Watashi
10-31-2008, 07:33 PM
Some of these are pretty easy, but no cheating please.
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1. High School Musical 3 is now about indoctrinating a captive audience to buy hype and follow consumerist routine. It might make millions, but it’s a betrayal. (answered by NickGlass)
2. Rohmer dramatizes philosophy in The Romance of Astrea and Celadon while Vicky Cristina Barcelona dabbles in profundity. (answered by transmogrifier)
3. W. is the best example of American filmmaking courage since Munich. (answered by Fezzik)
4. The Dark Knight is a highly questionable pop enterprise. Forty-two-year-old movie lovers can’t tell 21-year-old movie lovers why; 21 can only know by getting to be 42. But I'll try. (answered by trotchky)
5. It’s clear that ___________ isn’t exploring alienation; it’s exploiting Western elitism, denying the hope immigrants bring to a new land such as Spielberg complexly dramatized in The Terminal.
6. At nearly 3 hours, these characters’ motivations remain bunched-up and attenuated except for moments of romantic pique and jealous infatuation. The Assassination of Jesse James is the silliest-solemnest art-western in years. (answered by NickGlass)
7. Maybe it’s just a genre picture, but scene after scene in __________ displays vitality and wit. This is the year’s first good-looking and fully enjoyable American movie.
8. Reveling in bloodlust is too much like torture-porn, too analogous to Abu Ghraib. Sweeney Todd should have offered the giddy sanity of De Palma’s Grand Guignol musical, Phantom of the Paradise, not pseudo-operatic gravitas. (answered by Fezzik)
9. Yet, There Will Be Blood isn’t a unifying American epic like Giant or The Best Years of Our Lives; it’s the Worst Years of Our History, a post-Iraq War Termigant. (answered by transmogrifier)
10. Cache lacks the genuine political inquiry of Alain Resnais’ 1964 Muriel, which palpably manipulated vision and time as cinematic properties that better examined the moral complexity of France’s then-hot Algerian predicament. (answered by Raiders)
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1. High School Musical 3 is now about indoctrinating a captive audience to buy hype and follow consumerist routine. It might make millions, but it’s a betrayal. (answered by NickGlass)
2. Rohmer dramatizes philosophy in The Romance of Astrea and Celadon while Vicky Cristina Barcelona dabbles in profundity. (answered by transmogrifier)
3. W. is the best example of American filmmaking courage since Munich. (answered by Fezzik)
4. The Dark Knight is a highly questionable pop enterprise. Forty-two-year-old movie lovers can’t tell 21-year-old movie lovers why; 21 can only know by getting to be 42. But I'll try. (answered by trotchky)
5. It’s clear that ___________ isn’t exploring alienation; it’s exploiting Western elitism, denying the hope immigrants bring to a new land such as Spielberg complexly dramatized in The Terminal.
6. At nearly 3 hours, these characters’ motivations remain bunched-up and attenuated except for moments of romantic pique and jealous infatuation. The Assassination of Jesse James is the silliest-solemnest art-western in years. (answered by NickGlass)
7. Maybe it’s just a genre picture, but scene after scene in __________ displays vitality and wit. This is the year’s first good-looking and fully enjoyable American movie.
8. Reveling in bloodlust is too much like torture-porn, too analogous to Abu Ghraib. Sweeney Todd should have offered the giddy sanity of De Palma’s Grand Guignol musical, Phantom of the Paradise, not pseudo-operatic gravitas. (answered by Fezzik)
9. Yet, There Will Be Blood isn’t a unifying American epic like Giant or The Best Years of Our Lives; it’s the Worst Years of Our History, a post-Iraq War Termigant. (answered by transmogrifier)
10. Cache lacks the genuine political inquiry of Alain Resnais’ 1964 Muriel, which palpably manipulated vision and time as cinematic properties that better examined the moral complexity of France’s then-hot Algerian predicament. (answered by Raiders)