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Niccolò Ammaniti Come Dio Comanda
Niccolò Ammaniti Come Dio Comanda
23 dec 08
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I’m sorry Lost, but I disagree. With your comment, you have effectively downplayed the fundamental role that Claudio Lippi played until a few years ago: an excellent "working-class presenter," too often reduced to a caricature in the Costanziano circus, who, while not being able to aspire to the heights of excellence that Corrado had accustomed us to, has always been the symbol of a "clean" and not shouting television, giving us some great editions of "Il Pranzo." Bye Claudio... but did you really hook up with Ravegnini?!?
Niccolò Ammaniti Come Dio Comanda
Niccolò Ammaniti Come Dio Comanda
23 dec 08
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The review seemed a bit superficial to me: I don’t think the author intended to portray Rino and Cristiano as “victims of modern society.” I found QuattroFormaggi to be a good narrative invention: if the reader doesn’t grasp its nature until the end of the book, I'd say the author’s goal can be considered achieved. To me, this book didn’t seem fragmented at all, nor, much less, confusing. It’s not my favorite by this author, but it remains a good book. I like how Ammaniti manages to sketch characters that are always “almost borderline,” with one foot in society and the other in the muck. I appreciate the ruthless way he toys with them, giving them the illusion of a little hope, only to condemn them in the end (a bit like what happened to the characters in Ti prendo e ti porto via). I don’t know if it deserved the Premio Strega. For sure, I preferred it to La solitudine etc etc etc.
Slayer Reign In Blood
Slayer Reign In Blood
22 dec 08
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@gnagnera: either an album is overrated or it's a paradigm. One thing excludes the other. Reign In Blood is a paradigm simply because it taught at least a couple of generations of extreme musicians how to sin. So I feel like saying "overrated my ass." Here, tastes matter up to a certain point, then "historical and cultural" factors come into play. Let me give you a somewhat "blasphemous" example: I hate classical music, it gives me a headache. I've always been ashamed of this, but I can't help it. I can tolerate a few requiem masses and Bach. The rest guarantees a migraine. If someone talks to me about Mozart, I can't say "meh! it's overrated for me!" and then hide behind de gustibus. Because I've said something stupid anyway. Because it means consciously ignoring the contribution that the artist has made to music. The same argument applies (with the necessary proportions, mind you!) to those ignorant greats like Araya & Co. and to this album in particular. Sure, you can say you don't like it, but you can't come tell me that "a few more interesting ideas wouldn't hurt," because those aren't tastes anymore. Those are nonsense.
Slayer Reign In Blood
Slayer Reign In Blood
22 dec 08
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Jesus Lord, no!! Icnarf, I respect you and all that, but you can't bring the 4 boars into the conversation about anger. And, above all, you shouldn't talk to me about lyrics and themes, because even the 4 idiots of the apocalypse dished out their nonsense to us. Everyone remembers how beautiful the lyrics of "One" are, and they forget when they sang along to "War without end." Everyone emphasizes how deep "Master Of Puppets" is, and magically the good times of "We are gonna kick some ass tonight, We got the metal madness" disappear. Maybe everyone perceives things in their own way, but I really see very little anger in "Kill 'em All." "Hit The Lights" talks about how great it is to rock out while your fans mosh under the stage. "Whiplash" is pretty much the same. "Seek & Destroy" is so long that if I sing it all before "Seek," I won’t "Destroy" a damn thing. Even Hetfield hasn’t figured out the meaning of "Motorbreath" yet. I'm not saying Hanneman is the greatest poet of metal, but I hope you'll agree that when Araya screams, "Do you want to die?" in "Postmortem," it has a certain effect, right? ;))
Slayer Reign In Blood
Slayer Reign In Blood
21 dec 08
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mmm... you could have said those things in a comment that wouldn’t have provoked my wrath just days before Christmas, instead of burdening us with yet another duplicate where you let the world know why you don't like this record. Apparently, it never even crossed your mind that repetitiveness and brevity are actually two sides of the same coin: this album lasts 29 minutes because it captures the essence of a genre. Period. It’s like those hyper-concentrated juices to which you need to add water: 10 liters for every microgram. Here, it’s the same thing: take any other thrash album, strip away arpeggios, melody, acoustic guitars, catchiness, lyrics like "life it seems will fade away" (basically everything that isn’t thrash and everything that isn’t extreme), and what you’re left with is Reign In Blood. You’d get a "2" for nailing the adjective "hammering": think about it, in English it's roughly "Thrashing". The funniest part, though, is that "it could use some more interesting ideas"... Find me another thrash album that, 22 years after its release, still sounds this violent and uncompromising, and I'll pay you a blowjob. Find me more than 10 thrash albums made after 1986 that haven’t been influenced in some way by Reign In Blood, and I’ll let a woman take care of it for you. Find me any metalhead who isn’t willing to bow down and thank Satan in front of the guitar assault of Raining Blood or the double kick of Angel Of Death, and that woman will be under 50. Angel Of Death, Raining Blood, and Postmortem, alone, say everything that needs to be said about an entire music genre... but no! For you, it would need "some more interesting ideas"! At this rate, in a few years you'll be listening to hip hop, reviewing "Fragile," and calling it "Good, but maybe a bit too self-satisfied...".
CCCP - Fedeli alla linea Canzoni, preghiere, danze del II Millennio
CCCP - Fedeli alla linea Canzoni, preghiere, danze del II Millennio
21 dec 08
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@xyz: <<And even if they really thought that, it wouldn't have changed a damn thing>> I’m not sure I understood exactly what you meant, but if you were suggesting that the ideology embraced by a group doesn’t influence the approach or the opinion of those listening, I think you might be mistaken. Go take a look at the reviews of mementomori and see what kind of messes came out. Every time, the poor reviewer had to spend more time dispelling doubts about a supposed adherence to Nazism than talking about music...
Marco Castelli Stato Brado
Marco Castelli Stato Brado
20 dec 08
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Very nice review, with a "colloquial" style that I particularly liked. Really well done.
Jason Reitman Juno
Jason Reitman Juno
19 dec 08
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A superficial review that only scratches the surface of the film. You didn't mention anything about the soundtrack (which was a music phenomenon in America), you didn't say anything about Page's performance, and you used the wrong terms: this film does everything but "upset" the viewer. In fact, one of the flaws of this film is the almost unreal excess of "sugar" that permeates the story. Just think about the relationship the protagonist has with her parents (who are obviously remarried), or the fact that Juno never even questions whether to keep the baby from the very beginning. The strength of this film lies precisely in making a character who seems to have stepped out of a Lemonheads song or something similar "believable" (note the quotation marks). And what the hell does it mean that "Juno is the American fighter of the twenty-first century"?!?!
Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now
19 dec 08
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"They all seem to have escaped from a madhouse": the fact is that, probably, that was precisely the intent. If that’s the feeling you had, I would say the film fully achieved its purpose (which, just to be clear, was not to provide an accurate reconstruction of a historical event). Viewed this way, the much-lauded Valkyries sequence takes a back seat: if I want a bit of chaos, I turn off my brain and watch that piece of crap Pearl Harbour (but maybe not..). Here, I want the snails crawling on the blade of a razor.. and surviving.
Jimi Hendrix Blues
Jimi Hendrix Blues
19 dec 08
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The first review I've read in about a week or so: splendid. Sincere compliments. But why don't you start writing deep dives non-stop?! It would be awesome to read a kind of "enC'E'clopedia" of the electric guitar! :)
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