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girafa t1_j256jt0 wrote

Reply to How would explain your personal movie rating system? by 5thInferno

10 - no such thing

9 - goddamn near perfect

8 - a lot of fun or really enjoyable

7 - a good solid experience

6 - enjoyable, but meh

5 - meh

4 - actively annoying to watch

3 - yelling at the screen it's so stupid

2 - quietly embarrassed for all involved

1 - not really even a movie, just torture to watch

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girafa t1_iydx6vh wrote

Reply to comment by diet_Cupcake28 in Review of Natural Born Killers by diet_Cupcake28

Yeah? Hmm. Not a great deal of nudity nor any sort of gratuity/meditation on lustful desire. I think the movie portrays sex more in a primal sense, with the obvious sex & violence connection. Rodney Dangerfield craves his daughter and we see his eyes/her ass, but it's not about the feminine form or voyeurism, it's carnal demand and dominance.

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girafa t1_iyaupp1 wrote

Reply to comment by mdmnl in Is there a reason Denzel Washington's filmography features so heavily on airline movie catalogs? by MeijiDoom

With a script by goddamn William goddamn Goldman goddamn, based on a book that sold for the highest amount ever for a first timer.

Aside from how generally dull the directing was, it's a great example of how a few asinine scenes can really overshadow a movie. For example - all the "we're the best at what we do" rah rah secret service spookiness, all the clandestine backroom secret hush hush lethal killer hoopla means exactly dick when the solution to him not being shot comes by way of "okay well there's like a window washer nearby and the washer accidentally shines light into the sniper's scope right at the second when the sniper is gonna kill the good guy, so the good guy lives and the bad guy misses."

I never read the book because Baldacci is a fucking awful writer, but including that in the movie was a terrible idea.

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girafa t1_iy9rjoh wrote

Reply to Is there a reason Denzel Washington's filmography features so heavily on airline movie catalogs? by MeijiDoom

Prob need to ask Delta, since you're only going by their catalog.

Also Flight was an in-flight movie selection? Since they edit out any airplane-trouble scenes I wonder how that turned out.

I was on Turkish Air the other day and the only unedited movies I could find were Absolute Power, Bloodwork, and True Crime. Like a 90s Eastwood mediocre crime marathon.

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girafa t1_iuafjn9 wrote

Reply to Good movies like Cabaret? by boxer_dogs_dance

> Are there other great movies like Cabaret or Sound of Music that show the rise of the nazis rather than their actions in the camps?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

It's Czech communists/Soviets, not Nazis, but similar in scope

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girafa t1_iu7p3uk wrote

Reply to What novel to movie remakes were subject to legal controversies because of content of the movie? by Hardy289

John Carpenter successfully sued the producers of Lockout for ripping off the premise of Escape from New York.

> Carpenter, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, said one of the rights holders to his 1981 film "wanted to also go after the video game Metal Gear Solid, which is kind of a rip-off of Escape From New York, too," Carpenter said.

> No such legal action was taken. Why? "I know the director of those games, and he's a nice guy," Carpenter told THR. "Or at least he's nice to me."

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girafa t1_iu20bt7 wrote

Reply to comment by -Rhialto- in What movie you saw has the longest length? by -Rhialto-

"considered to be one of the best films of all time"

By a few, I guess.

There's no amazing revelation, no stunning human truth revealed, no emotional crescendo or really any worthwhile conflict to resolve. No devastating reveal, no amazing writing, no "oh man you gotta watch this part!"

It has its rabid snob fans, who love to chime in and tell me how I didn't get it, but this movie is the most cliche of all examples of what a pretentious indie film is. Well, between this and Fando y Lis.

It's cool to love the movies, but it'd be stupid to recommend normal people to watch them.

The movie is an exercise in style, the same story could've been told in an hour.

I mentioned how dull it was last night and a salty fanboy said

> Since the other poster doesn’t seem want to actually explain it’s plot (or have understood its underlying themes), I’ll take a crack at it. It takes place in a Hungarian village where their farm has failed. People betray, cheat on, and plot against each other. It’s a mood and character piece with nihilistic themes about authoritarianism and how religion can be corrupted and used to take advantage of people. It’s definitely not for everyone, but it’s considered one of the best films ever made for a reason, and the other guy clearly missed the point.

So that's the counterargument. I wrote a bit about it here.

The day after I watched this uselessly long movie, I watched the 5 hour cut of Fanny & Alexander - that's an actual good movie. I recommend that one instead.

It you're a salty rabid fan don't @ me, I don't care. Unless you have an argument about why we needed 8 minute long shots of cows to truly understand the townspeople's fears and worry about money, and how there's just gosh darn it no other way to tell this story - I've heard it all before.

edit: If you really want to see a Bela Tarr movie, watch Werckmeister Harmonies. 10x better than Satantango.

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girafa t1_itunjkw wrote

Reply to comment by RandomStranger79 in Why don't we make movies about the victims instead of the serial killers? by [deleted]

It's pretty common to have stories about fictional characters dealing with killers as the antagonists. (thousands of horror films, thrillers)

What isn't common is anyone making a film centering around the life of a real person who died by the hands of, say, the Green River Killer.

Fruitvale Station was a movie about a victim though. But once you make a movie about the real-life victim? The movie becomes a statement, it's not so much an investigation into the why and how of humanity.

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