O gods of rock, why hast thou forsaken us?
Edit: I’ve just been informed that the “Superman” song by Three Doors Down I was bitching about was, in fact, “Kryptonite.” Sorry about that, it’s just that around that time there were a ton of lame “It’s not easy to be Superman”-themed songs and they all sort of blended together in a perfect shit milkshake that ruined radio for years.
I’m aware that metaphor makes no sense.
I don’t care. Three Doors Down sucks my fart hole.
Edit #2: Hah! Someone else pointed out that “Song #2″ is by Blur, and not the Foo Fighters as I said. Funny story behind that. A long time ago when the Starship Troopers movie came out, the TV spot for it was basically a “Woo Hoo” music video. I was talking to some friends about the movie discussing the title of the song, because it’s “Song #2″ and not “Woo Hoo” like you’d think. My friend Eddy said something like “who sang that, the Foo Fighters?” and was immediately corrected by the others. But for some reason, whenever I think of that song, I make the mental connection to the Foo Fighters instead of Blur. It’s completely stupid, too, since the two bands sound nothing alike.
I’m honestly pretty terrible at remembering things like that, especially when it comes to remembering whether a song belonged to Black Sabbath or “Ozzy Osbourne”, or which Metallica song was written by Mustaine or fronted by Dio. About the only thing I can keep straight is identifying Sammy Hagar vs. David Lee Roth.
Rob Zombie’s back with another psychobilly freakout! We barely survived the last Halloween; will this year be any better? It’s the only horror movie you’ll see in this lifetime involving a killer cow, Dr. Frank N. Furter, Weird Al Yankovic, and what could be the longest running chain of the word “fuck” being repeated in any movie in history.
Edit: Yes, I know it’s “Nights in White Satin” by the Moody Blues. I’m blaming heat stroke and dizziness from the pain of the shitty movie for my mental schizm. “Whites in Night Satin” indeed. I think that’s a Klan anthem.
Fan response has been huge, and for the most part, most agree that I’m being pretty naive, and people are pretty much horrible to one another all over the world. You’re right, in that I currently live in a pretty progressive, integrated society. At least, compared to forty years ago. I’ve never really seen wide-spread, large-scale racism, and that’s pretty limiting.
Most other fans seem to agree that the South African discrimination against the prawns is in place of Apartheid against the blacks, instead of both occurring in this movie’s history. That makes more sense, but it’s another reason why setting the movie in South Africa hopelessly muddies the metaphorical waters. The spectre of Apartheid looms so heavily over South Africa’s history, it’s hard to just ignore it.
Anyway, I remembered something else that would have been good to see in the documentary approach, and a very good reason the prawns would be met with widespread hostility: religion.
The presence of extraterrestrial life is heretical to many forms of organized religion, who believe that God created Man in His own image. There’s nothing in those books about God creating prawns on the seventh day, and knowledge of their existence would cause global theological disillusionment, sending hundreds of millions into a crisis of faith never before imagined. Some might reform their religious texts, be progressive about the whole thing, but by and large, the prawns’ arrival is the death of God. No longer is Earth the favored planet, Man the chosen life form. Suddenly we’re shown to be inferior to a pack of bipedal roaches. You’d have mass suicides, wars, civil unrest manifesting in hate crime on an unprecedented scale. Millennial cults would spring up like weeds, fearing the appearance of these “demonic-looking” creatures as a sure sign of the end-times.
Now that’d be a documentary.
I guess I’m not the only one with some redness and irritation.
