How to lose one’s credibility with a single sentence

Speaking about her studio’s remake of the excellent film adaptation of Let The Right One In, Donna Gigliotti had this to say to, I dunno, attempt to justify the creative bankruptcy of “Hammer Films”.

“We’re incredibly admiring of the original, but to be honest with you, that picture grossed $2 million. It’s not like we’re remaking Lawrence of Arabia.”

Jumping the shark doesn’t even come close to covering it, does it?

Thanks to Tom Seymour’s humorous and painfully insightful blog over at Little White Lies: http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/letting-the-right-one-in/

He’s right about Cloverfield as well, you know!

The succinct critic

“For the record, Taken is brilliant, the trailer makes it look shit, but it’s not, it’s brutal deluxe.”

I was gonna post up what I made of Taken but then I read this by my mate And and decided that his one-word dissection would outclass anything I typed.

Courtesy of the Movie Picture Quiz which can be found at http://society.miskie.net/index.php?showtopic=2752

What the fook is that prawn doing?

“District 9” does a lot of things right, including giving us aliens to remind us not everyone who comes in a spaceship need be angelic, octopod or stainless steel.”

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090812/REVIEWS/908129987

I think Mr. Ebert nailed what puts District 9 in the company of the very best science-fiction: the way that the very definition of “alien” soaks every scene of the film. The juxtaposition of the unknown with the very harsh, almost hyper, reality of its South African setting jars the mind the very first time it’s revealed. It forces the brain to form a connection where by any judging device there is none - no aesthetic, moral or historical similarity. It’s difficult, especially when the film’s peerless body-horror is introduced. And ramped up. Made more shocking as the film progresses despite the fact that what is suffering, gruesomely, is alien. We should have no empathy with it. Why does it shock?

He may not have been quite as enamoured with the rest of the film as I was, but I’m pleased we both saw what is, in my opinion, the crux of Neill Blomkamp’s vision. For a film-maker, drawing an emotional reaction of any sort when presenting such an unfamiliar concept is worthy of praise.

Really?

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Ronson w/ Tip is gonna be remembered as the sound of the summer of 2010 then. It’s dope for sure but it’s not the banger I thought would define the season. Shame.

Feedback Monsters

inb4 pointless social networking lol.

brb.