Cultural Amnesty Thread.

[Kevin D]

Its ready availability and tendency to follow the same universal formula has made Internet porn really boring.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Eraserhead.

 

As some of you lot may have sussed, I'm a massive David Lynch fan, and as an intial peek behind Lynch's velour curtain, Eraserhead is a decent place to start.

 

But as a film, Eraserhead is hugely flawed.

 

Whilst the film looks incredible and it (re)introduces styles and themes, probably not seen in cinema for yonks, and Lynch conjurs an atmosphere so bleak and oppressive that by the end, you can almost feel the soot in your lungs, as a coherent story and narrative Eraserhead fails drastically.

 

And what the fuck was the ballerina in the radiator all about ?!

 

Art college, film school, 6th form, LSD head fuck.

[brucespanner]

Eraserhead.

 

As some of you lot may have sussed, I'm a massive David Lynch fan, and as an intial peek behind Lynch's velour curtain, Eraserhead is a decent place to start.

 

But as a film, Eraserhead is hugely flawed.

 

Whilst the film looks incredible and it (re)introduces styles and themes, probably not seen in cinema for yonks, and Lynch conjurs an atmosphere so bleak and oppressive that by the end, you can almost feel the soot in your lungs, as a coherent story and narrative Eraserhead fails drastically.

 

And what the fuck was the ballerina in the radiator all about ?!

 

Art college, film school, 6th form, LSD head fuck.

 

She's the link between sanity and insanity, real and imaginary, isn't she?

 

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[Remmie]

M Night Shyamalan.

 

What a fucking shyster this talentless cunt is.

 

To blame for some of the most horrific, agonisingly shite, terrible, unwatchable, cringe-worthy, vomit inducing, utterly appalling films ever to disgrace the cinema screen : The Village (my most hated film ever), The Happening (trust me - fuck all happens), Devil etc etc

 

Proof enough that The 6th Sense must have been a fluke...and that is way overrated.

Who rates him? No-one I know.

[brucespanner]

Who rates him? No-one I know.

 

Me, although I'm just an anonymous poster on an open forum, so I'm not sure that counts?

[Jairzinho]

Cats. They're just fucking shit really. Shouldn't even be pets.

[dirk grout]

Me, although I'm just an anonymous poster on an open forum, so I'm not sure that counts?

 

Now that should've been in your amnesty selections, not that bowie, pink floyd and the sopranos are shit.

[Yozzer]

Cats. They're just fucking shit really. Shouldn't even be pets.

 

Dylan, Nirvana and now cats! 'Kinell that's amnesty material right there.

[Kevin D]

Heat was shit.

[Owen]

Good thread.

 

Oasis, Stone Roses, and all that 'Madchester' bollocks, bunch of helmet-headed, badly dressed, tedious cunts. The Smiths can fuck off as well "Oooh I wanted a job!" and Joy Division, stupid depressed twat.

 

I feel liberated.

 

A thousand times yes! There has never been a good band from manchester. Not one.

[cochyn]

Most beatles songs, although there are a few i like

Most early Clint Eastwood films

'Arty' foreign films

 

...gets coat

 

Fess up - You think 'Any which way but cash in on a shit monkey-trucker franchise' is 'early', right?

[Magic Sponge]

The beans on a fry up debate gives me eye aids. I feel like setting my head on fire whenever it gets mentioned.

[jonnybastard]

The red hot chili peppers are shite. They churn out the same shite over and over and people think they're the bollocks. Well they're not, they're fucking shite.

[TheResonator]

Science. Alright, it's given us great medicinal and technological advances -- but enough is enough. I don't want to know everything about the world and the universe. I think science makes interesting things boring and strips ethics of all reason. Even though I have an iPod and a laptop, I'd be much happier living in a log cabin somewhere, surviving off the land, spending my evenings beside wood fires and dying when my body gives up.

 

Politics. Incredibly fucking tedious, broken system. One of my most passionate hatreds involves listening to people who know nothing about politics, talk about politics. Almost everybody involved in it is devoid of any tangible charisma, and this is typified by moonfaced protocunt David Cameron standing as the elected representative of the people of Great Britain, alongside Nick Clegg with the leader of the opposition - wait for it - Ed Miliband. There is no hope.

[Jim MM]

Velvet Underground- bunch of smart arses

The Beastie Boys- still sounds like they're playing pretend

The Who- glorified pub band

Rory Gallagher- goes on and on and on and on.

[robslappa]

Ricky Gervais - He's a fat middle aged cunt with a twat of a hair cut, who's beaten in the funny stakes by genital warts.

 

Russell Brand - Why?

 

Ben Elton - Champagne Socialist Cunt.

[Section_31]

I'll second Bob Dylan. Yap, yap, whine and fucking yap.

 

New York. It's just Dale Street on steds.

[Magic Sponge]

I'll second Bob Dylan. Yap, yap, whine and fucking yap.

 

New York. It's just Dale Street on steds.

 

Statue of Liberty? Pfft.

 

We've got a statue of Queen Victoria with a cock.

[Pony Princess]

Metallica. Sorry but if you can understand the lyrics, its not THAT metal.

[Guest TK-421]

Olympics/ athletics

boxing

the song "love will tear us apart" and all the cunts who cover it/ sing it/ ruin it. It has lost all meaning. New order is much better anyway.

Superdry clothing - you're incapable of independent thought. Well done, you shit.

The shield/ the wire etc. if i want drama and violence I'll turn to Hollywood. Sorry but i don't have a spare four years to watch the box sets. Is that okay?

Glastonbury

comedy

[Ezekiel 25:17]

You're telling me that you consider Bill Murray a bigger cultural sacred cow than Shakespeare?

 

Philistine

 

Haha, had you said Shakespeare that would have been different.

 

 

Oh and I'm adding South Park, it was funny when I was about 12, I've been watching Family guy a bit lately and that's shite as well except for Peter, the baby is as funny as piles.

[setreal]

LoTR: elves and orcs and dragons and whutnot? Fuck. Off. Nerds.

 

Lost: Conspiracy theorist wankathon. They should have eaten each other in ep 1.

 

Arctic Monkeys: I once threw my guitar down a flight of stairs and had a better song than those fuckers have. True story.

 

Arcade Fire: OK, so I have a shit voice and can hardly sing? Lets fire up Fruity Loops and make an Indie band from Canada!

[Rorschach08]

Any Stanley Kubrick film that isn't Full Metal Jacket.

 

A Clockwork Orange is an unwatchable mess, yet people seem to love it. Eyes Wide Shut is incredibly dull with long periods of literally nothing happening, Dr Strangelove is ok but massively overrated and The Shining doesn't do justice to the book.

 

Also, more controversially, I really like Coldplay. I think they've wrote some of the best tunes of the 21st century, are fantastic live and that Chris Martin seems like a thoroughly decent chap.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Oh and I'm adding South Park, it was funny when I was about 12, I've been watching Family guy a bit lately and that's shite as well except for Peter, the baby is as funny as piles.

 

This, although I was just going to say Cartoons, I don't find any of them funny. Family Guy is the main one, it's shit. I wouldn't mind if there weren't these people who insist on quoting it all the fucking time.

 

Also, Muse.

[PestiRed]

Comic books - the art is not Rembrandt & the writing is not Dickens. If you want, look at great art, read a great novel but do not pretend that you can get these things in a comic. Be honest, they are really for kids

 

 

Edit: They're not "graphic novels" either, they are fucking comics