What's the big deal? overrated movies and movies i don't get.
Submitted by Critico on Fri, 06/24/2005 - 07:58
Tags:
- The Decalogue (granted i've only seen the first 3 episodes)
- Lost In Translation
- The Royal Tennenbaums
- The Usual Suspects
- E.T.
- Chicken Run (not a bad movie, but not a great one imho)
- The Sixth Sense
- 21 Grams
- Big Fish
- Dogville (another movie that i don't think is bad, but it provokes me a negative reaction)
- Motorcycle Diaries
- El Otro Lado de la cama
- Crash (wow first movie i hated from the first scene)
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"The Decalogue" and "Dogville" are, like, totally awesome, dude, but I agree with you on the rest. All very overrated.
Put those 2 in the i don't get list, i put Dogville to creat more controvery and posts, but i do have problems with the film, there were many scenes that to me were unintentionally hilarious, which i don't think it was what Von Trier wanted, example: The kid begging to be spanked. The other thing was the ending, it made me feel it had no redeeming characters, and the film is so blatantly antiamerican i was offended, and i'm not american. But it is a interesting film, it kept me entretained, its well acted, and i'm curious to see the next film.
I liked the second episode, but the first and third are far from the best of the Decalogue, in my opinion. In fact, the first one was the only episode I really hated. #4, #5, #8, and #10 are the standouts, IMHO.
I agree with you on Chicken Run - a good movie, but its acclaim got pretty ridiculous back in the day. I guess I feel the same way about E.T. I also agree on The Usual Suspects.
I do, however, love The Royal Tenenbaums and Lost in Translation. What didn't you like about those?
I can't quite put my finger on why i don't like The Royal Tennembaums, i felt unattached to the characters, didn't laugh, Cosgrove can probably explain it better.
Now, Lost In Translation, it bored me, the characters were annoying for the most part, which made it hard for me to feel anything for them, everything that happens to them in the movie, i felt they could avoid it, example: Bill Murray character didn't need to go to Japan, probably only did it to escape his wife, so i don't know why he is complaining os much about it. Most of the jokes were easy jokes, like the Japanese prostitute or Murray trying to use the machine on the gym. The ending was perfect, and i like the look of the movie.
You've described the Bill Murray character's predicament accurately, but that's what I like about the movie. It nails that state of being burned out, of feeling disaffected, tired, and as though everyone around you is speaking a foreign language. Being an American in Japan for no good reason is a brilliant way to evoke that. At times, I felt a nagging sense that I was being made to sympathize with a state of mind that I really shouldn't, which I think may have been a window into the irritation you felt. And I do agree that the Japanese prostitute scene just was not funny. At all.
The Sixth Sense I don't like either, for the simple reason that I'm not much impressed by twist endings and I'm of the camp that thinks it cheated, anyway.
You are probably right about that.
Also what i disliked about Scarlett character, here you are in a beautiful country that you've never been before, you know that your husband is going to work all the time, but you insist in going there, and you get bored in your room, you go out, and you don't like it at all, well shit, go back to America and stay there.
Hee! That's what's known as The Theo Panayides Attack.
(Okay, maybe they aren't exactly the same charge, but awfully similar in my mind.)
(And for the record, I'm sympathetic.)
thanks for the link , its so great to find someone who expresses your thoughts with more coherence than you.
I agree on:
The Royal Tenenbaums
Chicken Run
I disagree on:
E.T.
The Usual Suspects
Somewhere inbetween:
The Sixth Sense
Lost in Translation (where I have only seen the first half, which I didn't enjoy that much).
The Royal Tennenbaums , slap yourself good sir
which crash.. cronenberg's or haggis'?
what is that you don't get from motorcylce diaries? i don't think this is a difficult movie to understand.
i absolutly adore the usual suspects (one of my all time favorites)
Haggis.
What i mean that i don't get, is that i don't see what is so great about some of these movies, Motorcycle Diaries being one, is not a bad movie, just adequate.
I think Usual Suspects was an ok movie, until the ending, which most people think its brilliant, i think its too clever for their own good.