In Reply to: Good God, the last sentence in his first paragraph posted by tinear on March 14, 2005 at 16:24:11:
in my mind as being . . . not so baffling for the praise they've garnered (because it's totally predictable, really) as infuriating. They're pure middle-brow product, marketed to once-a-year museum-goers who, once a year, seek out whatever film the industry has annointed to be that one must-see, "challenging," "important," "academy award material," watercooler movie so they can rest assured that they've done their duty to remain with the times and "culturally literate."
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Follow Ups
- Mystic River is filed with The English Patient - Bulkington 09:45:58 03/15/05 (32)
- A very poor linkage: - tinear 14:08:22 03/15/05 (5)
- Doesn't seem so poor a linkage. - rhizomatic 12:55:52 03/16/05 (0)
- Re: A very poor linkage: - jamesgarvin 15:30:16 03/15/05 (2)
- Re: My take - rico 08:15:54 03/16/05 (0)
- Excellent points about Eastwood: who'd have thought after - tinear 16:56:57 03/15/05 (0)
- Oops, I KNEW it was Eastwood. nt - tinear 14:12:11 03/15/05 (0)
- Re: Mystic River is filed with The English Patient - jamesgarvin 10:25:23 03/15/05 (25)
- Why go to a baseball game when you could go to the art museum? - rhizomatic 13:05:15 03/16/05 (4)
- Re: Why go to a baseball game when you could go to the art museum? - jamesgarvin 14:17:40 03/16/05 (3)
- Har har har! - rhizomatic 14:26:20 03/16/05 (2)
- Re: Har har har! - jamesgarvin 15:58:57 03/16/05 (1)
- Actually - rhizomatic 17:20:01 03/16/05 (0)
- Huh? - Bulkington 12:08:07 03/15/05 (19)
- Re: Huh? - jamesgarvin 13:32:48 03/15/05 (18)
- Re: Huh? - Bulkington 13:40:09 03/16/05 (2)
- The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - rhizomatic 13:31:03 03/16/05 (13)
- Re: The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - jamesgarvin 15:55:18 03/16/05 (12)
- Don't you get it? Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon practically *stink* of high art... ;-) ... nt - clarkjohnsen 11:20:36 03/17/05 (4)
- Hung up on the term? - rhizomatic 11:35:22 03/17/05 (3)
- 'Scuse me, not my term. I repeated it in jest. Lighten up. And as I said elsewhere... - clarkjohnsen 11:42:12 03/17/05 (2)
- Did you like the book? - rhizomatic 11:49:55 03/17/05 (1)
- I thought it was supposed to be easier to make good movies out of bad books - Bulkington 12:24:15 03/17/05 (0)
- Well, no... - rhizomatic 17:34:57 03/16/05 (6)
- Re: Well, no... - jamesgarvin 09:26:56 03/17/05 (5)
- And let us not forget, it's scripted from a frikkin' BOOK by a frikkin' MYSTERY writer. How much higher can art go? nt - clarkjohnsen 11:24:18 03/17/05 (0)
- You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - rhizomatic 10:25:44 03/17/05 (3)
- Re: You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - jamesgarvin 13:09:47 03/17/05 (1)
- But I'm not judging Eastwood. - rhizomatic 13:54:02 03/17/05 (0)
- Oh, by 'supplementary baggage' here, - rhizomatic 10:27:05 03/17/05 (0)
- "The arbiter of what is middle-brow entertainment..." Haw! - clarkjohnsen 07:44:33 03/16/05 (0)