fuck robert altman
Nov. 21st, 2006 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glauconI fucking hated robert altman.
that is, perhaps, an inaccurate statement.
I didn't know robert altman. I'm sure I would have thought he was a perfectly fine person if I'd known him personally.
more accurately, I hated his movies.
that is, also, a somewhat inaccurate statement.
the tense is wrong. they still exist and will continue to exist and people will continue to say "but what about this one! you must like this one!" for long after he's interred. and I will continue to hate them.
I could say they're pompous. I could say they're misogynistic. I could say a lot of things and they might be potentially true, but I would be talking entirely out my ass. the short, simple fact is that they bore the living shit out of me. I've never stayed awake through an entire altman picture. and thank god. at least by snoozing, I was making somewhat productive use of my time.
when a friend or lover calls up and says "hey, I'm at the video store. what should I get?" or words to that effect, I always give the same answer: "no robert altman movies and no period films starring winona ryder."
I'm sorry he's dead. at least, as sorry as I can be about the death of an 81 year old guy I didn't know who had a long, successful and, as near as I can tell, pretty comfortable life. but I'm fucking delighted to not have any more films to have to avoid.
except for winona.
that is, perhaps, an inaccurate statement.
I didn't know robert altman. I'm sure I would have thought he was a perfectly fine person if I'd known him personally.
more accurately, I hated his movies.
that is, also, a somewhat inaccurate statement.
the tense is wrong. they still exist and will continue to exist and people will continue to say "but what about this one! you must like this one!" for long after he's interred. and I will continue to hate them.
I could say they're pompous. I could say they're misogynistic. I could say a lot of things and they might be potentially true, but I would be talking entirely out my ass. the short, simple fact is that they bore the living shit out of me. I've never stayed awake through an entire altman picture. and thank god. at least by snoozing, I was making somewhat productive use of my time.
when a friend or lover calls up and says "hey, I'm at the video store. what should I get?" or words to that effect, I always give the same answer: "no robert altman movies and no period films starring winona ryder."
I'm sorry he's dead. at least, as sorry as I can be about the death of an 81 year old guy I didn't know who had a long, successful and, as near as I can tell, pretty comfortable life. but I'm fucking delighted to not have any more films to have to avoid.
except for winona.
