Posts by giovanni tiso
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I also liked Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism which I probably couldn't summarise as well as Giovanni Tiso could.
Hah! :-) It's sitting in front of me, it came out of the same box mentioned above, I just had to read One Dimensional Woman first. Also from Zero one must mention Militant Modernism by the great Owen Hatherley.
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I got my Amazon parcel yesterday, full of nerdy goodness, and in the spirit of reading lust I must report having devoured Nina Power's One Dimensional Woman right out the box. It's about feminism and consumer culture, so it may stretch somebody's definition of holiday reading, but I found it oh so exciting.
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Maybe because it can feel like watching someone else play a computer game.
I spent the two hours of Final Fantasy looking in vain for the bloody ESC button.
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I'll be happy to see the back of 2009 as well, because of reasons. But I'm glad it didn't uniformly suck for everybody.
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Confidential to G. Tiso of Wellington: I would not see Avatar based on the trailer. None of the pretty bits are in there. But I would see it based on it being an awesome film.
Aw, okay then. You make a good case. It's not appropriate for an eight year old boy, is it?
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Let's close off the Internet and delete all traces of this last post of yours before a Broadway producer comes across it, or we shall all be d00med.
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Then I'd question why make the bloody film in the first place. And besides, they made Jesus Christ Superstar, didn't they - I don't recall Andrew Lloyd Webber having to spend the rest of his life in an undisclosed cave.
Regrettably.
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You clearly haven't read Kyle's big list of 50 changes from the books to the movies which didn't work out.
Did you find anything in the films that didn't look just like you thought in your head that it would look when you were reading the books?
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I find this very interesting. What do you call "true" insightful realism? Is it something like" high modality"? A dimly remembered term for an interesting concept where South Park can be more realistic than Saving Private Ryan??
I meant realism in the transfer from the source to screen. What's the point of adapting the Lord of the Rings if you draw everything exactly as Tolkien had described it? With superhero comics it's even more discomfiting, since it's already a visual medium. I'm not saying that it would be impossible to make good or relevant films by adapting from Tolkien or Stan Lee, but not that way it's been done over the last decade. Hopefully Del Toro will apply some imagination to The Hobbit.
What do you think of Peter Jackson as a director?
I think what Craig says from time to time about Van Sant's obsessive remake of Psycho applies here too. Nothing against Jackson, I just don't like to see his talent go to waste. Than again, the LOTR trilogy was obviously so much more than an ordinary film - it revolutionised the local industry and we should forever appreciate that.
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It's feudalism with smartphones.
Pages with pagers? Serfs who surf (the Web)?