Posted on 03/21/2011 8:46:19 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
I watch a lot of movies.
I am constantly amazed at the hype around not so great movies. Usually it is because it has the “right” message - Republicans are evil, people are destroying the environment, the most important character trait people can have is being tolerant, minority groups are exploited, etc.
There are so many I don’t know where to start.
Caberet is one. Great music, creepy story. I admit, I can watch the just the music. But all these strange people.
ET. I just didn’t get it.
Close Encounters. A few fun scenes, the rest? What was the weird thing with the song?
American Beauty. Let’s glorify weird people and show how nasty the nuclear family is.
Tootsie. Some consider this the greatest American picture of all time, or at least greatest comedy. ???
Dirty Dancing. You know, I really like the part at the end where the Dad smiles and laughs with the guy he knows is doing the dirty with his “Baby” daughter. Yep, that’s real. Or where she borrowed money from her dad so someone could have an abortion. I just kept thinking, what a weird family. Nothing nice about it.
Avatar. My gosh, don’t get me started. If I want a message, I get an answering machine.
OK, standing by for flaming.
Leon Askin (better known as General Burkhalter on Hogan’s Heroes) almost stole the movie:
C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
Borodenko: When will papers be ready?
C.R. Macnamara: I’ll put my secretary right to work on it.
Mishkin: Your secretary? She’s that blond lady?
C.R. Macnamara: That’s the one.
Peripetchikoff: [after conferring with the others] You will send papers to East Berlin with blond lady in triplicate.
C.R. Macnamara: You want the papers in triplicate, or the blond in triplicate?
Peripetchikoff: See what you can do.
Peripetchikoff: We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes.
Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!
“7. 2001: A Space Odyssey: 45 minutes of greatness, almost two hours of poop, including half an hour of monkeys hitting each other with sticks. Oh yeah, and there’s a monolith.”
Gasp! (holding heart with one hand and leaning on chest of drawers with the other). After viewing 2001 at least 30 times, I still am in thrall to the depth of the film, its use of space and technology as a vehicle to express Nietsche’s (bankrupt) philosophy.
One of the greatest moments in film history is when the human being in the pod silently faces the mother ship in perfect stillness telling Hal the computer to open the pod bays. Humanity finally facing a technology in rebellion, leaving him only the option of becoming an übermensch, a complete rebirth.
Then again, that could also be interpreted as poop, I guess 8^)
Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: Well, a Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.
Jules: Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I dunno, I didn’t go into Burger King.
Agree. I read both 2001 and clockwork prior to seeing them. Made both much easier to watch.
The "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" scene is one of the creepiest scenes ever.
I agree, one of the best comedies ever.
Have you ever seen “Comrade X”?
I really wish he would have said “Open the damn door Hal!”
2001 needs a remake. Great premise, but a wee bit more action and dialogue. I actually REALLY liked Space 2010.
As a surprise my 15 y/o daughter picked “The Karate Kid” remake with Will Smith’s son for a father/daughter movie night a couple of weeks ago.
That whiny wimp had me HOPING someone would kick his a$$ by about 10 minutes into the flick.
He is PATHETIC
I would never flame someone for their taste in movies. There are a lot of flavors out there to suit all of us. We all have our genre, cast, issue preferences. Yours are different than mine but so what. You and I are both right.
Some movies that I positively disliked won big time.. Like Leaving Las Vegas. I KNOW it was well acted & interesting, but I swear I have never been so down in a movie
I think too that whatever we are experiencing in life at the time has some impact .. and also one’s age.
I truly dont get into the Justin Beeber movies or Miley Cyrus.. just as my granddaughter probably would not like Kill the Irishman (which I did like)
so I Still Care.. you just enjoy what you want & dont worry if anyone else agrees. You are you!
OMG, Titanic was an insult to the senses.
I kept waiting for them to trot out something like a time machine, an alien, nazis, or just have someone dying of cancer.
It would not have made the movie any more lame or unbelievable than it already was.
Okay, I can be a bit harsh, but gay, cyborg, nazi zombies from outer space suddenly appearing on the ship to eat Leo's brain would have been an improvement.
Blade Runner- I saw this in the movies when it first came out. It was innovative with a premise and a vision of the future that had never been seen before in the movie. The film's vision of a dystopian future and defective androids that had to be identified and decommissioned was great. The acting by all characters but especially Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer was excellent. It had an original approach to sci-fi and after I left the theater I wanted to see it again.
Little Miss Sunshine- Abigail Breslin was great in the title role. It was a great ensemble comedy, the characters’ interplay was funny and original.
The Matrix- An original concept and a movie that makes you think. A great sci-fi idea and the plot and special effects kept it interesting.
Raging Bull- Jake Lamotta was a jerk but the movie was great. The camera work and the acting were excellent. Cathy Moriarty was amazing and Robert Deniro was good.
Shakespeare in Love- This was a good light comedy. It isn't meant to be taken seriously and parts of it are stupid but it has some funny parts.
THANK YOU.
Anything from Tarantino is pure, unadulterated DOG CRAP, and people only like his garbage because they think they are supposed to like it. There is nothing about his movies to "get". They just suck.
TOTALLY COMPLETELY AGREE. If you have never seen cagney in One, Two, Three you are in for a delightful evening. I think it is on instant play on netflix. Brilliant.
My son said to put down the Deer Hunter.
I guess my main criteria for an “overrated” movie, is to find out the REAL reason there is so much “talk” about it, is because it reinforces a certain political correctness, not because it really is a good movie. Or it has the “right” director, or theme, or color people.
It’s like a fad. Everyone gets on the bandwagon. Then you go see it, and suddenly the light goes on - aha! That’s why all the critics were going berserk.
He died for her. The scrap of wood couldn’t hold them both so he stayed in the icy water and talked her back to life. That was a great scene and lesson about grace in extreme circumstances; so good, in fact, that you can’t convince me James Cameron wrote it, screenwriting credit or not. Agreed, otherwise a terrible screenplay.
Chick gets naked, Captain takes his eyes off the sea lane, ship hits iceberg. Happens all he time.
I thought Jaws was an overrated bore. I also fell asleep during the fight scene in French Connection.
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