It seems that Michael Bay thinks he is cinema’s Messiah or something like that. If making an art movie is so easy, why is he troubling his precious brain with hard-to-make blockbusters? Apparently, his idea of an art film is this: a drunk French guy (who loves Proust and is an existentialist) filming two other French guys in a gallery, while they’re talking about marxism and red wine! Yes Michael…that’s an art movie! Well spotted…Congratulations! Let’s give you an Oscar!
Now seriously, a little humility wouldn’t harm…
Just how can someone ban a film or a book ? Where is all the “artistic freedom” that a modern society is supposed to have ? There are films (Viridiana, Life of Brian, Salo, Straw Dogs etc) that were banned in several countries, for different reasons each. Well they were banned years ago, but the point is that nobody must have the right to reject someone’s vision because “there was nudity, there was explicit use of language, violence..”. And about books…Let me put it that way: If you buy any books by Marquis de Sade, make sure you’ll hide them well.
A Clockwork Orange. I watched it by chance on television when I was fourteen and it is the only film I’ve watched so far that looks as if it has been made by some crazy genious from the year 2500. Very ahead of its time, indeed. One of the films that can change your life.
Well Elliott, eventhough that would be absolutely wonderful, there is freedom of expression. So in a rather strange way, even Michael Bay films must not be banned. In this way, people have the freedom to choose what to watch. Show me someone who can make a fifteen year-old to watch “Belle de jour” instead of “Transformers”. Nobody has the right to make people watch a film they don’t like simply because it is of poor quality. That would be a new kind of censorship.
[[Still, cinema would be better without Michael Bay. But making bad films is not a crime. Nobody’s perfect…]]
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Psycho
3. Persona
4. Citizen Kane
5. Vertigo
6. The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
7. Dolce Vita
8. Festen
9. Metropolis
10. The man who shot Liberty Valance
11. Salo
12. Eraserhead
13. Modern Times
14. Intolerance
15. The seventh seal
16. Repulsion
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey
18. Barry Lyndon
19. The gospel according to St. Matthew
20. Brazil
21. Sunset Boulevard
22. Duck Soup
23. Taxi Driver
24. 400 blows
25. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
26. Dekalogue
27. Solaris
28. Contempt
29. The general
30. Funny Games (1997)
31. Night of the living dead
32. Viridiana
33. Singin’ in the rain
34. The wild bunch
35. The Searchers
36. The Exorcist
37. French Connection
38. Godfather II
39. The Conformist
40. Raging Bull
41. Annie Hall
42. Rebel without a cause
43. On the waterfront
44. The bad and the beautiful
45. Trainspotting
46. Lawrence of Arabia
47. La strada
48. Fanny and Alexander
49. The birth of a nation
50. All about Eve
The wild bunch
The man who shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
Stagecoach
Pat Garret and Billy The Kid
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Rio Bravo
The quiet man
The Unforgiven
1. Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Halloween
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. The Shining
5. Psycho
6. Repulsion
7. Suspiria
8. Dracula
9. Black Sunday
10. The Innocents
11. The Haunting
12. Inferno
13. Nosferatu
14. Santa Sangre
15. Salo
16. The Thing
17. Alien
18. Don’t look now
19. Rosemary’s baby
20. The Exorcist
Michael Bay says creating an "Art" movie is easy almost 3 years ago
It seems that Michael Bay thinks he is cinema’s Messiah or something like that. If making an art movie is so easy, why is he troubling his precious brain with hard-to-make blockbusters? Apparently, his idea of an art film is this: a drunk French guy (who loves Proust and is an existentialist) filming two other French guys in a gallery, while they’re talking about marxism and red wine! Yes Michael…that’s an art movie! Well spotted…Congratulations! Let’s give you an Oscar!
Now seriously, a little humility wouldn’t harm…
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Should films and books be banned ? almost 3 years ago
Just how can someone ban a film or a book ? Where is all the “artistic freedom” that a modern society is supposed to have ? There are films (Viridiana, Life of Brian, Salo, Straw Dogs etc) that were banned in several countries, for different reasons each. Well they were banned years ago, but the point is that nobody must have the right to reject someone’s vision because “there was nudity, there was explicit use of language, violence..”. And about books…Let me put it that way: If you buy any books by Marquis de Sade, make sure you’ll hide them well.
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Who would you like to direct "Michael Jackson's biographical film"? almost 3 years ago
Quentin Tarantino, maybe ?
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema almost 3 years ago
A Clockwork Orange. I watched it by chance on television when I was fourteen and it is the only film I’ve watched so far that looks as if it has been made by some crazy genious from the year 2500. Very ahead of its time, indeed. One of the films that can change your life.
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Should films and books be banned ? almost 3 years ago
“Only the bad ones.”
Well Elliott, eventhough that would be absolutely wonderful, there is freedom of expression. So in a rather strange way, even Michael Bay films must not be banned. In this way, people have the freedom to choose what to watch. Show me someone who can make a fifteen year-old to watch “Belle de jour” instead of “Transformers”. Nobody has the right to make people watch a film they don’t like simply because it is of poor quality. That would be a new kind of censorship.
[[Still, cinema would be better without Michael Bay. But making bad films is not a crime. Nobody’s perfect…]]
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Top 50 Films of All Time almost 3 years ago
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Psycho
3. Persona
4. Citizen Kane
5. Vertigo
6. The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
7. Dolce Vita
8. Festen
9. Metropolis
10. The man who shot Liberty Valance
11. Salo
12. Eraserhead
13. Modern Times
14. Intolerance
15. The seventh seal
16. Repulsion
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey
18. Barry Lyndon
19. The gospel according to St. Matthew
20. Brazil
21. Sunset Boulevard
22. Duck Soup
23. Taxi Driver
24. 400 blows
25. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
26. Dekalogue
27. Solaris
28. Contempt
29. The general
30. Funny Games (1997)
31. Night of the living dead
32. Viridiana
33. Singin’ in the rain
34. The wild bunch
35. The Searchers
36. The Exorcist
37. French Connection
38. Godfather II
39. The Conformist
40. Raging Bull
41. Annie Hall
42. Rebel without a cause
43. On the waterfront
44. The bad and the beautiful
45. Trainspotting
46. Lawrence of Arabia
47. La strada
48. Fanny and Alexander
49. The birth of a nation
50. All about Eve
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Best Westerns over 2 years ago
The wild bunch
The man who shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
Stagecoach
Pat Garret and Billy The Kid
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Rio Bravo
The quiet man
The Unforgiven
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3 Great Actors You'd Definitely Hangout With. over 2 years ago
Robert Downey Jr., Gene Kelly, Peter Sellers
Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Barbara Steele
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WHICH DIRECTOR WOULD YOU WANT AS YOUR shrink? over 2 years ago
Alfred Hitchcock or Woody Allen…
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Top 20 horror films over 2 years ago
1. Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Halloween
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. The Shining
5. Psycho
6. Repulsion
7. Suspiria
8. Dracula
9. Black Sunday
10. The Innocents
11. The Haunting
12. Inferno
13. Nosferatu
14. Santa Sangre
15. Salo
16. The Thing
17. Alien
18. Don’t look now
19. Rosemary’s baby
20. The Exorcist
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Most depressing film you have ever seen? over 2 years ago
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brazil
The elephant man
The umbrellas of Cherbourg
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