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In Reply to: Re: My postings mirror my film-watching posted by patrickU on October 06, 2004 at 11:23:36:
You know, I don't mind the "Lord of the Rings" -type films for what they are - an amusement park ride of sensations, not something to intellectualize. BUT - they must be offset by truly artistic efforts. The scale has become much too tilted toward inanity.And you know, Patrick, there are those who would say that if we don't hold "Strawberries" and "Titanic" as equals, we're just old-fashioned.
In Vino Veritas
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You see it is not only a way to intellectualize, but it is the lasting impression, the deepness of the thoughts here involved, that makes the difference.
The kind of the LOTRīs and co are just boring, that is my main grief, loud and brutal, digital in the hard way, they donīt let you reach any shores, but you know that.
But there also those who wonīt even think of comparing, old fashionned or not.
In Strawberries we find fundamental truths.
And so much more.
What do you do with societies that deny there are even such things as "Universal Truths"? You give them Michael Moore and Britney.
In Vino Veritas
I just read an interview with Woody Allen stating that M. Mooreīs Fahrenheit is a GOOD film.
Oh boy, now I am down...
But, I would chalk it up to temporary insanity brought upon by political passions. I would like to think that the judges at Cannes suffered from the same malady.
In Vino Veritas
Yes, before the French suffered from " La Maladie dīAmour " now it is the politic....
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