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Crap. 1 hour 30 minutes of me wishing something would happen interspersed with 10 minutes of great shots of Japanese culture.
I might not have been in the mood for this movie, but it bored me to tears.
Its the type of film a film student will wax lyrical about, whilst secretly wishing “Well, I wish Francis Ford had given Sophia a damn good slap, and told her to make it bloody interesting instead of cinematic masturbation”
It’s a story of an unusual friendship developing between two people who are feeling culturally isolated.
And its crap.
I might not have been in the mood for this movie, but it bored me to tears.
Its the type of film a film student will wax lyrical about, whilst secretly wishing “Well, I wish Francis Ford had given Sophia a damn good slap, and told her to make it bloody interesting instead of cinematic masturbation”
It’s a story of an unusual friendship developing between two people who are feeling culturally isolated.
And its crap.
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I went in with no preconceptions and came out having watched a sweet, heart-warming movie with two excellent lead performances. And I got to see Scarlett Johansson mope about in her pink undies, which was also cool.
Lol whatever Goatboy. I'm not the one who can't appreciate a fantastic film when they see it. Why don't you have a go at him? I still stand by my remark though that some people just can't appreciate the true splendour of some films. I would like to think I have a broad pallet though and can appreciate a lot of films on a variety of different levels. No I'm not saying that because I'm a film studies student because apart from anything else I haven't even applied for uni/college yet so I can't be a film studies student:P. I wasn't being pretentious either just being a realist, some people are just more appreciative of great works.
Cubist V.2 wrote:
I guess it takes a different
> kind of person to appreciate both films of unrelenting fighting and
> ones of a different kind of excellence.
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Oh do shut up you pretentious insect.
It doesn't take a "different kind of person", it takes somebody that just thought Sophia Coppola has a career based on nepotism and didn't enjoy her exercise in banality - much the case with "The Virgin Suicides".
He didn't say nobody should like it, he said he found it wanting.
Honestly, there is nothing worse than some pocket sized Pauline Kael that thinks because they like the occasional film with subtitles that they are somehow above everybody else, or that somebody that thought a film was toss somehow didn't "get it".
Fact is, I know that Pandy has forgotten more arthouse movies than you've been told exist by your film studies lecturer.
So spare me the snooty "I love to deeply deconstruct movies" rubbish.
Been there, bought the "I liked it 1st" t-shirt and can spot an ass a mile away.
I guess it takes a different
> kind of person to appreciate both films of unrelenting fighting and
> ones of a different kind of excellence.
----
Oh do shut up you pretentious insect.
It doesn't take a "different kind of person", it takes somebody that just thought Sophia Coppola has a career based on nepotism and didn't enjoy her exercise in banality - much the case with "The Virgin Suicides".
He didn't say nobody should like it, he said he found it wanting.
Honestly, there is nothing worse than some pocket sized Pauline Kael that thinks because they like the occasional film with subtitles that they are somehow above everybody else, or that somebody that thought a film was toss somehow didn't "get it".
Fact is, I know that Pandy has forgotten more arthouse movies than you've been told exist by your film studies lecturer.
So spare me the snooty "I love to deeply deconstruct movies" rubbish.
Been there, bought the "I liked it 1st" t-shirt and can spot an ass a mile away.
I've seen it twice and both times thought it was better than Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King at least. I guess it takes a different kind of person to appreciate both films of unrelenting fighting and ones of a different kind of excellence.
monkey_man wrote:
> I thought it was excellent, if that counts for anything (I'm not a
> film/media student!).
Each to their own as usual, but I just thought it was 140 minutes of staring out of windows, clichéd characters and an ending where the movie disappeared up its own backside and nothing was resolved.
I love the Clooney “Solaris” though; so don’t listen to me. ;)
> I thought it was excellent, if that counts for anything (I'm not a
> film/media student!).
Each to their own as usual, but I just thought it was 140 minutes of staring out of windows, clichéd characters and an ending where the movie disappeared up its own backside and nothing was resolved.
I love the Clooney “Solaris” though; so don’t listen to me. ;)
Insane Bartender wrote:
> But it's winning awards so it MUST be good.
If The Office can win awards, I'm sure my home-made movie of me rubbing my cat's face in it's own poo-poo to teach it a lesson can win one too.
> But it's winning awards so it MUST be good.
If The Office can win awards, I'm sure my home-made movie of me rubbing my cat's face in it's own poo-poo to teach it a lesson can win one too.
I thought it was excellent, if that counts for anything (I'm not a film/media student!).
Gratuitous backslapping from the industry I imagine.
Oh, Bill Murray *is* excellent in it though.
Oh, Bill Murray *is* excellent in it though.
But it's winning awards so it MUST be good.
Crap. 1 hour 30 minutes of me wishing something would happen interspersed with 10 minutes of great shots of Japanese culture.
I might not have been in the mood for this movie, but it bored me to tears.
Its the type of film a film student will wax lyrical about, whilst secretly wishing “Well, I wish Francis Ford had given Sophia a damn good slap, and told her to make it bloody interesting instead of cinematic masturbation”
It’s a story of an unusual friendship developing between two people who are feeling culturally isolated.
And its crap.
I might not have been in the mood for this movie, but it bored me to tears.
Its the type of film a film student will wax lyrical about, whilst secretly wishing “Well, I wish Francis Ford had given Sophia a damn good slap, and told her to make it bloody interesting instead of cinematic masturbation”
It’s a story of an unusual friendship developing between two people who are feeling culturally isolated.
And its crap.
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