I also gotta throw in my hat with pulp heroes, because that sounds awesome. Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Rocketeer, The Phantom, and Flash Gordon would be my lineup. If you wanted to add one more, Green Hornet would technically fit as a representative from more modern film.

Finally, on the Halloween front I gotta go with the John Carpenter idea. Shout Factory has been releasing a ton of his stuff on Blu-ray and the time is just ripe for it. Halloween, The Thing, Prince of Darkness, They Live, The Fog, In the Mouth of Madness. Maybe even Vampires just to be different.

“What? This isn’t as good as last time? Lame! This sucks now. Blah blah blah… I’m fickle and only see things in extremes.”

When we’re talking about Hollywood-Movies, including most Indie-Films, I think they are always storybased. At least, they try to be. I agree, that music can also be a storytelling medium (I saw Springsteen live a couple of days ago), but that was not the analogy I was making.

What I was trying to say simply was: If it’s a bad/mediocre song, its production values shouldn’t be the positive thing to latch onto. So, when talking about a movie, I dont think that great cinematography can make up for lacklustre storytelling.

I totally get, that that’s only my personal point of view. The reason I wrote my original post was, because I find it weird, that someone is fine with those problems in one movie (that “the internet-mob” tears apart), yet, feels the need to nitpick the same kind of things in another one (that the mob is not going after).

Okay?

Pffff … I find internet-discussions really, really stressful No matter how many smilies I put in a (critical?) post or how well I try to explain myself, it always seems to come across as kind of bitchy. I apologize. I really do, if necessary. It’d all be so much easier, if we were sitting in a bar, drinking beer. Or wine. Or a cocktail. Or eating Poutine!