editorial

[mutinyco]

We've started a weekly editorial at MovieNavigator. To see our first installment go to:

http://movienavigator.org/editorial.htm

[ono]

That text needs to be darker.

And your editorial was wandering, baseless, and had no point.  And Finding Nemo was brilliant.  Sheesh.

[mutinyco]

make your screen darker.

[ono]

make your screen darker.

No.  As a web designer, it's your responsibility to cater to your users.  Not the other way around.  Try picking up a web design book or something.  I had to highlight all the text just to be able to read it.

[mutinyco]

Actually, you're the only person who's complained. Most people have offered compliments. I, myself, like gray. It stays. Sorry you had trouble reading it.

[mutinyco]

You're right. It was wandering and baseless. It was intentional. It's merely a series of thoughts. Anything I think about that's worthy of tighter plotting and greater elaboration would wind up as a full-length essay.

[modage]

I wound up turning off 2001: A Space Odyssey after 25 minutes. If this is one of the best films ever made, then we're in worse shape than I thought. Under no circumstance should a movie featuring a bunch of monkeys eating and beating each other up be considered the best film. Twenty-five minutes of these stupid simians going about their daily lives was more than I could handle. The plotting was predictable and, technique aside, what I saw was insipid.

[ono]

Great pic, modernage!  

And if you want a little more constructive criticism, good editorials should have some sort of goal in mind.  What you have there is not an editorial.  It's a ramble, and you could easily make three well-thought-out editorials out of it if you took the time and effort.  But this is not something you should pass off as good writing.  I remember your great essay on Eyes Wide Shut.  That's what you should strive for.  No one wants to read rambles.  They're akin to blogs, and 99.9% of those are boring, too.

[mutinyco]

Thanks about EWS. But this was exactly what I intended it to be. Yes, it was more in the form of a blog. But that's how I'm approaching it -- as I said, if I have anything of any length to say, I'd simply write is as its own essay. (We do have an essay page.) But for this, all I intended for it was a jumble of ideas. Most of the articles at the site take a while to do -- transcribing, writing, photography, illustration. It feels good just to write something loose and rambling.

And as for the picture, rock on!

[mutinyco]

Though the 2001 bit was kinda dumb.

[Gold Trumpet]

From the editorial: "I miss fighting and fucking in movies. Finding Nemo certainly could’ve used a bit of that."

Where is any logic in that?

~rougerum

[mutinyco]

Well, what exactly didn't you understand? I miss when movies showed fighting and fucking. I sarcastically suggested Finding Nemo would've been better if it had had some.

Is the sky still blue?

[modage]

Though the 2001 bit was kinda dumb.

i believe i was suggesting that you cant judge a movie by the first 25 minutes.

[mutinyco]

Generally speaking you're right. I don't like cartoons to begin with. But my feeling was that if I'm paying I want my money's worth. I have no threshold for cutesy cartoons.

[Sal]

Generally speaking you're right. I don't like cartoons to begin with. But my feeling was that if I'm paying I want my money's worth. I have no threshold for cutesy cartoons.

That is not a justified argument.