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8882. judithathome - 6/12/2012 12:50:02 AM Speaking of 2001, we saw Tree of Life Saturday night...I stuck with it to the end but Keoni fell asleep.
I can't judge it with any impartiality as I was a little "high" at the time.
Let me say this much: I am definitely FOR medical marajuana! 8883. vonKreedon - 7/23/2012 6:07:14 PM The new Batman movie is a compelling and complex story phenomenally well told. My family and I came out of the theater thinking that it might be better than the second movie, with Ledger's tour de force Joker, though I'm having a hard time getting my mind around that.
The movie violates several superhero conventions. It has, at least initially, several villains. The story develops slowly. The story and the relationships are complex. And yet Nolan pulls it off beautifully. I'm a plot hole nit-picker, but I only saw a couple of niggling plot holes in this long and complex movie.
The actors are all excellent. Michael Caine uses his limited screen time to give a very moving performance. Hathaway's Catwoman is spot on, gorgeous, conflicted, bad-ass, funny. Also, I don't think that she's ever referred to as Catwoman, cat burglar yes, and her goggles look like cute black kitten ears when they're flipped up, but that's pretty much it for cat stuff. Hardy's Bane is a force of twisted nature. Gordon-Levitt just keeps rising in my estimation as an actor. Bale and Oldman are simply excellent in the roles, but there is so much excellent acting by new characters that they sort of fade a little bit by comparison.
The movie is supposed to be the last in a trilogy, it being the third and all, but it is quite deliberate in setting up the scene for more movies, though perhaps without Batman.
Go see this movie on as big a screen and with as powerful a sound system as you can.
No really, go, why are you still reading this? 8884. wabbit - 7/23/2012 11:22:26 PM Alas, I wear earplugs when I go to a movie theater - always and without exception.
Spoiler question (select to read):
So Batman dies, does he?
8885. vonKreedon - 7/24/2012 3:27:16 AM Do you really want to know? Really? 8886. anomie - 7/28/2012 4:29:03 AM Wow! Does anyone else think the opening ceremomy sucks? It went horribly wrong in the concept stage, and downhill in execution. And the worst of it is, it's boring! 8887. anomie - 7/28/2012 4:51:41 AM Oh for Pete's sake, 20 seconds of Mr Bean was funny. Five minutes was agony. It just gets worse and worse. 8888. arkymalarky - 7/28/2012 7:48:06 PM Hey Anomie!
Thanks for the chance to snag a neat number! 8889. arkymalarky - 7/28/2012 7:49:29 PM Dad made me hang up the phone talking to him so he could watch Mr Bean 8890. judithathome - 7/28/2012 8:28:53 PM Anomie, I ddin't watch the opening ceremonies...there was a "preview" of the rehearsal and I thought...two hours outta my life I'd never get back so...I skipped it!
I know...how "foreign" and unAmerican of me...eh. 8891. anomie - 7/29/2012 12:03:48 AM How did i miss 8888? My favorite roulette number times4.
You didnt miss much, judith... 8892. anomie - 7/29/2012 12:05:47 AM Vk, i too get blasted out of theaters by the bone shattering volume of action movies. Better to see the bluray. Enjoyed your review. 8893. anomie - 7/29/2012 12:09:44 AM Bean went too long. Other segments were too slow to climax or had dsijointed intros and segways... Overall it was messy. 8894. wabbit - 7/29/2012 9:09:14 PM Vk, don't I already?
anomie, I agree, boring. I think most of the opening ceremonies are boring. I vaguely remember thinking Sydney was ok, but overall, too much "teaching" going on. Get on with the games already. 8895. vonKreedon - 7/30/2012 4:50:31 AM Ano - It sounds like you don't enjoy action films played over monster sound systems turned up to 11, while I do. I like to feel the sound. 8896. judithathome - 7/30/2012 11:25:04 PM ...you don't enjoy action films...
You can stop right there and that's me! 8897. arkymalarky - 12/30/2012 4:43:28 AM I love the movie Ratatouille. 8898. Jenerator - 3/7/2013 9:37:14 PM The Dallas Museum of Art will be showcasing Cindy Sherman's work soon.
http://www.cindysherman.com/
I am very familiar with her work and have seen it in various places.
Personally, I do not understand why she is tauted as one of the greatest photographers in the history of the world.
This piece is the second most expensive art photograph ever sold Untitled
I haven't read any cohesive reason as to why she is so in demand right now. I read one review that said that her latest body of work proves that she still has it.
This is from her collaboration with MAC make-up. Not exactly how women want to look using that product line.
Yes art is subjective, but would YOU pay one million dollars for this?
I don't find her that innovative, and I do not understand why she is so important. 8899. bhelpuri - 3/8/2013 2:31:58 PM Who touts Cindy Sherman as one of the greatest photographers of all time? Only the marketplace, which reflects a combination of factors. It's roughly the same set of phenomena that have yielded Andy Warhol as "one of the greatest artists of all time", or indeed Madonna as "one of the greatest singers of all time." I doubt she will be more than a footnote to art history within 30 years, let alone a century into the future. Certainly, I find Cindy Sherman entirely uninteresting.
8900. arkymalarky - 3/8/2013 4:42:59 PM Thank you for putting Madonna on that list 8901. Jenerator - 3/8/2013 6:51:38 PM The MoMa says this about Sherman:
"Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite."
Sure her idea of being both subject and photographer (while creating pictures that reflect mulitple photographic genres) is interesting, but I wonder how and why it became so important.
I'm just wondering out loud.
Personally, I find Tom Chambers' work much more intersting, symbolic and photographically complex.
http://www.tomchambersphoto.com/
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