Danny ChaiHenry likes to denigrate Obama for his oil company windfall tax thing. For the record, I don’t disagree with that criticism. Or his criticism of the Democrats’ position on NAFTA.
I hope then he’s fair and balanced and similarly criticizes McCain and Hillary’s absurd gas tax holiday proposals. It’s absurd. You cannot find a single serious economist of any political persuasion who supports it. Nary a one.
I haven’t made up my mind who I’m voting for yet. At this point, as long as it’s not Hillary, I’ll be pretty happy.
In other news, random reviews of movies I’ve seen recently:
3:10 to Yuma – 3.5 stars (on my weirdo 5 star scale). Well constructed, great acting. I think Christian Bale is my favorite actor. I have to confess though, I didn’t always understand what was going, both plot-wise and psychologically.
Iron Man – 3.5 stars. A near perfect action movie. Great visualization, very entertaining. Falls slightly short though. For one, there’s not a compelling enemy. Secondly, it lacks what the best comic book movies have: a message, what I always call fortune-cookie wisdom. Spider-Man has “with great power comes great responsibility.” Batman Begins has interesting ideas about means and ends. Iron Man is a good movie, but doesn’t have this. Someone suggested the message of the movie is about redemption. But redemption itself is unsatisfactory as a message – the majority of comic movies include redemption as a theme; there must be more. And the redemption angle was kind of unbelievable to me. They present Stark as this incredibly intelligent, aware, business-savvy guy. It’s hard to reconcile that with him being naive to what’s going on.
I Am Legend – 2 stars. What a downer of a movie. Haven’t felt that bad after watching a movie since Grave of the Fireflies. I suppose it was well made but man, depressing.