Posts Tagged ‘film’
I’ve had a number of requests — in person, over email, over Twitter — where people want to hear my thoughts on the Post-Avatar Depression Syndrome (PADS, this week’s second unfortunate instance of that word, “pad”). Why do people want that? Can’t say. I suspect it’s because I am the Overlord of Pop Culture. I [...]
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Blink, blink.
*smells the air*
Did something die in here?
Why did someone leave a double-headed dildo in the sink? It’s…covered in… marzipan and cake batter? *licks it* Yes, yes. Marzipan and cake batter. That’s definitely it.
Is that…
Is that blood on the curtains?
Goddamn. You leave this place behind for a week, and a handful of deviant hooligans just [...]
Theory: we know that a property has entered the pop culture consciousness when pornography is made in its image.
Examples: Pulp Friction, Forrest Hump, Saving Ryan’s Privates, Shaving Ryan’s Privates, and so on.
You don’t find this to be the case with films that fail to connect with audiences. The Hurt Locker is a critical darling, but [...]
Avatar is making quite a stir.
Seems to be a movie provoking some serious debate, and while that’s not necessarily the mark of a good movie, it is the mark of an interesting pop culture experience, and me? I hunger for interesting pop culture experiences.
This one in particular yields a number of interesting questions. Is the [...]
And by “review,” I mean, “hastily scrawled impressions.”
Let’s just get out of the way: fuck it, I loved it.
Is it great? Mmm, nehhhh, ehhhh, no. That’s perhaps the film’s greatest shame — it falls short of being truly great. Still, considering that my entry-level expectations were, “This is going to be a big dumb cartoon,” [...]
