Sometimes pop culture actually produces stuff that I find interesting. Like Jack Black's new film, Nacho Libre. I have high hopes for it (even though the trailor suggests it might flop) because the man who brought us Napoleon Dynamite is also behind this movie.
I have to say, I am a thousand times more excited about seeing the masked Mexican menace, Nacho, than that clownish looking terrorist in V for Vendetta. I don't know why I'm so dismissive of movies that try to be serious and ponderous. But it's like, you're trying to be so deep, you're just over doing everything.
Depth is in the everyday things, the little things, the unspoken things...the inarticulable things. It's a subtlety that gets totally trampled on with the "big-booted" efforts of "serious" movie makers like the Wajowski Brothers (sp?).
When you keep things light you let the truth of the matter shine through, instead of forcing it out like some metaphysical meat grinder.
1 comment:
she's using big harvard words again.
i had so much hope for the matrix.
it's like they took all the potential for depth in the movie, cut it out and substituted for easy, cop-out ending. how sad that the makers of matrix bow to dumbass consumer culture. it killed the one thing that was cool. sell outs.
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