Comments on: NPF: MOUSETRAP

By: Kylee Tanner

Kylee Tanner — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:03:34 +0000

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By: tones

tones — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:15:41 +0000

If you are only seeing Meryl Streep movies , that is more likely related the the fact you are not single…

Single guys do not have to see those types of movies, especially not under protest /duress.

By: Crazy for Urban Planning

Crazy for Urban Planning — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:15:38 +0000

You say that video was created in two months? Why can't I find those people to do nothing but drink beer and screw around for 2 months?

By: Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:50:32 +0000

shane–The Shield. Damages. The Office. Even House, still.

Every time I start to bitch to myself about how formulaic and ignorable movies are, I have to remind myself I'm thinking of Hollywood studio product, which is indeed developed by children desperate to keep their jobs, who have never seen (e.g.) The Third Man, and want to minimize all possible risk.

But the indie producers generate a zillion cheaper, risk-taking projects. The majority of everything, in whatever form, in whatever "golden age," is junk, but so what?

Maybe the problem is one of publicity. Most of the movies I know about are widely-advertised with big budgets, and widely reviewed (to the extent that there still IS wide reviewing in the dwindling professional writer media). And I never go. But if I cared, I know there are dozens of indie films to hunt down.

And, of course, the older you get, the more you've seen, which renders each new interation of a standard story, character, line of dialogue, etc., more and more familiar, ending in cliche.

By: beau

beau — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:36:26 +0000

ed – Moon, with Sam Rockwell. Has a bit of a samesamebutdifferent thing going on with both 2001 & Solaris, but it's good.

shane – Deadwood. The Wire. Weeds.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:59:22 +0000

I also found this one cute and enjoyable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY

Then again, I love marching bands, silly costumes, and OKGO.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:54:11 +0000

I think that the older you become, more and more pop culture you’ve consumed gets filtered through nostalgia. It’s easy to remember the cream of the crop and the all-time epic bad stuff that becomes the butt of jokes, but it’s impossible to remember the kind-of-bad/almost-palatable/okay stuff at all, so when you compare new stuff with something similar from the past, your expectations are inflated because you’re comparing ‘unfiltered’ stuff to a ‘purer’ stock.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:13:56 +0000

In the vein of this discussion, I offer this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0

In some ways, following the wank surrounding certain Big Things (poor movie reviews, et cetera) is actually at least as entertaining as following the Big Things themselves.

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:34:53 +0000

I'm really in over my head here, because of being old and not getting out enough, but I kind of love certain sorts of stories, and I don't mind the thematic repetition. On HBO, I'm fascinated by Big Love. It reminds me so much of The Godfather. Dexter can get thrown in there, too. In each story, you have a group – a family, or in Dexter's case, himself – that's profoundly different from the society around them. They're simultaneously insular and yet longing to break through. Their arrogance is ridiculous and yet weirdly touching, because most of us get it that we can't have it all. But they keep trying to have it all, to live in both worlds. It's a subduction zone, convergent boundaries, and you know wackiness will ensue.

Speaking of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there's an element of subduction there, too, because Buffy got dislodged from the normal Slayer system, then suddenly she's the Slayer, and nobody's ready for it. She's not, the Council's not, and the centuries-old pattern is smashed.

(I have a huge Whedon bias, too.) Look at Firefly. Old, old story. Nothing new there, except everything, and a backstory that's never fully explained but is rendered so vividly that you can think about it for a long time.

Also, that Canon in the key of J is amazing and weird, and thanks for the link.