Comments on: Lights, camera, … trial?

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:39:25 +0000

Mm, a leading question insofar as we're talking about someone who drugs and fucks kids. Frankly I don't care if the judge turned up in a tutu. Polanski is a great film maker and a reprehensible human being.

By: kjolseth

kjolseth — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:10:16 +0000

That’s a “leading question” (to use court parlance). If we instead rephrase that as “how is a judge ‘overzealous’ in running the court room” I can answer that what the film shows is a judge who bumped other people out of the way in order to take on celebrity cases and, furthermore, was so enthralled by the limelight that he would actually manipulate both the prosecution and defense by having them stage their comments to the court so as to make himself look good. In other words, he was overzealous insofar as he was acting like a film director obsessed with his own personal standing, rather than a judge obsessed with following the rule of law.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:41:53 +0000

I'm curious as to how a judge is "overzealous" in the matter of a statuatory rapist?

By: kjolseth

kjolseth — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:46:53 +0000

That would be cruel and unusual punishment indeed. When I first saw ARMAGEDDON it was at first hilarious, but within a half-hour of being bombarded by a steady stream of one-to-two second long shots of every brainless and jingoistic image conceivable I was praying for death myself. 150 minutes! And four Oscar nominations! The world is truly insane. For what it's worth, Polanski did appear in Brett Ratner's RUSH HOUR 3, so perhaps dementia is setting in and some kind of association with Msr. Bay would not be unimaginable.

By: MikeJ

MikeJ — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:12:39 +0000

Just like Bobby Fischer. There’s no reason why one can’t be a genius in one pursuit and still be a vile human being. If he ever set foot in the US, I think he should be sentenced to recutting Michael Bay films until they’re coherent. He would pray for death.