ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:circuitface wrote:
I suggest The Holy Mountain, but it's badness is also in the eye of the beholder. Apparantly!
wat. I'd never have thjought that anybody might find this film trashy... I can see how people fail to connect with it (it is admittedly a very subjective experience), but trash? Come on.
I didn't call it trashy. My quote was from another user that said the original Clash of the Titans was garbage. If anything I labeled it as 'awesomely bad'... and it is, otherwise I wouldn't have watched it 3 or 4 times now. I find the whole thing to be very pretentious and artsy fartsy in a mommie-look-what-I-did kinda way. It's hilarious.
Metaphors and metaphorical imagery are wonderful storytelling devices but the movie overuses them to the point of ridiculousness. It works better if you find a way to fit the message and imagery into the context of reality instead of just going balls out creating what will outwardly appear as just a bunch of weirdness to the untrained eye. Not a very effective way of getting your message across to the simple-minded, am I right?
The whole movie is telling people to elevate themselves beyond their worldly desires and such, it even provides us with as many examples of human weakness as there are planets in the sky. The more simple minded someone is, the more susceptible to those weaknesses they'll be. If you want the average individual to take you seriously, you put it to them in a way they can understand and identify with. So, in effect, the movie comes off like Jodorowsky was trying to impress instead of get a message across.
I'm not trying to down on the guy. It was like what, the late sixties? Early seventies? Nobody had done anything like that back then, so thumbs up for ballsiness. I'm sure he wet a few hippie chick's panties and all he had to do was kill a few frogs and lizards on camera. It isn't selfish and ignorant to do that btw, as the value of life works on a scale of whether you are human or not. For instance, if you were born as a monkey or dog it would be perfectly acceptable for me to snap your neck on camera if it meant I was getting a message across and collecting a paycheck. You could even call it art.
I dislike it when people see nudity, blood, & feces on film and automatically equivalate it too 'genius'. In reality, most people who like the movie are probably just getting off to the anti-Chrisitian imagery of Jesus shitting in a candy dish. My personal favorite is the girl fucking a mountain though, makes me lol every time. If there's any genius to it, it's because the film finds a way to appeal to your base instincts all the while disguising itself as art. Like that dick statue in A Clockwork Orange, another over rated 'masterpiece'.
That said, I'm planning on checking out El Topo soon.
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