08-17-2005
624) Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Tonight I'm sitting alone, digging up bones...
625) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. One of those works that gets more credit than it's due because of it's "importance." Take Nirvana for an example. There actual contribution to popular music is far outweighed by their place in it, i.e. Nevermind's release and subsequent transformation of the landscape of popular music. It wasn't a bad album, but it's success had more to do with timing and media hype than any inherent musical worth. People were so sick of what they were hearing that when something, ANYTHING, different came along they latched onto it. It's why none of the other successful "grunge" bands sounded anything like Nirvana. No one was looking for that specific sound, they were just looking for something that spoke to a sense of disatisfaction with popular music. Same with this. The movie itself is atrocious. The acting and direction has amateur painted all over it and the dialogue is laughable, but it spawned an entire genre by giving a voice to an unrepresented audience that wanted anything other than what Hollywood was giving them. So yeah, the movie sucked, but I can see why no one really dares to say so.
626) The Station Agent. Despite the weirdly dark turn this took near the end, I really enjoyed it. It was the model of "Tell Me a Story" film-making; simple plot/story that manages to hook you and pull you in even though there really isn't a lot going on. Has a shot to crack the top ten for the year.
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625) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. One of those works that gets more credit than it's due because of it's "importance." Take Nirvana for an example. There actual contribution to popular music is far outweighed by their place in it, i.e. Nevermind's release and subsequent transformation of the landscape of popular music. It wasn't a bad album, but it's success had more to do with timing and media hype than any inherent musical worth. People were so sick of what they were hearing that when something, ANYTHING, different came along they latched onto it. It's why none of the other successful "grunge" bands sounded anything like Nirvana. No one was looking for that specific sound, they were just looking for something that spoke to a sense of disatisfaction with popular music. Same with this. The movie itself is atrocious. The acting and direction has amateur painted all over it and the dialogue is laughable, but it spawned an entire genre by giving a voice to an unrepresented audience that wanted anything other than what Hollywood was giving them. So yeah, the movie sucked, but I can see why no one really dares to say so.
626) The Station Agent. Despite the weirdly dark turn this took near the end, I really enjoyed it. It was the model of "Tell Me a Story" film-making; simple plot/story that manages to hook you and pull you in even though there really isn't a lot going on. Has a shot to crack the top ten for the year.
626 down, 374 to go.
posted by Todd Jones at 11:48 PM
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