This 'whatever you care to call it, just don't call it FILM' has created more problems for me than it's worth. How can I continue to play something in which at least 4 or more people a day are demanding refunds to to it being a total piece of ? I'd like to use the tactic of "Was anything wrong with the overall presentation?" ploy, but people simply do not want to hear that anymore. Like I'm personally responsible for their shitty decision(s). Anyway, I can only imagine the other locations and how they are faring with this overhyped turd. Soderburg (sp?) has lost any inkling of respect I would have had for him as a film-maker, which he can't even claim with this video.

to say "i don't like this movie because it does bad business because people don't like it" is to circularly avoid evaluating the film on its own merits and succumb to herd mentality.

the other, greater hangup people here have with full frontal is that much of it was shot digitally. most film-tech posters (including me) seem to prefer film as a capture medium, and rail against those who blindly embrace anything "digital" as wonderful. but in doing so, we mustn't reject everything digital a priori, lest we commit the crime we denounce. we may think of digital photography as legitimate if we think of it not as an imitation of film, but as a separate medium, complementary to film. lucas wants to supplant film, and tried and failed to imitate it in swep2. this is a scary trend, and as a film-lover i resent lucas for launching this digital crusade. soderberg and others have shot digitally to take advantage of the unique aesthetic of that medium. that i find entirely legitimate. probably most digital-shooters do so out of indifference or monetary constraints. their work should be judged on its other artistic merits, with the digital look counting against it. yes, i agree, film does look a whole lot better, all else being equal.

mike and i both gave several reasons why the use of digital in full frontal was a valid aesthetic choice. of course you are welcome to disagree.

claude said, "We all have our likes and dislikes when we see films and know what we like and do not like and that is why there is always a difference of opinion and that is very good."

yes, our differences of opinion are good. but hopefully our opinions are not just knee-jerk reactions. i may think i know what i like and don't like, but i try not to let that box me in. if we don't allow ourselves to think in new ways then we can sit back and watch our favorite art form stagnate.

and nowhere did i say that a film that is "different" is automatically brilliant. but it might be.

carl