matthew barney can suck my budget...
So this guy has got more hubris than i've got chutzpah. matt matt matt matt matt, you're a photographer, deal with it. the books are fucking beautiful, the objects are fantastic, well some of them; but the movies are boring and fucking pointless and i can't even begin to care. yeah i know all of that crap about how these are art movies, and shit, and you know what, i don't care. i've seen 'em all, and i don't know what the fuck is going on and moreover i don't give a shit, kurosawa weeps to see him abusing time the way that he does. the cinematography blows, the characters are uncompelling, and the art direction (which seems to be what he is banking on to carry this mess) is for shit when you compare it to the pacing of the films.
so yeah i stole the movie, no i won't say from where, and no i can't get you a copy because i destroyed my copy. the only way that anyone makes it through these things is if they are so brainwashed by artschool blather that they are convinced that boring=deep. the thing is boring=boring, that's it; or the othher way of surviving is to add your own running commentary to the person sitting next to you (it helps if you know the person and if they are on the same page as you).
this kind of thing only encourages more bad fucking self indulgent video work that goes nowhere and does nothing and gives the rest of us a bad name. i know everyone links this crap back to philosophy or oil painting or some such drivel, but seriously any work that pulls soley from such traditions is at the very best totally trite and completely contrived. philosophy can't even grapple with it's own shit, all of the three hour art movies in the world aren't gonna help. hell fuck it, you know what the philosophy guys liked, groundhog day, you know why, it was a solid movie that kinda dealt with philosophical shit. barney uses philosophy and theory to attempt to justify what is essentially a massive vanity indulgence.
http://scottpenkava.com/mstcm.html
ps, thanks to ruslan trusewych and cory arcangel for helping me decide how to do this one.
