---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Clint is well-known in the industry as a filmmaker whose projects "never go a day over schedule or a dollar over budget." That, plus his name recognition, keeps the projects flowing in. Suffice it to say that I didn't like "American Sniper" very much, mainly because the senility he displayed while talking to a chair during the Republican convention seems to have eroded his sensibilities such that he doesn't even know (or care) when he's making a propaganda film any more. But on the level of the filmmaker it's Just Another Bad Movie...what is shocking about "American Sniper" is how many people saw it and were taken in by it. America is *officially* dumbed down now. Gosh, I didn't even know that was a Clint movie. After the drabness of his previous war films I don't think I'd bother going to see it. But then I wouldn't have bothered anyway, the whole project looks like it stinks and is yet another American guilt trip dressed up as championing "our boys" and the patriotic job they do ridding the world of people with beards. Sorry, our enemies. As for "Birdman," as I said I give it credit for inventiveness, especially in the cinematography and the editing. The cinematographer deserved his Oscar and the editor should have been nominated for one, because they managed to make it appear as if the film were one long tracking shot, *including* sections in which one of the characters flies around in the air. That was pretty cool. And there were good performances by Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, and Naomi Watts. I was drawn in by the hype of it and wanted to go but didn't bother in the end! I'll wait until it hits the airwaves sometime in 2018.. But the characters themselves, and the *point* of the movie, if it had one? To me it was non-stop narcissism. A fading star, mostly remembered for his roles in a superhero movie franchise, tries to resuscitate his career and get some attention by staging a Raymond Carver story as a play on Broadway. Thus it's 100% an Ego Story on the part of the in-the-film director, and possibly reveals similar obsessions on the part of the director himself. I took an "FFL approach" to watching it -- "Take what you need and leave the rest." There were good parts, but I was left with a kind of icky feeling after watching the whole thing. The same is proving true, BTW, about binge-watching season 3 of "House Of Cards." The characters are just so ICKY that I *can't* really binge-watch it...I feel like I need a shower after each episode. Is that a remake of the old BBC parliament drama? That was good I remember but we Brits do political double-dealing and intrigue like no one else could. On the subject of TM directors though, I think David Lynch is another one they should avoid shouting about. It's one of those ironies that no one else seems to have noticed amid all the flag waving, but his career has got more mediocre the longer he meditates. TM seems to be sucking the creativity out of him in direct proportion to the amount of time he spends going on about how inspiring it is. Did you see Inland Empire? Seriously don't bother unless two hours of completely meaningless pretention is your thing. Which is a shame as surrealism could be a useful technique to say something about the human condition, get some sort Freudian symbolism in there to give it a purpose. But Lynch is happy to just film unrelated but odd things and let us decide for ourselves what it means to us (I got that from the extras on the DVD). I don't call it creative, I call it lazy. From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> Yet another? The only way this would be an interesting bit of news is if their career had markedly improved after they had learned. And it isn't like like the ones that do meditate are the best in Hollywood, I think Clint Eastwood is the most overrated actor/director imaginable. I don't know how he gets away with it. I thought his last big movie I saw Billion Dollar Baby was a joke, just a string of very tired and manipulative cliches masquerading as a relatable drama. But it's his other movies that should worry the TMO, if they want to hold him up as a good example they should consider the amoral stories he likes to involve himself in. In his many movies he's been a rapist who wins women over with violence, a self-appointed executioner with no interest in justice but worst of all was his Mystic River which he directed. Am I alone in thinking the subtext of that movie was deeply sinister? The characters in that movie actually pin the blame for a vigilante murder on a friend of theirs who'd had a nervous breakdown because he was abused as a child, and that is apparently OK because "he's already damaged and his life is crap". Talk about shit morals, I was actually shocked when I saw it. Is this some sort of frontier justice that Republican Americans relate to but anyone with a soul finds abhorent? If so, where is Clint's soul after all these years of meditating? Go ahead and make my day Clint. Stop making shit movies! ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : yet another brilliant film director is a TMer ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de... - Meditación Trascendental Perú | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de... - Me... https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de Cine ganador del Oscar 2015 como mejor director por su película también ganadora como la ... View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 Preview by Yahoo
