June 2012
13 posts
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After Catholicism
In the days of Catholicism there was puke running down the back of my pew. The fat girl in class who the girls didn’t make fun of was overcome by the incense and the heat. We were sitting 40 hours devotion. This is when the Monstrance that holds the Body of Christ is on display in the church for 40 hours. As a Catholic school student, it was your responsibility during the Theology...
How Does the Film Industry Actually Make Money? →
I find the idea of the death of the film industry oddly comforting. This may be due to the fact that it’s hard to break into and also that we seem to have taken the movies for granted. Add the fact that Mad Men and Breaking Bad exist and I can foresee a future in which Made for TV Movies are the only things that resemble movies, a short form idea only 90 minutes as opposed to the regular...
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Empty Spectacle is Where We Find Ourselves
Blockbusters. Big Budget. No Holds Barred. Empty spectacle is where we would find ourselves if we bothered to stop and look around the media landscape. The phrase less is more has become a sick joke.[[MORE]]
How it works: pump money into a thing and the thing takes on a life of its own. Advertisers are the modern Dr. Frankensteins. Where there was once a bloated corpse, or rather a three...
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Why Make Movies?
We put too great a premium on childhood. Nostalgia is a killer and we are awash in it in the modern media landscape. It is impossible to know if this is only a recent phenomena or something that adults throughout history experience when they reach a certain age.[[MORE]]
Let me let you in on a little secret: we are not ready. My generation is comprised of entitled brats and illiterates, trend...
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The Consensus is Killing Us
America I beseech you. We are at a critical time of foregoing life as lived for life as planned. We cannot blame the Internet for this but we can certainly see its effects because of it.[[MORE]]
Here’s my theory: we make up a generation of people no longer separated by generations. We no longer can wonder what the young are up to, we only need to consult Facebook for that. And while...
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The B-Movie Genius: Larry Cohen
If you’ve had the experience of walking through a video store, Congratulations! You are an adult. Hopefully, despite your many years, you can recall the sensation of being surrounded by movies, ensconced in the possibility of exciting adventures, alien worlds, horrors beyond imagining and side-splitting comedy. Unfortunately these institutions are, for the most part, no more and children...
thou-art-that asked: Top 10 movies you recommend that normal people have heard of. Also, top 10 that we haven't heard of but should.
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Adam Quigley's Prometheus Review is Fucked
From the review which, as previously stated, is fucked:[[MORE]]
Prometheus may seem like more sophisticated fare, with a promise of greater significance deeply entrenched in the oft-mentioned subject matter (i.e., uncovering the origin of human life), but the movie utterly fails at tying its ideas and its monstrous happenings together. Despite feigning interest in probing life’s most pertinent...
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Sunday Afternoon Horrorshow
Once upon a time, Sunday was Television’s dumping ground. If you were an indoor kid this made Sunday even more of a vile day between the countdown to school and an hour of Church. To this day the smell of incense takes me right back to the early 90’s and a palpable sensation of drowning in air. Drowning in air is a prolonged sensation of incomprehensible boredom, as opposed to...
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How Batman is like Frankenstein('s Monster)
James Whale. What a guy! Along with Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein he…[[MORE]]
Actually I’m not sure what else he did. He was a respected theater director, he’s been played on screen by Ian McKellan and one of the last films he made with all his powers in check, The Road Back, was butchered by the studio because it was, apparently, a humane war picture. I would very...
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On Eating Faces and Empathy
What the fuck is wrong with you people? [[MORE]]
This question has been posited more times than the Earth has revolved around the Sun and still no answer is in sight. The question is also usually asked from the highest of horses rocketed along by righteous indignation and cruel unyielding judgment.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
There is danger on both sides of the question. The...
