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“What’s far more interesting to me right now than the rotely predictable storyline of Avatar is the potential cultural-wide acceptance of the notion that this is now all that a movie really needs to be.”
“…what strikes me is that although both these critics make brainy, passionate cases for the movie as something radically new, what they’re really embracing, in effect, is the visual-pow!-trumps-narrative aesthetic that has ruled Hollywood for the past 25 years. Both these reviews might have run under the headline “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Eye Candy.”
“I don’t feel as if I need to defend Titanic (you either love the movie or you don’t), but I will say this: As an act of storytelling, with two wondrously sympathetic and expressive young matinee idols enacting a stormy reverie of youthful love that catastrophe renders timeless, it is Shakespeare compared to Avatar. Or is Avatar now the new Shakespeare?”
I just caved in and saw Avatar. I was entertained, sure, and yes, the visuals are pretty darn fantastic (especially in 3D!). I mean, the world that is created here is impressive and intricate, so major props to that. also, Sam Worthington is hot. too bad we didn’t see more of him as himself in the movie! but I digress. I agree with a lot of what EW critic Owen Gleiberman says in his article quoted above. The story was just so weak, predictable and so very cliched and the characters’ motives were not all that convincing. It was an interesting movie experience as it simultaneously enthralled me (the visuals and action) and appalled me (the overdone and over-the-top archetypes, as if an audience can’t handle something more creative). or, as Gleiberman points out, does none of it matter if you’re being entertained one way or another?
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“The Followill brothers grew up in Tennessee with a Pentecostal preacher for a daddy. But Lord knows even down-home boys fall prey to the sinful temptations of the rock & roll life, and every last one of those temptations gets chronicled in lip-smacking detail on Aha Shake Heartbreak. The Kings’ second album is a hilariously raunchy Southern-rock travelogue about all the girls they met on tour for their first album. Songs like “Slow Night, So Long” and “Taper Jean Girl” are populated by gold-digging mothers and groupies with motel faces; the grooves are as sweaty as a long shag, and the hard-edged guitars aim below the Mason-Dixon Line.”
three out of four Kings of Leon albums made the cut for Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums of the Decade. My personal favorite, Aha Shake Heartbreak, was the highest at 39 (Youth and Young Manhood at 80, Only By the Night at 53). that’s a pretty good track record if you ask me! but I don’t understand why Because of the Times isn’t on there - I believe that’s a better album than both their first and most recent album.
Just announced this morning: TV nominations and Film nominations
3 things:
1) Yay for Modern Family as Best Comedy! but boo to no love for Lost or Friday Night Lights (what else is new?!)
2) Does this mean that I have to see Avatar now? Because that movie is not appealing to me whatsoever.
3) Am I the only person who DOES NOT like Glee?
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Sooo much love for this picture and all the people in it.
Beyond Amazing.
flashback to my obsessions from 2001-2004! not that I’m still not obsessed today, but really, it was pretty bad.
it is raining and it is december. which, in Southern California terms, it feels like the holidays and it’s the perfect opportunity to bust out my holiday playlist. sometimes all I need is a rainy day to know that everything is going to be alright, to know that everything IS alright already. rain helps put things in perspective for me. so maybe I should move somewhere where it rains more frequently? well, that is for another day and another post to contemplate. for right now, I’m just going to enjoy the rain and enjoy some good tunes.
love love love this photo of Kylie Minogue. sexy. classy. vintage. fishnets!
my lady crush to the max.
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