There Will Be Blood. It had all the components of a great film (great acting by Day Lewis, lovely cinematography etc) I don't know why though, it just didn't work for me at all. Something about it made it tedious and it wasn't the story or the setting.... I just can't place it.
Movies others go nuts over that you just don't 'get'
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Ron Burgundy - Anchor Man.
i tried watching that the other night and it was the score that made me turn off. what a racket. :/
my choices:
the fountain
sunshine
no country for old men
inception (thought it was ok, nothing more. it's ridiculously over rated)
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Apocalypse Now
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Groundhog Day
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
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Groundhog Day
Got to agree with a lot of the above...
coen bothers - wtf? they know how to massacre a potentially good movie*
2001: A Space Odyssey - very pretentious movie
Godfather series - some good bits (horses head?, shoot out at the toll booth) but mostly rubbish.
Disagree about:
blade runner - unlike 2001 there is actually proper depth to this movie
fight club - only ruined coz everyone knows how it ends now
the fountain - bit crap but the music, ambiance and pathos are good I guess this doesn't stop it being over-rated tho.
* take no country for old men for instance - the middle bit is great, but focuses on the wrong characters - the whole point of the story is about how the sherrif can't keep up with a changing world - but apart from the start and end he takes a back seat for the rest of the movie - leaving most viewers who didn't catch onto the significance of the opening monologue going wtf? very poor directing yet so highly rated by some people.
coen bothers - wtf? they know how to massacre a potentially good movie*
2001: A Space Odyssey - very pretentious movie
Godfather series - some good bits (horses head?, shoot out at the toll booth) but mostly rubbish.
Disagree about:
blade runner - unlike 2001 there is actually proper depth to this movie
fight club - only ruined coz everyone knows how it ends now
the fountain - bit crap but the music, ambiance and pathos are good I guess this doesn't stop it being over-rated tho.
* take no country for old men for instance - the middle bit is great, but focuses on the wrong characters - the whole point of the story is about how the sherrif can't keep up with a changing world - but apart from the start and end he takes a back seat for the rest of the movie - leaving most viewers who didn't catch onto the significance of the opening monologue going wtf? very poor directing yet so highly rated by some people.
Haha this thread is making me twitch in how much I want to castigate people for some of their choices, but I'll be good and respect this for what it is.
Especially since 2001 bores me to utter tears and I don't see the big deal with it. Funnily enough I found the book equally dull, so I can't fault its recreation.
Especially since 2001 bores me to utter tears and I don't see the big deal with it. Funnily enough I found the book equally dull, so I can't fault its recreation.
Well actually no, not really. There's more to it than just Tommy Lee Jones's character.
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Thats the problem... lol
the ancillary stories take on more importance in the bulk of the movie than the main theme, which is under-developed.
You can't base the entire coens work off the back of one movie. They've made some important, unique films that are masterpieces of storytelling, script and direction.
I'd have to say that I find Wes Anderson to be hugely overrated in many ways. I think the only movie of his I've actually enjoyed is Rushmore.
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Yup, agree with several but not all,
The more I see the Lotro films the worse I think they are, there are so many uber cringeworthy bits, Elrond bringing the sword out from under his cloak after its been reforged, the music, the build up, the actual filming from uber close angle, its like bad tv movie quality work in points in the film. Theres great bits, and some great filming throughout, but so many truly awful moments its no where near as good as most people, and I used to think.
No country for old men, honestly didn't like much of it at all.
There will be blood, long, dull, not inspiring or likable character to base it on, while clinically good cinematography, it was also bland.
Superbad really was just bad, its closer to a bad American Pie, and that kind of comedy just gets old frankly. Hangover was marginally better but still not great, had more boobs in, and nicer boobs.
FIght Club, don't know why anyone could say its bad, like The Game its one of the very few thriller type films, that the first time you watch it you really don't predict how it will end, but its done brilliantly, brilliant performances by basically everyone throughout. Unpredictable films are so few and far between these days that even if the acting/cast/filming sucked the story would make it an ok film, with all the other bits being great its a great film.
Twilight films are universally terrible, as are the potter films, no good acting, crap stories, crap dialogue, crap action, just crap.
Inglorious ******** I still haven't finished, watched about 30-40mins and got bored, lookie, I smashed the guys face in with a bat, how great at film making am I. Blood, more blood, more blood and just a small dash of........ blood to finish off...... end of plan for film.
Most of Tarentino's stuff is completely over rated though, mostly rip offs, some very fun to watch, hmm, just checking IMDB and he didn't direct some things I thought he did, though he did produce on them and often write them, like Dusk Till dawn, certainly a fun watch but not great. Pulp Fiction was good but not great, both Kill Bills are awful aswell, Res Dogs is good, but no where near as good as people make out.
The more I see the Lotro films the worse I think they are, there are so many uber cringeworthy bits, Elrond bringing the sword out from under his cloak after its been reforged, the music, the build up, the actual filming from uber close angle, its like bad tv movie quality work in points in the film. Theres great bits, and some great filming throughout, but so many truly awful moments its no where near as good as most people, and I used to think.
No country for old men, honestly didn't like much of it at all.
There will be blood, long, dull, not inspiring or likable character to base it on, while clinically good cinematography, it was also bland.
Superbad really was just bad, its closer to a bad American Pie, and that kind of comedy just gets old frankly. Hangover was marginally better but still not great, had more boobs in, and nicer boobs.
FIght Club, don't know why anyone could say its bad, like The Game its one of the very few thriller type films, that the first time you watch it you really don't predict how it will end, but its done brilliantly, brilliant performances by basically everyone throughout. Unpredictable films are so few and far between these days that even if the acting/cast/filming sucked the story would make it an ok film, with all the other bits being great its a great film.
Twilight films are universally terrible, as are the potter films, no good acting, crap stories, crap dialogue, crap action, just crap.
Inglorious ******** I still haven't finished, watched about 30-40mins and got bored, lookie, I smashed the guys face in with a bat, how great at film making am I. Blood, more blood, more blood and just a small dash of........ blood to finish off...... end of plan for film.
Most of Tarentino's stuff is completely over rated though, mostly rip offs, some very fun to watch, hmm, just checking IMDB and he didn't direct some things I thought he did, though he did produce on them and often write them, like Dusk Till dawn, certainly a fun watch but not great. Pulp Fiction was good but not great, both Kill Bills are awful aswell, Res Dogs is good, but no where near as good as people make out.
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Incept....oh wait.. nah i enjoyed it but its not the 4th best film eva.
i also like shawshank but i dont get how it is IMDB no.1 film, ever...
i completely dont get how anyone likes Zombieland. for me that film was so terrible i could barely sit through it. on the other hand i love Shaun of the Dead.
i also like shawshank but i dont get how it is IMDB no.1 film, ever...
i completely dont get how anyone likes Zombieland. for me that film was so terrible i could barely sit through it. on the other hand i love Shaun of the Dead.
Anything by Quentin Tarantino, can't stand his movies and as above, No Country For Old Men, that was one tedious piece of rubbish.
I can see why There Will Be Blood could be considered tedious but it's the mix of acting, visuals, period(costumes, architecture etc), business aspects, and the insanity of Daniel Plainview that make it the most brilliant movie I've clapped eyes on.
I can see why There Will Be Blood could be considered tedious but it's the mix of acting, visuals, period(costumes, architecture etc), business aspects, and the insanity of Daniel Plainview that make it the most brilliant movie I've clapped eyes on.
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Anderson has only done Rushmore, Tennebaums, the life aquatic, Darjeeling Limted and fantastic Mr Fox, while the style is maybe a little old now as all the films are very similar, all have superb casts, great acting, fairly different to most other films, and all excellent.
EDIT:- I didn't know he did Bottle Rocket, and I'd never seen it, never even spotted it on TV anywhere, just completely missed it but a couple months ago saw 5 mins of some random film and saw the Wilson brothers, together, and looking like babies, meant to look it up/watch it at some point. Had no idea it was an Anderson film.
The Coen brothers really have done some utter turds, Intolerable Cruelty, unless it turns out to be some post modernistic film where the film title was actually supposed to be the experience of the audience(in which case its genius) then its a truly terrible film. Fargo's another film I liked at first but on seeing again I really don't know what I saw in it.
Hudsucky Proxy, Big Lebowski and O' brother are very very good though, Burn before Reading, no country for old men and several others are complete crap though. Burn before Reading, Pitt's face just before he dies is about the only good thing in the film, its not funny but it really really thinks it is, the dialogue is incredibly weak and the characters mostly completely unlikeable or completely forgetable, so you don't get drawn in and care about what happens.
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Was going to come in this thread and say 2001, but I agree with Clockwork Orange. Never seen Strangelove.
EDIT: I also agree with Full Metal Jacket, its fantastic.
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strangelove is strange
but compelling all the same. i recommend it
that and the manchurian candidate!
but compelling all the same. i recommend it
that and the manchurian candidate!
Same here, it was alright with the odd bit I did find very funny, but on the whole it was just a bit meh.
I'm not - I've watched quite a few of their movies as my brother is a fan for some odd reason... they really are tedious piles of turd.
On an unrelated note to do with 2001 A Space Oddessy - I don't want to go too deep into it... because (A) I'm not that smart (B) The movie does cover a lot of points indirectly which are related to it but... the real problem with 2001 is it marks man as civilised and theres a big step between man and civilised human beings, which breaks the whole rest of the movie.