TV/Movies Megathread

[Capetan Mihali]

You desperately need an editor.

I could do it. $1 a word.

$3574 to the man from Malta!

[DontSayBanana]

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.

[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.

[Ideologue]

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.   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.

[The Larch]

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]

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?

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.

[Ed Anger]

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.

[Eddie Teach]

I dunno, the current version seems just fine.

[Ed Anger]

I want to explore her 18 year old black hole.

[Eddie Teach]

Salient point. 

[jimmy olsen]

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.   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!

[Ideologue]

And count me in as wanting to bang an 18 year old Jessica Alba.  GREAT SCOTT!

[Tonitrus]

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? 

[Eddie Teach]

That movie was made two years after Weird Science.