NR, don't read my long rant, only Derek will find it interesting, just read the first 3 sentences, haha.
Hmm, well, Blood Simple isn't a Raimi movie at all, all he did was move a camera in a few scenes, so that's weird. Also, I am effected by how redundant a film is. I still am rating on entertainment -- I'm bored if I watch a Tarantino movie and he ripped off literally 30 minutes from another movie. Why watch the same old predictable crap when I can watch something unique? I mean, there are so many directors not doing anything interesting, just ripping off French New Wave films, literally movies from 40-50 years ago! What a joke. Tarantino just bores the hell out of me, aside from his first few movies, it's just crap I've already seen. And then true geniuses like Kitano are often overlooked. That is silly. Tsui Hark, DePalma, Ringo Lam, Brian Depalma, Kitano, Godard; all directors Tarantino has ripped off, and no one pays attention to their films. People need to expand their horizons. This isn't directed at anyone here, I post on IMDB and it really irritates me and it's something I don't get... see, I really don't understand how anyone even has the same tastes as anyone else -- we have access to EVERY movie, album, book, video game ever made. Literally a click away! Yet so many people have the exact same tastes, because they don't explore... I don't understand that. It's like with bands... so many bands doing the exact same shit, they are CONSCIOUSLY doing it, too... when I make music, I try to approach it as if I've never heard any other band.. I try not to pay attention to "theory" or "structure"... I think 99% of bands are purposely trying to sound like other bands. There's unlimited possibilities for sound, for structures, for riffs, for melodies, etc... then, why do so many bands sound EXACTLY alike? They're trying to! I mean, there's nothing wrong with homages, with tributes, with people doing the same thing -- but don't think I'm going to respect that, or enjoy it. I watch a thousand movies a year, and I get tired of the same ol' same ol'. On the other hand, over in Japan, despite the general sense of compacency and companies producing a billion sequels and so on.. there is still originality. Would a film like HANGING GARDEN
ever come out here? No way! And that's one of the most GENIUS films ever made... but you'll never see that here. THE BIGGEST FILM OF THE YEAR last year was Love Exposure...... GODDAMN, I loved that movie. 4 hours long. Kung fu, transgender romance.. the best thing is that it's all about panty shots. And it made millions and millions of dollars. It was unique, it was hilarious, and no one here cares, and no one would even DARE to do ANYTHING this film did. THat's really sad to me. Unique movies/music/books/video games are dead. It's always been about money, but now more than ever, in America's fucked-up cellphone culture that doesn't care one iota about art, only about ripping off the best ideas and making it their own.You're either an artist or a craftsman. Why do I even bother "Expeirmenting" when I know I can do another shitty slasher film and people will cum over it? That's why I made Blaze the Pot Smoking Deer, as a joke... my concept was "hey, I'm going to do a show about smoking pot -- I don't even smoke pot! I'm going to spend NO TIME on it, show NO EFFORT.. I'll do throw in a little bit of my trademark weird tendencies.. but otherwise, I'm going to flat-out sell-out and see what happens!" Sure enough, it is my most successful work, winning awards, and so on and so forth. I am going to submit it to Adult Swim in the hopes that I'll be rich and famous. A rich and famous artist in my town who regularly sells $10-15 thousand dollar paintings told me I need to just do Blaze and I could be a millionaire. I am purposely selling out, and it feels great! Because it proves that you just feed into the simplicity of life and existence and cellphone culture and "ipad" "ipod" "iphone" "hdtv" "Bluray" BULLSHIT and don't make ANYTHING WITH A SOUL and you will be rich and famous. Why create art? Why do anything that has meaning attached to it? Make the simplest shit ever,.. that's how you get fucking rich. I'm not bitter, because I am very happy I have achieved what I have achieved, it's not about me, it's about the difference between American culture and the rest of the world. See, because most movies coming out are remakes of sequels of homages of tributes to regurgitated tired lazy crap with the same predictable shit that uninspired directors are biting, scraping, clawing at, to emulate some remnant of the remains of the French New Wave. But what about the Japanese New Wave? PASTORAL TO DIE IN THE COUNTRY is the best fucking movie ever!!!!!!!!! Why did no one care? Will anyone ever care? Nope -- not in America!
,Moral of the story? Watch Love Exposure, if you have 4 hours to kill!
You know what's really weird, though? That there hasn't been a Battle Royale ripoff film in America yet... I thought for sure Tarantino would have done that already.