Comments on: The Back Page http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2009/11/the-back-page/ We're Nuns and we have Rulers! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: michael, St E http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2009/11/the-back-page/comment-page-1/#comment-178 michael, St E Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:24:14 +0000 http://noprisonersnomercy.com/?p=873#comment-178 "Well Michael, as Sigmund Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just cigar and a movie that just for fun and action is the same way." Happily, if the audience sees more than a cigar it doesn't matter what the author intended. :) But anyway, isn't it a good thing that critics can report back that "Movie was great for fun and action; sadly no brain?" That the market be challenged, and that movies which can provide full-spectrum entertainment be recognised? Because if a movie is well-written they can provide both cigars and allusion. It isn't an exclusive-or option. “Well Michael, as Sigmund Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just cigar and a movie that just for fun and action is the same way.”

Happily, if the audience sees more than a cigar it doesn’t matter what the author intended. :)

But anyway, isn’t it a good thing that critics can report back that “Movie was great for fun and action; sadly no brain?” That the market be challenged, and that movies which can provide full-spectrum entertainment be recognised?

Because if a movie is well-written they can provide both cigars and allusion. It isn’t an exclusive-or option.

]]> By: Sr. Julie http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2009/11/the-back-page/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Sr. Julie Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:36:59 +0000 http://noprisonersnomercy.com/?p=873#comment-167 Well Michael, as Sigmund Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just cigar and a movie that just for fun and action is the same way. And R.W., what you said reminds us of what our old NCOIC used to say: "If a soldier couldn't complain she wouldn't be happy." Julie Well Michael, as Sigmund Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just cigar and a movie that just for fun and action is the same way. And R.W., what you said reminds us of what our old NCOIC used to say: “If a soldier couldn’t complain she wouldn’t be happy.”

Julie

]]> By: R.W. Harper http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2009/11/the-back-page/comment-page-1/#comment-166 R.W. Harper Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:36:06 +0000 http://noprisonersnomercy.com/?p=873#comment-166 As we say in game development, "If they ain't bitching about something, then they ain't playing it." As we say in game development, “If they ain’t bitching about something, then they ain’t playing it.”

]]> By: michael, St E http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2009/11/the-back-page/comment-page-1/#comment-165 michael, St E Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:50 +0000 http://noprisonersnomercy.com/?p=873#comment-165 "Faulting Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for lack of a plot makes about as much sense as the same feeble attempt at faulting Transformers 2 for the same reason. It’s like reading “The Bobbsey Twins at the Sea Shore” and faulting the author for not being Shakespeare. My response to author Lou Kesten is the same as my response to author Dann Gire: If you want depth, go rent an Ingmar Bergman movie." That's something of a charter for despair in popular culture, isn't it? Why can't mainstream "blockbuster" forms of entertainment be well-written? Why can't we expect them to be entertaining on several levels simultaneously? It's not as if the "add some good writing" actually costs very much money, just :effort:. “Faulting Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for lack of a plot makes about as much sense as the same feeble attempt at faulting Transformers 2 for the same reason. It’s like reading “The Bobbsey Twins at the Sea Shore” and faulting the author for not being Shakespeare. My response to author Lou Kesten is the same as my response to author Dann Gire: If you want depth, go rent an Ingmar Bergman movie.”

That’s something of a charter for despair in popular culture, isn’t it? Why can’t mainstream “blockbuster” forms of entertainment be well-written? Why can’t we expect them to be entertaining on several levels simultaneously?

It’s not as if the “add some good writing” actually costs very much money, just :effort:.

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