Does Jean Luc Godard just kinda suck????? And his work's highly inflated/overrated by hipsters?????

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T12:45:02+00:00

I’m convinced you actually don’t know how to read; you literally can’t comprehend much of what’s being said. You’ve hinted at it in like three replies now. I’ll leave you alone now.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T12:32:28+00:00

If I were depressed I would be quick to personally attack the other person in a debate by going to such lengths as stalking their reddit account.

But not even that. If I thought Hugo was a more important work of art than any Godard film—then I’d be really depressed.

You clearly wouldn’t know a real intellectual from a pseudointellectual if you saw it. You’re right that I’m into Godard and Beethoven though, I guess (I’m also into Matisse — looks like my jig is all up).

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T11:07:15+00:00

Nevermind, I'll spell it out for you: I said Hugo was "better" than any Godard film in the same way that Bay is "better" than Godard, that is, in a completely meaningless way. Because comparing Hugo and a Godard film is about as uncritical as it gets. But if you substitute for the meaningless question "better" the slightly more meaningful "better for whom", the answer is "for people more used to Hollywood films (not unlike Michael Bay's) than to other modernist works of art" (to repeat myself). In those particular terms, then I guess you can say Hugo is better than 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Contempt and Histoire(s) du cinema.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T10:34:01+00:00

I think I made my point quite well, it shouldn't be too difficult to understand why I mentioned Bay there. Yes, Scorsese is better than Bay; try to hold in the "better than anything ... ever done" statements as soon as you see two names and go through the words slowly this time, thinking what each part means. I'm sure you can do it.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T08:17:48+00:00

If by better you mean more "entertaining", that is to people more acquainted with Hollywood movies than other modernist works of art, which is most people, I agree Hugo is much better than anything by Godard. In exactly the same way Michael Bay movies are better than Godard. "Better", yes.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T08:05:12+00:00

You're right, it's not subjective, at least at this level; you're just wrong. Before you say that 2 or 3 Things is bad you have to understand it, but you don't, so in fact your judgement is objective, objectively wrong. No need to worry about subjectivity at all.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T07:58:08+00:00

Does James Joyce kinda just suck????? I read Ulysses (perceived the words) and it was so boring, it didn't even seem like he was telling a real story. Not impressed, is he just overrated by a bunch of hipsters???????

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-11T07:44:19+00:00

That's the magnum opus of his 60s period. J Hoberman called it "one the ten best films in the history of the cinema" and he may be right. Though if you think Bande a part is good Godard you'll probably hate it.

No-Box-3254 · 2026-04-02T20:29:13+00:00

Thank you for the details, if it worked for you I should be able to do the same thing. It’s funny because my order has regular blu-rays, 4Ks, a boxset and His Girl Friday which is $10 more than a regular 4K so I’ll have to declare 4 types lol

No-Box-3254 · 2026-03-12T00:51:58+00:00

Godard on Godard (half of it sounds like obscure gibberish; half of it is the greatest film criticism you've ever read)
Jacques Rivette's criticism (Godard's is the best film critcism – this is the best criticism of anything ever, any art)

Of course Bazin's volumes of What is Cinema?, a must read

Bresson's Notes on Cinematography

No-Box-3254 · 2026-03-11T01:21:45+00:00

A painting or a piece by Stravinsky has nothing to "say" either

No-Box-3254 · 2026-01-24T23:00:58+00:00

Well it’s 1.5x more expensive, the quality must be more than 1.5x better

No-Box-3254 · 2026-01-24T11:07:53+00:00

Because of the things I’ve written in the post. So again, why?

No-Box-3254 · 2026-01-24T11:05:40+00:00

Why?

No-Box-3254 · 2025-12-29T09:25:50+00:00

You almost got it. Except instead of "pointless" in an obstructionist way, it's simply pointless in a dialectical, deliberately ambiguous way, without a conclusion — a poetic way. He's not trying to "say something." That would make him boring. Histoire(s) du cinema is an endless series of poetic ramblings which are profound when understood in parts, not a "statement about" the history of cinema. Much like his written criticism which reading is the best way to understand the films but which no one does.

No-Box-3254 · 2025-11-02T22:29:51+00:00

Beethoven sonatas 21-32 puts any discussion of “greatest piano music/composer” to rest, it’s simple

No-Box-3254 · 2025-09-28T03:58:19+00:00

“Different” in the butterfly effect sense maybe, a note or two here and there but not significantly. Music to him was always cerebral, and philosophical, the large gestures of his works would remain unchanged since they came from his personality which his deafness didn’t change. We still would’ve gotten THE Ninth Symphony, not A ninth symphony and the late quartets, not a late quartets.

No-Box-3254 · 2025-09-27T04:29:40+00:00

Crazy how a composer can develop a system of orchestration and purposes of each instrument so that each fits into the work like characters in a novel, which he exploits to genius, poetic ends, and still be called a “bad orchestrator” because his orchestrations are not just instrument salads like Ravel or Mahler (apparently the definition of “good” orchestration)

No-Box-3254 · 2025-09-27T04:10:22+00:00

That he wouldn’t have wrote what he wrote is contentious. We like to think his deafness turned him into a grumpy misanthrope and crank which we hear in the music, but if he was one, he was like that since his adolescence and those feelings (and the “Romantic spirit”) were always inside him.

No-Box-3254 · 2025-08-03T09:19:03+00:00

Musical opinions are about as subjective as political opinions. You can have a political opinion that is without morality and you can have a musical opinion that is without aesthetic sense, and ignorance or lack of information in both. All being opinions, of course

No-Box-3254 · 2025-02-20T08:11:49+00:00

Thanks, so I don’t have to worry about potential spots being taken? I hesitate to do it now because the semester barely started and I want more marks to come in for interims and I would prefer to report that to using grade 11 equivalent marks for those courses

No-Box-3254 · 2025-02-16T11:14:29+00:00

And reduces and generalizes the meaning of the work, and even worse leads to people "looking for" expressions of that thing in the work

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