The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread
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iannis
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The real problem is that Weird Al isn't pretending to be that guy, Weird Al actually is that guy. And he has somehow managed to navigate his entire life without becoming... well, shitty.
He's Henson-esque in his way. Kind of a unique talent. He may not be the most spectacular talent (he's no slouch, either). I don't know if anyone could do that movie except Al. The thing that makes the movie work is his lightheartedness and sensibility,
Plenty of people could do spoof movies, even an entire skit series like Al did with UHF. But there's either going to be some nastiness that creeps in or some banality.
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TBT-TheBigToe
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iannis
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Meredith Monk is a lunatic and that was probably the piece she wrote for her MFA.
That station information that they showed at the start of the tape is that old boston channel. That was a production of high modern art. It was also early 80's. That sort of thing was in style in academic music. She has company in Steve Reich (slightly earlier than her, and frankly better at it) and Phillip Glass. who pretty much also sucks.
The popularity of that minimalist choral style gave way to bloviated huge orchestral arrangements which are just as nonsensical. The point of it was attempting to find purely emotive phrasing. that was seen to be more creative. And to be fair it can be in the right hands. Two different ways to try to do that. neither of them work particularly well.
I wonder if she did the choreograpy for it. she might have.
You can hear very faint echoes of it being in style in some of the more out there of popular bands of the early 80's. If you listen to early talking heads there are little bits here and there... they were aware of stuff like this and had at least listened to some.
To be fair here, it's a lot harder to produce that nonsense than you might think it is. There's a lot of technique that goes into something like that. And raw memorization by performers. But it is, at the end of the performance, a piece written for music majors by a music major.
That station information that they showed at the start of the tape is that old boston channel. That was a production of high modern art. It was also early 80's. That sort of thing was in style in academic music. She has company in Steve Reich (slightly earlier than her, and frankly better at it) and Phillip Glass. who pretty much also sucks.
The popularity of that minimalist choral style gave way to bloviated huge orchestral arrangements which are just as nonsensical. The point of it was attempting to find purely emotive phrasing. that was seen to be more creative. And to be fair it can be in the right hands. Two different ways to try to do that. neither of them work particularly well.
I wonder if she did the choreograpy for it. she might have.
You can hear very faint echoes of it being in style in some of the more out there of popular bands of the early 80's. If you listen to early talking heads there are little bits here and there... they were aware of stuff like this and had at least listened to some.
To be fair here, it's a lot harder to produce that nonsense than you might think it is. There's a lot of technique that goes into something like that. And raw memorization by performers. But it is, at the end of the performance, a piece written for music majors by a music major.
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Chukzombi
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Mike actually looked legit upset Shatner made fun of him. Jay gives no fucks and laughed in his face. Mike needs to move on and forget Star Trek. Mike it was a TV show in the 60s. then a different show in the 90s. its over, dude. i accept that Star Wars is dead, i dont cry about it.
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Shatner is a special snowflake who blocks people over the smallest and stupidest things. Source; was blocked by him over something stupid. The only celebrity I can name that was worse about blocking was John Cusack, even George Takei was willing to put up with more shit than either of them.
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When your heroes turn out to be shitlords. lol.
I mean imagine... an actor taking a professional dislike of movie critic. Not that mike has -ever- said anything bad about Shatner. I just imagine Shatner is naturally predisposed to not like him in the first place.
I mean imagine... an actor taking a professional dislike of movie critic. Not that mike has -ever- said anything bad about Shatner. I just imagine Shatner is naturally predisposed to not like him in the first place.
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kegkilla
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I found Turtle Dreams to be strangely hypnotic and found it hard to pull myself away from it.
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