The Flick Filosopher's Mail

[home]
[archive]
[new to video/dvd]
[articles]
[search the site]
[faq]
[join the mailing list]
[reader mail]
[links]
[awards]
[goodies]

archetypal@usa.net writes:
I read your review on Deep Impact, and I must say, you're absolutely right! We can't blame Hollywood for the gush of asteroid-slamming-Earth movies, cos it's the demand of moviegoers that ultimately motivates producers.

Deep Impact touched me to the core. I don't remember having cried so hard in any other recent movies. And yes, there were some totally insensitive people who chuckled and sneered when heroes died and families separated. I was confounded! There I was, bawling like a baby, while two men beside me were sniggering. Why?? I guess I shall never know.

Just for the record, I watched Armageddon too -- it doesn't have a chance. Not after a brilliant, moving film like Deep Impact. Sure, it's raking in the box-office gold. It has commercial success (so does any other dynamite-generous flicks), but underneath all that, it's nothing more than 2++ hours of mindless drilling inside the theater.

Erm, I've digressed. I meant to congratulate you on the wonderful site you've created. Reading what you wrote was a joy because you have some really astute perceptions. I just hope that you'll always have the time to maintain this site and write some more great reviews!
cheers,
archetype

The Flick Filosopher responds:
Thanks very much for your lovely comments. Sometimes I wonder why I bother with the site at all, but it's hearing from people like you that makes it all worthwhile.

respect@aros.net writes:
Thank you! I have been surfing the Internet looking for reviews of this grand and smart thriller/drama [Return to Paradise], but I was unable to find many. Most are quite negative. I don't know why, exactly, considering that it's the exact opposite of what summer entertainment is supposed to be. And these are the same critics who say that the summer movie season sucks. It's ironic that they condemn a film that is smart, intelligent, and well-acted for being slow, when they also condemn Armageddon for being too loud and fast. Also, do you think it's strange that Return to Paradise didn't even premier in the top ten of the box office, but The Avengers did? They are the exact opposite in quality, and they should have been switched at the box office. Oh well... at least I can rest assured that The Avengers will bomb, considering that it dropped out of the top ten in one week! If we don't support these types of films, they won't be made. I am sad by this thought.

The Flick Filosopher responds:
I don't think Return to Paradise's box office take is strange at all, because I'm a misanthrope and I hold the vast majority of the moviegoing public in contempt. A lot of the audience I saw Return to Paradise with seemed to miss most of the irony and drama of the film, laughing inappropriately throughout much of it.

newer mail | previous mail

[home] [archive] [new to video/dvd]
[articles] [search the site] [faq]
[join the mailing list] [reader mail] [links]
[awards] [goodies] [manifesto]

thechick@flickfilosopher.com

thechick@
flickfilosopher.com

Tell me I'm full of bull dinky. Tell me I'm right on the money. Tell me anything.

made with a mac