Benson: Gimme a break. Do you think that Hollywood doesn’t have a straightjacket on today, and more so?
I always give you a break, Benson. Hollywood’s straightjacket today is the fact that it has gone off the runners, has no structure, no nothing, relys on technical effects, poor storytelling, and generally is crap. I am saying what the criticism of that era’s movies (1950s) is. Some of the lesser movies of that time are a screaming June Cleaver bore.
As I have written here I experienced acute childhood traumatization and rupture of trust with my mother over her prolonged insistence of the existence of Santa Claus.
The evil continues……..
Hi. I am going to be installing natural linoleum soon and I am pretty sure I am going to need a new sub floor. Can anyone recommend a company that has formaldehyde free plywood? I want to go as eco friendly as possible.
Thanks.
Benson, some might say that the feel good, do-right, moralistic bent of the Hollywood movies of that era were a kind of straightjacket on freedom, but I think Capra was fabulous. I think he was influenced by Italian movies – I always loved Scorcese (working with DeNiro and Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesce) because he is really part of that whole Italian tradition. But then he got frozen into doing the same mob films over and over again. And it got old and stale.
Donatell/benson, Norma Desmond summed it all up quite nicely:
“I AM big. It’s the pictures that have gotten small.”
Imagine if Ryan Gosling or someone comparable volunteered for Afghanistan?
Benson: Gimme a break. Do you think that Hollywood doesn’t have a straightjacket on today, and more so?
I always give you a break, Benson. Hollywood’s straightjacket today is the fact that it has gone off the runners, has no structure, no nothing, relys on technical effects, poor storytelling, and generally is crap. I am saying what the criticism of that era’s movies (1950s) is. Some of the lesser movies of that time are a screaming June Cleaver bore.
benson, please give us your architectural review of this new construction.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/building-blunder-in-brooklyn-23581653
As I have written here I experienced acute childhood traumatization and rupture of trust with my mother over her prolonged insistence of the existence of Santa Claus.
The evil continues……..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395204576024141664067226.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_10_1
After Jane Fonda, I think all the Hollywood lefty liberal dogooders are a bumch of hypocritical poseurs.
“Benson, some might say that the feel good, do-right, moralistic bent of the Hollywood movies of that era were a kind of straightjacket on freedom”
Gimme a break. Do you think that Hollywood doesn’t have a straightjacket on today, and more so?
lechacal…from The Forum:
Hi. I am going to be installing natural linoleum soon and I am pretty sure I am going to need a new sub floor. Can anyone recommend a company that has formaldehyde free plywood? I want to go as eco friendly as possible.
Thanks.
“natural linoleum???”
Benson, some might say that the feel good, do-right, moralistic bent of the Hollywood movies of that era were a kind of straightjacket on freedom, but I think Capra was fabulous. I think he was influenced by Italian movies – I always loved Scorcese (working with DeNiro and Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesce) because he is really part of that whole Italian tradition. But then he got frozen into doing the same mob films over and over again. And it got old and stale.