We’ve written before about the occasional hyper-critical comments on certain blogs, but such comments are like valentines compared to what some Amazon.com customers heap upon The Rolling Stones, The Godfather, The Diary of Anne Frank, and other standards. The Cynical-C blog lists the most caustic of these every day. (HT: Very Short List) [%comments]
The Art of Trashing the Classics
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Do you mean “Diary of Anne Frank”?
Really, though, some of the classics are horribly overrated simply because they’re classics.
Actually, some of those comments about “This is Spinal Tap” are pretty good ‘in character’ reviews.
Joke? Classics? The Rolling Stones? The Godfather? The Diary of Anne Frank? How about the Beverly Hillbillies or Madonna or, perhaps, the great and glorious oscar winning movies Forrest Gump, Braveheart and The Titanic, crap cinema to warm the hearts of anyone with an IQ less than 100. These things are only classics in the eyes of the extreme, IQ challenged dopeocracy that rules the world.
In around 1955 a wonderful Science Fiction story was written called “The Marching Morons”. The prescient premise was that stupid people had more children than smart people so the human race was gradually and inevitably getting dumber. One of the things the authoriites did to compensate was to make cars with fake odometers. They would read 60mph when the car was actually going only 20mph — cause the morons who were driving couldn’t handle 60mph but were too macho to understand that fact.
I wonder what folks on these blogs might think of “The Golden Bowl” or “Persona” or “City of Women” or “Cossi Fan Tutti” or “The Milkmaid” — that is if they ever heard of such things.
In my humble opinion, anything by J. D. Salinger is wildly over-rated. Why they make students read “Catcher in the Rye” was beyond me when I had to read it and I haven’t grown in understanding one wit since. Salinger probably turned more students against the pleasures of reading than any writer in history.
Half the pieces are obviously satirical.
1984 is a great work but not stylistically a good book.George Orwell wasn’t a good writer and never claimed to be . He refused to be a member of the Writer’s Union and kept his Journalist’s Union card.
Jacques René Giguère
Half the pieces are obviously satirical.
1984 is a great work but not stylistically a good book.George Orwell wasn’t a good writer and never claimed to be . He refused to be a member of the Writer’s Union and kept his Journalist’s Union card.
Jacques René Giguère
@Jesse I’m sorry but the “You like it just because it is old”, or “it’s a classic just because it is a classic” is one of the most brain dead, conversation killing statements you can make. It’s the type of argument 14 year olds might use amongst their friends in lit class but it adds up to zero amongst adults with more than a thought in their head. There are actually people who really enjoy and appreciate the special things that have been created over the years. But as always, the people who don’t get it feel the need to heap dung all over the finer things in life.