13 September 2004

Waste of Space

I was just walking away from my film studies class when I heard the guy in front of me say "Yah I'm really going to drop this class." His girlfried walking next to him says "Why, don't you wan tto see North By Northwest?" "No, not really. They're not showing any Tarentino."
I am a fan of Quentin Tarantino, make no mistake, but this is the same mentality that I rage against over his films and also films like the Matrix: they attract widespread attention, grap the public interest, and enter the mainstream lexicon where everyone promptly ignores how they fit into the bigger sceme of things. My anger is that these film do not open a wide new world of film making and film apreciation to the general public, they form toxic little bubbles of talent and cheap rip-offs. this is the reason why I'm aprehensive about Sky Captain. I want to see a movie with such a novel idea succeed (the entire film was shot against a blue sceen) for concept alone, similar to the way that I was rooting for the re-make of Psycho to be good. But I also want to see it tank like nothing else so that 2006 will not see us staring down the barrel of 20 films shot on blue screen only.

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