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Dan Fogelberg Home Free
Dan Fogelberg Home Free
21 sep 13
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For €18.90, I'll give you a proper mix. Stuff on the level of Tim Hard In. Think about it. By the way, I've changed a lot since the last time we saw each other. Now I'm curly and I spakko.
George Lucas Star Wars: Episodio I - La Minaccia Fantasma
George Lucas Star Wars: Episodio I - La Minaccia Fantasma
16 sep 13
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For reasons I don’t quite understand myself, this week I found myself watching (for the first time) the new trilogy, and of course, it annoyed me to no end. The old trilogy was filmed poorly, with some pretty terrible actors, and a cartload of plot holes and incomprehensible passages (the aforementioned bathrobe scene). But it had the "magic." It was the representation of an entire type of "science fiction": not the kind that's so much "science" and relatively little "fiction," sickly, postmodern, and problematic like Blade Runner, but the kind that's very much "fiction" and little "science," filled with a thousand races speaking a thousand languages and a thousand traditions, planets and cities to visit, hyperspace travel, and battles on interstellar fighters. But above all, there were the good guys and there were the bad guys. Better yet, there was THE BAD GUY. What this trilogy really lacks is the presence of a nemesis, a true threat, a villain as relentless as he is fascinating like Darth Vader: in the first one, Darth Maul is barely seen, in the second one practically nothing happens for two hours and the villains are silly little robots, in the third one finally there are some real fights and indeed it’s the best of the three. There's no denying it: the moment Portman said, "But I'm not showing the pears," the only way to make this trilogy a masterpiece was to invent a character like "Dath Satanasso" with two huge laser members who spread terror across the galaxy while going door-to-door with gas readings...
Paul Hyett The Seasoning House
Paul Hyett The Seasoning House
15 sep 13
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I had read about it in enthusiastic tones on i400calci (a site that I imagine you know), but I haven't seen it yet. The "genre" R&R doesn't really excite me. In this case, though, the film has a framework and a setting that have always disturbed me quite a bit. It's fine to inflict some pain on oneself, but actively seeking it out, maybe not. That said, I would like to break a lance in favor of the reboot of I Spit on Your Grave: let's say that the original was a pretty terrible film (I understand the shock at the time, and I might even grasp its "historical" significance, but viewed today, it's mostly just a pretty terrible film). The 2.0 version doesn’t move the needle much lower, and at least it has a couple of entertaining deaths. As for the review, for once, I'll allow myself a free pass: as usual, you take too long to get to the point, but you deserve credit for always reviewing interesting stuff with a knowledgeable perspective. Well done.
Action Beat The Condition
Action Beat The Condition
12 sep 13
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Nice page. Really. I'll give it a listen on the tube later. Well done.
Danny Boyle Trance
Danny Boyle Trance
4 sep 13
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Well, I increasingly have the feeling that the worst stroke of bad luck that could have happened to Boyle was winning the Oscar. He’s a technically skilled and quite versatile director, with a huge problem in managing "second halves" (practically all his films have a wonderful first part and a second half that falls apart), yet somehow he always manages to piss everyone off. First, he churns out a manifesto film of a decade (Trainspotting), and a couple of films later, he gambles away all his "own" audience by choosing as the protagonist someone who, at the time, to anyone with even a hint of a stick up their ass, was just "the blond guy from Titanic" (let alone the fact that the script for The Beach was something that warranted a thumb amputation for its manifest undesirability). Then he gives us "28 Days Later," which everyone raves about the first 20 minutes, and then he makes "Slumdog Millionaire," which maybe didn't deserve the Oscar, and perhaps I would have made it 40 minutes shorter, but it didn't strike me as the monstrosity that people talk about. My feeling is that many have mentally categorized Boyle as an "underground" director, one of those alternative filmmakers that sounds cool to mention when trying to impress someone, yet he makes films that even on this page have been called "commercial crap." In this sense, the Oscar win was a sort of "reverse consecration," in that it became a gravestone on the relationship between Boyle and a certain type of audience.
James Wan L'evocazione - The conjuring
James Wan L'evocazione - The conjuring
27 aug 13
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And just think that I just wanted to know if you come out of the cinema with polka-dot panties...
Palmer Generator (e)motionless
Palmer Generator (e)motionless
12 aug 13
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As promised, I listened to it on Bandcamp. There are certainly some good ideas, but - in my opinion - the whole thing is compromised by a production that is absolutely below par. The distorted guitar really overshadows the other instruments too much (at some points, it's even difficult to hear the snare drum), and, in general, I didn't like the sounds. The drummer - from what I understood - must be quite young, which perhaps explains some solutions that aren't always effective: in some passages, it seemed to me that a few more "daring" arrangements were needed, but the drumming remained a bit too linear. Nonetheless, the proposal is still interesting: let's just hope that with the next release they smooth out the edges...
Palmer Generator (e)motionless
Palmer Generator (e)motionless
11 aug 13
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I had been meaning to comment for a while, but it completely slipped my mind in the end. Good review and recommendation that seems really interesting. I’ll give it a listen: I’ll check back...
Christopher Smith Black Death
Christopher Smith Black Death
11 aug 13
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I had noted this movie down to watch but I can't remember why anymore... Maybe because I liked Severance, I truly don't remember. Good page as usual.
Andrew Niccol In Time
Andrew Niccol In Time
9 aug 13
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Got it! I completely agree with the review. The opening is quite cool and, for about half an hour, it definitely holds up well, despite Timberlake being so out of shape that it makes you long for any amateur porn actor. At a certain point, however, everything takes a downward slope that at first is not too bothersome, but by the last fifteen minutes it transforms into a steep cliff. The entire final part is stupid, nonsensical, unnecessarily moralistic, and filled with so many holes and contradictions that it makes you think of a script revision imposed from above. Such a shame.
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