When the Money Shot is in the Trailer.
Ok it’s official: “Beowulf” must suck, because the trailers currently on the tube include the monster. Arguably, the teases of Angelina & tail are a close second, but once they released trailers (post-opening) of the monster, I think Mgmt was scared. I look at this movie and say “Who the hell wants to pay $10 to watch a GAME?” What was Zemeckis THINKING? Then it has occurred to me that we have SO lowered our standards of media-quality, that why not? Machinima will be in the Oscars next year, and will win within 5. You heard it here first, folks. I’d say MP3’s were first, but really, cassettes started it. The acceptance of lower quality for greater convenience has been a trend. Friends, I wear hearing aids, and even I can tell the difference between an average MP3, a really GOOD MP3, and a fucking excellent analog recording. I even have had the pleasures of listening to content right off the world’s first (production) digital recorder into what was then one of the best sound systems in a theater, and let me tell you: we’re paying 99 cents for barely-above-crap and loving it. Oh, I’m guilty, I love my portable Library of Congress of music. And “digital” cable? Or DTV? I can see the compression artifacts in almost everything. The trend toward LCD’s isn’t just cuz they’re flat: it’s because their low response time hides the MPEG clots, and poor contrast-ratio buries the loss in the compression. No one even notices!!! BluRay vs HDVD? Oh please, give me T-grain Kodak. Which will soon be gone, unless HP buys them AND decides to preserve the chemical engineers’ jobs. Two unlikely outcomes together. Sorry to be pissed, dear reader. I’m just tired of being fed crap and told it’s truffles.