Tiny Furniture, Mumblecore, and the Nietzschean Cowboy - Brows Held High (NSFW)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Original Upload Date: 3/25/2014
Kyle would like you to know that he is having a very, very hard time...
All third party clips are used under Fair Use.
Follow me on Twitter: / kylekallgren
Tumblr: / actuallykylekallgren
Or see my archive on Chez Apocalypse: chezapocalypse....
You can support the channel on Patreon: / kkallgren
The Blob and Godzilla definitely deserve their Criterion releases. Godzilla is a highly influential work of cinema and a fascinating reaction to what the Japanese experienced in World War II. The Blob essentially created the teen horror film and was one of the first films to portray teenagers in a positive light. There's much to be said about “juvenile delinquency” and its prominence in 1950s American culture when discussing that film. Both would be worthy subjects for a video like this.
Blob criterion: Oh ok I can see that. Its a product of its day and perfectly captures the 50s teen generation. It also helps that Steve McQueen secretes liquid awesome.
Godzilla: Oh ok it captures the horrors of the nuclear age and emphasizes the fears of the world.
Armageddon: Oh come on really!
+kruaser123
To act as as devil's advocate, Armageddon is a near perfect pop-corn flick.
It's stupid, sure, but it plays your heart string's like a master plays a cello. In that regard, its a very impressive movie.
kruaser123 yeah. and it is basically the kind of films our generation will be remembered before cinematic universe obsessions.
I never thought I would miss things like this.
but it is dumb as bricks.
Not to mention that Godzilla is quite possibly the most important movie in Japanese cinema.
"The Rock" is also in the Criterion Collection (though that one's pretty decent)
I'd say Godzilla deserve his criteron
And The Blob... the movie not Dunham.
Redem10 Which one? There's like 30.
Godzilla 1954, the one who has actual criteron and deserve it
yeah seriously
Redem10 they all fucking do fella
Okay but the Albus Mumblecore bit fully slaps
Absolutely. Dunham is NOT the voice of my generation.
i've watched this video multiple times, i think it's because of albus mumblecore.
I remember when _Tiny Furniture_ was first released on DVD/Blu-ray and there was more than a little consternation expressed on-and-offline in certain circles over its Criterion release. Certain self-described cinephiles were disgruntled over some trust fund brat getting what they saw as undeserved recognition for her lo-fi debut. Criterion has a publishing deal with IFC Films, which distributed _Tiny Furniture_, that's real all there was to it.
Boy, that Woody Allen comparison is much darker in hindsight huh
Well the Blob is a classic of drive-in cinema, so I can understand why that would considered important to remember.
I hope Andrew Bujalski takes the Albus Mumblecore label and runs with it.
Computer Chess was worth watching; the dude goes from Mumblecore to an authentic recreation of the 80s and also a hellscape in and of itself
More apt title would be WHITE GIRLS
No shade I love the show but I rarely see any melanin.
You're not wrong. I'm glad she acknowledged it, but awkwardly throwing in Donald Glover before disposing of him 3 episodes later was not the smartest move.
Now I want to see the videos "The Skeptical Gynecologist" makes.
Shouldn't the Nietzschian Cowboy be beyond good and evil?
Erika Söderlund *distant shout* I get it
I'd be curious what the Nietzschian Cowboys horse's name is...I vote Unterequis...
Would he wear a white hat or a black hat?
I have started seeing the films on which u have made video essays just so I can watch ur essays.
I also loved that u talked about kicking and screeming, clerks, slacker...... and bought the whole movement into perspective.
Why you hating on Godzilla? The technical and philosophical history of Godzilla is far more weighty and full of innovation and beauty then middle class white girl living a middle class white girl life.
I mean mumblecore is cute, but Godzilla not only came from.a place of complete desolation, but also influenced generations of films. Lena Dunham is adorable but I don't think we will say that in 2053
SOUNDS LIKE AN AD FOR A BRAND NAME MEDICINE HAHAHA
Dang Kyle, you could take Albus Mumblecore on the road!
If you ever feel like turning Albus Mumblecore into a short, I will absolutely share it w/ several dozen of my friends.
My definition of Mumblecore is when you walk away from a film and when it comes to dialog all you remember is just people mumbling
Even when I was compulsively buying Criterions, one look and I said “no”
Same.
+1 for Albus Mumblecore
Jubaski blew Funny Haha out of the water with his mockumentary Computer Chess. It's bizarre as hell
Love your reviews, more Yvette please! You guys make a great team!
I miss the nietzschean cowboy.
Darth Mallius I am the nietzschean cowboy! There's an ubermenchen in need of branding. God is dead and the varment who killed him is gonna hang high.
As an Obie...
I will never look at my campus the same way again. Thank you, Lena.
I appreciate Ernie's take on this. :'D
Cmon Kyle, the original, Japanese version of Godzilla is a masterpiece. A reflection of the crises that faced a true post-apocalyptic society, as simple as the metaphor may be, is still a seminal and iconic achievement. Although it’s reputation has been tarnished by the subsequent exploitation of the character, so much so that Godzilla has been reduced to no more than a simulacrum of it’s original incarnation, the aesthetic and subtextual value of the original film can not be overstated.
Kyle, I'm curious, is this intended as a subtle critique of (What then your contemporary) compatriots? I mean, Lewis Lovhaug and Doug Walker are both in the video, but you undoubtedly poke holes in both of their video styles. Are you perhaps saying that RUclips videos can evolve out of their inane basis and become something more?
Of course, the entire video itself seems to be a study in self-parody, almost implying youtube is doomed to be relegated to the dregs of the art world...
I think he was trying to open a dialogue about how the YT format has changed since Dunham hit the scene and now.
I think it was about how the goofy artists looked as pathetic by the film are the ones that actually make progress.
And that's what happened with youtube aswell: the scenario is definitely more mature than it was in 2010, even though it's not arthouse material.
I find it it immensely amusing the tiny ponies own(s) tiny furniture.
I think this film's themes were better explored in that other film Kyle reviewed about the cat who dies because the people can't get their shit together and time stops?
glowsticksuit Miranda July ≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥≥ Lena Dunham. And I like Lena Dunham's writing.
Great video. I just recently started watching these films and I am quite intrigued by them. My favorite mumblecore movie is Hannah takes the stairs. Joe Swanbergs keynote address at south-by-southwest was really interesting. He talked honestly about money and his films. What emerged was how his movies were influenced by his production of the films(as opposed to his directing style).
I still love this video I must say
16:39 - You got the nostagic critic. Nice man XD
From what I can gather, a lot of Americans, maybe just a lot of people, don't understand when a show or film is making fun of its own characters unless it's very broad. Obviously that's a patronising thing for me to say, but it really seems like more people than would care to admit just think it's meant more po-facedly than it is.
Great review
Speaking of Slacker, any chance you'll re-upload your Brows Held High video on it? That was what made me a lifelong fan back on TGWTG.
Thank God we told Grandma
you ended this video with the same song used at the end of "dead poets society."
Interestingly enough that was a film I recently studied in grade 12 English... I like to think your style of analysis helped me through the whole course... Oh captain my captain.
Success from Mommy's mula and Daddy's dinero.
Ziek Wheatfield Dinero?
+Tate Hildyard It's slang for money.
Ven is so cute in this one.
I have that "Awkward Family Photos" book! Ha. Also, as a possible future video creator, who always looks forward to yours, what kind of camera / sound apparatus do you use? Your shots and voice are very clear.
No I can totally see why The Blob is in there its a movie that represents the teen generation of the 50's and was a great example of drive in movie culture. Godzilla invoked the horrors of the atomic age how this strange new energy could be used to create unspeakable horror that only someone like Lovecraft could have fathomed before. Even Armageddon I can see why as an example of a movie thats "so bad its good" an overhyped, overly produced shlock that tricked enough people into making a profit. I actually can't justify why Tiny Furniture is there.
I'm the Nietzshean cowboy! - And so is my wife!
I didn't make it through the film - only got a far as the party where she meets the cowboy and was bored stiff, disliking everyone. If I'd been at that party I would have left, so I turned it off
(edit: typos)
I really enjoy this review. There's just one thing that always bugs me though. The descriptor of "Adult looser hanging out with kids half a decade his junior"...in other words hanging around with people 5 years younger than him? I...what?
No, seriously - what? Did I miss a memo again? Is being around people *five years* younger than you now suddenly something worthy of derision? Because I'm 28 - I hang out with people who are 5+ years older than me and I know some people who are 5 years or so younger than me...and somehow I don't get this. Do you, Kyle, only associate with people of your exact same age, or at best giving a margin of +1/-1 years? Because that seems, well...it seems stupid.
I think maybe it falls into the same category of creepy that the unofficial rule of half your age plus 7 for dating tries to mitigate. Emotional maturity changes rapidly in the first 25ish years, so if you're 22-23 hanging out with 17-18 year olds, it can denote a lack of maturity. A graduate of college is generally expected to be more mature than a senior in high school. Whereas a 33 year old hanging out with someone 28 is "okay" because they should be on a closer level of maturity.
Okay, I can sort of see that, but that's not the situation in the movie. You have collage graduates hanging out with someone 5 years older than them.
Yes, said collage graduate-age people are immature little whining babies, but they are *supposed* to be mature enough, at least by the expectations of their society.
I dunno, that comment in the review just bugs me for some reason. Maybe I too am an "adult loser" for treating people of younger and older ages than me as equal?
If Dunham is the "voice of a generation" then I plan on going deaf. "Not childish" - you can't be serious?
Matt Gilbert Her character was on drugs when she said that, it was a joke making fun of her character. As is much of the show; it sympathises with the characters to a degree, because it is human to be deeply flawed, but it also makes fun of them and points out those flaws mercilessly. So many people just don't get that.
Still waiting for the Godzilla video ..
Funny Ha Ha is a great film. Bujalski's work in general is great, I think.
Tears almost as heartstring-tugging as Frank Morgan's gate guard. :')
In all seriousness, this movie is telling -- though of what, I'm not sure yet. Maybe the transience of modern culture, that a cinematic snapshot of such a recent era already feels like a period piece?
I thought the movie being owned by Tiny Ponies was a joke!
What's the Lena Dunham interview????????
Australia in unrespectable.... Blowy is common phrase
Welp, this episode aged poorly.
I am actually serious when i ask this: in what ways this episode got "old"? The only thing i think that got old is maybe what was defined as "hipsters"? The fact that godzilla is now recognized as a legit film with actual depth? Sorry if this comment seems sarcastic but i seriously want an in-depth answer. Thank you for reading this.
@@גיאאשר-ד4נ It
I only meant that he praises Dunham a lot in this only for it to come out that Dunham is a horrible person.
I was just curious but what exactly is it that she is meant to have done exactly?
I’m not even trying to play devils advocate I’m genuinely not clear.
I only discovered her through weird gamer-gatie guys complaining about her, which is normally a low bar to jump, but I notice a lot of comments here that make the same agreed assertion that she is a terrible person. Its just strange because I don’t think many of the gamer-gate crowd hang out on this channel. I haven’t seen anyone really give a reason and although I could point out problems with the show it’s not worse than anything else on tv
@@josuebartley7272 She masturbated in bed next to her younger sister and used to bribe her sister with candy and treats to strip, touch herself and cuddle naked with her. I don't know why you couldn't Google that yourself but TL;DR grooming, incest, sexual acts performed by a minor for her arousal, and sexual acts performed in bed next to an unwilling minor.
@@josuebartley7272 In her autobiography, she quite brazenly writes about her own inappropriate sexual/sexualized behaviour towards a sibling ten years her junior. She also called a rape survivor a liar on twitter because the rapist is/was a friend of hers. When some basketball player I forgot the name of didn't provide her with the sexual attention she felt entitled to from him, she tried to shame him for it. That's just the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, but I really don't feel like investing any energy in finding out more, as the stuff I've listed is quite sufficient to make me avoid reading or hearing any more of her.
I am the Nietzcshean Cowboy!
You failed to mention the most significant aspect of Tiny Furniture - that being that it was one of the first handful of movies to be shot digitally. The first was The Celebration (1998), then The Idiots, Mifune, Julien Donkey-Boy, The King is Alive, and Chuck and Buck. Despite video quality being total shit back then, it allowed amateurs to finally be able to make their own movies using inexpensive, portable video cameras. The first big name film to use digital from start to finish was Attack of the Clones in 2002.
This movie came out in 2010??????
I watched it once and it was because I mistook the cover of doll things, maybe I was low on sugar cause I kept thinking wait a minute this isn’t a doll house movie.
I AM THE NIETSZCHEAN COWBOY!!
I miss Ven.
Grainne Mhaol Is his name still Ven or did he change it?
mumbly commedy doesnt work without a bombastic counterpoint.
Can you explain? I'm not trying to argue with you, I just don't know what you mean by counterpoint.
+Tate Hildyard someone vibrant and exciting that contrasts with a mumbly character. Comedy is the subversion of expectations. If every character mumbles their way through their lines theirs no subversion in the film therefore no comedy.
side note: not a mumblecore fan. Likely never will be.
The Weinmeyer Republic Oh, I get it. But mumblecore's got a few of those characters. Clerks has Randall and Garden State has that fat guy who's name I can't remember.
+Tate Hildyard true but on the whole I'm not a fan of films where the majority of characters are mumbly. Usually it's the attitude that comes with it especially in this one
I get that and I don't judge man. BTW, check out Chasing Amy by Kevin Smith. You sound like the kind of guy who would dig that movie. Don't get fooled by the synopsis, it's really smart and subversive but not as pretentious as mumble core.
I always thought that Mumblecore was the guy from the Harry Potter books ... oh, wait - it's Dumbledore ... nevermind ...
*Nietzschean
14:14 bruh
Is she wearing a brooch.
I don't like the brooch
I want the brooch
Don't compare Gojira with The blob, Armaggedon or this crap, please
Adrián Coria The Blob has its place in classic sci-fi, but Gojira is a masterpiece and leagues beyond Armageddon
I think people misunderstand the Critereon Collection. It's not about "good" films or films deserving of awards, its about "important" films. All of those films were "important" for their time, for various reasons. The Blob was a milestone in the culture of it's age. Armageddon was a star studded spectacular with over-the-top music & a landmark in the "extravagant disaster that can be averted by a small group" subgenre of films, such as those made by Roland Emmerich. Their modern films might... stray from that, because it's hard to judge the import of something in the present tense of a culture.