Oh, indeed. I think I am probably a few years older than you, judging from the cultural references. The one that made me think, hmmmm, was the sheer chutzpah of Fukuyama writing a book called The End of History. And look at us now...
I got to see it on 35mm last year! It was kind of a structurally perfect movie.
The use of lighting in the first Jurassic Park to make the dinos more threatening, as well as to hide the animatronics, was masterful. If only they'd do another one of those movies with practical effects. It's just been Chris Pratt holding his palm up at CGI blobs for years.I got to see it on 35mm last year! It was kind of a structurally perfect movie.
I think a lot of scifi movies from the 90s hold up well because they were right at the tail end of perfected practical effects and miniatures, and they had to be really careful about where and how they used CGI. Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, the Fifth Element, they all look like a million bucks
I saw this when it first came out in theaters. Loved it, still love it. I saw the 25th anniversary showing a few years ago, and it's so great on the big screen.
Especially for a thread on art and culture which unites generations.
Hating on Oasis unites generations!
I guess if they want art as well, there's always the opening line to 'Don't Look Back in Anger'. Iconic that opening line. Almost, if not, poetry.
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Nah. You'd have to have heard of them to hate them. I see them as kinda like Big Star or The Raspberries: The average people who weren't 16-25 during a particular few years' period might have heard a few of their songs a handful of times, but wouldn't know who it was or have any comparison between them and 50 other bands of the same era.
Thirty years later and I can laugh about how the fact that the 'cool' kids played 'Whats the Story (Morning Glory) every single fucking lunchtime throughout 1996 on the sixth form common room stereo means, in itself, that they weren't the 'cool kids' after all. Wonderwall still makes me irrationally angry.
Agreed, it’s fine cinematic craft for sure, up there with Jaws as a perfect example of a genre. Two was awful (aside from hoverboards) and Three was worse.
Hey, jamming out to this today. Thanks for posting this. They have kind of a Jesus and Mary Chain feel. Liking them.
Fun fact, her brother is Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves. Some of the songs are inspired by the book, and Hey Pretty has Mark reading from it in the song.
Bladerunner (1982) set a new standard on its first release, and the Director's Cut later improved it (getting rid of the voice-over, and adding the ambiguity at the end, with the last shot the paper unicorn on the floor by the lift).I got to see it on 35mm last year! It was kind of a structurally perfect movie.
I think a lot of scifi movies from the 90s hold up well because they were right at the tail end of perfected practical effects and miniatures, and they had to be really careful about where and how they used CGI. Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, the Fifth Element, they all look like a million bucks
I enjoyed that very much! It gave me tasting notes of Dido, Aimee Mann, maybe a little Alanis Morisette?
Glad you liked. There's a few tracks that may go on for too long, but for the time it came out she was a breath of fresh air. If you really want to hear something different her fist album released in 95, that one is a bit.... different.I enjoyed that very much! It gave me tasting notes of Dido, Aimee Mann, maybe a little Alanis Morisette?
I'm not sold on the little sampled interstitials, or the occasional vinyl scratching solos, but I'll definitely be coming back to this
Huh. That's fascinating. My kids love My Name is Nobody.
