Culture's dead

I used to go quite often to the movies, now it's like once a year for The Lord of the Rings, though I guess there won't be a fourth. So the next time I'll be in a cinema it'll probably be for Star Wars Episode III.

Whenever I watch trailers for the upcoming movies, I don't see anything new. No new point whatsoever. No art. The same shite over and over, actually I can barely stand to watch them trailers. Even the one movie that didn't look that bad from the trailers, Troy, was unoriginal, uninteresting, poorly acted.

Fortunately, there's DVDs. All the real movies. Almost got all of Kubrick's movies, Fritz Lang's M and Dr. Mabuse, Sergio Leone's capolavori Once Upon a time in the west and the good the bad and the ugly. Will buy "for a handful of dollar"s when I see it.

Then there's games. Far Cry sucks. Feels like playing Half-Life all over again. Sure, the graphics are nice, but all of this has already been done. What non-technical progess did the gaming industry make since the Tex Murphy Series ? Since Diablo II ? Since Max Payne ? And, more importantly, are really today's games more fun to play than Full Throttle or UFO or Command & Conquer ? HOMM2 is way better than HOMM3, and C&C is way better than Tiberian Sun or Red Alert II.

UPDATE : Far Cry's great, and I almost forgot all the great recent games like Vice City.

Well, at least there's music. There the technology has really done great things, I mean guys like Mozart or Dvorak were great artists, however I don't like the sound of some of the old instruments. Gee, imagine Mozart with a synth, now that would be something. Anyway, yeah, music feels like one domain where there still might be some creation.

2004-05-30