Posted on 03/13/2011 6:54:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
This year was actually a good year for movies, as I’ve written repeatedly. The King’s Speech was great; so was Toy Story 3; Inception may go down as one of the most creative films of all time. The Fighter was excellent as well.
Then there were the overrated films. Black Swan was atrociously awful, another Aronofsky masterpiece of self-aggrandizing bullcrap. The Kids Are All Right was a TV movie masquerading as a prestige film because it was about lesbians. True Grit was a remake.
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I didn’t say he did. He’s an uber-lib and typically they have agendas in their work.
You’ve convinced me!
:)
Al Franken use to write for SNL and he isn't funny either. Makes a perfect senator from the great state that elected a wrestler for governor. LOL Minny soda....
There are certainly themes that recur from film to film. But that’s the case with all artists.
Allen is a lot more talented than Al Franken. Watch Bananas or ‘Love and Death’.
Zulu’s one of those oddities - a “rip roaring adventure” that is about 90% factual (and has the unique distinction of having Chief Buthelezi of the Zulu nation playing his own ancestor).
For a completely fictional equivalent check out “The Man who Would Be King”, also starring Michael Caine.
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is aces, but I wouldn’t say it’s like Pulp Fiction. it’s more like Ocean’s Eleven (crime caper) crossed with The Big Lebowski (comedy of errors).
My cousin worked in a record shop in London (which is on the sleeve of a certain Oasis album cover) and one of his regular customers was the guy who played Errol, the world’s worst getaway driver in Snatch. For those who’ve never seen it, think Fight Club crossed with Ocean’s Eleven crossed with The Big Lebowski crossed with Rasputin, and a side order of wall-to-wall quotable lines.
“Got anything to declare?”
“Yeah. Don’t go to England!”
I’ve just got back from the States where I had an interesting conversation about American TV/films and their British equivalents.
You have Dawn of the Dead (people reacting to the horror of it all like it’s the end of the world or something), we have Shaun of the Dead (well, we would find the zombie holocaust a little bit inconvenient at first, but we’d muddle through it).
You had Heroes - escapist pie-in-the-sky fluff where everyone’s middle class / wealthy / smart / powerful and their abilities are all cool, and there’s no swearing, no smut, no realism whatsoever.
We have Misfits - (there’s no justice - most “superpowers” are deeply uncool if not completely rubbish, and the juvie teenagers behave just like real juvies in England would if they woke up with superpowers - promiscuous, potty-mouthed, selfish idiots who haven’t a clue what to do with their new abilities).
The sad thing is that British films and television of that ilk is rare, but the upside is that when one of those gems comes up you really can’t predict what’ll happen in the film until the credits roll.
America turns out a lot of stuff of that quality or better but oftentimes it’s so formulaic and predictable that the film is less than it could’ve been.
My wife guessed who Keyser Soze was, ten minutes into The Usual Suspects, explained how she’d figured it out, and ruined the rest of the film for me. So The Usual Suspects is my top score for most overrated film.
“Juno” — the only thing I remember about that film is thinking, “It’s Vern Schillinger!”
Gary likes Titanic???????? Are you kidding?????
NOT TITANIC,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
The Shawshank Redemption
Movies that were popular, that I hated: ET, Pocohontas, Lion King, Avatar (watched only a few minutes), Fargo, All star wars movies after the original, Inglorious Basterds
Movies I LOVE, others may not have seen: True Romance, The Ogre, Ripley’s Game, Romeo is Bleeding, Saraphim Falls, Blue Velvet, Mullholland Drive, Insomnia
I see some comments about Fisher King. I remember being so disturbed by the movie, was about to walk out. But, I’m glad I stayed, turned out to be a great movie with a powerful message.
This thread, obviously...people have different tastes, but.... how can anyone not like Forrest Gump, Titanic, and Matrix, pulp fiction, shawshank...
I’m trying to lighten up. I’m on a strict diet.
I didn’t say the movie was disgusting. Try to read. I said I was a little disgusted with myself later for being so easily manipulated by a manipulative movie.
But I liked it.
How can anyone not like E.T. and Fargo?
Yeah, I know, we all have different tastes. Man, especially Fargo though, i just don’t get it... And I like plenty of movies like that too. I LOVED No Country For Old Men, but other than that, not a fan of Coen Bros movies really...
I recommend “The Wild Geese” about mercs in Africa. All British cast with Richard Burton as the head honcho.
Two Thumbs up.
Saving Private Ryan was ok, but it got played into the ground.
When Trumpets Fade was a good WW2 movie. It was made by HBO but it is worth a peek.
For the German view of WW2”Cross of Iron” was a great flick.
I saw When Trumpets Fade, and I didn’t care for it much.
I haven’t seen Cross of Iron since I was a kid, decades and decades ago—so I don’t remember much about it.
I have seen The Wild Geese, and it was pretty good.
Yeah, I love the look of BR. And the soundtrack is perfect (with or without the narration). And the supporting cast is fantastic. Come to think of it, almost everyone on screen then is still alive, not bad for a picture that old.
and BTW, 474 messages? Damn! High five!
In 1993, Blade Runner was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
The Peter Jackson productions are an insult to the book.
Strong, noble Aragorn transformed into an “I’m not sure if I have what it takes to be king” antihero. Merry and Pippin reduced to comic relief. Faramir made into a copy of Boromir. Denethor made into a near copy of Theoden.
Jackson’s noted refusal to show Tolkien’s excellent refutation of socialism (the Scouring of the Shire) and the various bits of leftist nonsense he inserts in the dialogue.
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