Entertainment topics/genres/people you "don't get"

[woodstockbirdybird]

@Robbin_Hood

Some of his stuff is very clever. I guess you have to develop an appreciation for his style and vision.

I don’t know - that sounds suspiciously like “If you don’t like Tim Burton, it’s because you just don’t ‘get’ him”. I don’t really see his work as something you need to develop an appreciation for - it’s all pretty much at the surface, and he’s been basically churning out the exact same vision under different titles since he began (Ed Wood was a departure, and the only film of his I really enjoyed). Even his visual style gets old to me after the umpteenth iteration.

[pepperlandgirl]

@woodstockbirdybird

I don’t know - that sounds suspiciously like “If you don’t like Tim Burton, it’s because you just don’t ‘get’ him”. I don’t really see his work as something you need to develop an appreciation for - it’s all pretty much at the surface, and he’s been basically churning out the exact same vision under different titles since he began (Ed Wood was a departure, and the only film of his I really enjoyed). Even his visual style gets old to me after the umpteenth iteration.

If you think about it, Ed Wood fits right in with the rest of his films. They’re all about frustrated yet naive loners who long for recognition/validation from a world that shuns them even though that world is so cold and distant from them it barely exists at all. The hyper-realism of his films only emphasize that perceived and actual distance.

[Robbin_Hood]

@woodstockbirdybird

I don’t know - that sounds suspiciously like “If you don’t like Tim Burton, it’s because you just don’t ‘get’ him”. I don’t really see his work as something you need to develop an appreciation for - it’s all pretty much at the surface, and he’s been basically churning out the exact same vision under different titles since he began (Ed Wood was a departure, and the only film of his I really enjoyed). Even his visual style gets old to me after the umpteenth iteration.

Welll, that’s not what I said or what I meant. I don’t like all of his stuff. Some of it just grabs me more than others because it’s particular quirkiness appeals to me.

[jordanr2]

@pepperlandgirl

Horror movies are really about the physical integrity of the body and all of the ways that that physicality can be violated, protected, restored, or demolished.

this is exactly to the point. The best of horror movies - even ones that are frequently, stupidly dismissed such as Wolf Creek, bring the reality of the human body to the forefront. In doing that, they bring one closer to the experience of life rather than seducing the viewer away from these experiences through voyeurism, overwrought sentiment and distancing wit. We’re trapped in our bodies, regardless of how much we’d like to forget that fact, and the best horror films bring this truth back poignantly - and in the same step, have the potential to restore to us whatever sense of the richness of life we might have lost.

[C.Montgomery_Burns]

1. Douchbag teen vampire movies.
2. Anime.
3. Anything involving wizards and elves.
4. “Comedies” that are only a collection of profanity and vulgar sex jokes. Could also include the recent infatuation with watching people vomit.
5. Michael Moore movies.
6. Kardashians.
7. Tyler Perry presents Tyler Perry in a Tyler Perry film: Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry Film. A film by Tyler Perry.
8. Mad TV.
9. Ashton Kutcher in anything but That 70s Show.
10. 24 hour news channels.