Well, none of the details I mentioned are central to the plot of the movie. To be perfectly honest, it’s information that I’ve seen trotted out in flat movie reviews.
Ok Bolo Tie, just forget it. You enjoy movies in a different way than some of us. I’ve tried explain it to the extremely rude Harry Long. If I wasn’t such a nice guy I’d call him asshole, but I am so I won’t. You and he see no problem in reading everything you can about a movie. I don’t and this movie hasn’t even hit the fucking shores yet and why argue the fucking point that dropping clues like that isn’t revealing anything. Let me tell you what I THOUGHT the movie was about. I THOUGHT it was about a couple who retreated to their cabin to get away from life after the death of their child and something horrifying happens in the woods. That is pretty much all I knew. I see nothing in the trailers to lead the viewers to believe that the horror is brought on by the couple. Now thanks to reading from the peanut gallery here it is revealed that A main character goes nuts and mutilates herself and her husband. I don’t care where the fuck you read that, keep it out of post that is titled ANTICHRIST IS HERE for Christ’s sake. Get it now? What is the MOST frustrating thing on this board is the extremely rude snotty attitude of some of the posters here like yourself. Man I’m done with these boards and all the snottiness on them.
Strawdawg: I was actually responding to another poster who wondered why he wouldn’t be seeing it down the street at the multiplex. So my original comment was pretty directly related to the issue of Antichrist making the rounds stateside. You really are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Call it what you will Bolo Tie. My frustration doesn’t come from the spoilers so much as it does from the arrogant people who argue a simple point about spoilers. Just take the goddam point without arguing incessantly about it and move on.
Strawdawg: Fine, interesting point you make about spoilers. If only it had actually been in reference to a true spoiler.
>>I wasn’t aware of the details you trot out on this thread—not about Dafoe’s or Gainsbourg’s bodily destinies. I don’t believe this “spoiler” was salient to any point you were making which was, after all, your thoughts about its probably MPAA rating.<<
In fact it is those very details that are salient to its rating. It was widely reported that possibly those two sequences might have to be cut if the film was to ahve anything other than an NC-17 rating & their elimination was contemplated by potential US distributors. Not only are these not spoilers in the traditional sense (they are not the ending of the film, merely details within it), they have been so widely reported they can scacely be considered spoilers anymore.
>>Harry Long’s read everything he can find about it.<<
Oh, hardly.
>>the extremely rude Harry Long<<
Wow. If you thought I was being rude you really do lead an insular life …
>>Now thanks to reading from the peanut gallery here it is revealed that A main character goes nuts and mutilates herself and her husband<<
Gee, I just scanned back over this thread and saw nothing about the wife mutilating her husband. Apparently you’ve been doing some extracurricular reading yourself.
These dates are just the beginning of ANTICHRIST’s rollout. It’s also available on demand Oct. 28th.
My brief acquaintance with On Demand’s presentation of films convinced me that most if not all of the films are panned and scanned. Isn’t this generally true? Why wouldn’t Comcast present these pay-to-watch films in correct aspect ratios?
I appreciate the release dates. Thanks Fredo. I want to catch this in the theater also.
@Fredo When A-C played in Cannes, almost all the reviewers gave different spoilers in their reviews. It is okay, now that I know what to expect, I probably won’t see the movie. Wouldn’t want to. But reading about it is better than watching it in this instance, I think.
I’m sorry I’ve missed so many comments on this thread and others which are eventually moderated.
>>My brief acquaintance with On Demand’s presentation of films convinced me that most if not all of the films are panned and scanned. Isn’t this generally true? Why wouldn’t Comcast present these pay-to-watch films in correct aspect ratios?<<
Because whoever is in charge at Comcast is the anti-Christ … the real one!
But seriously, I think it depends on which service they get the film from. My only experience is with their free offerings & I’ve gotten the JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (with James Mason) in WS from it. Other things have only been FS. Some have prominent logos and ad-crawls and even commercial creaks (like MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN).
It opened in London a while back and it didn’t do fantastic business, despite its reputation. The cinematography is fantastic as is the use of classical music and the whole film has a dreamlike quality, but is dull in many places and incomprehensible in others. The sequences that have caused all the fuss aren’t pleasant viewing, but it’s Lars Von Trier.
I do love the adoption of the view point by the North American members of this website that when something opens in the U.S it then actually counts for something. I have a friend who has a similar perspective- if it hasn’t opened in the U.S he’s not interested, especially if he hasn’t discovered it first. It does show the Yank-o-centric perspective and cultural capital much of cinema now has, even though films are a worldwide experience. I mean if it opens in a tin-pot city like London… well, that’s small beer in comparison to it opening in New York or Los Angeles.
It’s this mentality that forced the makers of the highly overrated “Slumdog Millionaire” to open their movie in the U.S first, ignoring the miracle in the first place: namely that it was funded with British money, which is all together a rarity to be embraced and not pissed away to the other side of the world first. Still, it won it’s totally undeserved Oscars and made a fortune. So it worked, from a certain point of view.
Yeah thanks a lot Fredo for ruining the entire experience for me … heh, just jokin’. Thanks for the reminder, I suppose I’ll have to make my way to one of those locales to get the full cinematic experience. New Von Trier projects interest me a great deal even if this particular one doesn’t live up to it’s beautiful Baconesque look (as I’ve been hearing on here and elsewhere).
orlando never gets anything…
“Antichrist Is Here”
^^ For a minute there I thought RUS was back from vacation.
>>I do love the adoption of the view point by the North American members of this website that when something opens in the U.S it then actually counts for something.<<
Yes. That needed pointing out. I was too busy noting that just because someone hadn’t somehow encountered information didn’t mean it hadn’t been widely disseminated.
>>For a minute there I thought RUS was back from vacation.<<
Good one. Though some might claim the title thread refers to my rude posts…
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I hear Austin is fantastic.