Contemplazione

Poletti, your failure to argue is shit... especially coming from you, who always goes on about how objections need to be argued! I didn’t argue about Depp because it didn’t seem necessary; I believe it’s clear to all the sighted that he has a completely bland face, incapable of communicating anything deep with his gaze and/or expressions. A kid (now a "little man") of little substance and without personality, who despite having participated (sometimes) in good films, but even more often in cheap flicks, has never shone in terms of acting. In short, he’s a boiled fish incapable of acting, and his monotonous and stereotypical expressions like a sulky brat don’t convince at all! Do they convince you? Does it seem to you that he holds the scene? Does the air vibrate when he talks? Is he an ARTIST?? If the answer to even one of these questions is "yes," then I don’t understand what you’re babbling about when you say you love great Cinema. Regards, and be careful...not to say stupid things, I mean!

So, given that Johnny Depp is a mediocre actor, given that bizarre, wacky, clownish, and alternative or dark remakes have really gotten on my nerves, given that the film “homaged” from what I remember was half a piece of crap, well, I have no doubt at all, UXO is right to speak this way about this MOLESTING PIECE OF SHIT (you had me in stitches...you peaked with: "the grandparents (also a bit of assholes)" ;-))) ). 1.5 out of trust!

Poor Anatas, you massacred him... he didn't mean to harm anyone, and it seems he loves the movie! 3 for encouragement, and take notes from the critiques ;-) Great film, 4.5.

I had written a nice post where I said that you are a great "Qualcunologo," and I was going on about other nonsense that involved me, but alas, I'm clumsy and it got deleted. It was pretty long, damn it!! I can't bring myself to try to rewrite it, I'm heartbroken, forgive me ;-)

In fact, as a line-up, it's more jazz than fusion, and besides Joe Lovano, Marc Johnson has very little to do with fusion... it doesn't matter much, given the quality of the musicians it must be quite a nice album, even though I'm not a big fan of synths (actually, I roughly hate them). Emanuele, being good instrumentalists does not mean being good musicians! The names you mentioned really belong to the "blacklist" (Metheny aside, and Chick Corea BEFORE the electric band aside). And on that list goes John McLaughlin AFTER his first records with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dave Weckl in his entirety (on whose records Gambale often appears), etc. etc.

Good!

In the history of Cinema, there is a true masterpiece about Berlusconism, dating back to 1941. Another film, "Un Re a New York" by Charlie Chaplin, from '57, contains a beautiful monologue by a child (Chaplin's son) about the excess of power, the root of many societal evils. This one by Moretti comes in at number 3. As for Silvio Orlando, I just can't seem to digest him... and the comparison to Kubrick and Fellini seems like an exaggeration to me! Good review anyway!

The compositional masterpiece by Joe Satriani: "Down Down Down" from the self-titled album!

Now I’m getting angry...the introduction is simply delirious! The most delicious nonsense is the one about the post-romantics of the early nineteenth century (so maybe romanticism is from the second half of the eighteenth century? or the first half even? enlighten us!), on which, for you, ALL (but what do you mean by all??) music rests. And romanticism (excuse me, post-romanticism) what does it rest upon? It created itself, through spontaneous generation I suppose...and Bach, poor thing, was he pre or post-romantic? What’s he doing, is he saved? Maybe so, I’ve heard he served in the '30s (of the 1900s, right?). Comparing Zorn to Davis and Coltrane is not only inappropriate and pretentious, but it also makes no sense since you’re not speaking of musicians united by a high musical stature (and let me tell you, Zorn gives those two a run for their money in terms of musical stature, with all due respect - how could you, paloz?), but of “composers”!! An inadequate definition for the two great jazz musicians. For Christ’s sake, Miles Davis isn’t remembered as a composer, nor was it his main activity...the same goes for Coltrane. Nonetheless, their artistic and historical importance is BY FAR superior! The only sensible comparison is with Zappa, but even in this case, the very good Zorn has to put in a lot of work. That said, I really liked the rest of the review, which averages out to 3. Oh, don’t take offense, okay? It happens to everyone to write a bunch of crap every now and then ;-)

The beginning of a speech often serves as a premise, a corollary used to support a subsequent thesis, but if the premise is too simplistic, it's natural for the nitpickers to point it out ;-) Anyway, some music used in films can transcend the movie itself and have its own dignity and enjoyment, think of Morricone's scores for example. And this obviously applies to classical music as well, and more generally to music not composed just for the occasion. Jack Nietzsche's music, on the other hand, while beautiful, doesn't lend itself that well to being listened to independently of the original film (for me).