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Re: “Devastating Project Nim offers Rise of the Planet of the Apes documentary-style; Apollo 18 fails to launch”
"Is there another person on earth besides the reviewer who knows what 'post-EST encounter theory' is? Maybe, but I wasn't able to google any evidence of it."
EST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training
encounter groups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_group
Re: “Nashville's IBFF scores the U.S. premiere of the controversial new doc Dark Girls”
What a beautiful bright light shown from the words of the "Black Rainbow." Thank you.
Re: “Devastating Project Nim offers Rise of the Planet of the Apes documentary-style; Apollo 18 fails to launch”
Is there another person on earth besides the reviewer who knows what "post-EST encounter theory" is? Maybe, but I wasn't able to google any evidence of it. There's a difference between a review that illuminates a movie by drawing on what references the arts and sciences can provide and self-important wanking, and that difference makes a review worth reading or not.
Re: “Terrific performances aside, The Help lets audiences view racial issues at too safe a distance”
Did the author of this review take the time to read the book? I realize that isn't his job but it might have given him more of what he claims is absent from the movie. As with almost all films that begin as books, Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help provides a deeper and richer perspective of the time period it is set in. The book's undercurrents emphasize the strength of the African American women who raised generations of white southern children. These were the silent warriors in the race relation battles. It took many hundreds of "well-meaning white folks" joining forces with oppressed black Southerners to begin moving toward a better society. I am hopeful that the movie will motivate people to examine those times, acknowledging that while we have made progress in race relations in this country there remains much more work to be done.
Re: “Terrific performances aside, The Help lets audiences view racial issues at too safe a distance”
Wonderful movie!!! All the actors did magnificent work! I was amazed at how well all of them pulled off the Southern accent with perfection!
Re: “Nashville's IBFF scores the U.S. premiere of the controversial new doc Dark Girls”
BLACK RAINBOW
Copyright by Victoria Rowels ©2011
Young black slaves with beautiful dark skin,
Violated by white masters again and again.
They had white women to whom they were publicly wed.
But they preferred to rape black women in the slave shed.
A painful history we all want to forget,
But we can’t because of the children born of it.
Their hues range from black to white,
With hair sometimes straight and other times tight.
Evidence of a crime and justice never received.
Centuries have passed and yes, we still grieve.
But we must love the black rainbow that we have become.
We are the original hue-mans and should unite as one.
From the middle passage to every denied civil right,
We make the best of our trying plight.
But brainwashed to hate our African origin,
We began to hate our beautiful black skin.
From European standards of beauty to the paper bag test,
We have been encouraged to take part in a self-hate fest.
Now is the time to stop this genocidal game.
God loves us all and we should do the same.
A young black girl wanted to be fine.
She bought hazel contact lens and now she’s blind.
Some black women put glue in their hair,
To hold long straight weaves that blow in the air.
We shouldn’t do destructive things like that.
We are a beautiful people and that’s a fact.
Sisters and brothers we must love our natural state.
We must love the black rainbow and stop all the hate.
Re: “Nashville's IBFF scores the U.S. premiere of the controversial new doc Dark Girls”
I look forward to seeing this though I am deeply saddened that this issue (like so many others that plague Black people) has not been resolved individually and collectively.
Re: “A brilliant misfire, or a masterpiece too convoluted to absorb on one viewing? Either way, Christopher Nolan's Inception is the Hollywood spectacle of the summer”
It is a fact only for lucid dreaming. Read: Perception Of Time 2.3 here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreamin…
Re: “Splices”
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Re: “Zookeeper: where are the People for the Ethical Treatment of Audiences?”
Animals die all the time, so do people. Get over it.
Re: “The Tree of Life encompasses a multitude of one”
"Snarky" — the first word that always comes to mind with Malick. It's like Ingmar Bergman and "wacky."
Re: “The Tree of Life encompasses a multitude of one”
This movie was absolutely AWFUL, and anyone who says otherwise needs a lobotomy. 2 1/2 hours of snarky and condescending vomit that Malick passes off as art. Run for your life.
Re: “The Tree of Life encompasses a multitude of one”
Terrence Malick did it again. He made another movie that's worth every second you spend watching it. In another note, it's sad to say that it will probably be years before we get to see Malick in action again.
The Tree of Life Movie Soundtrack
Re: “The Upsetter and Master Harold ... and the Boys”
The reviewer doesn't say he wanted "famous white people talking about how great he is"; he wanted other reggae musicians who might actually provide the context you're talking about. Sorry you missed that part.
Re: “The Upsetter and Master Harold ... and the Boys”
the context is that he invented Reggae you morons - and thank god the filmmakers didn't have countless headshot interviews of famous white people talking about how great he is like every other boring Music Doc out there - looks like these reviewers missed the point of the movie and wanted like the crap template VH1 has made people think music movies should be like -
Re: “Welcome to Shelbyville”
It's really just a bore and truly patronizing. The characters are unmemorable. Storytelling is 'pat'. It's simply lame propaganda. Does not even begin to address any of the important issues that we all face with US immigration. There are so many compelling immigration films out there. "Papers", "9500 Liberty", "Tony & Janina's American Wedding" and "The Harvest". All telling important aspects of the issue. This unfortunately is not one of them.
Re: “Boisterous Memphis wrestling doc, Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin', struts into town”
This looks good. Nothing more REAL than wrestling's entertainment value. Like rocknroll or even televangelism.
Re: “Hobo With a Shotgun: grindhouse for genre- slumming poseurs”
Sounds like someone went in already hating it. Loosen up brah
Re: “The Belcourt's new Terrence Malick retrospective honors the Thoreau of cinema”
TREE OF LIFE is a marvel to behold — I can't wait to hear (and join) the conversations afterward in the lobby. I had the opposite reaction of almost everyone I know: I was a little skeptical during the soon-to-be-legendary in-the-beginning movement — Mike D'Angelo was right on the money in calling this symphonic — but the evocation of Malick's Texas boyhood affected me like nothing I've seen since ... well, the end of THE NEW WORLD. A lot of people (me, for one) are going to feel like someone tapped their innermost memories and sensations of growing up.
Re: “The playful, casually mysterious Uncle Boonmee offers a loosely arranged bouquet of reincarnations”
Typically you would use the verb "invest" with a financial metaphor. But, of course, since you're such a spectacularly incompetent writer (wow, did you really get paid for this shit?), you use rhythm and perspective, both of which cannot be invested. But what else can one expect from a crass ass too incompetent, isolationist, and unadventurous to pronounce Apichatpong? You mangle your friend's nap metaphor, which tells us nothing whatsoever about BLISSFULLY YOURS. "A beguiling matter-of-factness that somehow makes them at once comforting and even more strange." Gee, that's redundant. Who the fuck edited you? Who allowed that dangling modifier in the first paragraph? His choice of a title offering a clue? What is this? Bart Simpson thanking the good people at McGraw Hill? I think any bonehead can infer that someone suffering from kidney disease is going to have mortal thoughts. So we also have you condescending your readers. Should a synopsis scratch the surface? How does a film amble exactly? You do realize that "in the midst" means at the central point. You really mean "amidst" (meaning during: open a fucking dictionary why don'tcha?). And in that sentence, that's a load of badly composed nonsense to describe a gradual materialization. Prodded by impending change? Are you recycling heavy metaphors from bad imitations of the Partisan Review? I should certainly hope that a photo montage would obtain snapshots, but then I'm not especially concerned with redundancy in my sentences. Two minor characters are going to have out-of-body EXPERIENCES. You don't even know the difference between singular and plural. Honestly, you call this professional writing. I've seen high school students turning in cleaner copy.