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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke.
But if you think it's about 9/11, then maybe it is... to you.
i couldn't disagree with you more. i felt this movie was absolutely fantastic. while i will admit, it's definitely not for everyone, i really feel like the whole of the movie was on screen. i don't think they were trying to send any message about how we as a culture deal with traumatic events, rather i think they wanted to make it look real. let people actually connect with it, and lose themselves in the movie, which i know i did.
if there is any statement made in this film, it's that it is possible to take any genre, including a genre of which i cannot think of one good movie to come out of, and make something spectacular.
let's say michael bay had taken on this same project. this would have been an epic US military vs whatever comes after us explosion-fest with absolutely no substance. what this movie did is focus on a specific group of people caught in the middle of the mayhem. you still get to see the military shooting it and the battle that goes on between them, but that's not the focus of it.
personally, i think this film is revolutionary and is one of the most original told story i can think of in a movie. sure, you could compare it to blair witch, but blair witch was just two hours of "look, we made a movie that's meant to look like a documentary." Cloverfield actually puts substance, characters the audience cares about, and they kept it intense through the whole thing.
i love movies. i watch as many as i can, and in today's market, movies (movies like this anyway) are driven completely on special effects. they lack depth, character, and most of the time story. i don't think i've been as sucked into a movie like i was with this one since i was 12 years old watching Jurassic Park.
sorry for the double post, but i forgot to mention the 9/11 connotation you've given it. is there some unwritten law stating it's not ok to make a disaster movie in New York? i won't pretend to say i was there on 9/11 or could imagine what it must have felt like, but the fact that some of the people who did experience 9/11 first-hand had to leave the movie tells me one thing, and it's not that they were trying to recreate it or play off of it in any way. it tells me this movie is actually realistic, and this is actually how people would probably act.
How about not having so many television shows and movies that depict war? Murder? Disease? Lawyers? Divorce? Dying children? Bad sex? Cleveland? I have experienced or been a suffering party to all of these things in my life, and dammit, I'm tired of having my experiences so thoughtlessly manipulated and exploited! For profit! For entertainment! Verkakte!!
For all those who happened to be in Manhattan on 11/09/2001 and presume a special proprietary relationship with the tragic but natural consequences of American militarism and imperialism, a trip to Baghdad might be in order. No comparison. And they, undemocratic hostages of their own state, were actually innocent.
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. No he has the Blair Witch Project technique down and I really don't want to sit through.
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 of 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. Well done movies with nothing in them worthwhile except for some cons, a thrill and a shock or two.
The only art i 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.
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.
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