Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Japanese films, pretentious bollocks or just different?Recently rented the DVD of Casshern: a Japanese, post-apocalyptic, action film vaguely in the manga style. "Better than both Matrix sequels put togther" said one of the reviews on the box. "Not too hard" I thought, but I reckoned it would be worth a try anyway. I should have noticed that the review was from some third rate local paper.
This film contained more random plot twists than the normal human brain can cope with. Just as I thought it was coming to a point where it would wrap up nicely there was another half hour of the characters spouting some pre-school standard philosophy about how killing people is on balance a bad thing. Complete waste of an evening.
In defence of pretentiousness however, did anyone think that the indoor sunset at the Tate Modern was very cool? I thought it was great.
(, Fri 30 Sep 2005, 13:54, Reply)
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