EVERYONE in that movie had three days left to retirement!

I've got one.

One of my favorite webdip posters, obiobi, rarely misses the mark. This is evidenced by duchebag Canadian critics always trashing him, comparing him to such inane pop authors as blankflag.

But every now and then he puts out a piece for the masses, diverging from his usual literary brilliance. One such work was published only recently titled " The Worst of the Best: The All-Time Masters' Most Crap-tastic Works"

Metaslam!

Music - Wagner's Ring Cycle, although I still like it. It's his most boring work, IMO.
Poetry - Schiller's The Artists.
Novel - Kipling - Captain Courageous (again, I don't dislike it, just my least favorite).
Art - Caspar David Friedrich - Chalk Cliffs on Rugen

Whoa whoa whoa whoa...

Skipping past philcore's +1-worthy comment for the moment (I know, it's a shame, I wasn't happy with the piece myself but my my editor--he's some anti-Obama guy, I think he's posted once or twice to voice his political views...hates libtards, liberalism, all sentences that don't end in exclamation points, that sort of thing)...

Putin...you know, I feel like we could write a BOOK on your viewpoints and preferences and still not get them straight.

Wagner? You ride the Moral High Horse to the point you have saddle sores, but you're perfectly OK liking arguably one of the nastiest (albeit brilliant) artists of all-time?

If you didn't place such stock in moralizing, I could let that go...but...

You object to seemingly EVERYTHING on moral grounds...but you're OK with the Antisemitic fascistic overly-nationalistic Valkyrie?

Nobel peace prize:
1994 awarding to Arafat (with others)

For "Shakespeare" - What about Henry V? Could it get any more inane than that?
There are writers on this Forum who create a lot more drama and poetry.

^...I...I...I refuse to comment.

Henry V is one of the BEST Shakespeare plays (I defy your inevitable criticism, Putin, it's BRILLIANT...the St. Crispin Day Speech is a Top 10 Shakespeare speech, and arguably the greatest moment in the greatest of all Shakespeare's History plays.)

It remains the Shakespeare play I MOST want to add to my (thus far) 11 DVD Shakespeare collection..."Coriolanus" is all well and good, but damn it, I would have SO preferred Barnes and Noble had Branagh's Henry V.

It's "England, Fuck YEAH!" before there was "America, Fuck YEAH!" and it's simultaneously one of the most action-driven and eloquent of the Bard's works.

I love that play. It's brilliant. Even if it's propaganda in part and the French must hate it (seriously, I'd LOVE to see a French production of this! lol) it's a Top 10 Shakespeare play, and in terms of patriotic works of literature, I'm not sure if America really has something which can compare to Henry V...though I'm open to suggestions. :)

Yeah, yeah I know--

*Refuses to comment, then comments at length.*

If you're shocked by that, you must be new here, in which case--

*Stands up*

Ahem, hello, my name is obiwanobiwan, and I am a Shakespeare-holic.

Shakespeare's worst is "The Tempest." Such a dumb play.

"you're perfectly OK liking arguably one of the nastiest (albeit brilliant) artists of all-time?"

Look, a Nietzsche fan objecting to liking Wagner. *Yawn* And how is Walkyrie anti-semitic again?

...Nietzsche had a falling out with Wagner, what are you getting at? O.o

He wrote a whole book on his opposition to the man, "Nietzsche Contra Wagner," I can like one and not the other...as apparently the elder Nietzsche lost his taste for that nationalistic ass, and devoted length tracts as to why.

@bo_sox:

O.o

Congrats on your team advancing to the World Series...but are you serious?

I honestly can't imagine anyone who's seen/read "Merry Wives" and "The Tempest" picking the latter over the former as the worst the Bard has ever done.

And I actually like the Tempest--

It definitely has silly bits, but some good lines as well, and of course the epilogue as classic...Shakespeare's "exit" from solo writing for the public stage...

It's the play that gave us "As you from crimes would pardoned be/Let your indulgence set me free," "O brave new world that has such people in't!" and Caliban's remarks on the island which were used for the 2012 London Olympic Games (odd they'd choose Caliban of all Shakespeare's characters, but it's a good dialogue and I got to see Kenneth Branagh deliver it, so no complaints here.) :)

By contrast, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" gave us...um...

A really, REALLY lame "Greensleeves reference?"

" Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Green Sleeves"

^Not exactly the Bard at his best.

Yes and Wagner was a "nationalist ass" as you put it, long before the falling out. And he always loved Tristan und Isolde, so somehow his politics didn't get the in way of Nietzsche's appreciation for Wagner's music.

You're the one with the High Horse. Nationalists happen to write good music. Mussorgsky? Best Russian composer, IMO. John Philips Sousa? Fantastic.
But you do this in every thread in which you bring up people's tastes, only to attack them.

Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Henry V were really weak and were obviously just cranked out industry pop writing for the masses. Shakespeare really sold out.

Yeah, I definitely didn't see putin digging Wagner and Kipling.

Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, to respond to the thread: I'm not a big fan of Tchaikovsky's string quartet. I don't think "The Boy David" was up to JM Barrie's usual standards; "Help" is a little slow in the middle for a Beatles album (though I love it); and while I like all their movies, the Ladykillers has stuck with be a bit less than the Coens' other offerings.