Comments on: Missing a couple of posts

By: John Salmon

John Salmon — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:07:43 +0000

A movie critic (who was panning what sounded like an eminently pannable flick) I was listening to last night described Dunst as saying, in an American accent, clever things like “OMG! What are we gonna do now?”

You’re gonna do another ahistorical, superficial, morally decadent Hollywood period piece. Ms. Coppola (wonder how she got the gig???) would do well to shuck the “new cinematic vocabulary” and focus on learning how to tell a good story-even it’s not the real one.

Post-post-post feminists still hate men, but they do it stylishly. No butch haircuts for this crowd.

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:58:44 +0000

A movie about Marie Antoinette with an 80s pop soundtrack? Hooray, another movie to avoid.

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:26:21 +0000

The first commenter said it so much more intelligently than could I, but that is basically what I was going to say. Writers for the popular media string together words that appears to be similar to stringing random kernels of popcorn, cranberries, and gummy bears on a thread. It makes no logical sense unless you sit down a diagram a sentence (remember that?) with run-on, embedded, convoluted words and phrases. Even then, you may find a sentence with 3 verbs or 4 subjects. Where do they get these people? Why did the word “predicate” just pop into my head. It has been gone for 40 years…

By: Francis W. Porretto

Francis W. Porretto — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:01:09 +0000

Expecting an art critic, a movie critic, or a media critic to make actual sense is on a par with expecting your neutered parakeet to give birth to a sabre-toothed tiger:

1. The bird wasn’t capable of bearing anything in the first place;
2. You simply can’t germinate one from the other;
3. It’s a mistake to equate noisy, bombastic demands for attention with ability or achievement.