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Based on the thread in Radio & Music - I thought it might be a laugh for us to take a movie/director/actor/genre/whatever that you either love wholeheartedly or hate unreservedly... and then tell everyone why that thing is either utterly shit or fucking wonderful. Think about how your favourite movie is vastly overrated, or how that actor you loathe is tragically underrated. You can treat it as an interesting writing exercise, a way of examining and reevaluating your preconceptions and prejudices, or just as as a bit of a crack. Posts over 500 words for preference, please for the love of God no lists, one liners or posts that end in "no, no, I can't keep this up...". And sarcasm, whether you're clearly just taking the piss, or clearly mugging someone else's argument to take the piss out of them, is verboten.
sentimentity got the hang of it in the other thread - here's another example:-
Stanley Kubrick is, of course, a genius. I use the present tense because the film-making oeuvre he's left behind, films that defy convention and casual genre-labelling, define the man. A perfectionist often accused of draining the emotion from his creations, Kubrick in fact instilled them with a complex balance of resonating emotional harmonics - there are no easy identifications in his movies, no obvious threads to follow or characters to empathise with. Stylistically the father of the baroque obsessive perfectionism seen in the work of David Fincher and the manic creativity of David O. Russell and, with Lean, a clear influence on the widescreen majesty of Ridley Scott's movies, his use of space and set in cinema has simply never been equalled, his eye for the perfect take, the perfect shot, the perfect composition - all unsurpassed both before and after his death. |
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