{"id":1113,"date":"2006-06-10T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:47","slug":"starring_the_sm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Starring the Smug, Bisexual, Hybrid with The Automatic Transgressiveness …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadly, the new film “Cars<\/a>” doesn’t, and that whiff of patriarchy and Castrol Type R has sent NY Times movie reviewer Manohla Dargis careening ’round the bend in writing her review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To watch McQueen and the other cars motor along the film’s highways and byways without running into or over a single creature is to realize that, in his cheerful way, Mr. Lasseter has done Mr. Cameron one better: instead of blowing the living world into smithereens, these machines have just gassed it with carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n

\n…<\/p>\n

\nEven stranger, the film turns Detroit’s paving over of America into an occasion for some nostalgic historical revisionism. Surreal isn’t the word.<\/p>\n

\n…<\/p>\n

\n“Cars” is rated G (General audiences). Everything is clean but the fossil fuel.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing, it’s charming in it’s West Hollywood\/Manhattan insularity.<\/p>\n

Actually, it’s too bad Manohla didn’t study her urban history better; in the idyllic cities she so obviously misses, the biggest hazard to human health was the tons of horseshit that were left in the streets.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave the snarky comment to the readers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NY Times Reviewer Manohla Dargis didn’t like “Cars” – because it was about – cars. Armed Liberal likes cars, and didn’t like her review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}