is tom hardy mel brooks’ clone or son?
i rest my case.
i am not a fan of nolan anymore because he stopped making movies for the audience. he makes movies for himself. it is not so much that i dislike nolan. he seems like a smart and hard working guy. it is that i dislike all people who want to be artists after they make money. and they fail miserably. no one will ever be an artist after they make it commercially in something else. never! accept it. drunkirk is crap exactly because nolan pretends to be an artist and fails at it. dunkirk movie is not art. it is not entertainment. only third option is that it is crap.
here is a list of other things i dislike in dunkirk:
– glorification of the traditional european imperial social pressure which made average folk go into war to protect the interests of royals. humanity had to suffer through these nasty wars throughout 20th century. in 21st century we do not need this kind of nonsense anymore. that stupid “you are a coward for not killing the [insert enemy european nation state]” attitude has hopefully died half a century ago. but nolan brought it back in his 1930 propaganda movie dunkirk. bollocks. imho directors who want to make war movies should experience war, like oliver stone did. then try to motivate kids into an idiotic sense of nationalism (not patriotism!) which gets them to murder. fuck you nolan.
– dunkirk feels small. real dunkrirk involved almost half a million people. movie feels like its maybe 134 people on one beach. i understand nolan hates cgi, but he could have shot the movie in albania with 10,000 extras that cost half a euro. that would give it some “production value”.
– all the dunkrik escape ships and boats seem half empty. while 10 people on a boat might seem horrible for rich people, to an average chinese this seems like a luxury cruise. if i was running away from death i would squeeze about 14 times more people on those boats. for example, this is how a mob motivated to escape looks like (again thanks to albania):
– nolan seems to be unable to create any emotional effect. he is a technician. not a software but a hardware technician. there are no emotions in his films, just good hardware use. things happen, advertising convinces you that it is cool and you watch it, and that is it. i watched war for the planet of the apes which has a billion tons of emotion in every second, and even the best 5 mins of nolan’s work can not compare to the worst 1 min of that movie. nolan’s directing belongs to the 90s and 2000s. the future is reserved for real movies which return to the origin of the emotional moments. think battleship potemkin. spiderman homecoming is also amazing. best marvel movie so far. pure fun.
– the annoying copy paste hans zimmer music is all over the place. i was browsing my phone for most of the time, and then i hear the music and it tricks me into thinking something is actually going on in the film. i take a look and i see nothing. i see people dying, fighting, whatnot but nolan does not convince me to care for anyone or anything. it is amazing how a bad directing can make the most horrible images seem like watching the paint dry. it reminds me how good directing can make me care about the smallest thing, how it can transport me into a whole universe hiding in a nanosecond. i can at least thank nolan for a reminder of what is actually good.
– the first few minutes are the most unrealistic war scenes ever. i mostly felt sorry that the protagonist did not get to take a shit. watch it. you will see what i mean.
i thank nolan for insomnia. that is a movie he made for us. it is a masterpiece. now that he is trying to become an artist by making things for himself, he is really a bore.
i am a big fan of austin lee.
i first saw his paintings on the wall of rafael rozendaal‘s appartment in china town in 2015 and it spoke to me instantly.
i met him during meet in a nice restaurant new york city (see photos here).
i made a deal with him to exchange a poem for a portrait of our family, and he obliged. awesome! he seems to be the most perfect artist ever to paint a family portrait. i will surely write more poems about him. maybe a book.
you should check out his amazing show in kaikai kiki gallery or at least see photos on his facebook profile.
austin lee is a global force for good feelings.
done
– approx. half of my conscious life has passed
– 23 years since i started working
– i hope i will work for another 36 years, at least
– i have 3 kids: son, step-son, and step-daughter
– i will be a father for another 16 years (i hope my kids can move out at 18)
– i visited almost everywhere i wanted
– if i die today, i do not feel i missed anything
left to do before I die
– maybe one more kid
– i hope BEMapps.com reaches it goal to helping people have more business success
– make a project which helps people manage fitness
– make a poetry project which changes the minds of a really large audience
all three projects (business, fitness, poetry) are aiming to change the perspective of millions.
i hope i complete these three projects before i die.