If Normal Movie Reviews Aren't Pretentious Enough For You...
Let me tell you about one of my favorite sites. It has been one of my regular sites
for a while but it has always been ugly. Recently they had a redesign. I am talking about The Onion A.V. Club. You may or may not know about The Onion. It is a news site with fake news. The White House recently sued them to stop them from using the Presidential seal. Apparently the president is the only one allowed to make the president look stupid. Well this fake news site has a very real review site.
The Onion A.V. Club reviews movies, music, books and graphic novels, dvds, and videogames. Their reviews are uber-pretentious. I doubt they have ever given a good review to any movie with Ben Affleck in it. Their best of the year music lists are filled with indie fare. And they review dvds of movies that probably haven't been in theatres outside of L.A. or NY. I don't usually take their reviews too seriously but it is a good place to find movies and bands that you probably have never heard of. They even have downloadable songs from some of their favorite bands.
They also have some non-review sections which tend to be funny. For example, in Commentary Tracks of the Damned, they listen to the commentary on crappy movies like Batman & Robin basically having the makers of a crappy movie defend their movie or at least explain why it turned out so crappy. My favorite non-review section is the column called Savage Love. This column is not for the easily offended or even some of the not-so-easily offended. It is mostly an advice column for people who are into wierd things sexually. This goes beyond gay or straight this column is where you will find people asking about wheelchair sex, living as a male prostitute, and men who like to be dressed like babies (diapers and all). The author also recently coined a disgusting definition for the last name of Senator Rick Santorum because of his constant campaigning against gay rights. The best thing about the site are its Features. They have interviews with all kinds of people and usually they are funny people like the recent interview with Sarah Silverman that could only be done by email. I am adding this site to the links. I hope you guys check it out.
for a while but it has always been ugly. Recently they had a redesign. I am talking about The Onion A.V. Club. You may or may not know about The Onion. It is a news site with fake news. The White House recently sued them to stop them from using the Presidential seal. Apparently the president is the only one allowed to make the president look stupid. Well this fake news site has a very real review site.
The Onion A.V. Club reviews movies, music, books and graphic novels, dvds, and videogames. Their reviews are uber-pretentious. I doubt they have ever given a good review to any movie with Ben Affleck in it. Their best of the year music lists are filled with indie fare. And they review dvds of movies that probably haven't been in theatres outside of L.A. or NY. I don't usually take their reviews too seriously but it is a good place to find movies and bands that you probably have never heard of. They even have downloadable songs from some of their favorite bands.
They also have some non-review sections which tend to be funny. For example, in Commentary Tracks of the Damned, they listen to the commentary on crappy movies like Batman & Robin basically having the makers of a crappy movie defend their movie or at least explain why it turned out so crappy. My favorite non-review section is the column called Savage Love. This column is not for the easily offended or even some of the not-so-easily offended. It is mostly an advice column for people who are into wierd things sexually. This goes beyond gay or straight this column is where you will find people asking about wheelchair sex, living as a male prostitute, and men who like to be dressed like babies (diapers and all). The author also recently coined a disgusting definition for the last name of Senator Rick Santorum because of his constant campaigning against gay rights. The best thing about the site are its Features. They have interviews with all kinds of people and usually they are funny people like the recent interview with Sarah Silverman that could only be done by email. I am adding this site to the links. I hope you guys check it out.
posted by Oscar at 9:41 PM
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even if I do think they have pretty crappy tastes in music.
I really enjoyed this article by them:
Director Peter Berg earned well-deserved praise for (mostly) avoiding Hollywoodizing touches when adapting H.G. Bissinger's now-classic account of the 1988 season of a high-school football team situated in the heart of football-obsessed West Texas. Friday Night Lights' original music further helped subvert any hints of sports-movie cliché, creating a mood of grandeur as fragile as a three-point halftime lead. Most of it came courtesy of Explosions In The Sky, a Texas band previously known (if known at all) for a small string of moody, powerful, post-rock instrumental albums released on small labels.
Recruited by music supervisor Brian Reitzell—who previously paired Air with Sofia Coppola to inspired effect for The Virgin Suicides—Explosions In The Sky shoulders the challenge. Though Explosions loses some of the pulsating volume of its proper albums on the Friday Night Lights soundtrack, its command of atmosphere remains in place. Building slow dramas from guitars used as instruments of both jangle and drone, Explosions creates a sound as elemental as track titles like "The Sky Above, The Field Below" and "Our Last Days As Children" suggest.
Daniel Lanois and David Torn each contribute likeminded tracks, with only a Bad Company chestnut breaking the mood. Though non-traditional as score music, Friday Night Lights follows a tradition of films that use ringing guitars to evoke the expansiveness of the American West, from Ry Cooder's work for Paris, Texas to Neil Young's Dead Man score to J. Mascis' contributions to Gas Food Lodging. Sometimes, spare sounds stir emotions the way lush noise can't—other filmmakers could stand to take that lesson to heart. Maybe that band in the smoky club down the street can do the job better than Hans Zimmer.
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