Four score and seven years ago...
March 16th 2008 10:11
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth the wonderful medium of film, films of the non-silent variety that is. It was soon after this that the internet was created and new a land was born, a digital and metaphorical land, yes, but "land" it is, and god-damned it if I ain’t gon’ get my share to raise up some crops and maybe talk about some of those motion pictures that they are playing down there at the movie house.
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Film, perhaps more than most artistic enterprises seems prone to atavistic tendencies with a near constant recycling of old ideas that should have been tossed out long ago. Remakes, for example, such a strange concept in so many ways and yet we are treated to such events on an increasingly regular basis and invited to share our money with those “in the know” (the fact that they didn’t know that most people could have done without a remake of “Get Carter” starring Sylvester Stallone seemed of little significance). There you go though, our opinion doesn’t really count for much but we can still give voice to it, can’t we? Can’t we? For the little it is worth, I intend to give anyone who can sit through it, mine.
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In this blog intend to discuss all of this and more, more on Sylvester Stallone’s ineptitude as an actor but greatness as a… well, a thing, really, and more on the good stuff, the crème de la crème [cream of the cream]. But for now I’ll leave it at that, there’s lots of places I could start but I’ll save it for the lean times… Indeed at the moment I’m still addled by the tripe that was “Vantage Point” which I just had the misfortune to sit through…. Next time Whittaker, next time…
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For now.
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Film, perhaps more than most artistic enterprises seems prone to atavistic tendencies with a near constant recycling of old ideas that should have been tossed out long ago. Remakes, for example, such a strange concept in so many ways and yet we are treated to such events on an increasingly regular basis and invited to share our money with those “in the know” (the fact that they didn’t know that most people could have done without a remake of “Get Carter” starring Sylvester Stallone seemed of little significance). There you go though, our opinion doesn’t really count for much but we can still give voice to it, can’t we? Can’t we? For the little it is worth, I intend to give anyone who can sit through it, mine.
In this blog intend to discuss all of this and more, more on Sylvester Stallone’s ineptitude as an actor but greatness as a… well, a thing, really, and more on the good stuff, the crème de la crème [cream of the cream]. But for now I’ll leave it at that, there’s lots of places I could start but I’ll save it for the lean times… Indeed at the moment I’m still addled by the tripe that was “Vantage Point” which I just had the misfortune to sit through…. Next time Whittaker, next time…
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For now.
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