Director: "We need some sort of lid for this perfume bottle."
Justin Bieber: "Here's a toy I accidentally stepped on from the Happy Meal I ate on the way to the shoot."
If they'd used a bright, colorful and unique version of traditional animation instead of this gloomy and soulless CGI, wouldn't it be more popular with critics and people in general? Since everybody is doing this shitty CGI now, it seems like going against that would make it stand out so much more. Or maybe I'm really old and should just die so kids can enjoy the Polar Express-ification of all movies.
I don't understand how people can disassociate the images in these movies from what they read in the books. You basically have to picture each character and monster or whatever as what they came up with for the movie. Having seen a couple in this series, I would think (hope) that the books are far more affecting. So why even see the movies? To see stuff from the book brought to CGI life? That seems so boring!
I could see this sport catching on, because the only stuff a ragtag group of kids in the neighborhood need to play it are a ball, a large goal box, a few large pieces of plastic with five identical circles in them, something to hang that plastic above the goal, and a large enough playing area to draw the 14 lines you need to differentiate the 54 types of goals.
Brandon, I feel like maybe critics and (most) fans are conscious that Radiohead makes music that takes time to digest and contextualize, and that since this record didn't have a lot of the immediate appeal of In Rainbows, that it will probably be later that we'll "understand" it. The problem (and maybe I'm projecting) is that nobody really wants to take the time to do any deeper listening to this record right now. I don't know if it's fatigue from all the new music or what, but people seem to be willing to give Radiohead the benefit of the doubt on King of Limbs without actually spending a lot of time with the record.
As for the whole "missing the game changing ambition" Pitchfork referenced, that's going to happen when a band releases a record every 3.5 - 4 years as opposed to the every-other-year-or-less cycle that most relevant (or whatever) bands seem to be doing. To me this is a good Radiohead record, but I can understand why people are underwhelmed. I have no idea if any of what I just said makes any sense.
"Emily, hurry up, we're going to be late for the Wednesday evening chapel service. The whole floor is going together!"
"Hang on, I have to finish uploading this karaoke Jock Jams video."
I wonder if these status updates will be as passive-aggressive as the ones I'm used to? "Certain cable subscribers make me so angry! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" (ten people like this)
Let Larry King keep doing the show until he dies, and then have his corpse and eventual skeleton host the show marionette-style using an intern's voice off-camera to ask the questions. Ratings problem fixed. CNN would also have more money for staff pizza parties because you don't have to pay money to a puppet skeleton host.
But Remains Calm And Collected And Finishes The Song Like A Pro