipton Three, either? Well, most of you probably haven't - I hadn't before reading a few articles long after it happened. It's lack of media coverage is hardly an accident. Want to know what's really going on? Go to Google News and read some overseas papers. We get only one side of the story, and an incomplete one at that. This leads me into the whole Haditha and Abu Ghraib scandals by members of our military. But, that's a discussion for another time, and I will blog on it soon. So much to blog about, so little time!

Anyway, these look like three very thought provoking movies coming out this summer. Screw Tom Cruise and the blockbuster - I'd rather see films that mean something. These three, along with An Inconvenient Truth, are a good place to start.