6:39 - Spoken like a true critic - and I say this completely endearingly. As evidenced by the popular successes, people watch movies to shut their brains off. Everything Ebert championed throughout his reviewing career - intelligence, heart, imagination - are completely irrelevant to the spectacle itself. For hundreds of pages of philosophical explanations as to why this is so, see the work of Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard.
@@fortynights1513 Indeed, it not only could be, but has been said for all forms of popular media. The virtues of the marketplace dominate all media and circumscribe its potential, regardless of the degree of technological innovation. The earliest example I know of would be Socrates asserting as much about the danger inherent to symbolic language itself - In Plato's Phaedrus, he suggests language will lead people to assume that something is true simply because it is written down. Elsewhere, he suggests "misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
I remember hearing Robert giving a negative opinion about video games at some point, but I wonder how he would feel about the modern video game experience. It's like playing a movie times 100, it's vicariously the same but also extremely deeper
@@25EZpcs. That's a broad generalization, I do agree that some AAA games today are absolute garbage. But then look at a game like persona, or even the Guardians of the Galaxy game that came out a few years ago, that game was a delight to play. And it was like playing a movie
@@25EZpcs. Or Xenoblade Chronicles, They liked Japanese anime and mentioned it many times. So being able to have agency in the game and in the story would probably be interesting to them
@@zg-it fair enough to each his own. I didn’t play that game but that’s the exact type of video game I don’t like. The “movie” video game such as the last of us or your example and so on seem to really take away from the medium itself. If I want to watch a movie I’ll watch it, not a play a video game.
@@25EZpcs. No, not like a movie at all. It's like an in-depth story where you're playing the character in the world. When you engage with npcs, the character on World building go along deep into the story. There's a series called trails in the sky, and that there's a bunch of sequels. The World building in that game is so phenomenal, and the story is terrific. Even the shopkeepers will make comments about things that are relevant to what's changing in the story. Even the Guardians of the Galaxy game, you felt like you were playing in the movie, but you didn't feel like the game was a movie. It actually felt like you were making a difference in what was happening in the movie, while experiencing the world in the movie in a more direct way
6:39 - Spoken like a true critic - and I say this completely endearingly. As evidenced by the popular successes, people watch movies to shut their brains off. Everything Ebert championed throughout his reviewing career - intelligence, heart, imagination - are completely irrelevant to the spectacle itself. For hundreds of pages of philosophical explanations as to why this is so, see the work of Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard.
Couldn’t that be said for all media that people like - movies or not?
@@fortynights1513 Indeed, it not only could be, but has been said for all forms of popular media. The virtues of the marketplace dominate all media and circumscribe its potential, regardless of the degree of technological innovation.
The earliest example I know of would be Socrates asserting as much about the danger inherent to symbolic language itself - In Plato's Phaedrus, he suggests language will lead people to assume that something is true simply because it is written down. Elsewhere, he suggests "misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
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Who else thinks that the host sounds like Charlie Rose, when they close their eyes?
Rose’s voice has a southern twang to it.
I can tell it’s not Charlie Rose because this host actually knows when to shut his mouth
Definitely. The inflections especially.
12:10 vincent dono-freeyo
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I remember hearing Robert giving a negative opinion about video games at some point, but I wonder how he would feel about the modern video game experience. It's like playing a movie times 100, it's vicariously the same but also extremely deeper
Modern video games are the putz go pickup a ps2 at your local pawn shop. Treat yourself
@@25EZpcs. That's a broad generalization, I do agree that some AAA games today are absolute garbage. But then look at a game like persona, or even the Guardians of the Galaxy game that came out a few years ago, that game was a delight to play. And it was like playing a movie
@@25EZpcs. Or Xenoblade Chronicles, They liked Japanese anime and mentioned it many times. So being able to have agency in the game and in the story would probably be interesting to them
@@zg-it fair enough to each his own. I didn’t play that game but that’s the exact type of video game I don’t like. The “movie” video game such as the last of us or your example and so on seem to really take away from the medium itself. If I want to watch a movie I’ll watch it, not a play a video game.
@@25EZpcs. No, not like a movie at all. It's like an in-depth story where you're playing the character in the world. When you engage with npcs, the character on World building go along deep into the story. There's a series called trails in the sky, and that there's a bunch of sequels. The World building in that game is so phenomenal, and the story is terrific. Even the shopkeepers will make comments about things that are relevant to what's changing in the story.
Even the Guardians of the Galaxy game, you felt like you were playing in the movie, but you didn't feel like the game was a movie. It actually felt like you were making a difference in what was happening in the movie, while experiencing the world in the movie in a more direct way
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