I give up. Rashomon was a masterpiece. Bergman and Truffaut made masterpieces, as did Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder. Here we have childish comic book melodramas with actors dressed in homosexuality suggesting costumes, no better than professional wrestling matches, and certainly not as humourous, hailed as masterpieces.
Yup....I agree. We are amusing ourselves to death in this culture. We have millions of middle aged “men” in this country dressed like children....wearing team colors & baseball caps. They read comic books & worship cartoons. And, they think movies like this are conservative. Masterpieces even. Several of these grown idiots that work with us take personal days off if their team is playing a big game. Look at American civic culture from the 1950s, and look at it today.....
It isn’t THAT bad...there is something epic about this trilogy even if it is spawned by comics of the 30s - there wasn’t “dumbing down” yet so even the comics back then had more actual gravitas and vision than much of the current literary fiction. I just read the O.Henry/Pen award short stories for last year and they for the most part were crap. I think I found only 1 that seemed decent. O.Henry (William Porter) must be rolling in his grave from all the pc garbage being awarded in his honor.
“I give up. Rashomon was a masterpiece. “
When someone tries to establish their cine-aesthete bonafides by playing the hoary old “Rashomon was a masterpiece” card, well... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I bet you haven’t even seen it. When you pin ‘em down and ASK, most of the people who beat the Rashomon drum haven’t. It’s unwatchable. Interesting idea. Terrible movie. The End.