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 ...
... 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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