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Jan. 18th, 2008 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malsperanzaHaven't been here in a while, but am stopping by to post a small shout-out to Manohla Dargis for saying in her movie review in today's NY Times what I've been thinking for months about the repellent, offensive posters and trailers for "Cloverfield."
Unlike the crass, loutish profiteers who made this movie, I live in New York. For months I've had to look at posters in my city's subways and streets, advertising a two-bit, fatuous little commercial piece of Hollywood crap that has the witless bad taste to mimic images from the destruction of the World Trade Center for our cheap entertainment.
Here's the bit from the review that I liked best:
"Like Cloverfield itself, this new monster is nothing more than a blunt instrument designed to smash and grab without Freudian complexity or political critique, despite the tacky allusions to Sept. 11. The screams and the images of smoke billowing through the canyons of Lower Manhattan may make you think of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination. (The director, Matt Reeves, lives in Los Angeles, as does the writer, Drew Goddard, and the movie’s star producer, J. J. Abrams.)"
Movie-making this shallow is the very definition of corruption.
Blech.
Unlike the crass, loutish profiteers who made this movie, I live in New York. For months I've had to look at posters in my city's subways and streets, advertising a two-bit, fatuous little commercial piece of Hollywood crap that has the witless bad taste to mimic images from the destruction of the World Trade Center for our cheap entertainment.
Here's the bit from the review that I liked best:
"Like Cloverfield itself, this new monster is nothing more than a blunt instrument designed to smash and grab without Freudian complexity or political critique, despite the tacky allusions to Sept. 11. The screams and the images of smoke billowing through the canyons of Lower Manhattan may make you think of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination. (The director, Matt Reeves, lives in Los Angeles, as does the writer, Drew Goddard, and the movie’s star producer, J. J. Abrams.)"
Movie-making this shallow is the very definition of corruption.
Blech.
