(October 14, 2019 at 9:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I understand the ever-delectable Jennifer Aniston is now bagging on MCU. I think I have a solution:
If you don't like comic book films,
1) Don't make them.
2) Don't watch them.
Boru
Well, I think people in Hollywood are giving their opinions on them for good reason: a lot of people see a problem with the current state of cinema.
Should people only share their opinions if they agree with you?
(October 14, 2019 at 1:51 pm)Alan V Wrote: Reading creates a kind of intellectual distance which is not easy to maintain watching a movie, with all of the in-your-face techniques a movie employs.
So movies are better for emotional impacts and books are better for details and intellectual content. To me that means whatever serious content a movie might have tends to be undermined by the methods employed to convey it.
Yeah, I hear what you're saying, though I'm not sure I agree 100%.
(October 14, 2019 at 1:51 pm)Alan V Wrote: These days, I am more inclined to define efforts as "art" in accordance with their methods rather than their content. Art is about applying attention to attract attention from others. That is done through a variety of methods, including the display of talent, spectacle, action, emotion, color, contrast, texture, story-telling, empathy, and so on. Whether something succeeds as art is measured by the attention it attracts, including long-term attention. That's why it's so hard to judge art in the present, but much easier from the past. Better quality art gets sorted out over time by what people continue to find interesting.
Well, I don't think we can judge a piece of arts quality by how popular it gets.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
