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With a name based on a Mystery Science Theater 3000 riff, EPP was originally going to mostly house B-movie reviews. Now though, it has become a repository for whatever burrs get under my pop culture saddle on any given day. Seriously, I must be insane; who else voluntarily reads a book on the history of jeans...and enjoys it?

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Lindsay Lohan, Symbolism, and...Wait, She's Licking a Gun...is That Hot?

By now, we've all seen the infamous Lindsay Lohan poster for the new film Machete.


I've kind of been interested in the idea of Machete since it was just a phony trailer that ran alongside the films Planet Terror and Death Proof.  It looks to be an interesting throwback, just as those films were: unabashed trash and cheese.

The hilarious thing about all of this is the way the entertainment news reporters are handling all of this.  They're treating this poster, Lindsay as gun-licking nun, as the "redemption" that they all really, really hope she'll find, m'kay?  NOT!  They don't want her to redeem herself anymore than a good deal of the public does.  I mean, I'd like to see her clean up and get back to her career or just her life.  Most people, however, just ADORE a total wreck.  And the entertainment reporters...well, they wouldn't be out of jobs, but their shows wouldn't have half the ratings they do if there weren't people like La Lohan struggling to deal with fame and success.

So, in sum, the above is just a freaking movie poster.  Yes, Lindsay plays a drug-addict-turned-nun in the film, but then, she's an actress.  She's played a lot of different types of roles.  This one was just another job.

Can we all move on now?

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