HOME | DD

The-Corpse In reply to xam [2004-10-09 17:41:56 +0000 UTC]

lol, thanks for both comments!

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

xam In reply to The-Corpse [2004-10-09 21:38:38 +0000 UTC]

rammalammadingdong

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

The-Corpse In reply to Laurion [2004-03-28 16:55:13 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I'm looking for chances to do some different types of things - sort of expand the skill-set... This isn't particularly my favorite 'style.' Funny, I had done the switch on the back and the pic didn't exite me enough to post - I figured, ah, let me post it anyway and just as I was about to do it I added the scratches and the whole suicide theme... then I liked it. I'm strange.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Laurion In reply to The-Corpse [2004-03-28 21:53:17 +0000 UTC]

yeah it's a good manip. i am really becoming more and more convinced that the coolest horror lies in the unexpected and in anything that provokes even a fleeting moment of cognitive dissonance. it's not all about dark shadows.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

The-Corpse In reply to Laurion [2004-03-28 22:51:47 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, but you're smart. In a world where a "Chuckie" movie outsells the 'meaningful' stuff...

From the video store I learned that people really like crappy movies. I kid you not.

Here's a weird connection I made at the video store: Little kids used to come in and their parent's were like "ok, now go pick a movie from the kid's section." The kid would bee-line it to a movie he'd already rented literally 20 times in the past. He would bring it to the counter and the parent would see that it was the same Disney movie the kid rented all the time. The kid would scream if the parent tried to change it.

I remember asking (someone smart) about this. Kids rented the same movie because they already knew the ending! It put them in a comfort zone. No suprises, no disappointments. Just a nice comfortable, steady ride. Now, that's fine, these are kids, after all. It's a natural and understandable behavior. But here's the analogy: The reason these simple, cliche, hack-director movies sell so well is because most adults maintain this simple behavior. You can see these scripts coming a mile away... no thinking has to be done, nothing too 'jarring' will occur. You throw in some cognitive dissonance and all they hear is a 'sour note.'

*steps off soapbox*

Ah, what the hell do I know... I'm just a video-store snob, pushing the foreign section...

But seriously, this does lead us back to "Betty Blue." There's your cognitive dissonance, baby! Run, don't walk, to the video store for it. Wait, let's try an experiment: call your local blockbuster and see if they even have
it. My spidey-sense tells me 'No.'

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Laurion In reply to The-Corpse [2004-03-30 01:19:35 +0000 UTC]

i can't imagine watching any movie twice (w/in a few years at least), unless your analyzing it or deconstructing it or something. i know what you mean though ... i know a person who reads the same novels over and over. i think she likes predictability and then some.

you're right ... i couldn't find betty blue in the local blockbuster. i guess i'll have to check online ... a lot of good moviees are falling thru the cracks as vhs dies its lingering death.

funny thing ... usually my fave movies are those that defy convention and predictability. sometimes though, tragedy needs a sense of overdetermination ( i guess comedy can use this too). and i guess that when you want to watch a party movie, you really really want to know where it's going so you don't have to pay attention.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

The-Corpse In reply to Laurion [2004-03-31 04:16:29 +0000 UTC]

As far as watching a movie twice - when I was a kid I remember not really 'remembering' a movie I saw too well. I mean, I guess I was just overwhelmed or whatever. But in my family, if a movie was coming on you already saw, you pretty much watched something else. Not until I met my wife did I appreciate watching movies repeatedly. She did/does it all the time. After I learned she had 'favorites' that she'd seen a few times or more I tried watching a couple movies again - and ya know what, you end up seeing a lot of stuff you missed the first time! Plus, if you are into cinema - a second showing allows you to start focusing on the subtler things (or not so subtle) like maybe interesting camera angles, sub-plots, character motivation, etc. In any case, with a crappy movie there's never, ever a need for a second viewing. the little "neat" things you spy in a second/third viewing of a good movie aren't there to begin with. (DVD plays right into this mind-set with all the bonus features and interviews, and most important: commentary channels throughout the whole movie. The best I've seen is "The Usual Suspects" where the director goes off on why the shot was done that way, what the actors were doing, what the director was trying to achieve, etc... You watch it with the commentary and get a whole new feel...)

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Laurion In reply to The-Corpse [2004-03-31 14:46:13 +0000 UTC]

i only tried the commentary channel once, on some foreign lesbian vampire flick ... i forget the title but i still have the dvd. anyway, it sort of ruined it, cuz the director came off like a thick-headed pig who was mostly interested in establishing good tit-shots. i don't have much patience i guess.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

The-Corpse In reply to Laurion [2004-04-01 00:20:17 +0000 UTC]

Ha! Yeah, I guess it depends on the director! It's funny we see/listen to art and instantly 'identify' with the artist. We build all this fantasy up and then we find out they are a nazi (or worse yeat, merely human with human frailties... e-gads!)

After learning Roger Waters was a prick I tried not to connect with too many more artists. Now I wait to hear good things about a person, then go listen/look at their art. Works better like that!

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Laurion In reply to The-Corpse [2004-04-01 01:49:21 +0000 UTC]

"We build all this fantasy up and then we find out they are a nazi "

but i ~like~ govnah ahnuld's films!! seriously, some of his stuff is great .... less i know about him, the better, i guess.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

The-Corpse In reply to Laurion [2004-04-01 01:58:35 +0000 UTC]

Jeez, that's not who I meant, but damn, that comment just fit!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

The-Corpse In reply to russell44 [2004-03-28 13:59:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0