[Movies] Confess your movie sins to me, and be absolved

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CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Quotemander Prime said:
I have Chinatown on my Netflix and I'm embarrassed to have not seen it, even though no one IRL would give me grief over it.

Also, The Thief of Baghdad.
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This reminds me of something I had totally forgotten about. I had to watch Chinatown for a Scriptwriting class, and after about a half hour I was bored out of my skull. I read the synopsis online and based my report off of that instead, and still managed a B.
 
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I confess I like Armageddon. Normally I loathe Bay, but he did a pretty good job of making it seem like a global event, unlike many other planet-wide disasters. A lot of other disaster films only seem to take place in East Bumblefudge or wherever the movie is set, with the rest of the world being implied or not mentioned at all. The technical aspects are dumb, but so what? It didn't hurt that he had a pretty good cast to work with.
 
Wahad

Wahad

Quotemander Prime said:
I like that fade's confession is to enjoying a film.
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To be fair, I thought this thread was gonna be for that when I read the title.

I haven't seen so many 'classics' I don't even know where to begin. Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Big Trouble, The Big Lebowski, Gone with the Wind, Titanic, and the list goes on... I'm not a big movie guy.
 
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SeraRelm

Also, Reservoir Dogs is the only half decent movie QT has made, and everything else following has been derivative of it.

I'm not a fan of his writing/directing.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

It's not a sin of not seeing a movie, but more of a humiliating shame (I'd mentioned this before, but it's always worth repeating):

I paid to see Alien:Resurrection and Mortal Kombat: Annhilation, back to back, when they came out around the same time in theatres.
 
ElJuski

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SeraRelm said:
Also, Reservoir Dogs is the only half decent movie QT has made, and everything else following has been derivative of it.

I'm not a fan of his writing/directing.
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what.




...this thread raises my blood pressure way too much. INTERNETTTTTTT
 
David

David

I was bored by Citizen Kane. I started watching it, then stopped watching around halfway through. Same with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Never watched:
Reservoir Dogs
Minority Report
Casablanca
King Kong
The Sound of Music
The Shawshank Redemption
Gone with the Wind
Seven
Various Alfred Hitchcock films
Anything of the following franchises:
James Bond
Aliens
Predator
Saw
The Godfather
Rambo
Rocky
Child's Play
Nightmare on Elm Street
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

I don't think Michael Bay is a bad filmmaker. Not all of his work is good by any means, but I fully own up to liking Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon and the first and third Transformers films.
 
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SeraRelm

I stand by my statement concerning QT. His "cool dialogue" is basically people being bitchy and repeating crap back and forth and his stories are usually just pop culture derivative from whatever anime he saw the night before. Watching one movie from him pretty much makes me feel like I've seen them all. (and I have seen most of them)
 
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SeraRelm

We all have our likes and dislikes. Mr "Shounen Hipster" QT falls into my dislike category. Moving on.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I can MAAAAAAYBE see where you're coming from on his ability to craft a story, but to take issue with his dialogue? IMO he writes some of the most believable, natural flowing and interesting dialogue of anyone working in the industry today.

But I won't get in an argument about it. There's plenty of thigs everyone else likes I can't stand. (See: Harry Potter, above)
 
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SeraRelm

"you killed my master."
"I killed your master."
"I know you killed my master."
"I know you know I killed your master."
Ad nauseum. No thanks.

On with the movies!
Why wasn't The Warriors listed?
 
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Yeah, there he was mimicking bad translations in martial arts movies that originally served no purpose but to lip sync. The whole movie is a 70s martial arts film/anime parody. He admits it openly. Oren Ishii's scenes are supposed to be a live action anime (especially since her backstory was actual anime). I don't know of any other film where he does that, though. He does have the pop culture discussions. Yeah, they're a running bit, but they also do an excellent job of humanizing characters who are often cold-blooded killers. We care more about Jules getting blown away than we do about the fact that he was there to murder Butch because Tarantino had him staged in stupid, shallow pop culture discussions about cheeseburgers. You're right...he attempts in no way to mimic real dialogue though. But I like that. He's making use of the medium.

You're totally right though. If you don't like it, you don't like it, and I'm not trying to convince you. Just giving you another viewpoint.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

fade said:
Yeah, there he was mimicking bad translations in martial arts movies that originally served no purpose but to lip sync. The whole movie is a 70s martial arts film/anime parody. He admits it openly. Oren Ishii's scenes are supposed to be a live action anime (especially since her backstory was actual anime). I don't know of any other film where he does that, though. He does have the pop culture discussions. Yeah, they're a running bit, but they also do an excellent job of humanizing characters who are often cold-blooded killers. We care more about getting blown away than we do about the fact that he was there to murder Butch because Tarantino had him staged in stupid, shallow pop culture discussions about cheeseburgers. You're right...he attempts in no way to mimic real dialogue though. But I like that. He's making use of the medium.

You're totally right though. If you don't like it, you don't like it, and I'm not trying to convince you. Just giving you another viewpoint.
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I wanna say spoilers, except you messed up names, so that's not the case.
 
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SeraRelm

I am amused at how someone claims it's realistic dialogue, then two others say it isn't.


I have never seen The Maltese Falcon.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Of the Coens brother movies I've seen, they're pretty much 50/50 for me.

Hated:
Fargo, Ladykillers, Burn After Reading

Loved:
Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, No Country.

However, O Brother was so amazing, I'd bump them up into a "liked" category.
 
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SeraRelm

I did say Reservoir Dogs wasn't bad (torture scene). I don't think I specifically named any others. :p

I like Robert Rodriguez as a director though. If anyone has not seen El Mariachi, you should do so.
 
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