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Pulp Fiction - yeah. When I was in school I never heard the end of how good it was, and yet I could never find myself feeling anything for any of the characters, or finding any of it darkly humorous. I did like Kill Bill however.
Pulp Fiction reminds me of another one:
Requiem For A Dream
At the beginning of this movie I basically was like, okay, so horrible stuff is going to happen to these people - why? Because they're all making terrible decisions. Imagine my lack of surprise when really bad stuff happened to them in the climax of the film. It was artfully done, but so what? Why should I even care?
Number one with an absolute bullet on my list: Pulp Fiction
Just gawdawful on every level. Pretentious, retarded, demented... Tarantino in general just annoys me, but this movie was the acme of his idiocy, and the one that people gush over so much just makes it all the more eccchhh...
Not so much movies that I can't stand, so much as movies that are decent enough but that I just really don't get the lovefest over, I shall horrify and amaze by saying... the Godfather movies. I get it, everybody loves em. They're all that and a bag of chips. They just don't do a thing for me.
Jason, you're just not in touch with your "inner gangster"...
;)
Like Dances With Wolves.....
that and the Last Samurai; I liked them, but why do I constantly have to get Hollywood to put some white guy in there to experience another culture? It's like the Kung Fu t.v. series all over again. Everybody knows Bruce Lee made that show up, and they had to put David Carradine in as Kane because the U.S. would freak out if Bruce Lee was the leading man. But that was the 70's, man. This is still happening now.
It reminds me of the time when George Clooney was bragging how "progressive and enlightened" Hollywood is compared to mainstream America. Really? Nearly every time I watch a movie the minorities in the film are portrayed as drug dealers and/or murderers, rarely ever the good guys.
It reminds me of the time when George Clooney was bragging how "progressive and enlightened" Hollywood is compared to mainstream America. Really? Nearly every time I watch a movie the minorities in the film are portrayed as drug dealers and/or murderers, rarely ever the good guys.
Like Dances With Wolves.....
that and the Last Samurai; I liked them, but why do I constantly have to get Hollywood to put some white guy in there to experience another culture? It's like the Kung Fu t.v. series all over again. Everybody knows Bruce Lee made that show up, and they had to put David Carradine in as Kane because the U.S. would freak out if Bruce Lee was the leading man. But that was the 70's, man. This is still happening now.
I actually think it's because they think we're all dumbass slackjaws, and not as intellectually hip and groovy as they are; we wouldn't be able to dig their level. They're reduced to pandering.
I am Spartacus!Damn! I thought I was Spartacus.
You are, its just that being Spartacus only works in groups. For a while, I it looked like I'd been left hanging.
Except for Ubermench - "The fig for thee, then."
Picture me not draped on Adam, but "about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates."
Jade,
You are correct about Titanic. I would have dumped Kate Winslet in the ocean and used the raft for myself, when I tell this to people they all look aghast ;>
That would have been the wrong thing to do though.
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Come on, you can always find another girl willing to have sex in a car ;>
Come on, you can always find another girl willing to have sex in a car ;>Jade,
You are correct about Titanic. I would have dumped Kate Winslet in the ocean and used the raft for myself, when I tell this to people they all look aghast ;>
That would have been the wrong thing to do though.
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Probably, but not another that is as hot as Winslet. :)
Number one with an absolute bullet on my list: Pulp Fiction
Just gawdawful on every level. Pretentious, retarded, demented... Tarantino in general just annoys me, but this movie was the acme of his idiocy, and the one that people gush over so much just makes it all the more eccchhh...
Yup. It's watchable, but it's not the brilliant work people make it out to be. Annoys me even more when people (admittedly far fewer of them) gush about Kill Bill.
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I don't know if I'd call Ace Ventura a good movie.
Surely Sir you jest. A finer example of humour I have ne'er seen!
Titanic was an eye closer for me.
Best part about the whole thing was getting to see Kate Winslet's boobie and there are much better movies I can see much more than that in...
Three hours of my life I'll never get back!
Surely Sir you jest. A finer example of humour I have ne'er seen!
Titanic was an eye closer for me.
Best part about the whole thing was getting to see Kate Winslet's boobie and there are much better movies I can see much more than that in...
Three hours of my life I'll never get back!
We're all praying for the recovery of your sight...wait...how are you seeing Kate Winslet's breastesess at all?
I am Spartacus!Damn! I thought I was Spartacus.You are, its just that being Spartacus only works in groups. For a while, I it looked like I'd been left hanging.
Except for Ubermench - "The fig for thee, then."
Picture me not draped on Adam, but "about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates."
I should have said Eve.
This is inspired by the "Best Movies You've Never Seen" thread, and one post there in particular.
What are the films that are generally considered to be masterpieces of cinema that just make you want to scream, and why?
For me, it would be 2001: A Space Odyssey. I tried to like it. I really did. But once you get to the third or fourth five-minute shot of a spaceship floating along in real time, you've lost me. The whole thing was incredibly pretentious and annoying, and the pacing was so slow that I couldn't care about anything that happened. And don't even get me started on the Space Baby.
I can't stand anything Woody Allen, even the ones people will be watching ages hence when they want to see the greatest American classics from the late 20th century. I find his neuroticism so annoying and pathetic. I don't find him funny at all.
I should have said Eve.I am Spartacus!Damn! I thought I was Spartacus.You are, its just that being Spartacus only works in groups. For a while, I it looked like I'd been left hanging.
Except for Ubermench - "The fig for thee, then."
Picture me not draped on Adam, but "about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates."
Now I feel dirty.
Now I feel dirty.I should have said Eve.I am Spartacus!Damn! I thought I was Spartacus.You are, its just that being Spartacus only works in groups. For a while, I it looked like I'd been left hanging.
Except for Ubermench - "The fig for thee, then."
Picture me not draped on Adam, but "about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates."
That's what you get for hanging out in bushes all day.
We're all praying for the recovery of your sight...wait...how are you seeing Kate Winslet's breastesess at all?Titanic was an eye closer for me.
Best part about the whole thing was getting to see Kate Winslet's boobie and there are much better movies I can see much more than that in...
Three hours of my life I'll never get back!
I have a special Boobie monitoring Third Eye just for special occasions like this. ;)
Karate Kid. And the sequels. They had an open casting call in Philly for the second one and I tried out for a roll as the bad kid in that. They told me I had plenty of background/martial arts training for the roll but that I was too 'tough-looking' for it. They offered me a spot as an extra but I didn't feel that the $50 a day was worth the hassle of uprooting to another state. I should've gone.
But still the movies sucked.
Karate Kid. And the sequels. They had an open casting call in Philly for the second one and I tried out for a roll as the bad kid in that. They told me I had plenty of background/martial arts training for the roll but that I was too 'tough-looking' for it. They offered me a spot as an extra but I didn't feel that the $50 a day was worth the hassle of uprooting to another state. I should've gone.
But still the movies sucked.
Wax on, wax off.
I did like the first one, but that before I actually studied karate and came to the realization that if a sucker adopts the crane stance I just have to step out of line and kick his ass ;>
Karate kid III, for me was the worst, but it does hold a golden nugget of wisdom: If a man cannot stand he cannot fight.
That's Hollywood for you. Incidentally, 300 was so tacky I enjoyed it a lot, FREEDOM! and all. I was kind of expecting a children's choir starting to sing Star-Spangled Banner on that one.Please, please, please, quit screaming "FREEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!"
I like freedom and all, it's just overly cheesy.I liked it too; slow motion eviscerations and everything;
the whole motif of people who were, for all intents and purposes within two standard deviations of what it is to be a nazi, going around yodelling "freeeeeeeeedoooooommmmm!!!!!" just gets to me.And in my own defense ask any helot; the nazi comparison in this instance is a fair one and therefore not threadbreaking.
Even more so when you consider that Hitler modeled Nazi culture after the Spartans, at least in part.
