Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person on Battle: LA
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 On Tue, 3/15/11, Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:=0A=0A> http://ww=
w.locusmag.com/Reviews/2011/03/howard-waldrop-lawrence-person-review-battle=
-los-angeles/=0A> =0A> http://tinyurl.com/632z99t =0A> =0A> "We had one hop=
e going into Battle: Los Angeles: That it=0A> would be better than Skyline.=
 Thankfully, it met this=0A> very, very low criteria for success."=0A=0ACri=
terion, but I digress.=0A=0A<<=0AHoward Waldrop:=0A"Inadvertently or not, t=
his is a recruiting poster for the US Marines. It goes through many of the =
clich=C3=A9s of WWII, the last war we ostensibly won."=0A[.....]=0A"The mov=
ie ends on a Sgt. Rock-type clich=C3=A9, with everyone left filling their m=
agazines and getting ready to go back into combat now that the boogers are =
on the run."=0A=0ALawrence Person:=0A"U.S. marines fight the only political=
ly acceptable bad guys since the fall of the Third Reich: aliens. Expect mo=
re to come."=0A=0AHW: "This has its finger on the pulse of the 15-year-old =
future Marine. It probably didn=E2=80=99t mean to but it does."=0A>>=0A=0AT=
here is no way that wasn't a deliberate recruitment movie.=0AThe movie make=
rs began recruiting in the 1980s, with "revivals"=0Aof the old WWII classic=
 films.  Then they made remakes of them.=0AThis is just another remake, wit=
h unsubtle substitution of the=0Apolitically correct aliens.=0A=0A=Tamar=
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