Word: daftness
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...chief complaint about Clash of the Titans - that the movie stinks - what can I say? I liked it. This is a full-throttle action-adventure, played unapologetically straight. Except for a daft, doom-saying prophet, who seems to have wandered into Argos from a Monty Python sketch, the movie proceeds without winks or nudges; it doesn't cue its viewers to easy laughs. As Worthington told an interviewer, "We take it serious so the audience doesn't have to take it too serious." The movie relies instead on the narrative twists and power of the old Greek myths; for, purely...
...that, 30 years from now, if this remake is remade, today's kids grown into the middle-agers of 2040 will have memories every bit as protective as their elders'. They'll revere this Clash and insist that the new movie include their favorite character, the daft prophet...
Opener “Monstar” is another of the album’s best tracks. Filled with electronic beats, claps, computerized voices—à la Kanye West sampling Daft Punk—piano, and strings layered together, the song continuously builds up a seemingly weightless sound. This is showcased as the chorus chants, “I’m back / Celebrate life,” which seems to be exactly what this song is trying...
...Daft Punk v. UPenn Girls (Electric Remix)" - Hoodie Allen
...What's an iguana doing on my coffee table?" wonders Nicolas Cage as Lt. Terence McDonagh in this dark, daft, vagrantly intoxicating melodrama. It's a sequel of sorts to Abel Ferrara's 1992 Bad Lieutenant, which starred Harvey Keitel as a nameless, coke-addled sadist who has visions of Jesus. Director Werner Herzog - who made great movies in the '70s, and whose oneiric documentaries landed him on this year's TIME 100 list - says he never saw the Ferrara film, and simply worked from a script by William Finkelstein, who's written more than 100 episodes of cop shows...