Damn I'll have to catch the next one

Less? No. Obviously the only way is to consume marijuana constantly, interweaving cigarettes and beer until before you realize it it's tomorrow. It also helps when you have to eat rats and bugs when you run out of twinkies.

That is one point I can agree on, it really is a different sight up close.

Bahaha first time I actually laughed out loud to a form post in a while. Caught me totally off-guard, I totally thought it was going to be a "we are all most likely "artists"" post!

That PICard is equally as hilarious.

Also, another Moderate perk is that no one ever knows when you edit a post, they think you are always perfect

I think abortion should be the next thread topic.

So art has to have a point? Ya can't paint a picture just for the sake of creating something that looks nice?

Dude you gotta play games like Mass Effect. And can't one painting instill a feeling of safety in one viewer and a feeling of horror in another?

But you're changing it in the way it was MEANT to be changed by the artist.

Actually, I don't even like the word "change", Dorkman use your powers of literariness to help me.

I would have to agree on the awesomeness of everyone.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!

Yo guys, let's make teams

But seriously, Jeff, if you think they CAN be art that is like saying really old paintings that were ugly and did not make people feel good by looking at them are not art, but if they just "tried harder" to make something appealing, it is art. I don't know, I just don't agree with that, but I feel like I don't understand you because I cannot fathom that you think that way

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Think of it as one writer of a script to the entire crew needed to make it.

I do not see how anyone here can call a movie art but not a video game. Maybe we should get a consensus of what you "people"   think is art or not..

Can paintings be art?
Can movies be art?
Can pictures be art?
Are visual effects art?
Are books art?
Are choose-your own adventure books art?
Can martial arts be art?
Are Rude Goldberg machines art?
Is taxidermy art?

Can you call one movie art and not another?
If you like the Lord of the Rings more than Star Wars, does that make it more artistic?
If someone knocks over a can of paint onto a canvas, accidentally, is it art?
If someone knocks over a can of paint onto a canvas because they want to see what it looks like, is it art?
Does someone have to knock over a can of paint onto a canvas while saying "THIS IS GOING TO BE ART I'M CREATING ON PURPOSE" to be art?

EDIT:

You don't think 3D "creators" are not artists? People who model things in 3D are not artists? Animators are not artists? The musicians creating the soundtrack are not artists? The matte painters creating backgrounds are not artists? Or do you think they ARE all artists, just when they all work together on something it's not art?

I agree with the respect for Ebert, he was one of the few critics I would actually have followed. But this just infuriates me to no end. IMO it's like he is saying "no one living now will be alive to ever see anyone or personally catch a baseball".

It is fucking INTERACTIVE ART. It is a movie, THAT YOU FUCKING PLAY! When is the last time you watched a movie for 60 hours and were entertained by the characters the visual style the music and oh yeah you got to decide how to story unfolds and control the main characters instead of just watching them. Not only are video games art, they are art that allows you to create more fucking art by playing them. They are fucking Art^2! HULK SMASHHH