very important point only geniuses will understand.The tech is actually the reality you live under.
It’s awfulI want to rewatch that at some point. I saw it over a decade ago and thought it was awful, like Lynch directing a very long episode of Peep Show.
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Yep! Walked out of that RIDICULOUS film Tree Of Life at the diplodocus scene and cannot imagine seeing another of his Christian films. I only like Days of Heaven and that is bc of magic hour natural lighting and Sam Shepard not bc of the movie which is actually quite tedious; also love all the grasshopper and close ups of the wheat and nature etcMalick? Yeah, bash Malick!
Does anywhere in London still have film projectors not 4K dig? Conformist is so beautiful.Argento paid a lot of attention to heightening the visual dimensions of film, and it's a general feature of Italian filmmaking of the period. See also the masterpieces of Vittorio Storaro: The Fifth Cord, The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart...
I can’t stand Citizen Kane and all how a captain of industry made it big —— sooooo boring. Also Lady of Shanghai, beautiful mirrors scene but the rest of it!You know how everyone agrees Citizen Kate is great? Or at least everyone except perhaps four people or so. It is so universally acclaimed that it has become simply a shorthand for a masterpiece, magnum opus type thing.
"This film is a good genre piece but it's no Citizen Kane... " and so on. The same perhaps is true of The Bicycle Thieves and maybe a few other garlanded heroes of the cinematic world...
But we know all about those. What about the other end of the scale? Are there any films that are universally despised in the same way?
I think the problem might be that if a film is really bad and also a commercial failure then it might just be forgotten, it can't be remembered in the same way cos people don't seek it out to watch, quite the opposite in fact. You don't get retrospectives saying remember that bad film from twenty years ago? It's still really bad.
Of course there are stinkers that everyone did see but these become cult classics - Ed Wood or the like have this kitsch appeal which muddies the waters. I just want some suggestions for films that are bad - very bad in fact - and everyone knows it, but which have no cult appeal or any particular redeeming features. Films whose only unique element is that they are worse than virtually all other films and everyone knows it, and, as a result of this they could become a useful shorthand. A kind of redemption in the afterlife for a film that failed its makers and backers and actors but which nobly performs a service and becomes useful to some people at last as some kind of apology for being so shit.
So, suggestions please? Of course it's tempting to say Tree of Life but some freaks do like that one so it may not be the right choice. I would probably go for The New World but what about the rest of you? Any thoughts for other films? Perhaps even something not by Malick, I dunno, hit me, maybe there is something obvious I'm missing.
Haven’t seen it. Is he muscular curvy? I read a book on westerns from 15 years ago saying Bruce Willis camped the action hero where the super buffness emulated curvy lady. Is this what you mean by “looked very, very gay” or what?A good illustration of the fact that men who go out of their way to look very, very hard often also look very, very gay.
NOOOO! Uncut Gems 💎!!! It is really a great watch! The film I was waiting for to finally prove it hat I believed all along, that Adam Sandler isn’t bad… What is that other one, Punch Drunk Love… haven’t watched it since but wasn’t it ok?You could probably add any Adam Sandler film then, but he's made loads so some people must presumably enjoy them.
Oh yeah forgot about Badlands. Bit tired of torture psychos that way now and that music is sampled in every history of the movies doc ever madeI remember thinking badlands was sort of alright so I went to see tree of life at the cinema when it came out, and my partner was severely pissed off with me cos she"d wanted to see something else and it was like torture. We didn't walk out but we should have.
The thin red line was shite as well with that stupid voiceover all the way through.
The only film I have actually walked out on at the cinema was the matrix 2.
I've fallen asleep (or tried to) several times during kids films at the cinema over the last few years. FML. I just can't watch films anymore, I've practically given up on them.
Sounds like Larry Clarke Kids intro'beads of sweat on some sunbed thighs
Yeah I'm sure I'd find it creepy and unpleasant I if I saw it now but I can't really remember much about it. Wasn't it sort of a forerunner to natural born killers or something?Oh yeah forgot about Badlands. Bit tired of torture psychos that way now and that music is sampled in every history of the movies doc ever made
Yeah I guess. And Resevoir Dogs thenYeah I'm sure I'd find it creepy and unpleasant I'd if I saw it now but I can't really remember much about it. Wasn't it sort of a forerunner to natural born killers or something?
I saw natural born killers at the Rio when it came out with a friend. We walked back to Homerton. There was nobody then, just closed Turkish bread shops. We walked in the emptiness and it rained mildly, I remember the lights of swerving buses and we loved that filmYeah I guess. And Resevoir Dogs then
Attended a Swept Away themed Halloween night once and someone had a really bad feathered seagull with a ping pong ball head. God that film is bad.The couples therapy ones are usually derided:
Brangelina's By the Sea
Beniffer's Gigli
Guy Ritchie and Madonna's Swept Away
But none of us have seen them, so who knows?
I worry about her though - she played a groomed teenage girl in Cape fear as well.Juliette Lewis ♥️