Posts by giovanni tiso
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I am quite convinced that the subtext of every single ad on television is "Ask your doctor about Cialis."
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The Internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
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Did I write Cabert instead of Cabaret? I need a special three-hour edit window.
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but did like a singing dancing movie from 1952
Which, unlike Avatar, happens to be a masterpiece.
They are certainly not people who generally enjoy the irrational, stupid, offensive, and manipulative (as Gio put it)
I most certainly never said that. What I did say is that I'd like to be allowed to think that Avatar is all of those things (well, except I never said it was irrational) without somebody telling me there's something wrong with me.
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But for me, and this is just subjective, a statement about or review of Star Wars -- to use that example again -- that doesn't talk about the era the film was made in, its sci-fi antecedents and influences, Lucas' contemporaries, his body of work etc, wouldn't qualify as an analysis.
That's one type of analysis, but it ought to be possible to evaluate Star Wars without talking about intertextuality or THX 1138. And anyway yes, my son often refers to other cartoons he's seen to make sense of and rate one he's just seen.
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And how old were you when you figured out that George Lucas was trying to make a statement about Vietnam?
Analysing doesn't mean looking for or finding hidden statements or complex allegories. You don't need to read Heart of Darkness into Apocalypse Now to enjoy the film critically.
My (no smarter than your average bear) eight year old analyses films all the time, you only need to talk to him about something he's just seen to figure it out. He looks for meaning and for narrative structure, and I'd argue it's really, really hard not to do that.
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Notes or coins?
Damn you, Elder, now I'm going to have go down to the video store and get Cabert out.
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I enjoy analysing - why make em mutually exclusive, I say
It's also an illusion to say that you can in fact stop yourself from analysing. We do it all the time. And - Geoff will perhaps confirm this - we come to formal education as already very sophisticated readers of films and the such; that was certainly my experience tutoring first year film students.
People who liked Avatar did analyse it, not matter how implicitly, and came to the conclusion that what was good about it more than made up for its flaws. Those who didn't, felt the opposite way. As a person who didn't like it, I'm tired of being told that it's because I think too much. That's puerile crap.
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And not to send you to hold a table for us and we'll be right there...
I might hold you to that :-)
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Dude, it's not 'desperate bitching'. It's because we really, honestly didn't like it. We didn't think it was any good.
There's obviously something wrong with you. You have to learn to let go of your rational mind and enjoy things that are stupid, manipulative and offensive.