tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post3412785614235049348..comments2024-02-13T09:30:10.575+00:00Comments on William Bennett: FILLMORE DISCOS 57William Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00072523416863877409noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-43049049834239611702010-12-13T01:31:25.924+00:002010-12-13T01:31:25.924+00:00@Horsedick
Indeed, that's exactly how I took ...@Horsedick<br /><br />Indeed, that's exactly how I took it. I await the day that Noe collaborates with a gifted scriptwriter. I think he has an excellent eye for arresting visuals and seems to always have a good body of collaborators on the art direction and cinematography end. His scripts, however, are almost all rather insipid and would fall flat on their faces without the breathtaking production aspects that, for me, augment the more powerful aspects of them. That's why I find it more helpful to look at his films not from the standards of normal narrative film, but as delirious city symphonies whose plots serve more as an emotional backbone to the images rather than the other way around. Perhaps I'm grasping at straws and Noe truly is a hack, but I've still enjoyed every one of his feature lengths I've seen, and always more for the form rather than the substance.CernunnosTrismegistushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07730147756039984670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-36161347541703873062010-12-11T16:49:27.142+00:002010-12-11T16:49:27.142+00:00I agree with you on Easy A, it was really silly an...I agree with you on Easy A, it was really silly and i didn't enjoy it at all.<br />I enjoyed Enter the Void though, to me it was more like the plot was a vehicle for the visuals. The innocence and brilliance of youthful perception. A love letter to our world and what is in it.Horsedickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14926172838182804512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-19571710073518560432010-12-04T15:45:42.487+00:002010-12-04T15:45:42.487+00:00Kai:
lol, I know that feeling, the attraction of t...Kai:<br />lol, I know that feeling, the attraction of the polarity response<br /><br />CT:<br />ETV is pure religion, admittedly half-baked, so I don't buy GN's avowed disclaimer one little bit - to me, the real moral is that the only drugs films worth watching are ones about Colombian narcotraficantesWilliam Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00072523416863877409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-14536888447437642722010-12-04T00:49:42.480+00:002010-12-04T00:49:42.480+00:00Noe has said that he doesn't have any religiou...Noe has said that he doesn't have any religious beliefs and sees Enter the Void as being about about a guy who is tripping as he's dying, not actually being reborn. Aside from that, I'm not sure what was moralistic about the ending. For sure, it's an exercise in style over substance, but I found it exhilarating and fun to watch, but then again, I'm a sucker for films with delirious urban night cinematography, which is probably the main reason I like Irreversible too. Both films would be pretty pointless it it weren't for the incredible cinematography.CernunnosTrismegistushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07730147756039984670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-35748692083158938532010-11-30T10:15:09.817+00:002010-11-30T10:15:09.817+00:00Re: Enter The Void, sometimes your one-star review...Re: Enter The Void, sometimes your one-star reviews make me want to check out the respective movie a lot more than a four-star review would. Don't know why. ;-)Kaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08302431366130135803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-37478556977769200612010-11-28T14:07:38.137+00:002010-11-28T14:07:38.137+00:00Maybe I was just in the right mood for it, but I e...Maybe I was just in the right mood for it, but I enjoyed Enter the Void and I admire Gaspar NoƩ for even attempting a mad religious epic like this. Did any of you haters see it at the cinema? It would lose a lot on a smaller screen._Black_Acrylichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01137482556870612454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-47265545572331555202010-11-27T19:25:28.138+00:002010-11-27T19:25:28.138+00:00I do relish yr review Mr. Bennett, but yr scoring ...I do relish yr review Mr. Bennett, but yr scoring is spurious to the hilt.hOUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807834378887708538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-88579174603293968702010-11-27T14:02:47.626+00:002010-11-27T14:02:47.626+00:00Well said on Enter The Void - I resent the time wa...Well said on Enter The Void - I resent the time wasted watching it.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15594102513790109723noreply@blogger.com