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Stardate 7.5.2016.b: My Two Cents - The Defense of the Original Alpha Male

7/5/2016

 
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Unlike so many others who blog today, I have absolutely no problem whatsoever occasionally getting up on my proverbial soapbox and bellowing out whatever "My Two Cents" might be on a particular subject matter ...

... and that brings me to the summer release of The Legend of Tarzan.

Now, I won't make a big deal about this.  Honestly.  The film isn't a Science Fiction release whatsoever -- clearly, it's fantasy -- but as the Tarzan mythos has been something near and dear to my heart for so many decades (as it has been to many genre fans), I thought it relevant to come to the flick's defense.  (Check out Metacritic.com or Rotten Tomatoes to see that the feature has what I'd say is a relatively low score.)  After all, isn't Tarzan one of the first superheroes?  He certainly has superhuman strength (to a degree), and his abilities to "talk to the animals" might qualify as a superpower in certain corners.

Before going to see it this past weekend, I took some time to read many of the film's most scathing reviews, and methinks these reviewers essentially have a problem with Alpha Males, of which Tarzan definitely is.  He's primal.  He had to be given his story's circumstances, largely because that's the law of the jungle: survival of the fittest.  I get that our modern society is no longer comfortable with a man willing to up and do the kinds of things Tarzan gets up and does without a second thought ... but did the reviewers really expect to go into a 'Lord of the Apes' flick and expect metrosexual nuance?

Please.  Give me a break.

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN has suffered an undeserved drubbing by intellectuals, academics, and pseudo-intellectuals who think mankind has grown beyond the need to tell old-fashioned stories of good versus evil, exactly the tale told wonderfully by a talented cast including Alexander Skarsgard, the up-and-coming Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and some fairly gifted effects professionals.

Put aside your politics for two hours, and go be wowwed again.

​My two cents ...

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