From what I've been reading, all the upcoming blockbusters are gonna be in 3D. Can you believe everything comes in cycles - even technology? Messed up.
My film mentor at the CFC just released the five worst movies of all time on his facebook page. He's watched over 14,000 and sees a new one every morning at 5am with his little girl, but I wasn't the least bit surprised that his worst five were: Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Forrest Gump. Some people have very different ideas about movies. His explanation for his list is that Tarantino steals everything and that Sam Mendes is a saccharine douchebag.
The next little-big hit in theaters is probably going to be WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. The trailer attached below looks decent. Isn't it strange that there's a feeling you can get from a movie that you can't get from any other art form or brand of entertainment? It's experiencing multiple emotions simultaneously, like when the older Private Ryan character asks his wife if he's been a good man or when Forrest Gump realized that his son is smart - it's pride and hope and faith and joy and sadness all in one. It feels like being born or taking your first breath and there's nothing else like it.
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Your mentor is in the wrong line of work. It's analogous to being a Marxist leaning Investment Banker or an ultra-Feminist photographer for Swank magazine. His list is pedantic and plain silly.
Here is what I wrote my mentor (Greg Klymkiw aka Regi) and his rather unsatisfying response:
TL: I know you posted this a few days ago, but it's been eating at me slowly - the reason you hate Tarantino so much Regi, is because you're just like him. He's probably one of five people on the planet who have seen as many movies as you and dresses like he's at a retro party in the future. Face facts you self loathing kishka lover - you are Quentin Klymkiw.
GK: Dear Mr. Levine: It is true we both have seen more movies than any other living soul. That said, Martin Scorsese has probably seen more movies than both myself and Mr. Tarantino combined. One director uses inspiration as a springboard to create cool shit that is all his own while the other merely regurgitates. One infuses his work with life experience while the other has NO life experience. I rest my case.
Right. Ok. Fine. But if the only criteria he uses to guage the quality of a film is whether the director employs devices mimicked and emulated from elsewhere - then I would posit that is a rather narrow method in which to rate a movie. Widen the scope. I mean Christ - film is art. When you look at other art forms (music, painting etc) - there is always an evolution of the form - with the artists employing a myriad of common methodologies. Yes - there are the acknowledged pioneers - Picasso, Michealangelo, Dali - but it certainly doesn't diminsh those who followed. I have yet to rest my case.
Nicely said LB. You sir are the true original.
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