I never watched Argo and I never will based on the comments here.
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Once Upon a Time of America- A crime drama where no crime or much of anything happens over three hours.
The Tree of Life- The scenes involving Jack's adolescence were decent but, all the big bang stuff was pretty but pointless and the ending was just ridiculously pretentious.
The Tree of Life- The scenes involving Jack's adolescence were decent but, all the big bang stuff was pretty but pointless and the ending was just ridiculously pretentious.
You should see it and come up with your own opinion about it.
That's a shame. Giving it the best picture award was perhaps a stretch but it's a very effective and exciting thriller with some good acting by Affleck.
Tree of fecking Life.
There's only 2 movies where I bailed out halfway : The wolf warrior, and this piece of shit.
It's the type of movie I would watch when I'm doing my massage in a reflexology center
There's only 2 movies where I bailed out halfway : The wolf warrior, and this piece of shit.
It's the type of movie I would watch when I'm doing my massage in a reflexology center
I was skeptic about it at the first place, I always thought it's some kind of comedy shits, but overall it's quite entertaining, but not worthy of Best Picture. You should see it, it won't disappoint.
Argo feckyouself was worth the 2hours
I have never seen so many people walk out of the cinema as I saw when I went to watch this. Needless to say, I walked out also.
You're all idiots!
I really liked Argo
The Hurt Locker is one that I would put in this, thread though. It didnt do it for me
The Hurt Locker is one that I would put in this, thread though. It didnt do it for me
At the risk of sounding uncultured most 'old' films don't do it for me, with notable exceptions. There's something about the acting and writing that bothers me, characters don't seem as nuanced or realistic as they do in equivalent later films. I imagine it's something of a stylistic hangover from the stage, where actors, writers and directors had to find a way to communicate clearly with a theatre-full of people and therefore characterisation and emotion couldn't afford to be subtle. To a modern viewer though it just comes off as if they rely more on extravagant, overly-expository dialogue to establish character than they do on actual acting.
I'm the same. There's rarely a film I dislike. I even laugh at Adam Sander films. Suppose not a bad thing to enjoy most films. I just know what to expect going into films and enjoy what they try to do.
Go watch Mortal Instruments and then come back and say that
Tree of life I agree with 100% but Fight Club?! Everyone that doesn't rate Fight Club should be punched on the nose repeatedly until he's back to his senses. Madness.
Se7en
The Big Lebowski
No Country For Old Men
Raging Bull
Scarface
Chinatown
The Big Lebowski
No Country For Old Men
Raging Bull
Scarface
Chinatown
I agree with @Rooney in Dublin The Tree of Life sucks
I haven't actually seen it but Malick films often sway my opinion
I haven't actually seen it but Malick films often sway my opinion
Inception was an action movie?
As a reference point, terminator 2 was one of the best "blockbuster" action films I've seen. If you're counting inception as an action film, then it's not even close.
Also the point with inception seems to be that it's regarded by some as some sort of genius film, a real thinking man's quality film, when it's not. Like terminator, like matrix, it's a big Hollywood entertainer really. Although in my personal opinion it's nowhere near as good.
Thats almost exactly what I was saying. I think Inception is a very good action film. Not the best, but certainly one of the better ones, eventually in the top5, most likely in the top10 of action movies. I disagree when people praise the film for other things, e.g. to be "a real thinking man´s quality film".
Certainly Fargo and The Big Lebowski are more accessible than something like No Country. Maybe No Country For Old Men is a film of higher quality than The Big Lebowski sure, but if I'm sitting bored around the house I know which one I'm more likely to pop in the DVD player.
Inception is a heist film with some action in there, and a very good one at that. It doesn't have any depth except if you're engrossed in Cobb's personal melodrama, but doesn't try to be anything else.
It doesn't "try to be clever" or whatever ridiculous criticism is being levelled at it more than Ocean's 11 or other heist movies do, it's just its structure and universe which set it apart from other more conventional heist movies (which also made it be appreciated so much by large audiences as well, it was a tad more challenging to get into than a run of the mill film of that genre). People get way too flustered about Inception, I seriously find it hard to grasp exactly why. Well I know why Nilsson hates it, cos of Zimmer. But Nilsson is a Zimmer-hater.
It doesn't "try to be clever" or whatever ridiculous criticism is being levelled at it more than Ocean's 11 or other heist movies do, it's just its structure and universe which set it apart from other more conventional heist movies (which also made it be appreciated so much by large audiences as well, it was a tad more challenging to get into than a run of the mill film of that genre). People get way too flustered about Inception, I seriously find it hard to grasp exactly why. Well I know why Nilsson hates it, cos of Zimmer. But Nilsson is a Zimmer-hater.
Initially I hated it because it spoon feeds the audience too much and also feel there was a massively missed opportunity because they are dealing with dreams but most of the settings were simple offices and on top of that, they showed some cool 'world altering' elements but none of it was even used towards the end of the film. BUT! Once I told people I didn't like it, people started responding with "you only didn't like it because you didn't understand it" nonsense, which started making me hate it even more.
For me, it was more of a let down than anything.
I've never heard the "you didn't like it cos you didn't understand it" for Inception tbh, but I can easily understand why that comment would annoy anyone!
Yep! That sort of comment is fine for something like Primer or maybe even Synecdoche New York but for Inception it feels more like a condescending comment.I've never heard the "you didn't like it cos you didn't understand it" for Inception tbh, but I can easily understand why that comment would annoy anyone!
You didn't understand it though did you?
Goodfellas.
This thread has made me realise I don't remember any details of the plot of Inception at all. Must be old age.
The perfect ending to this movie would have been a crocodile eating her. I was literally on the edge of my seat in anticipation waiting for a croc to nomnom her.
I was pretty upset when it didn't happen.
I would have gone with a shark but I totally agree.
Never is the survivor shit eating grin gif more appropriate!
Titanic was the first that came to mind.
That would be pretty much every Woody Allen's movie. Just pick random five and put it out there.
:O.
Upon re-watching it, it's easily the most intriguing movie I've ever watched. Why specifically do you hate it?
Plus, as the poster who quoted you said a lot of people abandoned the movie, it can't be overrated, can it?
It is critically overrated. Critics go on about this as if it's a hardcore porno between Jennifer Lawrence and [insert hot man]
To be honest I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, it's just a trend I've noticed on the occasions when I've sat down to watch a 'classic' with my parents or seen clips from older films in those '100 Greatest' countdowns. I suppose it's entirely possible that one or both of my mam and/or Channel 4's countdown compilers have dreadful taste in old films.
edit - when I say 'old films' I mean generally stuff from the 60s and earlier.
Hurt Locker was good. Shakespeare in Love and Crash are the worst Best Picture winners of recent times. Did Forrest Gump win? That too.
Actually I agree.
A lot of people dislike, and in many places despise, the movie, and yet it was acclaimed by most critics.
Good call on Crash. It was contrived garbage. It's difficult to execute stories where multiple stories are connected in large story. The Wire does it brilliantly, and Tarantino does it well(albeit it's easier to do it in absurd storylines).
Forrest Gump is awful on so many levels. Portrayal of Handicapped, cartoonishly shallow characters, portrayal of the hippies and AIDS. The worst of them all has to be the gist of that movie though: Conservatism of of Bumfeck Alabama is good whereas progressive ideas lead to unhappiness, disease and decadence. feck off.
Crash is underrated and gets too much stick. Like @Twigg, though, I think I'm just too easily impressed. I have a habit of forcing myself into seeing the good in things so that I convince myself I haven't just wasted 3 hours of my life.
But whoever said Once Upon A Time in America is shite is right. That wankstain didn't just waste 3 hours of my time, but nearly fecking four.
But whoever said Once Upon A Time in America is shite is right. That wankstain didn't just waste 3 hours of my time, but nearly fecking four.
The Godfather - It's ok, but very boring in parts for me. Very overrated. I think people just say it's awesome because everyone else does.
Sin City - What a pile of rubbish, yet people creamed themselves over this one.
Lord of the Rings - My god it's long. Could they not have crammed it into one film?
The Blair Witch Project - Jesus Christ.
Sin City - What a pile of rubbish, yet people creamed themselves over this one.
Lord of the Rings - My god it's long. Could they not have crammed it into one film?
The Blair Witch Project - Jesus Christ.
These were my exact thoughts too.
I'd agree with this. The style was really cool and got my interest but it got pretty boring quickly.