Avatar Reviewer Review.
16 years ago
If foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, foolish devotion to novelty is the hobgoblin of small imaginations.
I find it telling that an effort at realizing a fantasy in ways that break new ground in terms of sensory concreteness and verisimilitude, is being criticised with such excessive ferocity by partisans of the school of selfconscious novelty that has proven itself creatively impotent, time and time again.
Do us all a favor, guys: go read free verse, listen to atonal music, and watch that long-ass colored landscape sequence from Kubrick's 2001, until you get over this. And if that fails, feel free to watch 162 minutes of static on your old TV. Every pixel a novelty!
I find it telling that an effort at realizing a fantasy in ways that break new ground in terms of sensory concreteness and verisimilitude, is being criticised with such excessive ferocity by partisans of the school of selfconscious novelty that has proven itself creatively impotent, time and time again.
Do us all a favor, guys: go read free verse, listen to atonal music, and watch that long-ass colored landscape sequence from Kubrick's 2001, until you get over this. And if that fails, feel free to watch 162 minutes of static on your old TV. Every pixel a novelty!
Wow. That was without a doubt THE most pretentious, overly-pompous sentence I've ever encountered on FA - and trust me, that's saying something. If you REALLY want to throw quotes around as though you're desperately trying to cover up the fact that you're a COMPLETE moron, maybe you ought to try 'Brevity is the soul of wit'. Think you can get around to wrapping your skull around THAT one before making yourself sound like even more of a jackass?
By the way, thanks a lot for confirming the whole 'immature moron' thing once and for all by blocking me from here. It's nice to know that you're so confident in the solidity of your argument that you have to FULLY confirm the fact that you have the mind of an 8-year-old with access to a dictionary by running away from dissent.
That's what I love about you, I don't need to provide any evidence for the fact you have zero credibility - you abundantly prove it true to the world all by yourself!
Calling something pretentious and pompous, not to mention using the term "overly" pompus, and hyphenated, no less, is another good example of projection. (That kind of redundancy reaches its most comical effect in the dialogue of one Mojo Jojo-- whom you more than passingly resemble.)
>> If you REALLY want to throw quotes around as though you're desperately trying to cover up the fact that you're a COMPLETE moron, maybe you ought to try 'Brevity is the soul of wit'. <<
I've been doing the Polonius speech at parties since before you were born, kiddo. I realize you're annoyed that I pointed out that your views on creativity are nigh-probverbially silly, but the Emerson was a perfectly obvious choice.
Almost as obvious as the fact that you've got a huge intellectual chip on your shoulder.
>>Think you can get around to wrapping your skull around THAT one before making yourself sound like even more of a jackass?<<
Oh, you told me! Whoo. I better sit down. (see also: projection, sarcasm).