I don't get it. I feel like subtext in art is a waste of time if the images aren't aesthetically interesting in some way. And I don't find them: beautiful, disturbing, sick, arousing... They elicit no emotional reaction and therefore I fail to see any commentary or message behind them.
Short and Less Douchier Version: Meh!
The world is such a cool place.
And life just keeps getting weirder.
*Fangasm followed by fainting*
He's crossed the last line this time.
This is like if God himself took the Bible. And removed that whole bit where Jesus loses his shit and overturns the market at temple. And instead asks all the merchants to politely leave.
And years later after listening to people complain about how they miss Jesus' righteous angry God comes down from heaven and tells then that Jesus never ever got angry so to shut up.
This is like if J.R. Tolkien removed every reference to Frodo's temptation by the Ring and the way it changed him in a revision. And after the fans complained claimed that he had never intended Frodo to be anything but the most resolved being who ever lived. And that it was publisher pressure that made him make make Frodo fallible.
This is like if someone recut ANY western so that in a duel the good guy always let the bad guy go first! And then that moron claimed it improved the integrity of the character!
Han Solo was a smuggler Lucas! And frankly a coward at the start of the trilogy. If you think such a person wouldn't be willing to put a bit of charged plasma in the head of someone who was most likely going to deliver him to his executioner you're a moron!
Also STARS WARS ISN'T YOURS! It stopped being yours the moment it you set upon the world. Stories become apart of our shared culture, especially stories as big as Star Wars. The interpretations we make, whether you as the writer agree with them or not, become a part of the story as time passes. Like in times before written word when stories were passed down verbally generation to generation so that they changed and grew in complexity only less meadable since the original story still exists, only you don't like our take so you force your own intent on us by replacing the original with a better version. Thus invaliding the views of millions which can no longer be shared with future generations who will now have to draw new conclusions from a bastardized version.
I'm through with this. I'm through with Star Wars. He's ruined it for me.
Oh it's easy. You just spread vaseline on the lens. Instant conspiracy footage.
Okay I love love love that this trailer plays up the fact that Peter Parker is a genius. Thank you movie. I promise to make room on my must see list.
I think maybe he was. A genius in the field of terrible.
Okay that was all worth it just for the so bad it's awesome line at the end.
"You can battle with strength, you can battle with wits, but no weapon can beat a great pair of tits."
Seriously right up there with "Fuck you Lucky Charms."
I was also a fan of the Nail Polish. A pair of hands never looked so sexy.
I agree that both have their place and they shouldn't be compared in a binary: better/worse way. Both have pros and cons and you could write a book weighing them and drawing conclusions. At the end of the day it comes down to a matter of taste.
Personally I thought this piece was mostly objective on the merits of the pulp aesthetic. Jess' article was about delving into the influence of Burroughs' work, not critiquing it or the style it created. I don't think they need to go out of their way to praise the style when people's love of it is clearly evident in its endurance in our pop culture.
This was more antropological insight then opinion piece.
*Does a happy dance* Something about Exoplanets just makes me feel giddy inside.
I laughed so hard.
Not ruined. For that is merely Nick Offerman the man who plays Ron Fucking Swanson. Your pathetic games cannot rock the temple of Swanson.
Ron Swanson won't be remembered as a comedy figure. He will be remembered as the man who brought manliness back. And future scholars will debate whether a man of such greatness was ever real or if it's all just fiction. And of course the wisest of them will point out that in the end it doesn't matter.
Sexist marketing aside. I find the spacesuit in these ads to be rather fetching and unique.
OMG! This is my new favorite thing.
"I AM QUITE ENAMOURED OF THIS LUNA CHARACTER"
Thor FTW
"Plank of wood"? Really? Clearly apathy as comedy is not for everyone.
Well said. I say we put on our gentlemen's regalia head down to the nearest gentlemen's club (the English variety) and toast ourselves, to kicking the other's ass in our own minds.
