Posted on 03/01/2018 1:02:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Appears to me as an electronic/image equivalent of an opium den; with it's participants wafting away to various dream worlds of fantasy.
Will only fake stories and flashy, high-speed computer imagery be able to cut thru to America's future collective mind?
What sub-conscious ideas and thoughts are being planted; just awaiting a trigger in the future?
Was it on last night? YAWN
Dunkirk and Darkest Hour were both very good movies.
Explained in the very beginning. Soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk 1 week. Ships on the water picking up the soldiers 1 day. Planes in the sky, 1 Hour.
At various points in time the 3 mesh and you get different perspectives of the same occurrences. Like Pulp Fiction but not like Pulp Fiction.
....typically..beating each others chest fest...
A pathetic piece—the guy doesn’t like the description of the movies, but hasn’t seen them? And the descriptions range from a Churchill biopic to war and coming of age films?
Even back when movies were entertaining - before they were merely vehicles to push the left wing agenda - I didn’t bother watching the award show. In fact, I couldn’t tell you which show goes with movies, or TV, or music... I’m only vaguely aware there are multiple versions. There are still, right? Never held any interest for me. Bunch of out of touch whack jobs spending an evening self-aggrandizing and patting each other on the back. {snort} They are only entertainers - modern day court jesters. Every once in a while you here one of them talk about how important someone’s work is. Important? Ha! Keeping my toenails trimmed is far more important to me than everything that comes out of Hollywood in a typical year.
Dunkirk was alright...cinematography
was very good...but story line jumped
all over the place...
Dunkirk managed to make a beach claustrophobic.
I just watched Dunkirk last night, I loved it.
I think one of the problems people might have with It, and not realise it, is the lack of a musical score.
We are so used to having a musical score help us emotionally bond with scenes that the lack of musical scoring is subconsciously unsettling and we stay detached from the movie.
Dunkirk was a story about what happened. A defeated army hoping to be evacuated. There was courage and cowardice and the then typical British Stiff Upper Lip.
The ending, in my opinion was perfect.
I normally don’t care about awards, but I hope it wins.
Hollywood - They are nothing without us and I’m very happy that they haven’t figured it out. If they have figured it out and don’t care then I am still happy to watch then circle the drain.
Last night we went to see Casablanca on the big screen at a local dinner and a movie place. Admission was $5.00. The room was nearly full. The other 6 screening rooms didn’t have half the people in them.
No cell phones rang. No one disturbed the other patrons. The food was good enough and the beer reasonably priced.
We heard several folks ask why they don’t make movies like that anymore.
We had a great time. But we won’t spend a penny on the “new” garbage they’re putting out. Not one.
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Dunkirk was OK. I understand what the director was trying to do, but I think it was a little too disjointed for my tastes.
Evidently the whole flashback, split timelines and all of that crap are the norm these days.
I DO think it was a beautifully shot movie. So, its not the cinematographer’s problem. It was a writer problem.
“Awards this Sunday is shaping up to be a Spinal Tap concert-level disaster”
Well if I get confirmation that there will be a puppet show during the broadcast I might just tune in.
aww Death Wish!!! Bruce Willis ain’t Charles Bronson- but i am in.
I thought Dunkirk was excellent! One of my top 5 war movies.
Nothing, but your post is interesting. In the same way that Jann Wenner had control of the RNR Hall of Fame noms wrested away from him -- in order to keep the Museum going -- to finally recognize top-earning AOR acts like Yes & ELO that Jann's personal animosity had prevented for decades, one wonders if Oscars are finally going to have to open up their voting to top-earning escape fare like the MCU.
Right.
Pulp Fiction DID give you clues that helped you make the mental leap, which was good. With Dunkirk, I watched it with four people at home, and we found ourselves looking at each other, pausing the movie, rewinding, and continuing.
It was a bit tedious in that respect, and I know it wasn’t just me.
They should have spent more time figuring out how to clue you in.
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