All the other nominees, save the Reader, are better than HGL.

I liked it overall, the direction is good and the performances are there (but Hawkins is overrated IMO – not even the best performance in the movie). Story is lacking, actually boring for good chunks, it’s not funny save a few moments, and I couldnt stand the score. 3/5

Hmm rot, to be clear, the quote you are referring to is from John Lasseter, not me. Feel free to join me in thinking he is a cocksucker.

huh?

That is wrong on so many levels. First of all, who is the main character in Baraka? If a point of a story is to surprise someone, then it is useful to have a lot of wrong turns in the plot so that the surprise isn’t obvious, that is not serving character, its serving plot. In a lot of films it is not about a main character, characters are ciphers to some specific idea that one wants to express. Benjamin Button, for example, is not about character, it is about life in the abstract rendered through a fairy tale. You are ignoring the metaphoric possibilities of film. Sometimes a character is a means to an end, not an end in itself. I know you prefer the character over any other, but you cannot say that’s all there is because that’s bullshit.

you also confuse things in that translation, you start off saying the character is the thing, and then you say main story… those are different ideas.

»Jeg plejer at sige, at enhver film er fortællingen om én hovedperson. Alt andet er kun med for at understøtte den fortælling. Hvis det ikke støtter hovedhistorien og fører os frem til dens altafgørende vendepunkt – så bør det ikke være der!«.

“I usually say, that any film is the story of a single main character. Everything else is only in there to support that story. If it doesn’t support the main story and leads us to its decisive turning point – it shouldn’t be there!”

Both irrelevant and relevant to this thread.

that does not make me look very smart. Still Einstein’s position is a mess. He’s a “pacifist” but he agrees that it’s sometimes necessary to fight and kill those who would kill you.

How is that pacifism? We all agree that violence is ugly and regretable. But most of us also agree it’s sometimes necessary. That’s why when someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night you call the police not the rainbows and unicorns hippy handholding brigade.

By the way, my record on Einstein is pretty spotty at this point, but I believe he was a big supporter of Israel.

Did you notice that the Mach 6 is in the first race?
Continuity prob or fantastic oversight ???

Get that shit off my track indeed,,,

ANYWAYS…

attempted thread derail – since things art starting to go into peoples tastes/defending genre again, i was going tor throw up a link to an article about their sacred cows, and highlight a specific quote here. I guess its something anyone can consider when they want to universally attack anything from childrens films to the most adult anime, from jazz to norwegian black metal:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/avqa-sacred-cows,23217/

“what I absolutely can’t stand, and what puts me into a fighting mood faster than anything else, is people blanket-dismissing an entire genre or subculture or area of effort, especially with the always, always, always-uninformed “I’m not interested in that stuff because it’s all the same.” So here’s my pop-culture sacred-cow statement: Every genre is deep, nuanced, complicated, and diverse to its knowledgeable fans. That doesn’t mean every genre is for all tastes. You don’t have to like industrial or classical or conscious rap or Chicago blues or Beat poetry or fantasy novels or reality TV or whatever else. You aren’t even obligated to try them, much less to make the effort to immerse yourself in them enough to tell the classics and the keepers from the trash. Life is short, the world is big and full, and there’s nothing wrong with walking away from things that don’t speak to you. But people who get snotty or self-righteous about it, as though their personal tastes reflect some sort of immutable reality, steam the hell out of me. Ignorance isn’t attractive, but saying “I’ve never really gotten into [Westerns, opera, FPS games, whatever], and I’m not really interested” isn’t nearly as ignorant as lumping together every example of a genre as unnuanced and unworthy. People who do sound exactly like caricatures of ’50s parents, squawking about how Elvis and The Beatles are all just stupid noise.”

I find myself tempted to grab a couple of the Hot Wheels Speed Racer toys. But I cant decide between the Mach 5 and the Mach 6

I usually find myself (late night, sometimes a little drunk) ff-ing to the Racer X attack on the Monster truck. This usually results in waking up a few hours later with the movie over and dvd menu rebooting itself like a broken record. Then I remind myself that its only tuesday and work starts in 4 hours. Sigh,,,

Speed Racer= good times!

Are we talking about Freddy Got Fingered

I get the point. Anyways with both of those movies I’m actually entertained, so if Haneke is trying to attack entertainment, I guess he failed by making a decent horror movie?

The finger wagging is annoying though, it’s like graffiti on a wall that says ‘No graffiti’, like a bully who beats you up with your own fists and says “stop hitting yourself”

I think though, if push came to shove, if I had the button to click, I would erase it though. Throw the baby out with the bathwater, and get rid of all of it. None of the stuff that really matters to me, really really matters, would be gone. And when I wanted entertainment, I could always jerk off.

I don’t like watching animals being killed but I also think Mondo Cane and Cannibal Holocaust are important films.

If you’re going to condemn violence, then you’re condemning a pretty massive chunk of film, television, video games, literature, and art. Where do you draw the line? Is it ok for you to love Mortal Kombat, but not ok for me to love Commando? Are the Looney Tunes ok?

I have seen animals die on film, but not for exploitations sake, I saw it in Mondo Cane which I thought was a masterpiece, and all the death was unnerving, but animals I condone the slaughter of, because there is no potential lost, and they feed humans which do have potential.

Sorry, your English has lost me a bit here. If you’re saying that I spend my time watching beheading videos and people dying, I would have to say you’re wrong. I watch Wheel of Fortune and Kitchen Nightmares so often that I just can’t work beheadings into the schedule. Have I seen a beheading video? Yes. My friend Chian showed it to me. Have I seen death caught on film/tape? Yes. I find Faces of Death a very interesting piece of popular culture. Still not sure what the point of all of this is though.