From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
...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.
I've seen the original and feel that it was better than the recent American
remake. The US version was good (and in some ways better) during the first
season and the first episode of the second, but has gone downhill since then
IMO.
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.
I completely agree, and would say that even if he didn't do TM. IMO he started
by appealing to film critics' tendency to favorably review things they can't
understand, mistaking them for profundity. But then he got caught by it, and
now can't make anything BUT weird movies. I've never felt that he actually had
anything to say in one of his own films (as opposed to those he made of other
people's stories, like "Dune").
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.
He hasn't made an actual film since 2006 ("Inland Empire"). Only commercials
and short, 10-minute weird "auteur" films for festivals and the like. I don't
think he has it in him to make a whole film any more, and is using his
activities on behalf of the DLF to cover the fact that he has lost whatever
creativity he once had.
If he actually goes through with making another version of "Twin Peaks" for TV,
my bet is that he will pose as "creator" by writing the first draft of a few
scripts and having others do all the rest, and do the same with direction --
he'll direct at most one or two episodes.
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!
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