New Yorker magazine alert thread

denby cgi thing bugged me cuz he does that thing where he basically says people other than kids might not like these kids movies too bad these kids movies aren't better for people who aren't kids. just a running complaint of mine. but in general yeah i guess cgi is outtahand or whatever.

I haven't received the new issue, so I'm still struggling to dent the fiction issue, which I've found rather non-descript, even Lahiri's why-I-write thing.

yeah the cgi thing was very unfocused

denby is srsly no cool

yeah fuck that dude

i mean for real bro

http://grab.by/cC5T

i should probably always skip his stuff just cuz.

he's good at bugging me. would rather read andy rooney essays on film.

All I ever remember about Denby reviews are the times when he spoils something (i.e., Schindler's List).

denby morelike NO COOL

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- david denby on the movie crash

"romantic comedies aren't good anymore because women have more rights than they did in the 1940s and this makes me nostalgic"--david denby on some damn romantic comedy, paraphrased by me

i think that observation is sort of true, tbf, but he made it like an idiot savant, like he was completely uninterested in the implications

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- a time-traveling david denby on cronenberg's crash

is there a less meaningful phrase than "brazenly alive"

ohhhhhhhhh i hate him

"For the most part, I stayed home in the apartment that I loved. And instead of going out, I entered in that summer of 1999 a dark and empty tunnel, an enclosure illuminated along the walls by a flash of naked men and women. I had discovered porn on the Internet. In the solitude of night, and in my little study at home, where mighty volumes of Plato, St. Augustine, Hegel, Montaigne, Nietzsche hardly my regular reading but a recent obsession loomed over the desk, the kneeling young women awkwardly turned their eyes to the camera. They often had long and beautiful hair that they must have laboriously cared for; they looked for approval not from their partners but from the camera, which I thought was the true object of their desire. They wanted to be seen. And the men, ugly and strong, sullen, tattooed some of them, thick-membered, concentrating on their erection and their orgasm, lest they lose either they were amateurs, not models, exercising the democratic art form of exhibitionism, with me as their willing audience. They all wanted to be seen, but I didn t want to be seen."

*barfs up entire internal organ system*

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- david denby on the movie crash

i knew he was dim but what

i wonder what david denby thinks about deathdrone.com

That's also the summer he got into day-trading, I think.

the great thing about that crash quote is that not only is he WRONG but he is saying things that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what is true about that movie

also the summer his wife divorced him iirc yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

i was going to write a parody about it but now im legit curious

i think he would have some cool thoughts

like he has about women that do internet porn that he watches

yeah "breathtakingly intelligent" as a description of Crash is hilarious

BOXCAR! XP DENBY PORN

"not for the fainthearted"

'for idiots'

"not for the fainthearted" is what really cracks me up, the meaningless descriptors are lol but i mean who did he think was walking out of the movie crash shook? i mean even the wealthy dowager could probably manage the movie w/o dropping her opera glasses

Where the hell is that porn thing from?

the book 'snark' by david denby

Yikes. That outdoes even Thomson's Kidman obsession

oh, that crash thing

max why

why is everyone on ilx so fainthearted

i was brazenly alive yesterday. i could have handled it then.

lol brazenly alive is like madlibs it keeps cracking me up

xxp delicate souls

one of the reasons why i don't bother reading most movie reviews - and i've probably mentioned this before on ilx - is cuzza people like denby (and ao scott and others) who will recite the plot of a movie from beginning to end and not spend so much as a sentence on what the movie looked like. its bizarre to me. and just really boring to read too. i guess its a public service to give people a recap of an entire movie? i miss when people would describe the look of a movie. plus, reading that cgi thing i'm thinking the entire time: he doesn't know ANYTHING about this technology. if he did he might have something interesting to say.

holy fuck "brazenly alive" - please stop cracking me up already

I am brazenly posting

feel the braze

i am impudently conscious

his inglorious basterds review was like straight up medved. couldn't believe that thing. what a baby. porn lovin' baby.

such a loud lol @ "impudently conscious"

how does this dude get to write for the new yorker i ask you is there no decency

spends half the review of IB being all offended by it and then he says that its too silly to take seriously. well which is it baby?

i was seriously considering working "brazenly alive" into this review i'm writing and then realized nobody would get the joke

i might do it anyway. because i'm brazenly alive like that.

that would be an impudently conscious thing to do

Denby was ok when he worked for New York and was straight-up imitating Kael.