Posts by giovanni tiso
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If only.
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I hope when he writes his own masterpiece, it isn't so derivative, and uses less turgid prose, more dialog, less two dimensional characterizations, and gains the zero audience he so reveres.
Dear Lord. The hostility to criticism in this thread is reaching truly heroic proportions.
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No, we were talking about Peter Jackson. Do try to keep up, Danyl.
Meantime, thanks for the link, Sam, we can certainly include Mr Downie amongst the overthinkers and, how shall I put it, general idiots. Look at him go:
So, at the end as from the beginning, there is nothing to say about The Return of the King, just as there is nothing to say about Lord of the Rings. Just as there is nothing to say about a cyclone. It is a huge investment of energy, ingenuity, and managerial skill, but in the end, sound and fury signifying nothing very much at all. Tumultuous, accelerating images amidst seismic and saturating din. We are so used to these blitzes, these weather systems of technologically enhanced spectacle passing through, spinning us around thrice, and leaving us dazed amongst commodification’s detritus, immediately hunkering down for the next one, that we have long ago forgotten what it takes to dare to think. What do we dare to think about this film and its surrounding events? What is its connection with a world that we still just about experience on a daily basis? That there is a crisis in the world that we can call evil, sure. But what else is new? It might take a lot more to get to grips with than swords and yelling. There’s nothing in Jackson’s film version that wasn’t apparent in the original epic novels fifty years ago, and even then, Tolkien was hardly a man who welcomed in the twentieth century and all its works. In our sense of what the Cinema is still capable of offering, is bang, flash and flare the only way we want to engage with the bafflingly complex 21st?
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On the subject of Pakeha who don't see race, I heartily commend Reading the Maps' latest.
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Mayor Quimby supports revolving door prisons. Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob -- a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for mayor.
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Aren't you a supporter of the party that opened the stable door in the first place? What are you doing now, blaming the Herald?
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It's not like people are seeing phantoms here.
Er, quite. The Arab pirates? The "people of the West" speech? In the lead up to the war in Iraq? Hello?
With this.
Yes, I remember that. Funny. For future reference however, seeing as you are after all a commenter on this forum, excerpting on your blog something that somebody wrote here by way of honest argument, without offering a response other than the tag "general idiocy", is a really, really classless move. IMHO, and all that.
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I despair sometimes, I really do.
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I enjoyed Danyl's classy risposte. Wait, did I write "classy"? I meant "dickish".
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Or watching too much cricket.