Koyaanisqatsi
I saw it for the first time tonight. I hated, hated, hated this movie. All form, no substance. And don't give me that "It's a deep message about the environment." It's pretentious nonsense, and I hate you for even defending it.
It's scored by Phillip Glass, so I should have known. Although, the score does include a song where the title is sung repeated for a 5 minute stretch, so I guess I can't criticize the music that much.
All in all, this seemed less a real movie, than a fake movie that would be displayed in a movie or sitcom as an example of a pretentious movie.
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No dude you should totally see it. If nothing else for that moment about three minutes into to it where you realize that it is just going to be image (and frankly they were sell shot images) after image, without content.
I saw the comment on Koyaanisqatsi and tend to agree about this movie and it's counterparts. This is mainly about the visuals... it really is to be considered art more than a movie. I see this playing in an art museum, not my big screen.
By the way, my director for the 48 Hour film festival project owns it and encouraged me to watch it... I will tell him about this site so he can come defend himself, then you can flame him ;-)
Thanks, Taz
Sorry for any misspelling that might occur, but I'm just a school kid from Denmark - who enjoys Koyaanisqatsi.
Sorry for any misspelling that might occur, but I'm just a school kid from Denmark - who enjoys Koyaanisqatsi. And you would'nt run around, flaming a 13-yearold dane for having defended the picture you clearly haven't understood, would you?
I know the artsy fartsy defenders say "you just don't get it" Really? Seriously? 30 seconds in and I fucking get it already!
How daft do you have to be to NOT get it when the director sledgehammers a fairly simple and naive point home for over an hour?
Nature is beautiful and humans suck. But there's hope if we all watch pretentious crap films and call them brilliant.
It's like a mental marathon of tediousness. Only that's unfair to marathons. At least they go from one place to another. It's more like running in place.
Bottom line: An hour plus of my life that I can't get back.
But if I hate any piece of art, there's no way I want to hear someone persuade to me that I should go see it because it's "Good for me". You know what? Cod oil is good for me, but I'm not going out there every day and drinking fish fat. Listening to P. Glass's "score" to "The Hours" made me want to claw my eyes out.... with a rusty knife... that was heated to a red-hot luster. Because then, I wouldn't be focussing on P. Glass's score. And that would make me happy...
And that is the reason why I will never, ever watch Koyaanisqatsi.
Posted by: Mike at April 16, 2004 2:49 PM