Review: Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 0/5 stars
OK, so some people have said that this painting meant to be really good, but I just don't see what's so great about it. I mean, who paints a picture on a ceiling, anyway? It's impossible to look at properly and it's too high to see any of the detail. I think Michelangelo needs to take some lessons from real painters and paint ON A WALL, like any normal person.
And seriously, why is he focussing on religion, yet again? Haven't we done enough religious paintings already? Sure it's a painting in a chapel, but it's boring and it's been done too many times already. It's not as if he's giving us anything new here: just the same old bible stories as before.
And frankly, a lot of it is pretty boring. It's just people sitting around. A painting is meant to entertain people, not bore them to death. So he really needs to think about adding some dramatic battle scenes or something. Sure, there are a few nudes, but not really enough for my taste. And a lot of them aren't that attractive. He really needs to take lessons in how to paint hot naked women. Not wrinkled old men. I mean, if he's going to paint that sort of crap, he should really put a spoiler warning at the chapel entrance or something.
And don't even get me started on the time it took to paint. FOUR YEARS! Who takes four years to paint a picture? Seriously, is that guy trying to rip of his patron the pope or what?