David Edelstein Quotes

• La película es una metáfora del poder de la exageración delirante, una metáfora de sí misma.

  David Edelstein

  Hype, Metaphor, Delusional

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• The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

  David Edelstein

  Comedy, Exhausted, Excellent

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• A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

  David Edelstein

  Play, Roles, Critics

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• I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Musician, Groups

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.

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• Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.

  David Edelstein

  People, Together, Psycho

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• If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Ice, People

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• My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it. A tad hypocritical? Yes. But sometimes you think, Well, I'll just go to hell.

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Blood, Sin City

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• My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.

  David Edelstein

  Book, Important, Shy

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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• Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.

  David Edelstein

  Yo, Años, Gente

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  País, Lectura, Media

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• The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

  David Edelstein

  Real, Book, Technological Change

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Cillian Murphy es el tipo que luchó contra zombis virales en "28 días después" y se puso una bolsa de gas en la cabeza en "Batman Begins". Con su palidez, sus pómulos de cristal y sus ojos azules vidriosos, está justo en la frontera entre el hombre de ensueño y el monstruo espeluznante.

  David Edelstein

  Eye, Cutting, Glasses

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• Habrá una competición entre los críticos por el mejor insulto a Paris Hilton. Aquí va el primero: Su capacidad de atención es tan escasa que ni siquiera puede mantener la concentración mientras huye de un psicópata... Tal vez el insulto definitivo sea que hace que su compañera de reparto Elisha Cuthbert parezca, en comparación, la actriz más sexy e interesante del cine moderno.

  David Edelstein

  Running, Stars, Paris

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• Se puede sentir la furia justa en cada fotograma de Las hermanas Magdalena. La película es a la vez una obra maestra y un infierno sagrado: Al verla, sientes que te castigan por un crimen que no has cometido. Lo que, pensándolo bien, te pone en el mismo estado de ánimo que esas pobres Magdalenas.

  David Edelstein

  Girl, Thinking, Mind

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• I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

  David Edelstein

  Father, Locks, Deadline

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment.

  David Edelstein

  Character, Names, Love Actually

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• El Rey Arturo es profundamente estúpido e inepto... y luego está Clive Owen, elevándose por encima de todo. Distante pero atento, el actor cultiva una quietud interior que es perfecta para las cavilaciones ligeramente irónicas. Ni se distancia de este material risible, ni se abre al ridículo. Su Rey Arturo nos habla poco de Arturo, pero mucho de protegerse el flanco. ¿La marca de un rey taquillero?

  David Edelstein

  Kings, Distance, Stupid

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• No es ningún misterio por qué muchos de nosotros en los medios de comunicación no nos cansamos de los inventores Jayson Blair y Stephen Glass, el último de los cuales inventó más de una veintena de artículos falsos para el New Republic (y que escribió para otras revistas, incluida ésta, en una ocasión) a mediados de la década de 1990. Cualquiera -periodista, estudiante, académico- que haya mirado alguna vez una pantalla en blanco, con el cerebro rechinando de vacío, y haya pensado: "¿Cómo puedo llenar este agujero?", sabe que en esos momentos desesperados antes de una fecha límite, casi cualquiera puede hacer casi cualquier cosa: inventarse cosas, plagiar, garabatear medias verdades sin sentido.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• Yo apostaría más por la biografía de Lyndon Johnson escrita por Robert Caro, y no sólo porque probablemente sigamos esperando el volumen final en 2017.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Finals, Biographies

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

  David Edelstein

  Character, Dna, Actors

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• The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.

  David Edelstein

  Independent, Hands, Cities

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Criticism, Serious

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Es difícil para los actores cómicos acostumbrados a hacer muecas sólo por estar en pantalla, pero Tina Fey hace un buen trabajo. Me gustó verla. El papel, sin embargo, no está relleno. Cuando Baker anuncia que se ha acostumbrado demasiado a la locura de Afganistán, que le preocupa estar considerándola normal, el sentimiento surge de la nada. El arco dramático de "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" es inexistente. La película se evapora en la mente como el agua en el desierto afgano.

  David Edelstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Filled In

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

  David Edelstein

  Annoyed, Female, Fey

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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