the answer to the thread is obviously dud along with kubrick and all the other great men of cinema whose abuse of women is glorified by film nerds. i'm sure the films are great in some sense, i'm also told birth of a nation and triumph of the will are great films
― Left, Thursday, 5 January 2023
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
If Left is frequently being told Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will are great films, on a regular basis, their posting style makes a little more sense to me
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
Riefenstahl put automatic cameras on balloons and stuff and was an innovative director, but give me Rossellini's war trilogy any day over that shite.. even though he was a wrong 'un himself!
― calzino, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
It's obvious you're not a woman.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SyLA5Mm.gif
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
You beat me to it
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
I mean, people were telling me that Intolerance was a good film on this very message board just a month ago.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 6 January 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
Morbs, you're in a better place
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkJ2992mRo
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
is this about Star Wars?
― sarahell, Friday, 6 January 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
left is a great poster overall and i fully support their occasional trolls because honestly folks the sniffy armchair critic circlejerk here gets a little old imo
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
and yeah the auteur theory is kinda antihuman bs if you have a heart and any inkling of what creativity can be outside of the culture industry
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
Never said they aren't and I appreciate'em. To me, if I post you in this thread you've made it.
But I disagree lol with your conclusion. This place may have many things but it doesn't have armchair critic circle jerks. Look at the Glass Onion thread for proof.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Contemporary criticism as journalism doesn't even pay for armchairs. All it does is teach us how to post Bette Davis gifs.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
map, I like you a lot but you're wrong for this
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
Ah tho, for the golden age of armchair criticism
https://i0.wp.com/www.americantheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/little-man.jpg?fit=900%2C827&ssl=1
Trying and failing to find a gif of a certain James Thurber cartoon.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
Haha I didn’t even read the thread or post in question but I’d rather read Left than a good portion of ilx, who do nothing but bump threads to complain about annoying phrases young people use or spam YouTube links. At least Left is interesting.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
yes and it is very much in character for you to come and post on the very much in character thread and speak your mind about how most of us are mediocrities. What do you want on a decades old message board, doctoral dissertations in the chatbox?
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
Oh, I don’t know. People making posts?
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
who do nothing but bump threads to complain about annoying phrases
That'd be me, I believe...and she really loves me on baseball.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
Nope, it’s not you, and I do love you on baseball! Unironically!
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
Mea culpa--thanks.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
its time we started celebrating annoying phrases young people use
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
young people can use any phrase they feel like I am almost 34 and I no longer use phrases
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
🫡
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n,
Start the thread! I don't use phrases at all.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
This thread brings out the worst in everyone here, which means it also lives up to its title
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
you are permitted to use the stupid annoying phrases young people use if you are young at heart, but if they aren't any good then you can all fuck off!
― calzino, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
I like the idea of an armchair criticism forum.
TS: Eames vs. Breuer
Ikea POÄNG: Classic or Dud?
Defend the indefensible: La-Z-Boy
― I got two Clark Gables and a slide trombone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link
how much padding is too much?Recliners: Are They Worth the Weight?
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
This Is The Thread Where We Discuss Sectionals
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
UpPOLLstery: Best Colors and Patterns
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
TS: antimacassar vs. macassar
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
rosensale - biggs
The entire drama now focuses on Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who must vote entirely for Kevin McCarthy. A present vote or not voting at all would leave McCarthy short of the majority and force another round of voting.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:55 (one year ago) link
oops!
very much in character, too, this week. i hang my head in shame and i am sorry
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link
posts on fleek
― mh, Saturday, 7 January 2023 04:43 (one year ago) link
Stevenson, as usual, is knowledgeable, brisk, cool in his assessments of Western military and intelligence. A great LRB asset.
He doesn't mention the oddest thing about "Five Eyes", that most people (not all) have two eyes and thus, for a better image, five subjects with eyes should really add up to "Ten Eyes".
― the pinefox, Friday, 27 January 2023 10:58 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― soref, Saturday, 28 January 2023 10:32 (one year ago) link
Lol
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Saturday, 28 January 2023 11:16 (one year ago) link
quintessential the pinefox
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 28 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
Based on the name alone, I will never voluntarily listen to this band.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, March 16, 2023 1:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
I would say that's more in character for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard than anything else, lol
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
https://jordanforeman.com/assets/images/why-not-both.jpg
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPO8PqHGWFU
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
nobody ever has anything good to say about this record yet it rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, April 13, 2023 8:08 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 April 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
what ILX thread makes me angrier than all the others combined
― imago, Saturday, April 15, 2023 9:06 AM (fifty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
Not controversial here. For example, Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter is set near the winter solstice. By the same token, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place on the night of summer solstice. Thus we are reminded that for most of the past centuries, summertime ended on the autumnal equinox at September 21st, which was also when winter began.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless),
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 August 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
fwiw the system used to allow you to vote as many times you wanted as long as your votes were paced a certain interval (one week? two weeks?) apart. but at least one poster abused the system by voting 10+ times in polls with distant closing dates, so the mods may have tightened up the polling regulations since I regularly pulled that shit
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 27 August 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 August 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino)Posted: 6 September 2023 at 10:42:10I heard that on the news this morning and my initial cheery response was: you lads ever considered dying.
― ydkb (gyac), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:05 (one year ago) link