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Ah, if emotions are just stuff for Sunday school and technique is fundamental, why don't you just watch a washing machine spin? It's quicker, no "Sunday school" emotions, just pure technique. Just see what rating Mereghetti gives to the spin cycle.

Technique is essential <<<< as Yngwie Malmsteen's fans say, after all. And just as it's nonsense for music, it's the same for cinema—no difference. Anyway, technique must serve the film and what you want to achieve.

above: "technique is everything," not "all." Technique is technique; it serves to make films, but it’s a detail.

"the desire for gullibility and thrills from a gullible audience, who stoically endured interminable dialogues and grainy images, shot in a amateurish way" a ridiculous review (and I have nothing against Mereghetti, eh), because it comes from a perspective where technique is everything. If we apply this to music, Dream Theater are the greatest band in the world. A dull review because it overlooks the fact that those grainy images are intentionally grainy and not technically pristine to achieve that effect of realism that was deliberately sought (it would have been nonsense to do something crystal clear, given the intents and the use of the subjective camera, but this is evidently something Mereghetti didn’t grasp), and this creates quite a bit of tension, as the world of horror enthusiasts has noticed. A review that misses the mark because it considers it crude, when for example as Iside said, it’s one of the very first times in horror that the subtlety of building tension is used precisely by showing nothing, but even this has escaped Mereghetti. Then the number of ideas: films are not judged by the number of ideas, and anyway looking at them this way, a lot of classics that you idolize (rightly so) don’t come close to having half.

And now is "The Blair Witch Project" a masterpiece? A film hyped by the media on every level<<< enough Polè, you didn’t get a thing about Blair Witch, you think it’s bad just because everyone has seen it and it’s not from the '20s. Go back to watching that masterpiece of a Simpsons movie.

excuse me

I don't know the album, but I wanted to get it because I'm familiar with his version of "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair," and it's remarkable. Bella Spacca, another great recommendation.

I would cut these bullshitters down without mercy.

very personal vote: 2 (or 6 in decimals)

I didn’t like this film. It’s been a while since I saw it, so I remember little, but it struck me as very flashy and schematic, all these very bad and very dry young people in the same way, directing with quite gratuitous camera virtuosity (although I do remember the bathtub scene as powerful). Yet for many, it should be one of the best films of the decade. Who knows. About American Psycho: I would also save the scene where the guy talks about Genesis, I don’t know if it’s from the book, but it’s memorable.