seems like this guy makes the leap that "resembling a videogame" automatically = "shitty movie"
I thought parts of CoM were gamelike in a good way
― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
btw i really like that blog!
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Anonymous said...Rivette is a bore.
January 10, 2007 12:19 PM
C'mon Morbius at least sign your name to it! besides doesn't it bore you to say how boring he is all the time?
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
hahah the accidental truth revealed!
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Alfred, what were Stanley Kramer's politics, aside from decent mainstream liberalism of his era?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2160412.ece
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/01/the_great_unseen_films_of_2006.html
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Good lord that's a wrong sentence.
― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Rob Nelson latest casualty of Village Voice Media bloodbath
― Eric H., Monday, 27 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
― S-, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Good if long Edelstein interview (thanks to Scott Woods). Revelations: Dustin Hoffman's overrated, Josh Hartnett isn't used enough, and this:
probably shouldn’t say this, but I really appreciated Jackie Brown, really appreciated its beauty and magnificence when I saw it high. I hadn’t seen it high the first time and I loved it. When I saw it high I never wanted it to end. It was the ultimate stoner movie. The violence in the movie was for the most part off-camera, for the most part pretty upsetting in its implications. In no way are you supposed to get off on the violence in that movie. [The violence] is absurd, it’s sudden, it’s horrific. Even Samuel L. Jackson’s death is presented as a betrayal. And the death of Robert De Niro is disgusting. And obviously the death of Bridget Fonda is hauntingly absurd. Poor Chris Tucker is the other one. I’m mystified by the level of hostility to Tarantino among serious film writers as well as mainstream film critics.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
morbius is gonna love that
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
He's pretty OTM on Brokeback Mt.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
also, I liked Jackie Brown, straight.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
what cinema needs is more josh hartnett
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Even I'm starting to get a little tired of the "omg why don't more people give Jackie Brown respect" thing, and I still think it's his best one.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i wasn't aware ppl didn't give it respect!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Precisely.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss Edelstein in Slate.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
He's right about Boys Don't Cry too.
on BBM: I remember your comment about the sex scene in Brokeback Mountain: Where are all the bodily fluids?
That was sex as sanctification. I don’t buy that. It was done on an entirely Platonic level.
It struck me as a gay sex scene written by a woman. It had no understanding of male animal desire.
That’s why my wife loved it. It’s a chick flick. Well the movie didn’t take place on that plane. It was the apotheosis of gay sex. It was gay sex as set against purple mountain majesties. It was set in this phony Americana, this exultation of the cowboy. It might have been the only way Americans would see a gay movie. These things happen in stages. I wrote a book with the gay producer Christine Vachon. She had a hit with Go Fish. She was trying to figure out why nothing she did had any chance of breaking through in the mainstream with anything that was gay. Not even Boys Don’t Cry was a real hit.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, Jackie Brown is the only tarantino one I like more than saying "yeah, it was ok"-- I wouldn't go as far as to say I 'loved' it (saved for only my top 20 flix OAT) but it was definitely my fave of the bunch.
― Will M., Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Christopher Tookey in the Daily Mail is the most enjoyable to read. He just doesn't like films at all.
If gives a page full of one-star reviews, it's because he's in a generous mood. Normally he gives everything a little turkey symbol.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
filmbiz friend finds Edelstein secretly gay
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that why he admits to squirming during homosex?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
like John Simon?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Edelstein != Ehrenstein
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link