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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I've never heard of RUSSIAN ARK. It sounds interesting; thanks for the suggestion. :-)
All of Hitch's films are great and his early ones are remarkable.
And God awful.....in spades!
Which version of The Man Who Knew Too Much do you prefer? 1934 or 1956?
Russian Ark trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBMhkvLKZU
As for Hitchock, a genius and a very twisted person with a great deal of hangups. Vertigo amazes me on each watching.
WOW! You've gotten fancy!
I have some black and white's of his too.
He wanted to show he could do something other than comedy, so he made it grim. Way to grim. BTW, I do like a lot of Bergman's films.
Hitch was superb. And get this, he never won a real Academy Award, just an honorary one. What a travesty.
Exactly. Damn Hollywood elites.
The 1934 one.
Oh yes, Hitch was a genius, but had a whole LOT of problems. Still and all, they also made him what he was.
VERTIGO is a far, far, far better movie than THE BIRDS, which got a much bigger "push".
And anything with Kim Novack ( a much underrated actress )is always worth watching. But the psychodrama, in VERTIGO, makes it a GREAT movie on many different levels.
Glad that you liked my "raspberry". :-)
I only like some of Bergman's movies...THE SEVENTH SEAL being my favorite. But WILD STRAWBERRIES is also ones of his that I do like.
Now you reminded me of Mel Brooks' hillarious tribute to Hitchcock "High Anxiety."
The take-off on "The Birds" was one of the most hillarious moments in film history.
Titanic, Solaris, the Psycho remake and JFK immediately come to mind.
(and someone above slammed Glengarry Glen Ross -- that is actually one of my favorite films of all time. Some of the crew on that film referred to is as "Death of a F---in' Salesman", thanks to the language, but it is by far one of my favorite films. Then again, if you saw my list of favorites, you'd raise your eyebrow...)
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Was Solaris the American remake with Clooney or the Russian orginial?
I have only seen The Seventh Seal and thought it was good.
ABC - Always Be Closing.
LOL! I like your version of Titanic far better than the Cameron version.
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