QUOTE (yourUsername @ Jun 30 2005, 02:48 AM)
I'm saying that you might have considered it cool to agree with this guy, not with the crowd here, because you mentioned that you were like the guy that wrote that review. So it was cooler to agree with him.
i have always found that i am villified when ever i encourage cynacism. if being cynical, or having the capacity to summon enough independant thought to question the quality and motivation swings of actions behind products and establishments were in any way 'cool' or fashionable, no one would listen to top40 music.
it's never been 'cool' to dislike the popular or superficial. we live in a shallow world where effortlessness and social complaceny are rewarded.
QUOTE (yourUsername @ Jun 30 2005, 02:48 AM)
But he's doing something constructive out of his own imagination, not tearing another person's vision down. A vision that does nothing for society and is for entertainment. If one were to say that GL is doing society harm by dumbing us down or something, then it might have validity, but nobody is actually claiming that, unless they're being a smart-ass (which is cool!).
i've been constantly claiming that he's been dumbing us down.
that he's lowered the bar fo filmmaking by withdrawing effort from the more important parts of storytelling and trying to hypnotize us with bright flashing lights and explosions when he should be ensuring that the actors know their motivations and have something, anything real around them with which to interact.
he managed to get some pretty poor performances out of otherwise decent actors...
he told them next to nothing.
i'm not going to list everything here, shop around the forums and look at the many threads...
QUOTE (yourUsername @ Jun 30 2005, 02:48 AM)
Because, take, for example, the complaints about the PT. "Sellout", "No consistancy", "Decline in substance". You could say the same thing about the arguments against GL. Certainly the latest installment of "Reasons to Hate Ep. Whatever" are guilty of all the arguments leveled at GL and the PT. People are claiming that GL has fallen because he has human tendencies, tendencies shared by those people who are harping on him. The difference is is that GL is not actively destroying anybody's vision, other than what people have done to his own vision. I don't care if you don't like it for whatever reasons, but to put so much energy and insubstantial reasoning into those reasons reveals that a lot of bashers are into the "edginess", image, and feelings of superiority of rebelling against SW and GL.
if anything, lucas' major problem is his lack of humanity.
he's put together the creepiest love scenes i've ever witnessed, and robbed us of characters with true depth. he had three movies to develope anikan, but instead wasted time showing us a 10 year old in a go cart race... by the time we get to annie-noir in ROTS he may as well be wearing a hat, cape, and curly mostach tying girls to railraod tracks...
QUOTE (yourUsername @ Jun 30 2005, 02:48 AM)
I know it doesn't mean that, but to have such passionate vehemence against something, to destroy instead of construct, certainly shows some subconscious tendencies that GL is being attacked for reasons other than those portrayed.
(What's an "abyss quotable"?)
the reviewers job was to critique a film. and he did it with passion.
the PT if nothing else definatley feels like passion was left well and truley out of the picture...
HA! out of the picture... (sorry)
i think his passion reflects the fact that ,like many of us, he grew up on star wars and found a big fat dissapointment of a trilogy that lacked everything that made the originals great.