tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642357604700799449.post5528012134863638276..comments2023-04-10T06:01:53.271-07:00Comments on take me to the movies: Gulliver's Travels (1939)Tobi Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02052149126555935296noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642357604700799449.post-3741201255809083712010-11-13T14:32:26.562-08:002010-11-13T14:32:26.562-08:00I don't really like Gulliver's Travels...I...I don't really like Gulliver's Travels...I read the book, I've seen the movies...it's supposed to be some kind of political satire I know I know and I'm supposed to think that is awesome, but instead I find myself falling asleep. I don't think it's funny and I don't like fully extended metaphors...or in this case "satire" I guess. it it an overused, dull literary convention. I'm sure Jonathan Swift had a time and a place but as for me in 2010, not really a connection happening here. <br />The Fleischer version, which I've seen multiple times, is entertaining because the liliputians are half munchkin half popeye, but even that gets kind of dull...are smurfs liliputians? Is that a satire too? Smurf punx!Tobi Vailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052149126555935296noreply@blogger.com