4/06/2006

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America & list of people to hate

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America definitely works well with Bamboozled, as both are occasionally spot on satires of race relations in America, but frequently feel a little amateurish. Well, Bamboozled never feels amateurish, but it frequently feels like a mistake. C.S.A. is very enjoyable for people who have seen The Civil War a few too many times, are familiar with American history, and motion picture history. Otherwise you'd miss some of the references. However, I'm pretty familiar with it all, so I enjoyed it, even if somethings just didn't work right. Why did the CSA take over Latin America, but not Canada? How much of Europe does Germany control? Why is Women's Suffrage so anti-Confederacy? And exactly how many of those quotes are exact and how many of them were just slightly edited. The "Young Abe Lincoln"-spoof actually isn't as amateurish as most of the reviews say, because really, if you watch early biopics (or even later biopics), they're frequently terrible, and half of the amateurishness was putting an obviously extremely talented actor in a horribly stereotyped role. I wonder just how many times we've seen that happen. Oh, wait... that happens all the freakin' time.

Rob's list of everyone to hate. I think I'm only on it about seven times. That's disappointing.

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