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The Flayed One 02-22-2007 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by newb (Post 557321)
not so


it had a great soundtrack

Pshaw! Can't you go make legitimate counterpoints somewhere else, you cad?:p

pinkerton 02-22-2007 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by omcdave (Post 557190)
pinkman thinks that feast is to long he just cant sit still for three hours or 3 mins :D



I haven't seen Feast yet:o but the rest is true!

Despare 02-22-2007 12:00 PM

Didn't enjoy Gump either, and I personally didn't like American Beauty much.

alkytrio666 02-22-2007 12:08 PM

Yeah, Forrest Gump is a movie I find utterly boring. Dull as hell, completely over-hyped.


I try not to jump on people's opinions...after all, they are opinions.
But Kubrick certainly isn't the most overrated directors of all time. I'd go so far as to say he's underrated.

Doc Faustus 02-22-2007 12:40 PM

Kubrick's problem doesn't have enough respect for other people's material. Yes, according to George Steiner's linguistics text After Babel, enhancement can be an important part of translation, but Kubrick prioritizes enhancement OVER translation. His adaptations don't take the original into consideration enough. His Shining camps up the story of a child in jeopardy to the point at which it loses a lot of the frightening aspects. Doctor Strangelove is incredible. A Clockwork Orange is a noble effort, but one that doesn't give the viewer an opportunity to explore the moral questions native to its setting, instead choosing to give a pretty straight answer to them. It's visually stunning, it's well acted, but it's easy. The answers are too pat. He asks "is it bad to take personal freedom from anyone, regardless of how bestial they might behave?" and then answers it almost without debate. The message of mankind losing its humanity from Burgess' novel is conveyed well, but there's not a dialogue. Movies should make people think instead of telling them head on what to think. Pretty ironic for a movie like A Clockwork Orange.
As for Gump, it's a maudlin sack of crap that's an insulted to every learning disabled person in America. The idea that a disabled person gains glory by stumbling through life on a blissfully ignorant odyssey through contemporary history is not a humanitarian one, but rather just as backward as thinking SPED kids should be smacked until they concentrate. As a person with a major learning disability, I was told by a teacher that Forrest Gump would be an inspiration, instead I was disgusted. The next time I came to school, I asked the SPED teacher "is THAT what you think my options look like?" If any, the movie should be seen as a barometer for American hypocrisy.
Scream is also terrible. You want a self-informed parody of horror cinema, see Young Frankenstein for a comedy, or Opera for a REAL self-reflective slasher film. People forget that Opera means work, so Argento uses the movie to examine it. The killer's comment "I can take you anytime I want" is far more eloquent than any of the downright scatological metafiction in Scream. Just thought I'd boost a slightly underrated entry on the top 100 lists as I cut into some overrated movies.

Angra 02-22-2007 12:57 PM

Dario Argento's

Deep red
Suspiria
Phenomena
Phantom of the Opera




Dario Argento sucks...

Roderick Usher 02-22-2007 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Angra (Post 557496)
Dario Argento's

Deep red
Suspiria
Phenomena
Phantom of the Opera




Dario Argento sucks...

You're much better, of course

the_real_linda 02-22-2007 02:20 PM

the blair withch shamble..i mean project....and i know a guy and his dumbas cousin who thought it was real wen it came out....dillholes....believed what they read on the internet, it took me ages to convince him. plus it gave me a headache.

alkytrio666 02-22-2007 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Angra (Post 557496)
Dario Argento's

Deep red
Suspiria
Phenomena
Phantom of the Opera




Dario Argento sucks...

BOOOO!

YOU SUCK!



...but seriously, man. You suck.









...just kidding, but seriously. Argento's the man.

bwind22 02-22-2007 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by The Mothman (Post 557298)
why did you hate eraserhead? I think its one of the most brilliant movies of all time.

Here's my review I wrote after watching it since I don't want to waste any additional time thinking about it.


Eraserhead

After it put me to sleep 3 times, I finally finished Eraserhead and I gotta say I thought it sucked! What a boring and pointless piece of crap! I hate watching a film and then feeling like I just wasted a couple hours of my life afterwards and that is how I feel about this one. It gave me nothing. I don't like movies that are weird just for the sake of being weird. There's no real gore, the story purposely makes no sense, and it just was not entertaining in the slightest. I hated it and it's heading to the bottom of my list where I keep Phantasm, Fulci and all the other over-rated films and directors so I remember not to watch them ever again.

D-








I can agree with Suspiria too. I didn't think it was very impressive. And pretty much any Fulci film I've seen has been highly over-rated as well.


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