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Drive.
It's a glorified music video.
It's a glorified music video.
I love my sci fi and was excited to see this but god how boring.
Same here, fantastic film.
I agree about mad max but The wolf is a brilliant film, how can you not see that.
Wtf, one of the best films ever!
Not even as good as the film it copied and more an overacting competition than a film. Hated it.
Arrival on the other hand was a very good film. One of the best sci-fi films in a long time.
Boring? Elba's performance was better than the film itself but it was far from boring.
Mixed bag there 2001 is pretentious rubbish, I haven't seen the Tree of Life but the three 3 are utterly brilliant.
Agreed. Layers? Enjoyable with decent acting but I have no idea why it tops film lists.
Be careful, it's a popular film to like.
I think it was shit, and am tired of people asking if i 'understand the ending' , like it was difficult to understand.
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I hated it. The second half in particular.
I stopped watching Wolf of Wall Street after like ten minutes. Is it considered more than a fun movie to watch with your friends for a good laugh?
Hear hear. Thought Departed was shite.
Mad Max is garbage. Don't get the hype at all.
I didn't think it was rubbish but it was a fun, well done, OTT reboot. Could have lived without it of course.
It's the greatest film of all time.
I don't like listing things as "overrated" as it's all subjective but I recently watched Se7en and thought it was average. Pitt and Freeman were great and worked well together, but the movie just felt flat to me. I didn't think Guardians of the Galaxy, Heat or The Big Lebowski lived up to the hype either.
When did people start spelling Seven as Se7en??
It is utter bollocks. Standard computes goes mad stuff with the ending (and monlith in general) being pure gibberish. Combine that with Kubrick's incapacity to film emotion of any sort makes it truly terrible. It makes Interstellar seem sensible and believable.
IMO of course.
Pretty much one of the main reasons that puts him ahead of most others.
2010 was equally silly but at least Kubrick didn't make it.
It does? You might as well read a dictionary or a phone book. And at least the end would make sense.
Human emotion by definition is pretentious. The few who manage to steer clear deserve recognition.
The actual name of the movie is Se7en.
Nah, that must be a later rebrand, possibly a bluray release or something?
Here's the original poster/vhs cover.
Shawshank has layers man. The obvious religious allegory, broad existential themes (Sartrean, Sisyphean most obviously), aesthetics, art and knowledge, symbolism scattered throughout, freedom (physical/metaphysicalyuk!). That's not to comment on the depth, or quality of the layers, but I'd say the film stacks a fair amount together. Personally Paul Newman is my go to prison-yard Christ figure.
I think when watching a film like this it's important to remember when it was made. Had you seen it back when it came out it would've been ground breaking in its story, copied and made standard since.
That said, it's very boring.
I think you are reverse engineering stuff into the film that was never there. It is a simple tale. Even simpler than the (great) novella it came from.
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I did see it when it came out (well not long after it came out).
Blasphemy.
Only less fun.
Stylish? Yes but for me completely lacked any substance. Just a brainless film.. maybe I just don't get the concept. Personally found it a chore.
The most annoying thing about Interstellar for me wasn't the ending, which I liked. It was the braindead stupidity of pretty much every character in the movie.
I don't have much faith in humanity, but I'd like to think if we end up in such a situation we won't risk the future of the human race because we're a bit loved up, or lonely.
Oh and the "love is the answer" bit, obviously.
I don't have much faith in humanity, but I'd like to think if we end up in such a situation we won't risk the future of the human race because we're a bit loved up, or lonely.
Oh and the "love is the answer" bit, obviously.
When did that happen? The loved up bit?
When Anne Hathaway made the case to go to her boyfriends planet despite everything thinking it was less favourable.
Ah, well... that's human nature. It would have been odd for her character not to even mention it and we know that her family are a bit... selfish anyway. She should never have been up there in the first place given her emotional ties.
Yeah. I wouldn't have been so wound up by it if she hadn't made the whole love speech, the was horrific viewing for me!
Yeah, I was happy with her characters ending.
This is like my Freudian interpretation of Peppa Pig.
More seriously, I'm a sod for reading too much into books or films I like. So I don't blame dumbo if he's done the same.