silly irony

My response to a comment got so long I thought I would use it to increase my blog numbers.

Some things that are art or created can have beauty. A humanly created thing can be more beautiful than real life.

The blob of wax in a psuedo complex story may be ironic. Usually it is an incidental outcome. Rarely is this intended. Just because something is ironic, doesnt give it quality. It doesnt even give it a justification for the outcome. Irony for what purpose? A movie which spends its time creating a fanciful scenario only to turn it into the absurd, simply on the premise of the silliness of it all is simply poor. One may see the logic or the reason or the purpose of it. Nevertheless, to tell me it is silly, fails to capture an interest. Irony can be used with much more ability than these display. Futility can be conveyed with greater strength and conviction. And if at the end of a movie, whose aim is to give a message of the silliness of it all, you are left with only that one thing, how pitiful is that?

As for critics, the job of testing the taste of critics will necessitate you watching many movies anyway. Identifying a critic who aligns with you can take a lot to achieve. Perhaps you missed a lot of what I was saying. I didnt spend $18. And i didnt say it was all crap. And there was no heartache. I am open to exploring things and critiquing that which I think is not good. I can choose to read books or listen to music even though some may suggest something negative about them, because I know I can read or watch it and draw my own opinion from it or apply my own set of values and criteria to it.

Are we to be people who only do what we are told? To be robots acting on a protocol determined by another?

So this is it: I saw a movie and thought the ending poor. I have seen others, which have also ended poorly, as if the writer just gave up trying to conclude a web he or she had woven. The point is not whether or not this shows irony or displays the silliness of it all. Anyone can create a story and then have it all end up as one massive explosion, killing everyone. I have read hundreds of children's stories which do exactly that. So when I go to a cinema, I expect not to see those same childish stories acted by adults. As I said in my previous blog, you may like these kinds of endings, but my point is that they are poor endings which reflect on the lack of quality of the writing.

Should we aim to achieve mediocrity because we can't cant replicate the creator?

Should we accept an unsatisfying outcome because it shows irony and might be the point of the writer? Certainly not. Will an outcome satisfy or give resolution if it atleast has irony or a silliness message? Not for me, I have a higher expectation.

Has anyone actually ever found one critic whose opinions always align with yours? I doubt it? And then again, how would you be certain if you never watch one against their recommendations?

So, there.