Demographic of PTA fans

Started by Punch Drunk Hate, December 02, 2017, 12:25:34 AM

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wilberfan

I'll put this here.  Seems appropriate, demographically.


jviness02

Quote from: wilberfan on February 01, 2018, 09:49:25 AM
I'll put this here.  Seems appropriate, demographically.



This could go in the other thread about meeting PTA. He seemed pretty nice and giving of his time there.

Punch Drunk Hate

Labelling films based on gender appeal is lazy, but could you classify Paul films as being "guy flicks?" In a couple of lists that countdown the greatest movies for men, Paul got cited with Boogie Nights, TWBB, and The Master. The IMDB ratings showed a gender dispute between how they approach his movies with men rating them higher then woman. This is intellectually weak argument to have, but there gotta be something that turns females away from his work even though he's consider one of the best American filmmakers around.


Sources:  http://www.craveonline.com/site/762939-100-guy-movies-everyone-see#/slide/50


martinthewarrior

Quote from: ono on January 07, 2018, 11:08:21 AM
Here's where I'm coming from: Mean Streets bored me; Casino, while solid, is just Goodfellas all over again; and The Departed is not that great a movie and a remake to boot.  I haven't seen a couple of those on the list, but the point is, Scorsese isn't consistent and he repeats himself.  I don't deny he's made some great films.  Taxi Driver fits, but it's bro-nip if ever I've seen it.  Does that discredit him?  Nah.  But he sticks to the same genre.  A great filmmaker will do different things, and not keep going back to where he's comfortable.  Scorsese keeps going back to the crime well.  Plus, the films I've seen of his don't have an emotional resonance that makes for a great filmmaker.

This is an incredibly stupid hill to die on.

Freddie Dodd


jenkins

she's right that it's not interested in people at all, other than its protagonist. except i don't understand how she doesn't see how appropriate that is for a movie about capitalism

i've written about and irl chatted about pta as a romantic, and how every film of his expresses a need for love except there will be blood. it's his only loveless movie. if i sound like i'm defending the movie, it's my least favorite of his

polkablues

On the contrary, I think There Will Be Blood is as explicitly about a need for love as any of his other films, it's just the one with the protagonist least equipped to deal with that need.
My house, my rules, my coffee

jenkins

sure. another way to say it is it's the only pta movie in which the power of love does not manifest

polkablues

My house, my rules, my coffee

Drenk

That article went from backlash ("stop this silly gender essensialism") to "oh? so women can't have opinion?) in a few hours, and I find it hilarious. The Guardian is in serious distress. Reviews composed of two paragraphs, that kind of personal essay/fake criticism.

Vive le journalisme libre !
Ascension.

Alma

I guess with articles like this it always seems like it's being done to generate outrage and clicks, and it pretty much always works.

wilberfan

Exactly.  Which is why they keep doing it. 

Robyn

It seems like she has narcolepsy or some serious health issues to take care of. I hope she's well.

wilberfan

Quote from: Freddie Dodd on April 21, 2020, 12:45:44 PM
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That 'There Will Be Blood' Piece Blowing Up Film Twitter is Wrong, and It's Because Making 'Film Bros' Monolithic is a Bad Argument!

QuoteEvery few months or so, we get another one of these pieces that sets Twitter ablaze, inspires a bunch of angry reactions, and then eventually is forgotten in the next day or so, until another Bad Take arrives. It's cynical, sure, but that's how the business works. We need clicks to have jobs. Ad rates are in the dumps. Did you see that the price of oil was in the negative yesterday? Daniel Plainview would not be pleased!

QuoteIf the author of this piece legitimately didn't like There Will Be Blood, I get it. However, the entire piece is written in bad faith, and I'm amazed by some of the statements made hereā€”like the claim that the movie only "superficially" engages with Paul Dano's Eli and Dillon Freasier's H. W., as if those characters aren't explicit manifestations of faith and family that Daniel Day-Lewis's Daniel Plainview grapples with, and ultimately, to extreme emotional impact, rejects. The column reads less as a focused criticism of the actual movie and more of an attempted dunk on film bros and a rebuke of the bad men she's dated, but look, not everyone who likes There Will Be Blood is a film bro.

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