Saving Private Ryan is a pro-war movie.
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I personally refuse to watch the film again. Not because was bad which it is not, but because it depicts war so graphically I'm opposing war even more since I saw the opening scene.
I couldn't sit through Pulp Fiction. By the milkshake scene I was done with these characters.
Just curious, how old are you? And how old were you when you saw it?
I'm 36 now, I was probably 26 or 28 when I sat down to watch it. Hit the stop button saying "Well I don't give a damn about this."
Did you watch/enjoy any of Tarantino's other films?
He's often praised for his dialogue but tbf I find some of the conversations not at all realistic. I can see how that could rub some people the wrong way.
Hi dialogues are so cringey. He thought very hard to make everyone say the coolest thing possible.
I don't actually like the new Dune movies. I just thought that it had the ast Lord Of The Rings movie energy, and that it just went on a bit longer than i really wanted it to. There was certainly some good bits to it no doubt but they didn't really feel connected to me.
Did you read the books? Having read the books it was a blast for me, but those sound like fair criticisms if you aren't already familiar with the source material (which isnt a good thing for a movie to do, it should be able to stand on its own).
~~As someone who read the books, 3 movies is going to be too much. 2 movies is more than enough for the first book and I think it's gonna suffer a bit for it. Not as bad as the Hobbit, but I haven't seen anything get better from getting milked.~~
I'm wrong, misread an article. Thanks for the info y'all.
1984 had the two captains and Sting.. That's hard to beat.
I've never been able to get past the first two minutes of The Godfather
It insists upon itself.
But seriously, 95% of the "classic" movies deemed so important are just not that good. They might have been remarkable for some reason at the time, but from a contemporary perspective, they're often boring, long winded, and generally not interesting.
It's the same with books. Some people decided at some point which books are considered "good" and everyone just has to eat that or be considered stupid. Can't speak for other languages, but I think it's extremely suspicious, that in Germany the "canon books" are almost all from a rather short timeframe, which just happens to coincide with 19th century nationalism.
Movies have that period in the 1960-80s.
Parasite was a generally bad movie. The whole time you're watching it and you're like, is a comedy, a drama, a thriller? And then at the end it loses its god damned mind. And you walk out of the theater confused and feeling like shit.
That is why it's an amazing movie.
Horror movies are unfairly judged because most people who do not like horror movies watch them for the wrong reasons.
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) depicts a better story about simulated reality than The Matrix (1999) does.
The thirteenth floor was a (pretty good) remake of the German 1970s movie "Welt am Draht".
I liked Matrix Revolutions from the beginning.
This post is so confusing. Do I upvote opinions I strongly agree with or down vote them?!
Upvote things that contribute to the post, downvote things that don't. Has nothing to do with like/dislike, or agree/disagree.
Totally agree with you!
Downvoted, since it doesn't add anything to the answers. Just like my reply right here.
The original Star wars trilogy was overrated, the sequels were underrated, and I'd rate them all to be equally mediocre.
Gonna try to phrase this an inflammatory way:
People who like bad movies have been conditioned by consumerism to not appreciate art. They believe spectacle, humour, and a tight plot are 'good enough', and they don't value thoughtfulness, novelty, beauty, or abrasiveness nearly enough. Film is more than a way to fill time and have fun. Film is more than an explosion, a laugh, and a happy ending.
On an unrelated note: Mad Max: Fury Road is one of my favourite movies.
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I might just need to rewatch it because it's been 15 years, but I didn't care much for Citizen Kane.
Nobody actually enjoys watching Citizen Kane. It's the Wuthering Heights of the movie world: you get to feel pretentious and cultured for having checked it off your bucket list, but the actual experience was a total slog and you're probably never going to re-watch/read it ever again.
Last year's DnD movie is the best film of the last ten or so years. It succeeded on every level, except in the box office.
My hypothesis is that Hasbro insisted on branding it "Dungeons & Dragons" to push the brand, and non-gamers figured it wasn't for them. If they'd have made the main title "Honor among Thieves", all the game nerds would have seen the DnD logo, and others wouldn't have been turned off *. As it stands, people will find it and it'll become the new "Starship Troopers" that bombed but shines forever in retrospect.
* See "Arcane".
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The original Star Wars movies were probably really good and genre defining in the late 70s, but they're just boring and campy now.
The Exorcist (original) is one of the most boring horror movies I've ever personally sat through and I have no earthly idea why it caused such a stir at the time. Whole movie is a snooze fest until the last bit, but I found it less scary and more humorous.
To understand this you have to know that at the time when "Jaws" came into cinema there were people leaving cinema during the film because they "couldn't handle it". There were even newspaper articles about how the movie allegedly traumatized people. The same goes for movies like "The Shining".
When "The Exorcist" came out people were not prepared.