“This model can also be found in the aisles of supermarkets, where you’re offered a bite of cheese on a toothpick. After you eat it, you know everything there is to know about that cheese except what it would be like to eat a pound of it.”
— Roger Ebert on movie trailers. (via Cheat Sheet)
“Put simply, we’d rather stay home, and movies are made for people who’d rather go out.”
— The Day the Movies Died - a gripping read about the sad state of film production in the US everywhere. It’s easy to blame greedy philistine producers, but the truth is most grown-up audiences rather stay home watching Mad Men — quality audio-visual time indeed, but part of a vicious circle that’s turning movie theatres into branches of Toys’R’Us…
“If you fail, says Watanabe, you will stay in limbo, which means spending the rest of your life developing dynamic solutions for leveraged market-driven global enterprise frameworks across downstream cross-platform industry. If you succeed, I will help you return to your former career as an independent boutique retailer of imported artisanal tapenade.”
— So funny in a strange way, even though I loved Inception: Christopher Nolan’s Implementation
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“Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers’ worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot.”
— Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie — This review of Transformers 2 is one of the funniest I ever read. I haven’t seen it yet and I’m pretty sure it’s a horrid movie but still this review made me want to watch it: It’s like a road accident ahead, you can’t avoid wanting to look. But perhaps I’ll wait for the DVD, so I can organize some drinking games.
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