http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:02:32 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/11/020003.php#comment-68603 I liked Head Of State, although, granted, it sucked fairly bad. It had enough nice bits with Chris Rock doing his Chris Rock thing, even though the whole thing felt like King Ralph or some such. Also, i found it a bit worrying that having a black president is presented as such a fantastical occurance, one of those "only in hollywood" things. I'm sure Rock didn't mean to put that across, but it semed like it was presented as something so insane it could only happen on the screen. Maybe thats the point, but it would be more commendable, i think, if the film had taken a "so what?" approach to the skin colour of our leading man, and not made it such an issue. In other words, having a black president shouldn't be treated like having an alien for president, which, a lot of the time, head of state seems to do. Again, this is just a result of an inexperienced director, and Chris is fairly transparent in the commentary with regards his dissapointment in the film. Better luck next time, Chris Rock, i still think you're awful hilarious. 68603@blogcritics.org Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:02:32 EDT