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re: 'drive my car', by far the best thing about it is the soundtrack.

eiko ishibashi is a respected avant-garde composer/multi-instrumentalist in japan. she's been active in experimental music circles for ages.



it's marvellous.

whole thing can be found here:
https://eikoishibashi.bandcamp.com/trac … s-saab-900

Last edited by uziq (2022-02-07 03:58:40)

Lapsis - Erm/10

It was pretty transparent what it was trying to say, but certainly a strange watch, I sort of enjoyed it.
I'll have to think about some of the finer detail.

You can read uziq's hot take having not seen it here

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Surely you can categorise it without seeing it.

Its not really sci-fi.

I'm not the one here who craves fawning adoration.

Cats isn't the only film uziq has critiqued without watching.

uziq wrote:

really? i’ve been pretty open about my antipathies about certain genres or styles of movie.

Which is a bit narrow-minded don't you think?

I think I'm just going to accept you're blinkered about some things and leave it there.

uziq wrote:

but that's not what 'critics' do, is it? they don't just emotively react to things based on their own personal preference.

A lot of them do, including you, you and they are very happy to jump on bandwagons based on no information at all.

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

but that's not what 'critics' do, is it? they don't just emotively react to things based on their own personal preference.

A lot of them do, including you, you and they are very happy to jump on bandwagons based on no information at all.

do you read a lot of criticism dilbert? i read an awful lot of criticism, and i don't recognise what you're describing at all. most critics are motivated by a love and passion for their form/medium, are extremely well versed in its techniques, intimate with its workings, etc. almost all good critics will be able to evaluate a work of art on quasi-'objective' grounds upon which its possible to turn an argument or form a critique, precisely so that other people can engage with it. 'muh feelings' seldom come into it.

'bandwagons' lol. are you still talking about cats? i honestly can't think of any other 'bandwagon' behaviour. but, yes, the blind bandwagon over one of the most universally poorly rated movies in recent history. nobody was thinking independently, that's all!!!

are not comic movie fans precisely guilty of 'bandwagon' behaviour when they crash in on any critic who dares call out their questionable franchise movies? seems there's plenty of foamy-mouthed idiots who are over-invested in this stuff and won't brook any argument or countervailing opinion.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-01 03:28:22)

your portrayal of critics is parodic and asinine. making out they're all a bunch of 'snooty pseuds' wearing roll-necks and talking only about eisenstein and murnau is dumb as fuck. you can find praise for 'popular' movies and forms of entertainment in every major newspaper, industry magazine, academic journal, etc, in existence. you are literally arguing against your own invented straw-man and caricature.

if anything, critical opinion is overwhelmingly on the side of 'good' comic book movies; it doesn't deny them. christopher nolan's movies have hardly struggled to find plaudits. so why are you twisting this entirely ludicrous image of 'snooty' critics who 'dismiss things because they don't like it?' the whole rigmarole of a 'snooty' critic going to the movies and, actually, quite enjoying a Mad Max movie is a cliché in-itself.

but if a film critic dares call out x-men 17 or the reboot-of-a-reboot of a minor DC character from 1983, evaluating it as a bad movie (even if they've praised previous ones in the series)... oh boy! then see who is 'acting on emotion' in their response: the legions of comic book fans who can't believe a critic would rubbish a movie about their extra-speshul childhood hero! who is blindly reacting to a movie and overlooking all of its faults based on 'their feelings' then?

what you evince continually in these matters is a kind of put-upon victim routine. like you're being victimized for your tastes by an 'establishment'. it would be cute in a 15-year-old. you're a grown man and you're literally 'entrenching' yourself in your like of Cats and comic book movies. lmao. there, there, dilbert, there there. the nasty snooty critics don't even think for themselves anywayz!!!!!1one

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-01 03:41:48)

why the hell was that place called raccoon city anyway?

i get that it’s a stereotypically american animal. but that’s a weird place name, man. like naming a place buffalo. what the fuck.

Are they playing the same characters as in the old Scream, or are they different ones? Hand-me-down roles can be a little patronizing sometimes, like "what, we couldn't have something new?" There are exceptions of course. I don't mind seeing black people do Shakespeare. Also lots of genderbending on stage back then anyway.

I don't know what expectations you have for horror remakes and long chains of sequels. A lot of that stuff is always going to be pretty camp.