Saw an episode of The Story of Film. Never in the history of movie documentaries has so much misinformation and plain mistakes been made so often by someone with so few brain cells. It's like it's made by Film Student Barbie. It has to be a pisstake. No-one can really be that stoopid.
Because life is just too short for all the stupid people.
There's a review on Amazon.co.uk putting forward the suggestion that Cousins is actually a deliberate sendup of ignorant and pompous film critics along Alan Patridge/David Brent lines, but the reality is that he really is that ignorant and self-important. In his Scene by Scene interviews he'd regularly berate his interviewees and all but accuse them of lying when they disagreed with him about some pet theory of his about their work. But he does offer fertile ground for comedians.
"Security - release the badgers."
I was watching something the other night that overlapped "The Sturrey of Filum?: An Oddity?" but I tuned in just to see how long it would take to find an error or one of Cousins' own baubles. I arrived right in the middle of some interview in which the subject's face was only visible from chin to nostrils. I had to wonder if this person was too ashamed to be seen in this thing or else he was in some witness protection program.
But I was glad that I didn't have to wait long for one of his eccentricities to show up, I really needed to go to sleep.
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me
If it not for reading about some of Cousins' outrageous antics outside "The Story of Film" (his support of the banning of Israeli films from the Edinburgh Film Festival ) I could buy the idea that this series is a Andy Kaufmanesque piece of "Performance Art" aimed at sending up pompous film experts.
I'll Teach You To Laugh At Something's That's Funny
Homer Simpson
And that was while he was one of the people running the Edinburgh Film Festival. And, even more bizarrely, it happened not once but twice, something the festival's reputation with international filmmakers (who attend in fewer numbers that in years before the farrago) still hasn't recovered from.
But at least one other person thinks the spirit of Andy Kaufman lives on:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3TDS5DBPD9XXM/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8 &ASIN=B007ZZKXG4&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful
"Security - release the badgers."
Why do I think when we reach the final episode on the state of cinema today there is going to pure paen of praise for Ken Loach?
I'll Teach You To Laugh At Something's That's Funny
Homer Simpson
Still your blasphemous tongue! Thou shalt not take the name of his boycotting lord in vain.
"Security - release the badgers."
I've been watching this series and sort of appreciating his off-beat take on movies. At least I've been exposed to a world of film I didn't even know existed. But tonight I fell asleep and woke up in the middle of TCM's showing of this sadistic "aren't you ashamed for watching such a piece-of-crap" movie called "Funny Games". After it was over, I couldn't go back to sleep so I watched Episode 13 of the Story of Film to see why it was included.
It had this "groundbreaking" innovation where the sadistic creep doesn't like the way things are turning out so he pushes the TV remote and it rewinds the actual movie action so he can continue with his awfulness. Mark Cousins finds this remarkable. So now I can't sleep because Mark Cousins is one of the most easily impressed guys around.
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"I'm telling 'truth to power' and am not wearing any sssocksss".
Love you, Bluesdoctor.
How many want to bet Cousins has never been nor ever will be with a woman?
It's like the audition from Hell for one of the 'Devils in skirts' in Carry On Up the Khyber.
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"Security - release the badgers."
And I was feeling guilty? For not sitting through? At least one episode? So I could tell if he really was? As full of crap as he sounded? But I just couldn't listen to him make statements? That sounded like questions? For more than ten minutes.
Why do users keep mentioning that has made many mistakes without giving any examples? Show that you are more knowledgeable about film with some insights about how the The Story of Film fails. Also why is this thread so mean spirited?
shareThere are no shortage of other threads from the posters on this board listing the many howlers and outright fallacies he's made - many of which are posted on the goofs pages for the show. There's even a thread n the first page of this board called 'Inaccuracies' which gives examples.
"Security - release the badgers."
Doesn't explain why the comments get personal. And if there is another thread for inaccuracies, why is this thread here? It's just unconstructive bad mouthing.
shareIt's just unconstructive bad mouthing.