Urban Hat€monger ?

What is media studies anyway?

Reading the newspaper?

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jackhammer

Watching crap movies that your teacher tells you are brilliant it seems, either that or completing the Sun crossword.

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Astronomer

Watching movies, talking about them and their production, learning about filming techniques and pretentious jargon associated with analysing films, analysing language techniques used to presuade in newspaper articles, learning photography techniques in the darkroom and in digital format, learning to make your own films, magazines, how to use different equipment for different mediums...

It's a pretty diverse subject.

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Captain Awesome

Correct^



"Two years of Media studies has led you to proclaiming Godsend a great movie?"

actually no that's down to a little thing called individuality. I am able to form my own opinion on a film instead of following "the cool kids". Nevermind though, maybe one day you will be as privileged as me.

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

Akira

So why aren't people allowed to form their own opinions on actors and films?

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Captain Awesome

I don't know, you tell me. I'm not the one bashing one of the greatest actors of all time simply because he's to mainstream celebrity.

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

SATCHMO

No the whole "bashing one of the greatest actors of all time simply because he's too mainstream celebrity" is simply your line of defense, because the only way you can spin the argument in your favor is to depict anyone who's disagreeing with you on the subject as being an elitist snob. Your grasping at straws. I already delineated exactly why Deniro is not as great of an actor as he's consistently made out to be, and it has nothing to do with the budget of his movies or because he's a mainstream celebrity.

Captain Awesome

and i countered it by listing a whole bunch of movies where he isn't playing an american-italian gangster which you seem to think is his only role.

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

SATCHMO

I don't think it's his only role. Clearly it's not, but I do think the Italian American gangster archetype is not far from his natural personae, which he simply doesn't really deviate from no matter what role he happens to be playing. To me that shows his limitations as an actor.

Flower Child

Amen to that. Gary Oldman made a delectable Dragula. I couldn't help but root for him the whole time.