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andy80
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
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 Posted - 09/05/2005 : 7:11:51 PM
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Just a note about The Godfather. The first time I also watched it I thought it was boring and turned if off around the horse head scene. I tried watching it a couple years later and loved it. The story really picks up after that.
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
1026 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 7:13:03 PM
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| ... zzz ... um, what? Overrated movie? Oh, Howard's End... zzzzzzz.... |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 7:33:01 PM
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Hey, twitterpate - I agree with "Howard's End". I don't agree with M*A*S*H, "Citizen Kane" or "Star Wars" (they were ground-breaking). How about underated "poor" movies ("The Wolfman")....hey ...
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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tam1MI
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
558 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 9:21:09 PM
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2001
Most. Overrated. Movie. Ever. |
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Dirk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 9:46:52 PM
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I have to agree on Pulp Fiction. The movie would be at least an hour shorter if you cut out all the shots of people walking, people pausing between sentences, cars driving slowly up to curbs, et cetera. Absolute boredom punctuated by sadism.
I'd also rush to include Magnolia, which I guess I just didn't "get". I wanted to shoot everyone in this movie and save the last bullet for myself.
Do The Right Thing. Has anyone seen the little throwaway bit on "Family Guy" where Peter says that something is "as realistic as a white guy's dialogue in a Spike Lee film"? They then cut to a white guy growling, clawing at the air and drooling. That's a pretty accurate depiction of Spike's "revolutionary" take on race relations. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 11:20:52 PM
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High Noon
Why this corny, contrived, illogically plotted western has garnered classic status I'll never know. |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
727 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 01:06:58 AM
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This thread is making my eyeballs bleed.
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Mr. Blue
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Papua New Guinea
648 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 03:28:01 AM
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Originally posted by tam1MI
2001
Most. Overrated. Movie. Ever.
Which can be watched, by the way, almost entirely in fast foward without missing a whole lot.
"Down in the Delta, they say I was a fool for making that deal with the devil, they say I’ve got the hellhounds on my tail. But they also say this: there’s not a bluesman alive who can play the entire first part of Smoke on the Water like Hellbound Dave.
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Monkey
Archdeacon of Jabootu
Ireland
17 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 05:21:22 AM
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Donnie Darko - a film that was wildly overpraised on its original release, and mainly because it had its plot removed to keep down the running time.
The director claimed it was a convoluted science fiction story, the critics who praised it thought it was a touching portrayal of a young man's descent into schizophrenia, I thought it was an incoherent, indulgent mess. |
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CobraCmdr
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
70 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 07:44:42 AM
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When I saw this thread I figured at least some of you would say the Godfather or Pulp Fiction (I love Godfather and generally like Pulp Fiction though I found it too graphic at first). I think it's just a matter of taste why you do or don't like organized crime movies.
If you want to see a more realistic depiction of organized crime and it's traggic impact on decent, hardworking people check out the Wire on HBO. I'm one of like 5 people who watch it, but it might be the best show on TV.
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 08:14:41 AM
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I gotta go with Lugosi in Dracula. Clumsy and slow.
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
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Triviachamp
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/06/2005 : 09:56:57 AM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
High Noon
Why this corny, contrived, illogically plotted western has garnered classic status I'll never know.
It's a Self Righteous Stanley Kramer Message Movie and an "in defense of Commies" one at that too!
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I gotta go with Lugosi in Dracula. Clumsy and slow.
It was made in 1931 you know. |
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tam1MI
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
558 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 10:40:53 AM
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Originally posted by Dirk
I'd also rush to include Magnolia, which I guess I just didn't "get". I wanted to shoot everyone in this movie and save the last bullet for myself.
That was pretty much the reaction of everyone I knew to Traffic, or as they called it, "Blue is for America, Yellow is for Mexico". They just violently, VIOLENTLY hated that movie, and here the critics were all falling over each other praising it to the skies. |
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
644 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 12:26:56 PM
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I'll second or third "2001: A Space Odessy." The film completely lacks emotion. Of course, what I remember from the book, there didn't seem much in the way of humanity to it either. It's just not a great as everyone thinks it is. Show space without sound, while scientifically accurate, does not a great film make.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist. |
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
1026 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 12:33:13 PM
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Originally posted by Triviachamp
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
[quote]I gotta go with Lugosi in Dracula. Clumsy and slow.
It was made in 1931 you know.
Yeah, but ... it's also got a rubber bat being bounced on a string!!!
True story - when I was 14, I was having a slumber party, and my dad let us stay up to watch a late showing of Dracula, after telling us how scared he'd been when he first saw it as a kid, and how we'd have to promise not stay up all night afterwards.
We had a great time. Laughed ourselves silly. My dad was very offended.
Truthfully, though, it was a good movie for its time. It did have some genuinely creepy stuff, and it would probably have had a much more powerful impact on a relatively unjaded audience when it first came out. Now, however, we get caught up in the dated acting styles, the crude technical aspects of the filming, and the script kept under strict censorship rules from being TOO terrifying.
And, of course, the boneless rubber bat flapping at the window. |
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