Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Petite Etoile, Jameson, response to asyouwish

I also think that postmodernism is nearing its end and that avant-garde has reached its final stages. I cant count how many times I've been listening to a song on the radio and my parents have been like, “Hey... I remember that song... what did they do to it??” It seems like nearly everything has been created already. Most movies today are remakes of old movies, they're already casting actors for the remake of Footloose. Footloose was made in the 80's, it's not even 30 years old and were already remaking it. Or like we talked about before, a lot of movies are just making fun of other movies. And television shows just keep adding more and more seasons without any real significant plot changes. How many seasons of American Idol or America's Next Top Model can we handle before we get sick of seeing the same thing over and over again? And going even deeper, once America's Next Top Model came out, a million other shows came out just like it. You can watch a show about the next top designer, chef, hairstylist, fashion assistant.... I even saw a show over the weekend that was about loggers... yes a show where you watch people cut down wood in the forest. It seems like almost everything has already been done, so when someone does find something remotely new (before America's Next Model there weren't really any shows like it) everyone jumps on it and reproduces it again and again until its on every channel in every way shape and form possible. We go through phases, right now we enjoy watching these kind of shows. Before this it was reality tv show stage, before that it was the dating show stage, who knows what the next fad will be. But whatever they come up with thats remotely new and interesting you can bet will be replicated all over the place until your sick of seeing that too.

1 comment:

CMC300 said...

You give a good personal opinion about postmodernism and it is great that you have responded to Asyouwish. It would have been good if you had incorporated a quote from Jameson.

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