Comments on: The Movie Blog Uncut Podcast – August 3rd 2009

By: bret

bret — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:06:57 +0000

your rss feed for this never works. no matter how many times i subscribe over the course of 8 months.

By: probitionate

probitionate — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:13:26 +0000

John;

1) I’ll be very curious to see if you go back to what you’ve said in this podcast, when your film comes out.

2) Regarding Chuck’s comments about ‘Synecdoche, New York’… I hadn’t seen the film, but I took a look at the discussions online, and maybe this is a great example of how ‘pretension’ on the part of the filmmaker slips into the discussion, and becomes a far greater factor than the question of the audience not being ‘smart’ enough to appreciate a particular offering. (Having said that, I stand by my comment about general intelligence being much lower than a benevolent society would like to believe.)

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:19:26 +0000

Breaking News: True Lies 2 not happening
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0911251/

By: probitionate

probitionate — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:04:44 +0000

Not only are (many) people too stupid to get smart movies…

…but many (reasonably) smart people just can’t understand that what they ‘like’ is, in fact, crap. *Stupid* crap.

I find the latter a much harder topic to have a discussion about.

The truth is that people by-and-large are much, much less intelligent that we want to believe them to be. One only has to visit message boards for proof.

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:32 +0000

And I would completely 100% agree with Dan. You can draw comparison between cinema and fast food in that regard meaning that people will only pick something where they know what to expect and know what it’ll taste like. People are too scared to try new stuff I guess. But I don’t think we should accuse said people of having a lesser intelligence because of that.

And what’s wrong with the Pirates of the Carribean ride Christina?

Thanks for the show guys.

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:11:52 +0000

That’s cool. It bombed though-11th place and 3 M

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:10:45 +0000

Enjoyed it

By: Sound Designer Dan

Sound Designer Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:42:50 +0000

One more thing, did anyone see these bootleg “Kick-Ass” clips: http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/4-clips-from-the-movie-kick-ass-that-well…-kick-ass…-ahem/

By: Sound Designer Dan

Sound Designer Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:05:08 +0000

I think stupid is the wrong word to describe most audiences. I think the more appropriate word would be lazy. Why do most people shy away from remakes? It’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because they’re lazy. People want films like Transformers 2 because they expect their summer films to be like junk food.

Another thing is that what is the definition of a “smart” film?

By: EZELL

EZELL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:54:28 +0000

its over the age of 30