This was a great read, and felt adjacent to my own thoughts about appreciating-- even loving, in some cases-- art that is highly ambitious but falls just short of the mark.
Also, I hope the great scene in Covenant you're referring to is the recorder-playing one!
Patrick, reading you is always such a rich pleasure, whatever the subject. There's always a fundamental intellectual and moral seriousness - you are, I daresay (hoping you take this as the compliment it's intended as) a writer of *old-fashioned* gifts and inclinations, and I mean that in a very good way. And you always make me think. If time machines were real, I would love to host a dinner party for you, Hazlitt and Lamb, and maybe Chesterton thrown in just to make things extra interesting.
I love when you write about movies! Would never have recognized the video game stuff. Thought for a bit there the whole movie would be about Andy and his “upgrade” and maybe we’d be onto something but alas…
This was a great read, and felt adjacent to my own thoughts about appreciating-- even loving, in some cases-- art that is highly ambitious but falls just short of the mark.
Also, I hope the great scene in Covenant you're referring to is the recorder-playing one!
THE RECORDER-PLAYING SCEEEEEEEENNEEEE😆😆
Patrick, reading you is always such a rich pleasure, whatever the subject. There's always a fundamental intellectual and moral seriousness - you are, I daresay (hoping you take this as the compliment it's intended as) a writer of *old-fashioned* gifts and inclinations, and I mean that in a very good way. And you always make me think. If time machines were real, I would love to host a dinner party for you, Hazlitt and Lamb, and maybe Chesterton thrown in just to make things extra interesting.
I love when you write about movies! Would never have recognized the video game stuff. Thought for a bit there the whole movie would be about Andy and his “upgrade” and maybe we’d be onto something but alas…
There was so much potential there! Alas, I think they were too committed to the “legacy” bit.
we need the shot of a woman cringing away from a creepy mouth at all costs lol