SimuLord said:
TheDrunkNinja said:
SimuLord said:
Father Time said:
SimuLord said:
Musical is the lowest form of theater, a bastardization of opera that chokes the beauty out of the form
Wow what a snob.
If you don't see any beauty in musicals you take theater way too seriously.
If preferring the orchestration and masterful craftsmanship of opera over prolefeed like musicals makes me a snob, then pass the Snob Sauce.
I've seen a lot of musicals in my time. Those that I favor have always enraptured me with incredible musical scores, written with such witty and clever lyrics with choreography that perfectly weaves the narrative together as well as any on-stage presentation I've seen. If musicals are ugly bastardizations of art, then to you, the current media that Hollywood pukes out tenfold everyday are the lowest form of scum that has ever desecrated the earth. Doubtful that you have any faith left in humanity's culture with that erring dismissal.
Bingo. I believe that culture has been dead since 1914, with the corpse blown up to ensure it could never be revived in the 1940s. Mankind peaked in the 19th century, reached our apex with Beethoven's Ninth, had a great run through Brahms and Schubert and Strauss and even Wagner, but somewhere in the trenches the very best of humanity...well, something happened in there. And it wasn't pretty. And then the bombs fell on London and the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe and America fell on the world and that was it.
Maybe if the scum tide of marketing and commercialism ever recedes there might be hope...that ray of light at the bottom of Pandora's box. But I don't hold out hope for humanity. I prefer instead to cocoon myself in the glory days of when mankind could reach for great heights without someone demanding that the shrinks forcefeed him happy pills like a foie gras goose.
Yet with that dismissal, you run further from the realm of simple opinion. This doesn't come down to the simple notion of like vs dislike, but that you damn entire media and art forms that have been generated and upheld since the rise of commercialism. You're accusations against current-day marketing in media may very well be as accurate as the next, but in your condemnations, you end up damning the rest of us, including yourself, for even liking any of it regardless of your intent. Would you honestly claim that there is nothing in today's media that captivates your interest? Yet, for you to like any of it would inevitably result in your own guilt for enabling what you labeled as bastardizations, and would therefore be hypocritical from your own elitist comments. If you claim that there are exceptions or "gems", then you are in fact admitting the falsehood of your ill-hope for humanity, for their very presence nullifies your stance.
Sometimes, people need to be knocked off their high horse. I'm sorry if that seems insulting, but, like I said, this isn't a matter of opinion or certain taste. By dismissing everything with claims of cultural death, you end up kicking us all on the way out the door. At least with the concept of opinion, one can say they don't like a certain thing yet still have an appreciation for it or, at the very least, an acknowledgment of it's standing with the rest of the world. You're going to have to acknowledge the great landmarks in cultural media that we have seen over the last century, as well as it's standing with the rest of history. Not to do so is a crime against culture itself, as you began mourning it's death before it even became ill.
