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• Saturday, January 19, 2008 03:04 AM

  technique vs. art

  Oh ye defenders, i am simply unimpressed by LOST. It is all technique and no art. Aside from tune in next week because we gave you another hook it says nothing and does nothing. Now he has the Blair Witch Project technique down and I really don't want to sit through that.

  I sort of expect JJ to play the adrenalin and shock and stress, but I really doubt he has the capability to make me think of feel anything because his characters are props, not people, and they aren't even good or bad. How could they be? They are just cardboard cutouts. Those back stories are just technique for the purpose of playing the audience just to stall and delay because that is the whole point of the technique.

  You would get more content from someone on psych meds.

  I admire his skill with technique, but that's all he has got.

  But these projects don't get made without backing and that means that some psych pros will stick in their special memes, spins, political angles, bad behavior models and marketing hooks, which I wouldn't mind if it was a person or artist doing it but it is generally some corporation or ideological group adding "value" to the product. Product placement is bad enough, but fairly innocent compared to the "value" that is added now. Well done movies with nothing in them worthwhile except for some cons, a thrill and a shock or two.

  The only art Ii see here is hype and that you don't have to pay for. I also missed Snakes on a Plane. Some movies are best used as an excuse to get in out of the heat and enjoy the air conditioned comfort of the theatre. It's a little too cold outside for that.

  —rupert_c Read rupert_c's other letters
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