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  1. I'm pretty excited for the Rose Bowl. It's been a while since one of my favorite teams was a serious contender for such a big game (the last time I remember was when the Giants were in the world series in...2002?)
  2. I actually already am in one of htese leagues with some friends from school. is it possible to join multiple leagues? my festival is epically weird. i've got the Who and Michael Jackson performing alongside Rammstein and Lady Gaga.
  3. And the award for "Album That Was So Hyped In the Indie Clique That It Became Overrated And As Such Became Underrated But Actually Is Neither Of These Things Because Nobody Outside Of The Indie Clique Has Probably Even Listened To It" goes to... The Pains of Being Pure At Heart! Congratulations! Seriously though, now that the hype dust has settled, I really do think this band put out an awesome self titled debut. I mean if this song does not make you feel like a character in a John Hughes movie, I don't know what will (actually, you might want to try "Kim and Jesse" by M83 for that)
  4. I don't hate all movies that use violence to tell stories. "No Country For Old Men" is one of my favorite movies. It's not that I'm not entertained by movies that are violent, it's just that I'm not entertained by violence alone. And in my opinion, there wasn't enough to this movie to make it entertaining without the violence. If "Inglourious Basterds" was a book, I don't think a lot of people would read it. The story itself wasn't extremely interesting. And obviously this is where we disagree. I'm just restating my argument to make it clear that I am not completely opposed to violent movies, I am just opposed to movies that aren't good enough to be entertaining without the violence, because the violence itself is not entertaining to me. Just making it clear that our disagreement is about the film itself, and not about violence in cinema, because I like The Godfather, I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original of course), I like Silence of the Lambs, etc. And also, it's not like I think people shouldn't be entertained by violence. People can be entertained by whatever entertains them...it just doesn't entertain me.
  5. Also, I'm tired of Brad Pitt playing himself in movies. He can be a really good actor sometimes, but his character in "Inglourious Basterds" was just him being Brad Pitt, a badass with a sharp sense of humor. Nothing more to his character than that. I will also say that the first scene of the movie was really good. Tarantino really built the tension well, and when he finally got the French guy to admit he was hiding Jews under the floorboards my insides just collapsed. It was a really great scene.
  6. I don't think Tarantino wanted to compare Nazi ideology to our own, but I don't think it was an accident that the final massacre took place in a theater playing a violent action film. Tarantino's a better filmmaker than that. It had to be on purpose. He wasn't saying average people have Nazi tendencies, he was saying that average people get turned on by violence. But if you disagree that this is the message of the film, I'm not surprised, because I don't think a person can agree with that message and still enjoy the film (and you enjoyed the film). That may be the reason I rarely like action movies, ha ha. I don't know, I just don't like seeing gratuitous violence, and to me, that's all this film was. If you asked someone why they saw this movie, they probably said "to watch Brad Pitt kill Nazis." The whole point of the movie was to watch violence (which would be different than a movie where violence is required to tell the story, like "The Godfather." With "Inglourious Basterds," violence wasn't just required to tell the story, it was the story)
  7. Good point. I'm not really sure if it humanizes them when you put it that way. But even if it does say something about us, it's saying something that I don't want to hear. It's saying that we have something really disturbing in common with Nazis. And it's not like I will automatically dislike any movie with a difficult or confrontational message, I just felt like Quentin made the movie not so much in hope of people asking themselves that question, but in hope that people would be like "Oh hell yeah I love watching people's scalps get cut off with knives." Interesting statement Farin, and you're totally right...but it doesn't change my opinion on the movie.
  8. Well yeah but he actually humanizes the enemy by giving them the exact same experience as us. We (the real audience) are in a theater watching our enemies suffer. The Nazis (the film audience) are also in a theater watching their enemies suffer. And we react basically the same way. Both us and the Nazis giggle and laugh when the enemy is killed.
  9. Going for the hat trick here with my third post: I'd also like to restate how weird I think the parallel between the Nazi audience and the real audience is. It's like Quentin was trying to make a statement about how depraved humans are for enjoying action movies and watching people suffer. But then if you agree with his point you are sort of obligated to dislike the movie.
  10. And I'm not sure what to make of the "snob" comment, the snobbiest movie snobs I've ever met all hate Quentin Tarantino. I don't really hate him or love him because I suck at hating and loving things.
  11. I just think of Quentin Tarantino as the Immortal Technique of directors. While both are pretty good, they get way too much credit in my opinion, and often get labeled as "geniuses" because they use shock value so well (I don't even want to use the word "well" there but I have too because I suck at words). Don't get me wrong, Pulp Fiction is a fun movie, and I like Death Proof a lot too, but I just think Quentin uses violence as pornography more than he uses it as art. And in my opinion "Inglourious Basterds" highlighted everything there is to dislike about Quentin Tarantino and didn't highlight any of the things to like about Quentin Tarantino (and there are things to like)
  12. Peaches, what did you think of "The Blueprint 3" that recently came out? I thought the first half was totally awesome, classic Jay Z. But I really didn't like the 2nd half at all, except for the awesome/hilarious last song.
  13. Anyone else following the race to the Rose Bowl?
  14. Miley should check out some Jay-Z. "The Blueprint" is a really awesome album. My opinion on this type of pop, though, is that who cares if Miley thinks there is no art to the song. She didn't even write it. I'm sure the person who actually did write the song is really proud of it and put a lot of effort into it, and most likely is a really talented musician. Unfortunately my entire argument is built on the faulty premise that the song is good, which it isn't. But that last paragraph can be applied to plenty of top 40 pop.
  15. I always forget songfacts has that bleeper
  16. Oh I didn't mind that it altered history, in fact that was the only thing I liked about the climax. You know, I actually had an argument on someone's facebook note about this so I'll just copy and paste it here, with this warning... SPOILER ALERT! do not read ahead if you have not seen "Inglourious Basterds." So throughout the whole movie I was really looking forward to the massacre in the theater. I was sitting straight up in my seat with my feet tapping as Marcel threw the cigarette into the pile of film. But when it actually happened, I just felt kind of weird that the "happy ending" was watching a bunch of people get killed a movie theater. It was especially weird since the German audience members in the movie were all watching a movie about a bunch of people getting killed. I felt like I didn't really understand what made us any different than the film's audience. All these Nazis are laughing at all these people getting killed, and we're supposed to think "oh ha ha what a bunch of dumbasses for being entertained by this *******," and then the exact same thing happens and we're supposed to think "oh ha ha I'm entertained by this *******." And I'm sure that this whole parallel between the Nazis's experience our experience as an audience is the whole point of the scene, and I admit it's a cleverly made point, but the cleverly made point didn't make me like the movie, it just made me pissed off at it. And I realize that Nazis are just the scum of the earth and I've got some Jewish heritage so I should love seeing the Bear Jew club a Nazi with a baseball bat. But it's only the anticipation of it that I loved. When the violence actually happened I was pretty disgusted. And I should also say that I am biased, since I am instinctively unnattracted to gore in movies. But on the other hand, I feel that a lot of America is also biased by being instinctively attracted to gore in movies. I feel like violence in movies can either be crucial to the art of the film ("No Country For Old Men" is a good example imo) or it can be the main attraction of the film, which was the case for "Inglourious Basterds" in my opinion. It's like the difference between watching a love scene and porn (except violence is gross and boobies are neat). I guess that last line really sums up my argument. Violence is gross and boobies are neat.
  17. I love "Vertigo," it is for sure my favorite Hitchcock film. I agree, it's hard to believe that it was made in 1957. Just saw "Inglourious Basterds," and throughout the whole movie I was really into it and probably would have given it an A...but the climax really ruined the movie for me, so much so that I ended up giving it an F. My transistion from "A" to "F" isn't just there for dramatic hyperbole, it really just is how I felt while watching the movie. I can't really explain it without giving away spoilers though, so if anyone's interested I can write it in white text or something, but if nobody's interested I suppose there's no use writing about it.
  18. How long is the "season?"
  19. actually I might wanna replace Neon Indian with Big Boi's new song, "Shine Blockas."
  20. Outkast is coming out with a new album I heard.
  21. I've been too busy with school lately to listen to very many full albums. So my albums list will likely not be very full until winter break, when I get around to listening to everything that's happened since August. for now though, here's my song list, limited to one song per artist: 1 Passion Pit - Little Secrets 2 Cymbals Eat Guitars - And the Hazy Sea 3 Animal Collective - Bluish 4 Basement Jaxx - Raindrops 5 The Ravishers - Keep You Around 6 Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1.9 7 Dykeritz - Chasing the Wheel Away 8 Duck Sauce - aNYway 9 Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks 10 Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
  22. Ha ha, that's pretty funny, and totally true.
  23. That should be "as does spelling our players' names right." I'm usually not one to be so snobby about grammar, but I do find it really funny to point out grammar mistakes when someone else is complaining about grammar or advising others to use correct grammar. In fact, I don't even use correct grammar half the time! Ha ha
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