tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post7036845969530495835..comments2023-05-18T07:40:48.750-05:00Comments on Christopher Plummer's Tympani Room: Remember Remember the 31th of....Plaid Avengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-9618991520357106702007-02-03T02:01:00.000-05:002007-02-03T02:01:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-40207273411522231632007-02-02T08:31:00.000-05:002007-02-02T08:31:00.000-05:00Which is to say, it's a peurile fantasy. Fun? Why ...Which is to say, it's a peurile fantasy. Fun? Why not? But don't embrace is at legitimate philosophy.<br /><br />I mean, didn't the Wackowski's prove already their shallowness regarding philosophy with The Matrix sequels?<br /><br />There's a difference between certain kinds of irony and "winking".<br /><br />Winking is shallow, aww-shucks I didn't mean it back-peddaling, as in, "oh look, we're showing the other side of terrorism, except, wink wink, it's only a movie folks." Really? Well how cute. If they had followed through the full implications of the anarchy they were presented, it might've been art, but instead they give us a conventional plot structure and a fairy tale ending so we can go home "pumped" by it. <br /><br />Y'all should watch Brazil, or even the original 1984 adaptation. They don't hav e nearly the answers this movie thinks it has.<br /><br />also, the Wachowski's are neither a Vonnegut or a Malick. They've proven that.<br /><br />In the end, I think all of this is important to say, because, frankly, I don't embrace careful, demographically marketed rebellion anyway. I understand it takes a lot to sell your movie. <br /><br />Even a fairly decent one can be shameless.<br /><br />And in the end, in spite of all I've said, I try not to take it all too seriously. What I find is what I find, but:<br /><br />"To appreciate movies is to appreciate great trash"<br />- Pauline KaelPlaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-76992658795599956122007-02-02T08:24:00.000-05:002007-02-02T08:24:00.000-05:00people should not fear their governments, and gove...people should not fear their governments, and governments should not fear their people. <br />The two should work together.<br />That requires diligence, education, and sacrifice.<br />This is not Nazi Germany, or even an Orwellian police state. Could it be, someday? Sure, but even with all the current administration is doing to stifle discent and suspend habeus corpus, none of it has yet directly effected the swarms of youth that would embrace the anarchy of V for Vendetta.<br />You know what's missing form the end of that movie? TANKS.Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-69204320149646482572007-02-02T08:04:00.000-05:002007-02-02T08:04:00.000-05:00two things:
1) you really need to learn to apprec...two things:<br /><br />1) you really need to learn to appreciate porn.<br /><br />2) it's possible to get your rocks off AND go into public service. Just look at Bill Clinton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-21919814522645916582007-02-01T23:24:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:24:00.000-05:00as a general rule, I like spongebob AND rem AND lo...as a general rule, I like spongebob AND rem AND louis sachar AND kurt vonnegut AND hosts of other winkers. I myself am planning a hearty career in this so called "winking" <br /><br />I dont even think I understand the language and subtext of this whole critique of yours, but I do FULLY understand the meaning of this:<br /><br />People should not fear their governments. Governments should fear their people.<br /><br />I guess for those of us who desperately desire to have hope for an outcome that doesnt end in a mushroom cloud and who know that our turn at shitting our pants is just around the corner, this hits home a little more. Im all about getting to the heart of it and I think that it most certainly does....raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17967863860423185036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-89327440722160534562007-02-01T23:21:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:21:00.000-05:00and I did it AGAIN with this damned Dirthy Hairy b...and I did it AGAIN with this damned Dirthy Hairy business. YEezus.Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-50990656239942042512007-02-01T23:20:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:20:00.000-05:00which is the difference between myself and those w...which is the difference between myself and those who say "it's only a movie" I<br />movies should be more than porn, wether you get off on Dirty Hairy, or damning the man. And "V" thinks it has the answer, which it doesn't, because, of course, all art is perfectly useless.<br />I find V sloppy, disorganized, and dishonest, but hey, I got some kicks out of it, and if activists and liberals want to get their rocks off instead of going into public service, netflix accounts start at $5.95...Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-12818465239195231602007-02-01T23:05:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:05:00.000-05:00winking is way more interesting than flashing, str...winking is way more interesting than flashing, stripping or fucking. what's left to do, but wink? what's wrong with getting your liberal rocks off to vent a little frustration. Until all the bitching about talk with no action actually leads to some action, I am going to keep applauding the winkers. <br /><br />I don't advocate large scale violence and destruction without any thought of what happens after they take off the masks, but I also don't advocate building a social theory on a piece of film that exists, fundamentally, to make money for the studio.<br /><br />one more thing. Malick didn't wink. He went for it all, and we got "The Thin Red Line." I'm not that impressed with going for it, as a general rule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-16879762210403890782007-02-01T11:09:00.000-05:002007-02-01T11:09:00.000-05:00....my slept-in-on-a-snow-day syntax notwithstandi.......my slept-in-on-a-snow-day syntax notwithstanding....Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-48659140083938627112007-02-01T11:07:00.000-05:002007-02-01T11:07:00.000-05:00well, of course I can. I mean, I suppose I should ...well, of course I can. I mean, I suppose I should underline more than I have that I actually do like the movie, but the fact is, I'm irked by the kind of irony safety net you're talking about. Yes, they set out explicitly to do that. I don't think I suggested otherwise. But is that an excuse for equivocating? The Wachowski's are slick, but they're also sloppy, and trying to cover up your muddled point (especially a muddled point that embraces a faceless mob, that only removes its masks at the end all at once) with a sheen of supposedly knowing marketing is not, in this case, a terribly convincing final product.<br />It's entirely possible that it can be, I just don't think it worked here. <br />The Wachowski's have a way of making their movies real Happenings. I'd like to see them go for it all instead of winking at us.Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-19791195828611108702007-02-01T09:49:00.000-05:002007-02-01T09:49:00.000-05:00Dude, EVERYTHING about that movie, right down to t...Dude, EVERYTHING about that movie, right down to the overseas marketing campaigns, framed it as a propaganda piece. It never pretended to be anything different. You can disagree with its message, but can you really criticize it for doing, by all evidence, exactly what the Wach-Bros set out to do?Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00057374435503696017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-25395350429383943642007-02-01T09:06:00.000-05:002007-02-01T09:06:00.000-05:00boys, obviously.boys, obviously.Lilyirishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840849540154192015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-80924934054729093652007-01-31T10:04:00.000-05:002007-01-31T10:04:00.000-05:00dirty hairy? What am I thinking of?dirty hairy? What am I thinking of?Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-43217941222185815812007-01-31T10:01:00.000-05:002007-01-31T10:01:00.000-05:00which is all well and good, and the movie accompli...which is all well and good, and the movie accomplishes that feeling with a gusto, but in the end, I think it's equivocating far too much. Extreme circumstances may take extreme measures, but it's a little troubling to see that kind of glib destruction on the screen. It's nothing but an Independence Day kick for liberals and activists, and I wonder if it's not basically the same thing as a Dirty Hairy movie using arch convservative vigilantism to play out politically opposite fantasies? Is that what we want?Plaid Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986995060356232803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797704986960636076.post-35064525375166602562007-01-31T08:35:00.000-05:002007-01-31T08:35:00.000-05:00I really like V for Vendetta if only because it le...I really like V for Vendetta if only because it let me live out those fantacies of 'sticking it to the man' if you know what I mean. <br /><br />Palindromes is on the Q already....I will get there....Lilyirishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840849540154192015noreply@blogger.com