Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by EveningStar
It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.
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The original one of the garbage one with Kidman?
Lost in Translation was terrible. I saw it last month on HDNet Movies.
I don't agree with American Beauty. I thought it was good, but I don't agree with Chicago which my wife dragged me to and I had a good sleep. lol.
He didn't direct or write Casino Royale. It was directed by 5 directors and was all over the place and spliced back together, he just had a bit part in the film, but that was all.
And, no one can do Fellini but Fellini, 8 1/2 and Armacord and La Dolce Vita and La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are amazing films.
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I love Fellini's 8 1/2. I haven't seen La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria, and Armacord.
The black and white movie, made about the Titanic, in the early '50s, was a rather good little movie.
Thief movie?
It's a Wonderful Life. (See 25)
If your didn't know who made them, there really ARE quite a few of his movies, that you would like.
I've never liked him. Not even as a teenager. I watch reruns of "What's My line?" and when he's a guest panelist I delete the show. :)
ANNIE HALL is highly over rated!
Annie Hall would probably make the long version of my all time favorite list...but then I think I would have to disqualify it because of what I came to know of Allen :)
La Dolce Vita is a mostly plotless film about the decadance and boredom of the well heeled idle rich. Armacord is a look back at a year of life in an Italian seaside town under the fascists, its more of a look back at his childhood. Nights of Cabiria had his wife as a prostitute trying to escape her dead end life.
Good stuff and its really a shame that so few people will watch foreign films anymore.
Kidman. Never saw the original either.
I have yet to see I am a Camera but I've heard that it was excellent.
I'd rather be forced to eat rutabagas sans butter, salt and pepper.
Had to go google...."Catch Me If You Can" I changed my mind about DiCaprio when I watched it.
Are we out of Christmas Tree threads?
(ducking)
Good to hear, not too many people have seen the Powell and Pressburger stuff.
I just got 18 HDTV channels added to my cable, I don't plan on doing much for a few months!
Yes, I know about CR, but that was Woody's first movie part and the entire movie was one that should NEVER have seen the light of day.
STARDUST MEMORIES and INTERIORS are two terrible, unwatchable movies.
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