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    I don't get the nostalgia for them. As I remember it, their work wasn't very well received by the community and with reason. They were the Michael Bay of web design, taking all the techniques and innovation and making a horrible mess out of it.
    It all looks as bad to me now as it did back then.

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    • I know what you mean. Feels like some minority report shitIanbolton
    • which wasn't even directed by Michael BayIanbolton
    • lol @ 'the Michael Bay of web design'
      Yup!      Continuity
    • Michael Bay in the Criterion Collection
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    • The FWApalimpsest
    • To each his own.palimpsest
    • @nb flol, for what? Armageddon? It is important to remember that CC is not just great films, but defining touchstones in film.garbage
    • That said, Tiny Furniture is in the CC, and I don't know how you explain that one.garbage
    • i think for me, i was impressed with the 'how' so to speak... in many ways they were doing some pretty amazing things..exador1
    • i wasn't a big fan of the tiny 3 pt type, and the incomprehensible space designs....exador1
    • i was more of a fan on the overall technical stuff...exador1
    • Knowing how to pull off an explosion does not make for a great movie.palimpsest
    • but if you're an amateur film maker wanting to make movies with explosions, then you're going to want to Know How.Nairn
    • Looking back at much of the old internet 'we' claim to love and miss, I can't help but feel a lot of it looked fucking awful.Nairn
    • Minds me of Enigma's first album - the tech made it so he could mix fucking pan pipes and Gregorian chanting, but the modern ear's like "wtf is this madness?!"Nairn
    • But at the time we thought it was amazing, because it had never been done.
      Should never have been done, but there we were, amazed.      Nairn
    • @palimp True, but you can't deny that his style is instantly recognizable ('splosions, bad writng, stupid plot).garbage
    • Nobody ever says "Ha, that's totally a Michael Haneke moment". They, say "Haha, Bay moment".garbage
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