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Started by Cain, February 28, 2009, 11:10:05 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Cainad (dec.)

Quote from: Nigel on March 12, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.

I do that for Twilight... :oops:

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cainad on March 13, 2009, 04:35:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 12, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.

I do that for Twilight... :oops:

Well, you only know the premise, though, right? So you can really only judge that the premise is crap.

Although from what people who HAVE seen the movie say, it is crap... but you really can't determine that just from a plot synopsis. Some movies with terrible premises are beautiful and amazing and great, and some with fantastically intriguing premises are fucking boiled-tripe awful.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


P3nT4gR4m

Good interview but he really does come across as a tunnel-visioned, crotchety old fuck at times.

So he doesn't see the art in movies. Therefore they suck. What about the actor's performances? The lighting, set design. Or the much hated CGI as a thing of beauty, art for art's sake. Compared to old fashioned shit like the mona lisa, even shit movies like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are more immersive and able to hold the attention longer. Problem with an intellectual high horse is you tend to get stuck up there in the saddle. Perhaps not everyone watches movies to get spoonfed a story, like you do with books and comics?

QuoteIf we are going to spend our money upon film, then let's start valuing the people that produce wonderful things with very little to go on. Let's stop being so childishly awed by what are essentially fireworks displays.

If you don't go "ooooooh" when a firework goes off then you're halfway to dead imo.

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Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 10, 2009, 07:58:40 PM
I'm well aware, and let me make it clear that I am not interested in reading fiction about peds, I simply believe in freedom of speech COMPLETELY.  And thats what it boils down to.  I am against kiddie porn and actual pedophilia because there are ACTUAL children involved.  In fiction, there isn't.  As distasteful as it is for me or someone else, nobody is actually harmed.

And don't respond with anything along the lines of "it gives the peds fuel for their sick craft", because I won't be responding to it.  Its bullshit. 
This is a bit of a cliched question, but I'm genuinely interested, not disagreeing with you; Do you have kids hoopla?
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hooplala

Quote from: Faust on March 13, 2009, 12:41:07 PM
Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 10, 2009, 07:58:40 PM
I'm well aware, and let me make it clear that I am not interested in reading fiction about peds, I simply believe in freedom of speech COMPLETELY.  And thats what it boils down to.  I am against kiddie porn and actual pedophilia because there are ACTUAL children involved.  In fiction, there isn't.  As distasteful as it is for me or someone else, nobody is actually harmed.

And don't respond with anything along the lines of "it gives the peds fuel for their sick craft", because I won't be responding to it.  Its bullshit. 
This is a bit of a cliched question, but I'm genuinely interested, not disagreeing with you; Do you have kids hoopla?

No I don't, but I do have a mother, a sister, and a wife, and still believe people have the right to write about rape and murder fantasies if they so choose.  Is my opinion now void?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Faust

Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 13, 2009, 01:23:41 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 13, 2009, 12:41:07 PM
Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 10, 2009, 07:58:40 PM
I'm well aware, and let me make it clear that I am not interested in reading fiction about peds, I simply believe in freedom of speech COMPLETELY.  And that's what it boils down to.  I am against kiddie porn and actual pedophilia because there are ACTUAL children involved.  In fiction, there isn't.  As distasteful as it is for me or someone else, nobody is actually harmed.

And don't respond with anything along the lines of "it gives the peds fuel for their sick craft", because I won't be responding to it.  Its bullshit. 
This is a bit of a cliched question, but I'm genuinely interested, not disagreeing with you; Do you have kids hoopla?

No I don't, but I do have a mother, a sister, and a wife, and still believe people have the right to write about rape and murder fantasies if they so choose.  Is my opinion now void?
Not at all, I've just noticed people with kids would rarely have that opinion.
Firstly:
I personally Love whatever horror, tragedy or debasement of humanity I can read. It reminds me why my life is good and why I should always do my best to make my life and others more enjoyable.
secondly As you said its fiction, nothing more then theory and hypothesis, I remember when I was reading naked lunch being horrified at the parts about the young boys being sexually abused then hung, but the strange humor about it and the whole book in general was unique, a way of thinking that I would not have expected.
If what was described in those scenes was real it would be monstrous, intolerable. Instead because its fiction it was an exploration of suffering that A lot could be learned from.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

hooplala

"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Cainad (dec.)

Quote from: Nigel on March 13, 2009, 05:29:45 AM
Quote from: Cainad on March 13, 2009, 04:35:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 12, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.

I do that for Twilight... :oops:

Well, you only know the premise, though, right? So you can really only judge that the premise is crap.

Although from what people who HAVE seen the movie say, it is crap... but you really can't determine that just from a plot synopsis. Some movies with terrible premises are beautiful and amazing and great, and some with fantastically intriguing premises are fucking boiled-tripe awful.

Fair enough; I judge based on the premise and on what other people have told me.

Also, there's the minor issue of my fundamental opposition to the idea of vampires that don't die in sunlight.

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 13, 2009, 11:13:44 AM
Good interview but he really does come across as a tunnel-visioned, crotchety old fuck at times.

So he doesn't see the art in movies. Therefore they suck. What about the actor's performances? The lighting, set design. Or the much hated CGI as a thing of beauty, art for art's sake. Compared to old fashioned shit like the mona lisa, even shit movies like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are more immersive and able to hold the attention longer. Problem with an intellectual high horse is you tend to get stuck up there in the saddle. Perhaps not everyone watches movies to get spoonfed a story, like you do with books and comics?

QuoteIf we are going to spend our money upon film, then let's start valuing the people that produce wonderful things with very little to go on. Let's stop being so childishly awed by what are essentially fireworks displays.

If you don't go "ooooooh" when a firework goes off then you're halfway to dead imo.

Pet hate - intellectual/cultural snobbery

I'd take a blowjob from a cheap hooker over a 1933 Armagnac any day.

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hooplala

Quote from: Cainad on March 13, 2009, 02:57:19 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 13, 2009, 05:29:45 AM
Quote from: Cainad on March 13, 2009, 04:35:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 12, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.

I do that for Twilight... :oops:

Well, you only know the premise, though, right? So you can really only judge that the premise is crap.

Although from what people who HAVE seen the movie say, it is crap... but you really can't determine that just from a plot synopsis. Some movies with terrible premises are beautiful and amazing and great, and some with fantastically intriguing premises are fucking boiled-tripe awful.

Fair enough; I judge based on the premise and on what other people have told me.

Also, there's the minor issue of my fundamental opposition to the idea of vampires that don't die in sunlight.

That only started in the 20s with the movie "Nosferatu"... even Dracula could go out in the daylight.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Cainad (dec.)

Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 13, 2009, 03:23:17 PM
That only started in the 20s with the movie "Nosferatu"... even Dracula could go out in the daylight.

Well then, I guess I will have to go back in time and killabitch.

Cainad,
Actually doesn't give a crap about vampires in any way, shape, or form

Tempest Virago

Quote from: Nigel on March 12, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Tempest Virago on March 12, 2009, 06:41:01 PM
I don't think it's morally wrong, or that it should be banned, or that people shouldn't read it. I just have no personal interest in reading it, and think it was done mostly for the sake of being edgy.

Wait, if you have no  interest in it and haven't read it, how did you form an opinion on its artistic merit? That's like saying a movie you haven't seen is crap, based solely on the premise.

Sorry, I misspoke, I have read it. I just wouldn't choose to read it again.

And Hoopla has some reasonable points, but I still don't like it.

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 13, 2009, 11:13:44 AM
QuoteIf we are going to spend our money upon film, then let's start valuing the people that produce wonderful things with very little to go on. Let's stop being so childishly awed by what are essentially fireworks displays.

If you don't go "ooooooh" when a firework goes off then you're halfway to dead imo.

Pet hate - intellectual/cultural snobbery

I'd take a blowjob from a cheap hooker over a 1933 Armagnac any day.

There's no justification for conflating "loud" and "stupid" (and, for that matter, "bad").  (This is me agreeing)

How much production values should we put into making a fireworks display, though?  One that can't even set things afire?  A film of a fireworks display isn't the same: you're not dropping live, hot, colorful fire and impossible percussion into the real sky.

Ghoura Agur

Quote from: Faust on March 05, 2009, 05:24:02 PM
cgi on its own looks awful.
cgi used over a template or to touch up an existing object works well. cgi on its own doesn't feel tangible. gollum is the closest that they have come to real feeling, and he's still not perfect, he has that polished glow that artists are over eager to add to their work when making cgi.


Further, what will become of pyrotechnics, now that all the explosions are done with computers?  And what of extras?  Do you remember the massive casts of the old epic movies like Alexander, where hundreds of men  with all the panalopy of war marched across the fields?  No more, no more, you need perhaps five men, and a few costumes and props, and can then mix, match, copy and paste them across the screen so you can have thousands.


My thought:  Such cheap tricks should only be used by the underdogs, the independants.  The fellows without huge casts and productions studios and billion dollar budgets.  The rich folks can hire a gazillion extras.  We've got the system all upside down and backwards.  Technology, really.  Instead of making work easier on people, it lets bosses pile more work on them.  So they're even more  :x .