What was the last movie you watched?

[scrock25]

I'm actually beginning to like this movie, if only for the conversation it's sparking.

[grace2]

Originally Posted by scrock25

Exactly, RH is actually very simple.

Give an infant an electronic keyboard to bash with their un-coordinated fists and voila! Kid A.

[som3d3vil34]

Originally Posted by water_into_wine

He'd be Sigur Ros.

My comparison was more of a joke, but yours is definitely spot on - I totally agree

[AlpineValley804]

Originally Posted by scrock25

I'm actually beginning to like this movie, if only for the conversation it's sparking.

Ditto. This is some of the most interesting discussion this thread has had in a really long time.

[water_into_wine]

Originally Posted by som3d3vil34

My comparison was more of a joke, but yours is definitely spot on - I totally agree

Well, I had been backreading and was going to post it anyway but then I saw your post and decided to reply to that one.

[som3d3vil34]

Cant wait til Tree of Life is less than 20 bucks on Blu. Im gonna buy the shit out of it.

Til then, Im probably watching Super 8 tonight

[Beebz]

Originally Posted by som3d3vil34

Cant wait til Tree of Life is less than 20 bucks on Blu. Im gonna buy the shit out of it.

Til then, Im probably watching Super 8 tonight

Polarizing movie week, apparently.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Beebz

Your analogy is a lot more accurate.

I will say that in 2012, moviegoers are conditioned to expect a story when they see a movie. The structure and tone may differ, but they want some form of narrative, preferably a simple one. So the reaction to something like TOF is somewhat understandable.

what happened in 1998 when people said Thin Red Line sucked? Was that a conditioned audience also?





look people, don't fall into the Beebz trap. you can like em all you want, but don't start defending things that are simply indefensible. Malick makes boring movies. Pretty boring movies, but boring nonetheless.

[som3d3vil34]

Originally Posted by Jake

what happened in 1998 when people said Thin Red Line sucked? Was that a conditioned audience also?





look people, don't fall into the Beebz trap. you can like em all you want, but don't start defending things that are simply indefensible. Malick makes boring movies. Pretty boring movies, but boring nonetheless.

Thin Red Line imdb: 7.6 stars
Thin Red Line rotten tomatoes audience rating: 75%

"what happened in 1998 when people said Thin Red Line sucked?"

Nothing, cause they didnt say that.

[Speilmen230]

For me what it all boils down to is that TOL aimlessly wandered along for the entire film and aside from the cinematography it never once grabbed my attention. I honestly would have rather sat on my back deck and watched the wind blow the trees and the grass for 2 1/2 hours than watch this movie.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by som3d3vil34

Thin Red Line imdb: 7.6 stars
Thin Red Line rotten tomatoes audience rating: 75%

"what happened in 1998 when people said Thin Red Line sucked?"

Nothing, cause they didnt say that.

I guess my idea of sucks and your idea are different. a rating of 75 isn't good to me, and when critics like it more than audiences (as with every Malick film), that tells me that Malick is the PBR skinny jeans glasses wearing folk of the film making world.

[som3d3vil34]

Originally Posted by Jake

I guess my idea of sucks and your idea are different. a rating of 75 isn't good to me, and when critics like it more than audiences (as with every Malick film), that tells me that Malick is the PBR skinny jeans glasses wearing folk of the film making world.

Movies #190-250 on the IMDB top 250 list are all rated at 8.0 stars - so Thin Red Line is only .4 stars away from being in the top 250. Im not saying that list IS the top 250 movies of all time, but audiences think very highly of them.

So yea, I guess our ideas of a movie sucking are very very different.

[thebridge15]

Malick just seems like he'd prefer to show a rack to focus from a ladybug to a leaf glazed with dew than anything else. There were moments in Badlands, which actually had a really simple story, where the shot would just cut away to a wide shot of a landscape for like 10 seconds. He turned a house on fire into a five minute scene.

[doesmusicbest]

Originally Posted by Jake

I guess my idea of sucks and your idea are different. a rating of 75 isn't good to me, and when critics like it more than audiences (as with every Malick film), that tells me that Malick is the PBR skinny jeans glasses wearing folk of the film making world.

Why compare Malick to indie music? Why not classical music? Or poetry?

[thebridge15]

Originally Posted by som3d3vil34

Movies #190-250 on the IMDB top 250 list are all rated at 8.0 stars - so Thin Red Line is only .4 stars away from being in the top 250. Im not saying that list IS the top 250 movies of all time, but audiences think very highly of them.

So yea, I guess our ideas of a movie sucking are very very different.

I hate the Top 250. Inception's in the top 10. I guarantee TDKR will be #1 for a solid ten weeks when it comes out.

[Beebz]

Originally Posted by som3d3vil34

Thin Red Line imdb: 7.6 stars
Thin Red Line rotten tomatoes audience rating: 75%

"what happened in 1998 when people said Thin Red Line sucked?"

Nothing, cause they didnt say that.

This. Didn't Malick get a Best Director nomination?

Originally Posted by Jake

I guess my idea of sucks and your idea are different. a rating of 75 isn't good to me, and when critics like it more than audiences (as with every Malick film), that tells me that Malick is the PBR skinny jeans glasses wearing folk of the film making world.

And you think Shoot Em Up and Hitman are two of the best 50 movies this century. So....yeah.

I dont think Malick is brilliant and I don't think he sucks.

[som3d3vil34]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

I hate the Top 250. Inception's in the top 10. I guarantee TDKR will be #1 for a solid ten weeks when it comes out.

Yea, this list is not 100% accurate by any means and it has its flaws for sure. But it gives a pretty good idea of what audiences think, which is what we were kind of talking about with Thin Red Line

[scrock25]

I'm actually looking forward to TDKR... unlike TDK, where the fanboys totally ruined that relase for me.

I know it's only January, but there doesn't seem to be nearly the hype-machine for this release as there was for the last.

[thebridge15]

Originally Posted by scrock25

I'm actually looking forward to TDKR... unlike TDK, where the fanboys totally ruined that relase for me.

I know it's only January, but there doesn't seem to be nearly the hype-machine for this release as there was for the last.

It'll get there.

[scrock25]

Yep, hence the second sentence. Unfortunately

[Speilmen230]

Originally Posted by scrock25

I'm actually looking forward to TDKR... unlike TDK, where the fanboys totally ruined that relase for me.

I know it's only January, but there doesn't seem to be nearly the hype-machine for this release as there was for the last.

Why let fanboys ruin a movie for you? that seems kind of silly to me.

[scrock25]

I was tired of hearing about the fucking film by release date. I was over it before it was even released.

[Rodey]

So wait, now there's no difference between a movie and a mini-series? Who said that? I bet it was Beebz.

Oh, it was Beebz.

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[Beebz]

Originally Posted by Rodey

So wait, now there's no difference between a movie and a mini-series? Who said that? I bet it was Beebz.

Oh, it was Beebz.

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There are minor, arbitrary differences, most prominently in the way its presented. You could chop a movie into four one-hour episodes to make a miniseries, or fuse four hours of a miniseries together to create an opus without doing anything but showing them consecutively.

Don't argue just to argue.

[Speilmen230]

Here are my next 6 movie parings that i will be getting from Netflix: are there any exponentially great ones?

The Godfather: Part III
Midnight in Paris*

Donnie Darko
Aliens

Crazy Heart
The Green Mile

The Hurt Locker**
The Lookout

The Insider
Primal Fear

Infernal Affairs
Network

*I have already seen this, but i want to watch it again
** I have seen about 1 hour of this

[scrock25]

People fucking love arguing with you dude.

[scrock25]

Originally Posted by Speilmen230

Here are my next 6 movie parings that i will be getting from Netflix: are there any exponentially great ones?

The Godfather: Part III
Midnight in Paris*

Donnie Darko
Aliens

Crazy Heart
The Green Mile

The Hurt Locker**
The Lookout

The Insider
Primal Fear

Infernal Affairs
Network

*I have already seen this, but i want to watch it again
** I have seen about 1 hour of this

For me, it would be Aliens and The Green Mile.

[Speilmen230]

Originally Posted by scrock25

I was tired of hearing about the fucking film by release date. I was over it before it was even released.

How about you avoid going to fanboy websites or don't listen to people who are consistently talking about it? doesn't seem that hard to me. I knew literally nothing about it because i didn't want to get anything ruined for me.

[Beebz]

Originally Posted by scrock25

People fucking love arguing with you dude.

That they do. I bring some of that on myself, no question. But you're not wrong.

An hour ago, I said USC earned a spot in the Pac 12 title game and two people decided to tell me that I was wrong. Oh well, I like it here anyway.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Speilmen230

Here are my next 6 movie parings that i will be getting from Netflix: are there any exponentially great ones?

The Godfather: Part III
Midnight in Paris*

Donnie Darko
Aliens

Crazy Heart
The Green Mile

The Hurt Locker**
The Lookout

The Insider
Primal Fear

Infernal Affairs
Network

*I have already seen this, but i want to watch it again
** I have seen about 1 hour of this

fantastic film. Better than the remake by Scorsese.