Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

"The one thing you can never be wrong about is your own opinion. It's when you start giving your reasons that you lay yourself open." -- Roger Ebert

my night at maud's isn't new wave, if she's saying that it is

if there is one thing bamcquern loves it is recursive loops

and don't forget procedural generation (recently I've been loving this Wizards of Wor-style fantasy shooter that has procedurally generated levels)

I think Rohmer's honorary new wave? Just because he's ten years older than those dudes, he wrote for Cahiers and was coming at film-making with a similar mindset. I think of New Waves as

1. Smart guys at Cahiers who wrote smart stuff about movies and then decided to make some.
2. Those guys' friends.
3. Left Banke people?

it's those people and more

and rohmer's early shit is definitely new wave. 'le signe de leo' or whatever it was called.

but i don't think any movie made in 1968-9 era is new wave: wouldn't call truffaut's or godard's late 60s films new wave either

it was a p specific late 50s/early 60s thing to do with low budgets, newness, youthiness...

the new wave included all kinds of forgotten people like pierre kast, jean-pierre mocky, jacques rozier

[tbh the left bank dudes fit into it pretty dodgily coz they'd been around since the early 1950s, but they do fit i guess]

I think I said "New Waves" on purpose but I don't know what I was thinking.

Yeah, they fit pretty dodgily. I think your post sums everything up that needs to be said about this.

what was that Rohmer called? Do you actually not remember - or is this art of pretend forgetfulness at work?

He doesn't remember! He didn't want to google it! It's not that odd.

*sigh*

http://www.tightsarenotpants.com/

writing like an angry comedian from the 90s is the worst

seriously, with minimal rewriting that could be the opening bumper for any episode of 'Rescue Me'

dude has a point tho: tights are p cool

hey did yall know that religion is ~~bullshit~~

2 learn more, click on the us politics thread

nah - i'd rather read challenging ops about tights

wheres that going on

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headz.gif

<3

graemlins, it is good to have you back. i welcome you.

lol @ that graemlin

C/D: "Never forget"

i haven't seen it, but is the inclusion of showgirls on two lists anything other than challops?

No more than the fucking Godfather.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, September 13, 2010 4:06 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(from Pretend you have a ballot for the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list)

ha!

needs to follow up with 5-6 more posts imo

wow - totally missed this two years ago. i was branded a racist for liking vs naipaul & disliking contemporary rap music. :-/

lol @ he's over 50 whatya expect? tho

this is a total old-school original-definition challop:

I'd rather have graffiti than the corporate advertising that dominates our visual landscape. I think of both in oppositional terms.

― All this information makes America phat (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 18, 2011 2:39 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

Awesome.

haha i remember saying that

when i was 16

it's still fucking true though

lmfao deej

it's still fucking true though

― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Monday, April 18, 2011 10:14 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its also true that it would be real chill if the world had no wars

haha

huh xp

interesting insight d-40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/funny-pictures-just-sittin-an-pondrin-ders-so-muhc-to-pondr.jpg

it occurs to me that john lennon was the 20th century's master challopist
dude had an unironic bed-in for peace, that is next level shit right there

yeah it's a challop, whatever. i just hate the billboards i see every day enough to otm it on the internet, sheesh xp

is it a requirement of challopry to constantly show everyone your wang, because Lennon did a lot of that too

there was a dude in college who used to chill at parties like that, p challopy imo

bohemian chollapsody

Constantly? That's pretty time-consuming. He never took breaks?

maybe what you guys need to think about is that clothing is just another prison maaaaaan

I always show my wang when I challop.

I don't always
but when I do I prefer to show my dos huevos

ha

i just showed my ass last night, i had a blast

ha deej at least bring it to the politics thread we've "missed" you