tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post116034326249167150..comments2024-02-23T05:17:08.682-05:00Comments on The Film Freak Central Blog: The TrenchBill Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161623321751835312006-10-23T13:08:00.000-04:002006-10-23T13:08:00.000-04:00Well, of course if we didn't have the anonymous op...Well, of course if we didn't have the anonymous option it's likely that nobody would ever criticize anybody out of fear of the repercussions. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, said repercussions are not really that severe. I've found that we're a decidedly forgiving and forgetful group. I've managed to keep my neck out of the hangsman's noose so far anyway.Alex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161586421552737082006-10-23T02:53:00.000-04:002006-10-23T02:53:00.000-04:00Slither review should appear now, thanks for the h...<I>Slither</I> review should appear now, thanks for the heads-up. Been having upload issues all day.<BR/><BR/>As far as the Anonymous thing goes, that's exactly why it helps if you at least sign your posts. Otherwise Anonymous becomes one giant, contradictory, antisocial consciousness. I think Matt Seitz over at "The House Next Door" started moderating comments in part to keep the unsigned ones Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161584671654071922006-10-23T02:24:00.000-04:002006-10-23T02:24:00.000-04:00Slither review isn't loading for me - anyone else ...<I>Slither</I> review isn't loading for me - anyone else having any problems?<BR/><BR/>I usually log in as Anonymous because I'm at work, though I'm not the one responsible for the criticism up there, and I can't comment not having seen any of the movies. However, I did just see Alfonso Cuarón's new movie, <B>Children of Men</B>, which got an earlier release around the world than the US, and I'd Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161385238664860082006-10-20T19:00:00.000-04:002006-10-20T19:00:00.000-04:00To the anonymous post, a spin on Obi-Wan...Who's m...To the anonymous post, a spin on Obi-Wan...<BR/><BR/>Who's more critical? The critic or the critic who criticizes the critic? <BR/><BR/><BR/>I wish I could say that's one of my unfunnier posts.JG Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880088540166440777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161371242022683882006-10-20T15:07:00.000-04:002006-10-20T15:07:00.000-04:00With regards to the influx of "anonymous" replies:...With regards to the influx of "anonymous" replies: don't be afraid to sign your posts, even if you're being critical of FFC.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161358250116267442006-10-20T11:30:00.000-04:002006-10-20T11:30:00.000-04:00As much as I like the site, you're going to start ...As much as I like the site, you're going to start losing the faith of the readership if Walter insists on analyzing every film down to the atom and deciding the quality of a work almost solely on its intangible, in many cases obscure, subtext. I've seen both Little Children and Tideland; one of those movies is intelligent and recognizable, and one of them - at least Walter admits is - is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1161316489098403192006-10-19T23:54:00.000-04:002006-10-19T23:54:00.000-04:00Hear hear, Jack. All the best to the family, Walte...Hear hear, Jack. All the best to the family, Walter.<BR/><BR/>Nice <I>Marie Antoinette</I> review, by the way. Seen <I>Flags of Our Fathers</I> yet? My reaction reminds me of yours on <I>Marie</I> -- although the autobiographical slant seems to lie in how sick Eastwood is of being called Dirty Harry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160970535550578732006-10-15T23:48:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:48:00.000-04:00Good to see a few people aboard the Paradjanov Exp...Good to see a few people aboard the Paradjanov Express. Next stop: cinema bliss!tmhooverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08519230948522808921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160968741638862922006-10-15T23:19:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:19:00.000-04:00Oh, and The Color of Pomegranates finds its place ...Oh, and <I>The Color of Pomegranates</I> finds its place on my Netflix queue, for I have been intrigued. Thanks for the tip, Travis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160967703007270542006-10-15T23:01:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:01:00.000-04:00Just saw Man of the Year."If you tell a joke that ...Just saw <I>Man of the Year</I>.<BR/><BR/>"If you tell a joke that stinks," Williams says, "and you put a laugh track over it, it's still a joke that stinks."<BR/><BR/>Wow. Self-criticism at its most unconscious.<BR/><BR/>On the contrary, though, Walter and Anon, I thought there was something very frightening, and very intelligent, about the grim nihilism of <I>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160960017758843472006-10-15T20:53:00.000-04:002006-10-15T20:53:00.000-04:00Tuvalu weirded me out too, in a good fairytalesque...<I>Tuvalu</I> weirded me out too, in a good fairytalesque way.Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160958048254370422006-10-15T20:20:00.000-04:002006-10-15T20:20:00.000-04:00Um, whatcha tryin' to say, Andrew? That FFC stands...Um, whatcha tryin' to say, Andrew? That FFC stands for Filistine [sic] Freak Central?Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160902083541462332006-10-15T04:48:00.000-04:002006-10-15T04:48:00.000-04:00You want dreamlike? Then Sergei Paradjanov is the ...You want dreamlike? Then Sergei Paradjanov is the man for you. Anyone who sees <I>Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors</I> or <I>The Colour of Pomegranates</I> will be transported, all right, into the mondo bizzaro world of a crazy Armenian dude who rewrote the rules of filmmaking to create phantasmagorias unlike anything else in cinema. Be there or be square...tmhooverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08519230948522808921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160868196625965802006-10-14T19:23:00.000-04:002006-10-14T19:23:00.000-04:00I always feel uneducated offering comments here, b...I always feel uneducated offering comments here, but obvious dreamlike and fairy-ish choices for me are:<BR/><BR/>most Lynch<BR/>Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas<BR/>eXistenZ<BR/>The Hunger<BR/>most Miyazaki<BR/><BR/>Legend, of course...<BR/><BR/>And jeebus: the new Scanner Darkly, for sure. I felt so disoriented coming out of that film it took almost three days to lose the dislocation and paranoia.Stephen Reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248628340881326868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160779427249631742006-10-13T18:43:00.000-04:002006-10-13T18:43:00.000-04:00Sure, electronic voting can be corrupted, but not ...Sure, electronic voting can be corrupted, but not anymore than any other form of vote tabulation (and it's not like there will ever be some centralized national voting system, it will still be isolated at a local level). I agree with Alex in that it sounds like a more of a technophobic gripe, because no matter how we choose to vote or count votes, we, as citizens, need to be vigilant in making James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964207789326645793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160776240057394812006-10-13T17:50:00.000-04:002006-10-13T17:50:00.000-04:00Hmmm. The evidence does look convincing against el...Hmmm. The evidence does look convincing against electronic voting, but I'm remaining skeptical; too much of the backlash has the foul odor of the technophobic grass-and-granola crowd. If there is a problem, and there very well might be, I still don't that it is inherent in electronic voting itself but in the monopoly of ownership and present design flaws et cetera.Alex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160756684996691442006-10-13T12:24:00.000-04:002006-10-13T12:24:00.000-04:00The Man Who Wasn't There was shot in color. You ca...The Man Who Wasn't There was shot in color. You can find pictures online, and apparently there was a color DVD released in France or some place.<BR/><BR/>Re: Man of the Year review -- So I think I disagree that voting machine fuck-ups (or more realistically, heists) aren't a worthy target. Sounds like the crime of this movie (which I haven't seen and don't plan to) is its trivialization of the Brendanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10676192733054975786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160729084861586732006-10-13T04:44:00.000-04:002006-10-13T04:44:00.000-04:00Best straight-to-video?Got to be SURF II: THE END ...Best straight-to-video?<BR/><BR/>Got to be SURF II: THE END OF THE TRILOGY...Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03304014734147849036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160715300996144352006-10-13T00:55:00.000-04:002006-10-13T00:55:00.000-04:00Nihilism with a point? That has something to say a...Nihilism with a point? That has something to say about the world, and why the world is the way it is? I didn't even bother with the subtext for The Beginning; my main gripe is just that it's a terrible movie, contrived and nonsensicle and rushed and flaccid. Even those who hated the TCM remake can't deny that it's effective.<BR/><BR/>Your review of the new <I>Doctor Who</I> (which, despite myselfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160708007630093712006-10-12T22:53:00.000-04:002006-10-12T22:53:00.000-04:00PS - seems as though Eraserhead fulfills both the ...PS - seems as though <I>Eraserhead</I> fulfills both the best B&W cinematography and most-dreamlike categories. I'd like to offer up the director's cut of <I>Legend</I>, by the by, while Ridley Scott's in the air. Nothing beats Belle's first entrance into the Beast's lair in the Cocteau picture, though, it's f'in orgasmic.<BR/><BR/>Also, the opening of <I>Taxi Driver</I> with the rattle of Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160707862346297172006-10-12T22:51:00.000-04:002006-10-12T22:51:00.000-04:00HA - no - Mr. Labute is extremely gracious. More ...HA - no - Mr. Labute is extremely gracious. More along the lines of - "You take the time to think about the film even if you didn't like it. Thanks for that."<BR/><BR/>I thought TCM: The Beginning was grim and nihilistic in a way that I don't respond to. Departed, for instance, is nihilism that I do respond to. That's an interesting question to dissect, isn't it, what's "good" nihilism?<BR/><Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160700603410867302006-10-12T20:50:00.000-04:002006-10-12T20:50:00.000-04:00Er--just how positive was the letter from Neil LaB...Er--just how positive was the letter from Neil LaBute, anyway? Did he say, "Good point, Walter, I really am incapable of focusing on anything other than my own misogyny?"Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07586745705845953173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160697526293633472006-10-12T19:58:00.000-04:002006-10-12T19:58:00.000-04:00My pleasure, Jefferson. I only wish there were a f...My pleasure, Jefferson. I only wish there were a few more canonical titles in there; expect some additions before the end of the month.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160691930887626072006-10-12T18:25:00.000-04:002006-10-12T18:25:00.000-04:00Bill: Thanks for the horror film index on the main...Bill: Thanks for the horror film index on the main site. A nice resource for genre fans, particularly as I go about putting together the annual Halloween roundup of fright flicks for my newspaper.Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1160684014583844832006-10-12T16:13:00.000-04:002006-10-12T16:13:00.000-04:00Speaking of direct to video, I just noticed that l...Speaking of direct to video, I just noticed that last year <I>two</I> direct-to-DVD versions of <I>War of the Worlds</I> came out just before Speilberg's. (I have seen neither.) Public domain is a fun thing, ain't it?James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964207789326645793noreply@blogger.com