A Philistine Confessional

[Imran Siddiqui]

Jackson Pollack could have vomited on his canvases and nobody would be able to tell.

Rothko's works are aesthetically pleasing, but seriously? It's just a f.ckin' square.

Pollack
Rothko

Though I agree with Jaguar's nomination of Lord of the Rings. Let me also second (or third) Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter just sucked horribly.

[b etor]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
Jackson Pollack could have vomited on his canvases and nobody would be able to tell.

jacksonpollock.org
it's sweet.
post your painting here when you have finished, plz.

[Arrian]

Hmm.

There is a lot of art (as in painting/sculpture) that I just don't get. But that's pretty common, no?

I second the nomination of Dickens. There is allegory, and there is beating your reader over the head with allegory until they scream for mercy. The descriptions, I take it, are the result of being paid for chapters based on word count or something. That doesn't make them any better to read (or rather, to skip), though.

I agree that Holden was a whiny *****.

I'm not big on The Godfather. Apparently, there are lots of people who think those films were phenomenal. To me, they're just sort of meh.

Harry Potter, but of course you can't hold children's books to as high a standard , and they weren't bad, per se (just nowhere near as good as some seem to think).

The French Connection. Apparently people thought that was a good movie. I don't know why.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Arrian
Harry Potter, but of course you can't hold children's books to as high a standard , and they weren't bad, per se (just nowhere near as good as some seem to think).

You are dead to me!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Jaguar
Lord of the Rings. Yes, you have a vivid, crazy, gigantic world with a rich cultural history. Too bad you ****ing suck at storytelling.

Absurd to say that the story is bad. Oh well, that's your loss.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Though I agree with Jaguar's nomination of Lord of the Rings.

This coming from a Harry Potter fanboy. Presumably you'd rather wear a child's fake Rolex to the real thing too.

[Kataphraktoi]

I dont like lord of the rings that much, but more because it has the star wars problem-an implausable, tiny world onscreen. Where these gigantic armies are coming from seems a mystery and at other times, it makes me wonder what ''world'' they are trying to conquer? There seems to be only 2 major cities, no sprawling civilizations....total immersion breaker for me, its seems to be an unpopulated world. There has to be something out there for the bad guys to be going for, and some reason they havnt already won. And cities like midas terrath...terribly implausible. Where are the farms? the people?

Now star wars, i know has a huge world of civilizations but the trilogy never really indicated how many. the new trilogy does a better job at this, showing a greater number of worlds and industrial centers, too.

[Japher]

just wait for the TV show!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
I dont like lord of the rings that much, but more because it has the star wars problem-an implausable, tiny world onscreen. Where these gigantic armies are coming from seems a mystery and at other times, it makes me wonder what ''world'' they are trying to conquer? There seems to be only 2 major cities, no sprawling civilizations....total immersion breaker for me, its seems to be an unpopulated world. There has to be something out there for the bad guys to be going for, and some reason they havnt already won. And cities like midas terrath...terribly implausible. Where are the farms? the people?

Oh dear. 9+ hours, and you want some more detailing the infrastructural micro-management of the various economies. Still, only a Civ-player could come up with such a critique. Which part of the word 'fantasy' do you not understand?

Having said that, trashing the film without having read the book will happen when there is so much historical background that the film can't fit in.

[Kataphraktoi]

I wasnt ''trashing'' the film

Fantasy=economics are discarded? Why does fantasy have to be unrealistic? Some fantasy is very realistic...

[Arrian]

We're not supposed to be defending stuff in this thread. Having said that, there ARE farms/etc for Minas Tirith in the book. They didn't make the movie. Agreed that the world is rather underpopulated - at least in "The West."

Imran - you started it!

We probably should start another thread for all of our defenses (LotR/Potter/etc).

-Arrian

[rah]

"crime and punishment"

4 or 5 pages of action, 1000 pages of boring self doubts and incriminations. I wanted to kill myself before the end, just to end it. And then the suckie symbolism. retch.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Arrian
Harry Potter, but of course you can't hold children's books to as high a standard , and they weren't bad, per se (just nowhere near as good as some seem to think).

They were pretty bad. Thankfully, they aren't high art, so disliking them doesn't make us philistines

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Cort Haus This coming from a Harry Potter fanboy. Presumably you'd rather wear a child's fake Rolex to the real thing too.

As for my nomination- Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Ubervilles =

[Cort Haus]

Oh yes, Thomas Hardy. Trumpet Major = :vomit: