claudewc

"It's for people who are just being exposed to them for the first time. " Whom this podcast wants to convince that Apocalypse Now is the product of some USC boys club living their Vietnam fantasies vicariously. (You can probably expand upon that theory by pointing out that the first voice heard in the film is that of USC's own Jim "You Wanna See My Cock" Morrison.) You can have fun and not be sloppy.

I'm pretty sure I am not the one responding to a challenge by digging in my heels. Where do I say that I want the podcast to echo "all" my beliefs? Don't drop a troothBOMByall that' is founded on some inane fantasy. I am also pretty certain that I have indicated why I no longer listen voluntarily to the podcast.

Hi, Eddy. I don't think you understand what web fora are for and why people do legitimate criticism (i.e., as opposed to film chat), even though you are past your callow mid-twenties. Some of us take this art-nonsense seriously because of the egregiously ugly state of reality. As you are well aware, you are (tactically) dismissive. But that is not really the right word. "Concern-trolly combative," maybe? The podcast had promise, but it got lazy and has established a framework that will lead inevitably to preferring The Sandlot over The Philadelphia Story. That's too bad.

Like another user, I was out for a hike while listening. Unlike him, I turned the damned thing off rather than listen any further to an episode that, within its first ten minutes, encapsulated virtually all the problems with this increasingly dispensable podcast: the "research," which (a) appears to represent the first ten things that come up on Google and (b) stake out a theoretical position that obviates any need to engage with the film critically; the presentism, especially insofar as it can be deployed to destabilize the status of an earlier generation's masterpieces (i.e., without examining whether these films are merely "of their time"), the stupid voices that are supposed to signify "jus' hangin' out with my filmdawg"; ALL the stupid voices. I don't know how to trust a critic who views the helicopter attack scene as *murka hay-ell YEAH!! and not a knife's-edge satire of warmongering machismo. I don't know why I would want to listen to eighty-ish more episodes if we've already decided that Westerns Are Bad and Silent Movies Are Boring and Let's Kill Off the Seventies' Darlings.