Oscar

[unclenikolai]

I'm a little tired from it being late and having walked around SF and the Fruitvale BART station, but I'll try to keep this tight

Comments

[dot_codotzid_a]

Once more, I couldn't agree more. To paraphrase Curtis White, American culture has learned to satisfy the American public, giving it what it wants and nothing more. Culture is about what is entertaining, and the only words in our popular vocabulary for criticizing film today is "entertaining" and "not entertaining." Criticism itself, reduced to sound bites and short phrases in the back section of a newspaper are given an exclusively monetarial value: all they are supposed to tell one is if the film is worth coughing over eight bucks for or not. Shame on us. Film should challenge, push the boundaries, and refute and all costs the possibility of reducing itself to cliché and trite rehashed plots, overloading stories with overpaid actors and CG. Fuck CG. Fuck hackneyed slip-in's about civil rights and overcoming obstacles, and all that shit. Fuck Project Greenlight and Paris Hilton's ass as she shows up at Sundance for disgracing independent film and making it fodder for the industry to suck in for itself like Karl Rove on an undecided

[ndmonroey]

It's almost as if we're talking about an industry built with the express purpose of entertaining the public.

[dot_codotzid_a]

fuckin christ nathan, that's not the point. the fact that film has been industrialized in the first place is a damn shame. Just because its there doesn't make me feel the slightest affection for its doings, or its purpose.

[kerala_jane]

oh my shit nathan... really? an industry just for that?! thats CRAZY