The End of Taste As We Know It?

Once again Jim Emerson has come up with a great post over at his Scanners Blog entitled "The End of Taste." Check it out.Also, over at Cerebral Mastication, Ali Arkin writes up his thoughts...very good blog, check it out.As for my thoughts on the topic, I don't quite know yet. I think I need some more time to think about it. But I will ask this: am I any less of a film connoisseur because I may think that RoboCop is on the same level as say...a Truffaut film?Do you we as moviegoers put too much...

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Pointless Oscar predictions!!!

Short post today:Best Picture: No Country For Old MenBest Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)Best Actress: Julie Christie (Away From Her)Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)Best Screenplay (Original): Diablo Cody (Juno)Best Screenplay (Adapted): Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy)Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)Best Editing: Roderick Jaynes (No Country For...

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Rambo

I have nothing really to say about this film that Matt over at The House Next Door hasn't already said. So I will just link you to his article.I will only add that the movie is a full blown catastrophe. Not until the final 15-20 minutes can you really be "exhilarated" by the action going on. The film is so bloody, so gruesome and gory that it's hard to be entertained by it.I laughed out loud at a lot of the violence at the end. Once Rambo gets a hold of a giant gun he begins to mow people down and...

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How does film make you feel?

There is a great discussion going on right now at Jim Emerson's Scanners blog (the best film blog out there) about how we react to film. Do we react because of how it makes us feel? Or do we react because of how good the film looks? These questions and others are raised by Jim and others in the comments. It's a good discussion for any film buff to read. One of the main points Jim is making is that if he goes to see a movie with someone they may react the same to what is on the screen, but the real...

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Random blurbage on random films...

The Namesake

Mira Nair's film based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri is beautiful to look at, but I am afraid it is nothing more than that. I wasn't particularly moved by the film, although I was certain I was seeing something worth investing my emotions in. However, a lot of it just seemed very formulaic and sitcomy. I liked the performances and I liked the early relationship of Gogol (Kal Penn) and his father, and the story about how is parents came from Calcutta to New York City. To me that...

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