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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Capetan Mihali

"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

DontSayBanana

Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2014, 11:07:00 PM
Even worse:  lack of imagination in a risk-averse industry.  Go fig on that one, huh?

Can't wait til Hollywood rapes the Millennial generation's childhood like they raped ours, but their little gnat brains won't remember it by then anyway.

It's already starting.  Fantastic Four reboot, anyone?

TOO SOON.
Experience bij!

celedhring

The FF reboot is mostly so Fox don't lose the rights. They have to use the characters every X years or else they'll go back to Disney-Marvel.

Ed Anger

I'd like to reboot Jessica Alba.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Ideologue

#15619
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on January 15, 2014, 03:26:23 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 15, 2014, 03:06:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 15, 2014, 11:21:10 AM
You desperately need an editor.

I could do it. $1 a word.

$3574 to the man from Malta!

-_-

Anyway, regarding the length, I'm just trying to write what I would like to read--and I feel like there is far too much basically content-less film criticism.  A lot of it happens to be written by smart people that I respect, but they're constrained, and due to space limitations wind up writing what amounts to a synopsis and a confession whether or not they liked it, usually focusing on or two aspects and ignoring others, no matter how salient.  So I don't try to let word count bother me.  While I admit that this approach can lead and has lead to self-indulgence, I'd rather be self-indulgent than unindulgent.  I think there's an audience for that because I'm the audience for that, although clearly some of you mooks are not. :P  There's nothing wrong with that and I don't hold it against anybody who feels that way.

As for matters of style rather than format, okay, I could stand to spend a bit more time disaggregating my clauses, and I am endeavoring to streamline my prose and make it more readable.  It's easy to fall into the trap of just appending more and more shit onto a sentence, rather than restructuring a paragraph or just letting some qualifiers go.  For what it's worth, you can blame law school and its anti-writing training for my penchant to qualify every stupid fucking statement with an exception.  I'm still un-learning that, even though I clearly wasn't very talented at that kind of writing in the first place.  Well, it takes ten thousand hours to get good at anything, they say.

Of course, maybe I'll never be very good at it and I am, as Lusti proposes, just finding a way to waste time until I die.  That's possible.  If we're being realistic, that strikes me as the likeliest case, but even if so, I've got to do something until the lights go out, and it might as well be in an attempt at being good at something that I care about.

And yes, Sav, that is a funny sentence. :(
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

The Larch

Quote from: celedhring on January 15, 2014, 04:39:36 PM
The FF reboot is mostly so Fox don't lose the rights. They have to use the characters every X years or else they'll go back to Disney-Marvel.

Same with Spiderman, that's why now they're doing sequels of the reboot and announcing spin offs.

Ideologue

Quote from: Maladict on January 15, 2014, 02:30:13 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on January 15, 2014, 09:34:49 AM
And because I was having trouble with it, I also did a full-length write-up of The Hunt.

A paraliment of rooks

I stuck by my B

You dish out A's for CGI crapfests and this one gets a B? :blink:

I don't remember me ever doing that.

But Jagten doesn't play fair.  It wants to have the heightened reality and absent authorities of a revenge thriller while pretending to be a serious drama about the real world.

It does succeed, but not by a huge margin.  Hence, a B.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

Quote from: Ed Anger on January 15, 2014, 04:46:19 PM
I'd like to reboot Jessica Alba.

I'd like to reboot Jessica Alba.

I'd like to reboot Jessica Alba.

I'd like to reboot Jessica Alba.

Sexually.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Eddie Teach

I dunno, the current version seems just fine.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ed Anger

I want to explore her 18 year old black hole.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Ideologue on January 15, 2014, 06:18:07 PM

Anyway, regarding the length, I'm just trying to write what I would like to read--and I feel like there is far too much basically content-less film criticism.  A lot of it happens to be written by smart people that I respect, but they're constrained, and due to space limitations wind up writing what amounts to a synopsis and a confession whether or not they liked it, usually focusing on or two aspects and ignoring others, no matter how salient.  So I don't try to let word count bother me.  While I admit that this approach can lead and has lead to self-indulgence, I'd rather be self-indulgent than unindulgent.  I think there's an audience for that because I'm the audience for that, although clearly some of you mooks are not. :P  There's nothing wrong with that and I don't hold it against anybody who feels that way.

Count me in as part of that audience! :hug:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Ideologue

:)

And count me in as wanting to bang an 18 year old Jessica Alba.  GREAT SCOTT!
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Tonitrus

Quote from: Ideologue on January 15, 2014, 09:34:49 AM
Like I said, I watched Her (2013), Spike Jonze's new feature about Joachim Phoenix dating a robot.  I really liked it a lot.

From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my intention

Gave it an A+

A review on a "man falls in love with robot/AI" film, and no comparison to Cherry 200, the pioneer of the genre?  :mad:

Eddie Teach

That movie was made two years after Weird Science.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?