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luvcraft
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: Man, I feel SO much better about the video games today |
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...because last night I went to see a simulcast (only it was delayed because the actual simulcast was cancelled due to snow, so it was really a rebroadcast) of the Met's rendition of Mozart's The Magic Flute. My two word, two fraction review is:
Style: 6/10, Substance: 0/10.
Seriously, a random episode of Teletubbies has significantly more cohesive production design and plot, and more inspired music.
200 years after the beginning of opera, THAT was considered a masterpiece. If only ~35 years after the invention of video games we're seeing things like Shadow of the Colossus and Half Life 2, then we're doin' A-O-fuckin'-K. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:58 pm |
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| dmauro wrote: |
I think Opera is an acquired taste. Try his symphonies if you want something more manageable.
Wilkes, see how I'm trying to get him onto the music WITHOUT words. |
I've also seen the Marriage of Figgaro live, and that was great; good plot, good music, good pacing. Magic Flute, though, holy crap. Aside from the awesome stacatto in "Der Hölle Rache" it was total poop. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:37 pm |
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| No no no! It's comparing games to movies that makes people cry. If you compare it to opera, though, it totally comes out on top. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:46 pm |
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| Ging wrote: |
| use of the words "stacatto" and "poop" in the same sentence. |
I rock from both sides of the tracks. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:01 pm |
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| Gironika wrote: |
so, which opera do you prefer:
FF6 vs. Mozarts Magic Flute
Round 1, FIGHT. |
FF6, hands down. Needs more staccato, though. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:21 pm |
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| Adilegian wrote: |
| Did the Queen of Night's actress hit all the right notes during "Der Holle Rache Kocht in meinen Herzen"? That piece brings a goddamn tear to my eye. |
You know, looking around at other performances of "Der Holle Rache", I would say that she technically did it very well, but it was presented like some kind of party trick, as opposed to, say, this awesome performance of it, where she treats it like hysterics and actually does some ACTING.
The performance I saw was remarkably devoid of any sort of acting, although with a story that bland there's really not too much you can do to jazz it up. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:19 pm |
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| Adilegian wrote: |
| I would be a little forgiving of the actress in the simulcast if, as you wrote, the acting was very underplayed through the whole piece. That's more than likely the director's decision. |
well, it was actually the whole production I had issues with, not just that one singer.
| Adilegian wrote: |
| I'm very curious to know why you didn't like the story, luvcraft! |
It was just very very very contrived and moronic, and honestly felt like it was written for mentally handicapped little children. Things like:
prince: "I have to kill Sorastro!"
guard: "Uh, I can't let you do that. Why do you want to kill him?"
prince: "Because he is my enemy!"
guard: "Why is he your enemy?"
prince: "Because, um... because he is my enemy!"
guard: "Look, if you tell me why he's your enemy and why you want to kill him than maybe I can let you talk to him, but otherwise I'm not letting you in"
prince: "But you must let me in so I can kill him, because he is my enemy!"
guard: "You, sir, are a fucktard. Good day."
the princess going off to commit suicide because the prince won't talk to her during the whole half-hour that he's sworn to silence, the fact that none of the characters have any sort of personality, and the incredibly inane one-liners from Papageno.
Granted, the version I saw was an abridged, English-language version, but unless the translator / abridger was an absolute drooling moron I can't imagine that the full version could have been enough better to be good at all. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:44 pm |
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| alice wrote: |
sotc is not that great.
But everyone should still play it.
should I play ico? |
You should play Ico.
Actually, it depends on what you didn't like about SotC; if you want item quests or guns, or stats, or something, you're not going to like Ico either. |
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luvcraft
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:26 pm |
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| Guys, JET is SotC. |
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