So because he liked films that are almost universally critically acclaimed, he’s a moron? So pretty much every critic is an idiot to you, because they almost all liked films like The Dark Knight and Black Swan? Your logic is infallible. /irony
Sounds like people just want an excuse to stomp on Wes Anderson, who is a brilliant director. Life Aquatic is an acquired taste and a masterpiece, I’m so utterly tired of people spewing their ham-handed comments about it. On the thread’s note, I’ve never seen a film Criterion released that wasn’t a 3/5 or higher. I’d say that’s success, to have all more or less ‘good’ films in their collection. (granted, I haven’t seen them all, but I’m just speaking from what I have seen).
I just realized I have lied, I totally erased from my memory that Criterion had the balls to release Armageddon and The Rock. So obviously these are the titles people should be crying about, not works of art by Wes Anderson.
What does it matter how Paul Thomas Anderson talks, when his films speak for themselves. He needs not speak when he releases so many brilliant films o_O
Stalker. One of the greatest films ever made. But saying slow pace as if it’s a derogatory term is completely moronic (imo) if you can’t handle films with slower pace, don’t watch them. But don’t act like it’s shocking to enjoy a film that doesn’t throw a million answers at you every second. L’Avventura is another obvious example.
I’m confused how anyone could conceive that Episode 4 is a better film, and I’ve loved Star Wars since I was a child but seriously? Take off your nostalgia goggles and realize that for ONCE the academy’s view was actually right. Atrocities they committed like placing Titanic over L.A. Confidential or Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction are far more painful. Most of the other posts I saw already mentioned other ones on my mind, like Kane, etc.
Mark D Vanselow sounds pretty jaded. You seem pretty upset about films you’ve never seen. You might want to get that checked out. :3 On another note, the Social Network was not the best film of the year (Dogtooth was) but it was definitely up there. I feel like there’s just a bunch of hipsters crying about it because it’s too mainstream for them. Also I saw someone in the beginning of the thread comparing this movie to Triumph of the Will? Are you serious? that’s kind of disturbing…
Obviously France. The first main features ever made were primarily French, they have been the forerunner for so many directions in film (obviously not all I’m not trying to sound stupid) and they brought us Jean Vigo, and Godard. Isn’t that enough?
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Pierrot Le Fou
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Goodfellas
The Wizard of Oz
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
Goldfinger
i love all of these nerds hating on kanye west, when his album was one of the best records of last year, and literally every publication represented that. get over yourselves. and why are you commenting on a thread about this if you don’t even like enter the void? why even waste the time? i don’t get the stupidity…
so, because an album is mainstream, it sucks? my top two albums of the year were Joanna Newsom’s Have One on Me and Kanye’s album. I wouldn’t say she is in the ‘mainstream realm’, but then again you’re just a judgmental prick who uses false assumptions to make your points.
lol, you said most. aka kanye is not part of that most. kanye west isn’t lil wayne; he’s not the product of a hipster hype machine, he got his start in production and that is still his most appealing aspect. i mean it sounds to me like most of the people commenting here don’t even like hip hop (correct me if i’m wrong) but trust me i know mainstream rap music is trash. i wrote the other day in a blog about how cannibal ox’s ‘the cold vein’ still remains the best rap album released in the last decade, something that tv and radio wouldn’t dare play. el-p’s progressive production is better than kanye’s, yes, but that doesn’t mean that west’s production isn’t interesting to say the least. how many mainstream rappers are making 7 minute songs with extended interludes and aphex twin samples? mixing a lot of his own personal follies and a lot of black comedy into ‘my beautiful twisted dark fantasy’ the album works not only because of its attempt to progress mainstream hip hop into something more futurist, but because west’s lyricism has also improved. i don’t need to justify my liking for his music, but i don’t think i should be lambasted for liking it either. people seemed to be throwing the word ‘hipster’ around when they’re the ones crying ‘mainstream bad! mainstream bad!’ i couldn’t really care less if you don’t like west’s music, but it’s certainly more exciting than most hip hop artists’ music that has came out in the last decade.
Minority Report is an uneven picture…but A.I. is one of the best films of the last decade. I’m not even a big fan of Spielberg by any means, I would consider A.I. one of his best films however, if not the best, next to something like Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
And to House of Leaves, doesn’t everyone already consider Eyes Wide Shut to be a classic film? It’s probably the best performance of Cruise’s career, next to maybe Born on the Fourth of July.
Enter the Void is pretty much exactly what the OP named the topic. It’s funny how people can watch scenes like the one in Tarkovsky’s Solaris, where the one character just drives down a highway for seven minutes straight, and say the film is a masterpiece; but when newer directors use some of the same sort of techniques or repetitive imagery they don’t enjoy it. Enter the Void was so beautiful.
I’m shocked there are still people so ignorant to EWS. I feel bad for people who cant appreciate that film, or the ridiculous amount of symbolism present in it. The excuse ‘if kubrick didn’t make it derp derp’ is the dumbest crap I’ve ever seen.
This film was so worthless. It had no point, it was just useless. Deckard is also right in the fact that it never follows through with anything and then has a cop out ending that leaves you just going ‘really?’ It was highly pompous, if you want realism can’t you just watch Bicycle Thieves? Winter’s Bone was just an exercise in restraint that left me lifeless, about to fall asleep.
1. The Exorcist is still one of the greatest horror films ever produced, imo. Halloween, The Shining, Psycho, The Innocents, The Bride of Frankenstein and Les Diaboliques are still certainly amazing in the horror/thriller section (i prefer the term thriller, as most horror films in my eyes are awful dialogue and a lot of useless bloodletting). Classic comedies, easily things like The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Modern Times, Duck Soup, His Girl Friday, and some of Renoirs early comedy works. Action pictures? Most action pictures are pretty stupid (imo), but Woo’s gun-fu works are easily my favorites of the genre, as well as a select few other pictures like Goldfinger.
Jaws is one of the most overrated pictures ever made, and yet is still fun to watch and is an interesting picture, especially considering the impact it had on its original release. Raiders is all right, but I prefer the Last Crusade. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is still one of my favorite older horror pictures, because of its lack of gore (despite apparent preconceptions). I have no interest in seeing When Harry Met Sally
2. As another poster stated, it is hard not to be glad about the condition of the internet age where film is so readily available. I also frequently check titles out of the library (they have a lot of criterion discs and other classic pictures, so it’s a huge benefit). In terms of pictures actually being made today, most of them are utterly awful, and you have to actually look a little harder to find anything worthwhile. Hollywood is garbage today and it depresses me that people don’t seem to care/mind. It’s also upsetting because I don’t live in an area that has theaters that show new foreign releases, which are usually some of the only films of recent years I have come to appreciate.
3. I don’t think anyone I know personally has any interest in pictures as much as I do, and I never go to movies with people because most of the films available to me in theaters (like i stated before) are not really of the kind of ilk I eagerly anticipate.
Best heist movies over 2 years ago
Le Cercle Rouge and Le Deuxieme Souffle are the be all and end all of heist films. Melville was a genius.
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YOU CAN'T OUTGUESS EBERT AT THE OSCARS BECAUSE... over 2 years ago
LOL Black Swan was garbage? Someone’s trying a little too hard. Sure, I’d rather watch Perfect Blue but still…
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YOU CAN'T OUTGUESS EBERT AT THE OSCARS BECAUSE... over 2 years ago
So because he liked films that are almost universally critically acclaimed, he’s a moron? So pretty much every critic is an idiot to you, because they almost all liked films like The Dark Knight and Black Swan? Your logic is infallible. /irony
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lame criterion films over 2 years ago
Sounds like people just want an excuse to stomp on Wes Anderson, who is a brilliant director. Life Aquatic is an acquired taste and a masterpiece, I’m so utterly tired of people spewing their ham-handed comments about it. On the thread’s note, I’ve never seen a film Criterion released that wasn’t a 3/5 or higher. I’d say that’s success, to have all more or less ‘good’ films in their collection. (granted, I haven’t seen them all, but I’m just speaking from what I have seen).
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lame criterion films over 2 years ago
I just realized I have lied, I totally erased from my memory that Criterion had the balls to release Armageddon and The Rock. So obviously these are the titles people should be crying about, not works of art by Wes Anderson.
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Best films set in the middle ages/medieval times? over 2 years ago
The Seventh Seal, obv
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Non-Cliched Films About Romantic Love over 2 years ago
Someone might have mentioned them already, but The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
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"Cinema is dead, long live cinema." -Peter Greenaway over 2 years ago
What does it matter how Paul Thomas Anderson talks, when his films speak for themselves. He needs not speak when he releases so many brilliant films o_O
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"Cinema is dead, long live cinema." -Peter Greenaway over 2 years ago
Antonioni is a genius. L’Eclisse is a masterpiece.
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What is the slowest paced movie you still enjoyed? over 2 years ago
Stalker. One of the greatest films ever made. But saying slow pace as if it’s a derogatory term is completely moronic (imo) if you can’t handle films with slower pace, don’t watch them. But don’t act like it’s shocking to enjoy a film that doesn’t throw a million answers at you every second. L’Avventura is another obvious example.
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Five star films with the least amount of dialogue....? over 2 years ago
Jacques Tati’s Playtime
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Annie Hall vs. Star Wars over 2 years ago
I’m confused how anyone could conceive that Episode 4 is a better film, and I’ve loved Star Wars since I was a child but seriously? Take off your nostalgia goggles and realize that for ONCE the academy’s view was actually right. Atrocities they committed like placing Titanic over L.A. Confidential or Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction are far more painful. Most of the other posts I saw already mentioned other ones on my mind, like Kane, etc.
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Is anyone else confused over all the critical acclaim "The Social Network is receiving? It feels like a semi-decent "made for HBO" movie at about 2 years ago
Mark D Vanselow sounds pretty jaded. You seem pretty upset about films you’ve never seen. You might want to get that checked out. :3 On another note, the Social Network was not the best film of the year (Dogtooth was) but it was definitely up there. I feel like there’s just a bunch of hipsters crying about it because it’s too mainstream for them. Also I saw someone in the beginning of the thread comparing this movie to Triumph of the Will? Are you serious? that’s kind of disturbing…
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What's your favorite country (by cinematical standards) about 2 years ago
Obviously France. The first main features ever made were primarily French, they have been the forerunner for so many directions in film (obviously not all I’m not trying to sound stupid) and they brought us Jean Vigo, and Godard. Isn’t that enough?
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FILMS YOU HAVE WATCHED TEN TIMES OR MORE about 2 years ago
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Pierrot Le Fou
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Goodfellas
The Wizard of Oz
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
Goldfinger
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Kanye West steals from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
i love all of these nerds hating on kanye west, when his album was one of the best records of last year, and literally every publication represented that. get over yourselves. and why are you commenting on a thread about this if you don’t even like enter the void? why even waste the time? i don’t get the stupidity…
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Kanye West steals from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
so, because an album is mainstream, it sucks? my top two albums of the year were Joanna Newsom’s Have One on Me and Kanye’s album. I wouldn’t say she is in the ‘mainstream realm’, but then again you’re just a judgmental prick who uses false assumptions to make your points.
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Kanye West steals from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
…what?
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Kanye West steals from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
lol, you said most. aka kanye is not part of that most. kanye west isn’t lil wayne; he’s not the product of a hipster hype machine, he got his start in production and that is still his most appealing aspect. i mean it sounds to me like most of the people commenting here don’t even like hip hop (correct me if i’m wrong) but trust me i know mainstream rap music is trash. i wrote the other day in a blog about how cannibal ox’s ‘the cold vein’ still remains the best rap album released in the last decade, something that tv and radio wouldn’t dare play. el-p’s progressive production is better than kanye’s, yes, but that doesn’t mean that west’s production isn’t interesting to say the least. how many mainstream rappers are making 7 minute songs with extended interludes and aphex twin samples? mixing a lot of his own personal follies and a lot of black comedy into ‘my beautiful twisted dark fantasy’ the album works not only because of its attempt to progress mainstream hip hop into something more futurist, but because west’s lyricism has also improved. i don’t need to justify my liking for his music, but i don’t think i should be lambasted for liking it either. people seemed to be throwing the word ‘hipster’ around when they’re the ones crying ‘mainstream bad! mainstream bad!’ i couldn’t really care less if you don’t like west’s music, but it’s certainly more exciting than most hip hop artists’ music that has came out in the last decade.
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Are AI and Minority Report on their way to becoming rediscovered as masterpieces about 2 years ago
Minority Report is an uneven picture…but A.I. is one of the best films of the last decade. I’m not even a big fan of Spielberg by any means, I would consider A.I. one of his best films however, if not the best, next to something like Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Are AI and Minority Report on their way to becoming rediscovered as masterpieces about 2 years ago
And to House of Leaves, doesn’t everyone already consider Eyes Wide Shut to be a classic film? It’s probably the best performance of Cruise’s career, next to maybe Born on the Fourth of July.
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New Blade Runner about 2 years ago
/wrist just even CONSIDERING this
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Enter the Void - A stunning, shocking celebration of life from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
Enter the Void is pretty much exactly what the OP named the topic. It’s funny how people can watch scenes like the one in Tarkovsky’s Solaris, where the one character just drives down a highway for seven minutes straight, and say the film is a masterpiece; but when newer directors use some of the same sort of techniques or repetitive imagery they don’t enjoy it. Enter the Void was so beautiful.
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Enter the Void - A stunning, shocking celebration of life from Gaspar Noe about 2 years ago
just on a side note, both films are masterpieces :3
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Are AI and Minority Report on their way to becoming rediscovered as masterpieces about 2 years ago
I’m shocked there are still people so ignorant to EWS. I feel bad for people who cant appreciate that film, or the ridiculous amount of symbolism present in it. The excuse ‘if kubrick didn’t make it derp derp’ is the dumbest crap I’ve ever seen.
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Are AI and Minority Report on their way to becoming rediscovered as masterpieces about 2 years ago
I said ‘or’ the symbolism involved. That’s not alone what makes it good, but it’s just part of it.
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Winter's Bone is a Terrible Film about 2 years ago
This film was so worthless. It had no point, it was just useless. Deckard is also right in the fact that it never follows through with anything and then has a cop out ending that leaves you just going ‘really?’ It was highly pompous, if you want realism can’t you just watch Bicycle Thieves? Winter’s Bone was just an exercise in restraint that left me lifeless, about to fall asleep.
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Cannes Bans Van Trier about 2 years ago
Von Trier is a genius.
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Young Mubians, Give Us Your Thoughts and Opinions about 2 years ago
1. The Exorcist is still one of the greatest horror films ever produced, imo. Halloween, The Shining, Psycho, The Innocents, The Bride of Frankenstein and Les Diaboliques are still certainly amazing in the horror/thriller section (i prefer the term thriller, as most horror films in my eyes are awful dialogue and a lot of useless bloodletting). Classic comedies, easily things like The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Modern Times, Duck Soup, His Girl Friday, and some of Renoirs early comedy works. Action pictures? Most action pictures are pretty stupid (imo), but Woo’s gun-fu works are easily my favorites of the genre, as well as a select few other pictures like Goldfinger.
Jaws is one of the most overrated pictures ever made, and yet is still fun to watch and is an interesting picture, especially considering the impact it had on its original release. Raiders is all right, but I prefer the Last Crusade. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is still one of my favorite older horror pictures, because of its lack of gore (despite apparent preconceptions). I have no interest in seeing When Harry Met Sally
2. As another poster stated, it is hard not to be glad about the condition of the internet age where film is so readily available. I also frequently check titles out of the library (they have a lot of criterion discs and other classic pictures, so it’s a huge benefit). In terms of pictures actually being made today, most of them are utterly awful, and you have to actually look a little harder to find anything worthwhile. Hollywood is garbage today and it depresses me that people don’t seem to care/mind. It’s also upsetting because I don’t live in an area that has theaters that show new foreign releases, which are usually some of the only films of recent years I have come to appreciate.
3. I don’t think anyone I know personally has any interest in pictures as much as I do, and I never go to movies with people because most of the films available to me in theaters (like i stated before) are not really of the kind of ilk I eagerly anticipate.
I hope I wasn’t tl;dr >_<
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Young Mubians, Give Us Your Thoughts and Opinions about 2 years ago
Jazz, I’ve seen all of those movies so I will probably try to look into it :3
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