"What bothers me more is the critical attitude that reads a film like Dark Knight Rises as nuanced or..."

“What bothers me more is the critical attitude that reads a film like Dark Knight Rises as nuanced or complex due to its moral ambiguity… rather than, you know, a film that contradicts itself on literally every conceivable thematic level, to the point where the film is a giant grimdark mess of growling and posturing, sound and fury saying nothing. The flip side of that, of course, is that a film like Pacific Rim is treated as somehow naive or insignificant because it dares, gasp!, to have not just a unified message, but a quite positive, affirmative message, spoken not in the language of Lifetime movies or this year’s crop of Oscar-bait, but in the language of Metal, the language of force and bombast and people in giant fucking robots punching Godzilla in the face.”

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Sam Keeper on Pacific Rim (x)

Yes.

(via cherno-alphas)

I know I’m late to the party here. I’d always hesitated to reblog this because it felt a bit too much like patting ourselves on the back, but it’s just such a well-written piece and it has, I think, lots of salient insights into the way we intellectually digest all the movies we watch, not just Pacific Rim.

(via travisbeacham)

Oh my god, I’ve been having this exact discussion all week (I think. I’m pretty sleepy, so I might have misinterpreted it).

Anyway. It drives me crazy when people are like, ‘Wow, that was so deep…’ And then I watch and I’m like, no, it just didn’t make sense because the plot was shoddily constructed and the ending was poorly executed, but you don’t want to admit that you didn’t get it, so you take the stance of intellectual superiority and claim that it was ‘deep’.

There are deep movies, absolutely. Film is no more or less an artistic medium than any other.

But there are also movies that just fucking didn’t make sense, no matter what the filmmaker was going for.

Let me repeat: not understanding a movie doesn’t always mean a movie was intellectual and deserves deep pondering. Sometimes it just really, truly didn’t make sense.