By: Tony D'Ambra
Jamie, I reserve the right to say that ‘Piss Christ’ is shit, and to say that a world-view that says “because evil is inevitable my incompetence and failure to fight it is somehow acceptable” is...
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“The negation of aesthetic, spiritual, and moral values has become an ethics; unruliness has become a rule.” Simone de Beauvoir, ‘the ethics of ambiguity’ Tony, sooner you realize we all don’t share...
View ArticleBy: Doniphon
In interviews Cormac McCarthy has said that he’s not interested in literature that doesn’t deal with the important things, that doesn’t deal with life and death. Ironically, Tony seems to be saying a...
View ArticleBy: Tony D'Ambra
Oh yeah, I forgot The Big Lebowski merchandise. As for Simone de Beauvoir, read The Blood of Others, and take a powder.
View ArticleBy: David H. Schleicher
David – LMAO – McCarthy has his merits, but he is no Faulkner. And I agree with your Chigurh assessment, though Bardem’s perfomance was worthy of the hubbub around it.
View ArticleBy: bobby J.
Well, Tony – count me in as a contratarian too! A cheap way to catch an audience attention, with it’s savage murder of the sherrif and a really mussed up ending, as if they got bored a stopped in the...
View ArticleBy: Longman Oz
I find this a very weird thread, especially with respect to the naysayers. The film is a pretty faithful adaptation of the underlying novel. Therefore, to say Coen-this or Coen-that in relation to what...
View ArticleBy: Jamie
Doniphon, certainly we all have different viewpoints on these things (hence why I called them subjective) and should discuss them, I am mostly commenting on Tony’s apparent need to add an insult at the...
View ArticleBy: Tony D'Ambra
For the record Jamie, I was not referring to your ego… [deep breath] mea culpa if I gave that impression.
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