I previously posted this review on Allmusic for the live album of Jimi's performance depicted in this movie. It basically summarizes my thoughts on the movie:

In June of 1967, Jimi Hendrix had just put out his landmark debut album, Are You Experienced in the UK off the heels of a few singes he had put out there, Hey Joe, followed by Purple Haze and The Wind Cries Mary. He was a sensation in the UK, but not in his…

The politics of memory, war and who deserves empathy are often complicated and thorny. All too often, wars between two or more countries fall into two camps. Those unjustified wars that happen to preserve oppressive relationships, specifically colonial and imperialist relationships. Usually these have a clear cut good side (the colonized fighting for their freedom or to preserve their autonomy) and bad side (the colonizer trying to preserve or expand their power) And the other wars are those also unjustified…

Quite possibly the greatest, or at least, the most epic film ever made about class struggle and of course one of the greatest ever sci-fi movie's too, even if it's understanding of class struggle is a little bit flawed. Sci-fi film making had never been this grand, this deep and this emotional before and it wouldn't be again for many decades.

At it's heart, Metropolis is a bit of a socialist film. Metropolis is an epic tale of proletarian class…

I'm probably preaching to the choir saying this, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Fuck America, fuck our imperialism, fuck our wars, fuck the Vietnam War, it should have never occurred, and fuck all the right wingers and neocons who have succeeded in rehabilitating America's military since the 70's and besmirching the memory of the anti-war movement and what it was about. I previously wrote about the horrific, imperialist nature of the Vietnam War in my review of Apocalypse Now,…