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Listed below are comments made by Sleeves between Thursday, 25th June 2009 and Wednesday, 5th June 2013.
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- Pianist Krystian Zimerman storms out over phone recording 4:32pm on 05 Jun 2013 I personally agree with artists discouraging or banning personal filming at gigs and concerts. I have stood behind people filming the ENTIRE performance on a smartphone, or even worse a tablet, and had the experience ruined by having to watch a large portion of it over or through their screen. Isn't the point of going to see live music to appreciated it live? No watch it later on youtube?
- Processed meat 'early death' link 09:22am on 07 Mar 2013 And? Does it really mattter? Why is everyone so obsessed with prolonging their lives? We all live too long as it is. Why not just enjoy your life? If that includeds having a good fry up once in a while why not?
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Thoughts About Rage Against The Machine vs X Factor
2:59pm on 17 Dec 2009
This whole thing is all rather silly isn’t it. I mean does anyone really care? Is it really all that important? Personally I think the biggest 'tragedy' about X-Factor's domination of the Christmas no.1 spot is that the songs are no longer about Christmas. As a response and a bit of a joke I’ve started a Facebook campaign to get Must Be Santa by Bob Dylan to the top spot. Let's put the Christmas back in Christmas No.1!
- 5 live review: New Moon 12:18pm on 01 Dec 2009 Hummmm.....the idea that this, the sequel to one of the most tedious, slushy, slow moving and down right patronising movies I've seen in...well forever, is in anyway entertaining to anyone who isn't 13, female and a fan of the Jonas Brothers is very difficult to believe. However as mentioned above Mark did like Star (yawn) Trek so I guess there's no accounting the Doctors taste.
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The Best Christmas Movie Ever
3:01pm on 17 Nov 2009
Lots of great choices here, I can only really echo the thoughts of so many others in naming my top 5:
1. Scrooged
2. Gremlins
3. Die Hard
4. Home Alone
5. Nightmare Before Christmas
One thing I am curious to know is, does Gremlins count? I mean it is set at Christmas but it was released in June? Does a movie have to be released at Christmas to qualify as 'Christmas Movie'? - Blog reply replies: A matter of opinions 12:26pm on 10 Jul 2009 On the subject of Bowie, I believe David himself went on record as saying he pronounces it BOwie but he really does mind how anyone else pronouces it so long as they dont call him Dave.
- Blog reply replies: A matter of opinions 10:55am on 09 Jul 2009 Lol very true it's amazing these guys get away with calling themselves directors not to mention their the huge paycheck. I bet they are dreading the day Hollywood realises they could make similarly poor but hugely popular films just as well without them.
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Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
3:17pm on 29 Jun 2009
lol @ JTM. I dont think Mark or any of us 'art house studio students' as you so erroniously put it ever argued that this movie wouldn't be a box office hit or that it wouldnt be popular. I for one would have been very shocked if it wasn't! I was also 100% certain it would succeed regarless of what the critics said.
As its been pointed out many, a movie going majority, do appreciate movies like this for the wow factor of all the special effects and loud explosions and are more than happy with 2.5 hours of that. Others beleive that alone doesnt constitute a good movie. Just becuase you site on the majority side of the fence doesnt mean our opinions are less valid or wrong. -
Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
10:45am on 26 Jun 2009
Lots of excellent points made. On the subject of Dark Knight, it is an excellent movie with some great ideas but I'm not entirely sure it lived up to the hype. In retrospect I've come to appreciate Iron Man as the better Comic Book movie of that year despite thinking the opposite on first viewing. Batman begins was better than DK? hummm.....Im still not sure both movies have their faults but both were of such a high calibre that I find it difficult to criticize either.
As for criticism of Sin City's dialogue, the problem there was it was lifted straight from the comic books. I enjoyed it for this reason but I can totally understand it annoying/appearing very poor to the uninitiated. Both Sin City and Watchmen suffered due to there slavish adherence to the source material, both were direct translations of the original material rather than adaptations and I'd agree that that is were they fall down. However being a huge comic book nerd I appreciated them all the more for it, but that's just me. The Batman movies, Iron Man and I'll maintain Spider-man (1 & 2 certainly) expertly adapted the material for the big screen making changes only where changes made sense, something I would have loved to have seen happen with Transformers.
And back to that subject: TomCupra - Yeah you are right, I was giving you what I wanted from Transformers rather than what 'people' wanted. I guess I was just explaining what could have been done with these movies in addition to the obviously necessary visual extravaganza. You're probably right, most people will get what they want from these movies, but I'd suggest they could have been given what they want and the rest and it would have been a better movie because of it. I was highlighting what I felt was sorely missing from these movies was anything above the superficial rollercoaster ride of special effects. Indeed these movies have more in common with theme park rides than movies, most people will leave the theatres punching the air in excitement but I doubt they'll really have much to say about the movie other than it was great fun. Personally I think it would be nice if it had a little more substance than that, the Transformers I know and love did.
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Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
12:08pm on 25 Jun 2009
In answer to your question TimCupra, what do people want Transformers? Well I'd say something vaguely resembling a) a story and b) Transformers. OK we've got the Transforming robots and the all the names and jargon like Optimus Prime, the Allspark, Decepticreeps and so on but as far as charaterisation, narrative and general sense of respect for the source material goes there is nothing. If those eliments were present I'd have happly enjoyed the 'two and a half hours of extreme, non realistic escapism' that was Transformers. Unfortunately within the first hour it became quite apparent that this was very little more than a two and a half hour long music video/advert/trailer and I became quite bored and concidered leaving, by the time I'd reached 143 minutes I wished I had. Transformers 2 is a whole 5 minutes longer and from what I'm hearing a whole lot more tedious. So Im gonna pass.
Interestingly you metion Watchmen which stuck slavishly to the source material and suffered somewhat as a result was still my favourite movie I've been to see this year. It had it's problems and yeah it dragged a little at points but as a fan of the original comic book I felt like they'd done it justice, retaining most of the eliments that made me a fan of it in the first place. The same faithfullness to the source material and storytelling was true of the Spider-man movies (excluding 3 which was sort of a mess), recent Batman movies and Iron man. All of which being some of my favourite action movies of the last 10 years.
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