Ms. Suzy Weiss is undoubtedly gifted in various journalistic departments and even outside that tainted realm. But she can't obviously tell chalk from cheese when it comes to cinema. Despite the kudos, Mr Nolan is a sloppy film director when it comes both to clear storytelling and cinematographic arrangements. His shots as well as his characters float around like clueless amoebae that never end up fitting together properly. This has been proven film after film, and the dearer these films become, together with an artificially—albeit cleverly—induced buzz eagerly colported by unknowing journalism, the more glaring this artistic and dramatic emptiness is there for all to see.
Since cinema even more than nature abhors a vacuum, please stop entrusting this type of article to people in your immediate vicinity, instead of to genuine cinephiles and professional film critics, because nepotism has no place in cinema—which you probably consider a minor art form at TFP anyway.
Communism, socialism, progressivism, antifaism, resistance. Lots of different words. Only one plan: REDISTRIBUTION ( WE WANT WHAT YOU GOT). Never goes out of style because it appeals to base instincts of jealousy and envy.
Frankly Lanny I am on to other things but did see that Musk hopes to make an AI Odyssey by year end that will be very true to Homer.
I chuckle when I think about how casting directors of yore had to pick or find the perfect actor or actress for many roles. The story about Vivian Leigh for scarlet ( you know who) is a very interesting one..Maybe above i should have just said: Frankly Lanny, I dont give a damn anymore
I've been blessed with a wife more conservative than me. I started voting in 1980. Since then, I've only voted for two Democrats in thousands of elective offices on the ballots. One was a neighbor I knew to be a good man for public office. The other was Obama in 2012. My wife beat me by never voting for any Democrat anywhere anytime.
Our marriage doesn't have any political controversies other than that one time I voted for Obama.
Eat: How odd to have ingredients for a dish (cherry bourguignon but no instructions on how to make it.
Ms. Suzy Weiss is undoubtedly gifted in various journalistic departments and even outside that tainted realm. But she can't obviously tell chalk from cheese when it comes to cinema. Despite the kudos, Mr Nolan is a sloppy film director when it comes both to clear storytelling and cinematographic arrangements. His shots as well as his characters float around like clueless amoebae that never end up fitting together properly. This has been proven film after film, and the dearer these films become, together with an artificially—albeit cleverly—induced buzz eagerly colported by unknowing journalism, the more glaring this artistic and dramatic emptiness is there for all to see.
Since cinema even more than nature abhors a vacuum, please stop entrusting this type of article to people in your immediate vicinity, instead of to genuine cinephiles and professional film critics, because nepotism has no place in cinema—which you probably consider a minor art form at TFP anyway.
'...albeit cleverly—induced buzz.."
Spot-on!
WHEN GOD FAILS!
"...the readiness to give up one’s own judgment—not only about politics but also about people,..."
Lest we become too smug, all too many on this comments section have lost friends and/or family for no other reason than…
We refused to genuflect at the altar of political correctness.
We refused to denounce Trump and anyone who supported him.
We refused to mouth the bumper sticker thinking of Progressivism.
Before we cast stones at those who were taken in by Soviet Socialism, let’s look at the DSA in our own house.
Communism, socialism, progressivism, antifaism, resistance. Lots of different words. Only one plan: REDISTRIBUTION ( WE WANT WHAT YOU GOT). Never goes out of style because it appeals to base instincts of jealousy and envy.
All great and then the money runs out
PETER DINKLAGE as ODYSSEUS
Love Suzy!
BUT, when they remake the movie Clueless, Weiss will be a great casting choice for Alicia Silverstone’s role.
My carping over casting in the Odyssey is not that the movie is historically inaccurate because of casting but rather it is the hypocrisy of Woke.
Heck, I wouldn’t care if Peter Dinklage played Odysseus if he was brilliant in the role.
Movies are as Suzy correctly points out “pretend.”
Lupita Nyong’o’ is fine as Helen.
I like so many others would love to see the brave producers in Hollywood practice the open-mindedness they preach.
How open would they be to a bio-pic on Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson with Mel Gibson in the title role?
Open-mindedness that runs only one way is not open-mindedness.
It is hypocrisy.
And that Suzy is what the carping is about.
Hammer hits nail on head.
Frankly Lanny I am on to other things but did see that Musk hopes to make an AI Odyssey by year end that will be very true to Homer.
I chuckle when I think about how casting directors of yore had to pick or find the perfect actor or actress for many roles. The story about Vivian Leigh for scarlet ( you know who) is a very interesting one..Maybe above i should have just said: Frankly Lanny, I dont give a damn anymore
Well...."Fiddle-de-dee"
😉😉😉😉😉
THE GOAT OF ACRONYMS: AWFL.
Its perfection is reestablished every single day
Could not agree more!
I've been blessed with a wife more conservative than me. I started voting in 1980. Since then, I've only voted for two Democrats in thousands of elective offices on the ballots. One was a neighbor I knew to be a good man for public office. The other was Obama in 2012. My wife beat me by never voting for any Democrat anywhere anytime.
Our marriage doesn't have any political controversies other than that one time I voted for Obama.
Glad you snapped out of that last one. Did it take a cher like slap from Moonstruck ? 😉
Trump snapped me out of it. He was the Republican candidate I'd been hoping for since Reagan, at least in governing policy.