Posts by driftingeagle27

Zan Remo 😛

Good luck!

analogowl122 said:Back when I was just a kid, I couldn't stand Bruce Springsteen because of that one song, honestly thinking it was just more typical American posturing about patriotism.

Now, with this latest album dropping, it’s all coming back to haunt me... 😛

Christian Taylor3 said:So, during the big promotional push for Inglourious Basterds over in the UK, the crew at Sky Movies asked Quentin Tarantino if he’d just sit there and rattle off his top 20 movies of all time on camera. Naturally, he shot that down—kind of like that old joke where you ask a grandma who her greatest love is and she just says, "sailors"—and offered them this instead: his 20 favorite films released from 1992 onwards, which happens to be the year he actually started directing.



VIDEO (2009-8-16)

Source: Sky Movies

1. Battle Royale
2. Anything Else
3. Audition
4. The Blade
5. Boogie Nights
6. Dazed & Confused
7. Dogville
8. Fight Club
9. Friday
10. The Host
11. The Insider
12. Joint Security Area
13. Lost In Translation
14. The Matrix
15. Memories of Murder
16. Police Story 3
17. Shaun of the Dead
18. Speed
19. Team America
20. Unbreakable

All things considered, I'm pretty stoked—we seem to be on the same page for the most part. It was cool to see him include The Insider, and I loved how much he hyped up Dogville; he was also incredibly upfront about what The Matrix means to him, and gave such a great breakdown of Unbreakable. Honestly, nobody should hold it against him for leaving out Oldboy. Apparently, they cornered him in passing and the interview wasn't even scheduled, so he really only had about ten minutes to pull his thoughts together.
I haven't actually seen Battle Royale yet, which is a bit embarrassing 😵

What about you guys? What's your take?

😍

driftingeagle27 said:Can someone drop a link to that thread, I'm curious about what kind of logic was actually used to reach an interpretation like that?

Yeah, honestly, I pretty much figured it out on my own in the meantime, though it never really clicked for me before.

🤷

analogowl122 said:On abortion

🤮

Can someone drop a link to that thread, I'm curious about what kind of logic was actually being used to reach that interpretation.

Emily Thomas3 said:I don't know, I've always felt that you can measure objective things with a yardstick, but you just can't do that with film quality. 1+1 equals 2 for everyone, but being swept away by the wind doesn't mean a movie is a masterpiece to every single person. Anyway, we've already gone back and forth on this on the forum, so I really don't feel like diving back into off-topic debates.

Look, being "objective" isn't just about what the masses happen to think.

(I wouldn't agree even if everyone thought 1+1 equals 2.)

Emily Thomas3 said:Yeah, honestly, I’m a firm believer that quality is totally subjective. The more you watch, the better.

I don't really buy that, because I think quality is actually pretty objective for the most part.

Now, sensibility is a whole different beast, but just because something doesn't hit my specific vibe doesn't mean it isn't high quality (though, obviously, just because it's good doesn't mean I actually have to care about it... 🙂).

Emily Thomas3 said:If we're strictly using the Hollywood vs. non-Hollywood distinction as our main way to split things up (which we are, since that's how this thread kicked off), then 🤷*Happiness* and *Nostalghia* basically end up in the same bucket. Even if those movies don't really share much else in common.

Yeah, totally; you really have to watch out for those kinds of arbitrary splits, especially when you're actually trying to hunt down quality.

I’m actually suggesting we don't write off Hollywood just yet—if anything, we should probably be circling back to some of the classics.

The way you're talking puts you at risk of grouping things together that have absolutely nothing in common, like throwing that unfortunate flick Happiness in the same bucket as an Andrei Tarkovsky masterpiece like Nostalghia, or taking a title like The Wind That Loved Me and treating it as equal to something stunning like Let the Right One In—just because they aren't Hollywood doesn't mean they belong in the same pile.

Instead, you take a look at stuff like Gone with the Wind, those Hitchcockian American thrillers, Citizen Kane, Charlie Chaplin, or Steven Spielberg... those are the benchmarks that make everything else make sense, and it keeps you from making those weird, nonsensical comparisons.

I don't think I've ever actually done anything like this before, so I really hope the mods don't come for me or anything, because honestly, I feel a little bit guilty about it, but here's just one

*bump!*

Especially because of that professor!

I've been eyeing this one for a while now, and honestly, after everything that just went down, I'm even more hyped

Chloe Bishop44 said:I haven't sat through it yet, but I was planning to until my friend told me the movie is a total snooze-fest and people were practically walking out of the theater in droves...?!

I'm dying to see it.

btw Drew Wright5, for God's sake, stop dropping endings without a warning🙂

steelstag4 said:"Three generations of women... life's chaos and bad luck, madness and superstition, even death... good hearts, the occasional lie, and endless grit... married to some unemployed laborer... a rebellious teenage daughter... a sister... a hairdresser who’s also a mother, except the mother is dead... or maybe she isn't..."

Hmm. How many episodes are we talking about?

Let me guess: the mother is actually just a guy who changed his gender in his youth because he grew up obsessed with watching Marlene Dietrich films and secretly loved it when his older neighbor—who was a high-end escort before becoming a massage therapist—used him?

I see some people in here trying to act like they're above Roger, treating him like he’s just some random guy when the man is basically a cinematic icon, and honestly, if you don't get why critics actually matter in the art world—which, let's be real, isn't even separate from the entertainment industry—and you're out here disrespecting someone who played such a massive role in The Simpsons, then you're just showing everyone how uncultured you really are.

Anyway, I know Ebert is stuck in the hospital right now because I'm always hanging out on http://www.rogerebert.com, which is easily one of the best free resources on the internet, so I'm just hoping he pulls through soon and gets back to work to fill that massive void in the film world his absence left behind.

neoneagle15 said:I actually have a crew shirt from the set of that movie, it's red and says "how are you" on the front (since those kids in > say it constantly), and the back has the title and the Kenya crew 🙂 🙂 pretty damn cool, right?

anyway, I think the movie is total garbage.

You're alright. You'd be even cooler if you gave that shirt to a true cinephile like me!

Gregory Garcia, honestly, any attempt at using foreign language jokes on this board is just going to end up looking pathetic.

Is there even any point in bringing red? Still, 😁 for Titus.

Naturally. But she’s got charm, I’ll give her that.

slylynx16 said:Oh, no...

Here we go again!

A red herring, you say? So what's the actual problem then..?

I was going by this definition—one of several on Wikipedia:

"in detective work, mystery fiction, and puzzle-solving, a false clue which leads investigators, readers, or solvers towards an incorrect solution"

Nancy Harris50 said:Anyway, they’ve pulled in $930 million so far 🙂 (that's nine hundred thirty million, after putting in two hundred thirty)
Nice job 👍!

Man, eight is nothing, they should have hit twelve easy.

If people actually want to sit through a sequel after a first installment like that, then fine, let them churn out eight more just to keep the lights on; it's not like we can step in and stop them.

Look, honestly, when you see how people are picking apart The Constant Gardener, someone who just dropped in from Mars might actually think we've been getting nothing but cinematic masterpieces lately, and while this one isn't a total disaster, it’s definitely got its flaws. I mean, sure, fine, maybe give it a second watch if you really must?

I only see a flick this decent maybe once every few years, especially considering everything that's come out in the last decade. Gregory Garcia wrote a nice little post, but I can't bring myself to agree that this isn't a political thriller and all that. It’s pretty much everything under the sun, but at its core, it’s mostly just a love story.

Characters don't change? The husband stays the same? That's like walking into a room with red walls, a red carpet, a red sofa, and a red chandelier and complaining that there isn't enough red.

Is it vague? Is it a mess? Yeah, the movie is confusing, but that's what a good thriller is supposed to do, for Pete's sake. The way they dose out the red herrings is perfect, which is easily one of the best things about the whole thing.

Total classic.

Should we just split this thread up? For this whole thing about guitarists, I’m thinking we call it Hendrix under Sacha?.