Showing posts with label stupid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stupid. Show all posts
Sunday, January 11, 2015
The Great BOJACK HORSEMAN Experiment
Disclaimer: I have since finished watching Bojack Horseman, and it is one of the best shows on television. I am leaving this post up as a monument to drunken hubris.
Long ago I watched the first episode of Bojack Horseman in an airport. I was so viscerally displeased that I immediately swore the show off and launched into a series of theories about the problems with Netflix's original content model.
A month or so later, a good friend of mine was texting me in the midst of his marathon session of watching the show. He agreed wholeheartedly that the show was very bad, but he found his experience of marathoning the show all at once inexplicably engaging, and he recommended that I do the same.
Now it is many more months later, and I finally have.
What follows is the live journal of my experience watching the entirety of Bojack Horseman, transposed from a notebook to the world wide web without any alterations. Just pretend you can see the handwriting degenerate as time passes.
This blog post is brought to you by Admiral Nelson's Spiced Rum.
Monday, September 15, 2014
PROXY: A Dead Baby Joke
In which our protagonists turn out to be antagonists and our antagonists turn out to be antagonists.
Director: Zack Parker
Writers: Kevin Donner, Zack Parker
Cast: Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe, Joe Swanberg
Runtime: 120 mins.
2013
Proxy is fundamentally deceptive. It's the kind of movie that makes you hate everybody, then tricks you into hating them for all new reasons that subsequently turn out not to be true. It tries to be high-minded and succeeds in being low-brow. It's a massive crock of M. Night Shyamalan plot twists, if Shyamalan turned out to be a teenager and also a sadist. It's like wandering through a winding maze full of cupboards, and behind each cupboard is a punch in the face. Proxy is deliberately designed to be a face-punching labyrinth.
So why, instead of just being hateful, is it also boring?
Labels:
assumed empathy,
genre,
Joe Swanberg,
non-conventional narrative,
stupid,
thriller,
Zack Parker
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