VinylGuy wrote:Damn he hasnt done much? You are exigent.
He directed both Star Trek and Star Wars, huuuge movies. Did MI3, Super 8 and tv series like Alias, Lost or Felicity. His company is producing a bunch of films too...i mean, that guy´s work ethics.....
i think just one of these is great. Super 8 is the worst offender: All the style of an 80s Spielberg flick with none of the heart
What's funny is that Super 8 has more heart to me than anything Spielberg has done since ... ET? I thought it was a perfect love letter, not only to Spielberg but to cinema, to the joy of imagination and the infinite possibility of childhood.
It doesn't feel like an imitation or a pastiche to me at all. It's a perfect homage while still being all JJ in and out. I think it's a great movie. Far better than something similar like Stranger Things, for example.
i agree with this. Super 8 felt super honest and i loved the ending. But still, even if i dont like whatever JJ does, he really know how to craft a movie, a series or whatever. He might be still finding his true voice as an artist, i dont know, but im impressed with his work.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Fuck heart. I fucking hate heart. Heart is cancer.
Heart cancer is incredibly rare.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I really like the first Goon movie but my god is Last of the Enforces shit. So much of what makes the first one compelling is the messy, chaotic energy that Michael Dowse brought to it. Baruchel is a terrible director and everything is stilted and badly lit and looks like total crap
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
