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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 30, 2017 14:50:06 GMT
I really like Spielberg. I remember when my interest for movies began there were still a lot of critics who questioned him because his popularity and tendency to manipulation but he is unquestionably a master of the image. He lost audiences and won critics love with his “adult movies” but even in his early blockbusters you can see why he is so loved.
ET is not necessarily one of my favorites but its influence can’t be negated. Maybe it seems as an “ordinary kiddies movie” nowadays but it was the original in which all the other “ordinary kiddies movie” were/are based, including modern hits as Stranger Things! Even cult hits as Donnie Darko homenaged it!
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Post by mllemass on Sept 30, 2017 15:22:37 GMT
I've never walked out of a movie. I will stick with it until the end and hope that it improves! The closest I ever came to walking out, though, was with Coming to America. Other than Eddie Murphy (who I like) being in it, I couldn't tell you anything that happens in it. The only reason we stayed was because my friend's sister worked in the theatre and had snuck us in without paying. It seemed rude to leave after she had risked her job for us! It's funny - my friend and I were just talking about that incident recently, even though it happened almost 30 years ago.
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Post by roverpup on Sept 30, 2017 15:37:29 GMT
I really like Spielberg. I remember when my interest for movies began there were still a lot of critics who questioned him because his popularity and tendency to manipulation but he is unquestionably a master of the image. He lost audiences and won critics love with his “adult movies” but even in his early blockbusters you can see why he is so loved. ET is not necessarily one of my favorites but its influence can’t be negated. Maybe it seems as an “ordinary kiddies movie” nowadays but it was the original in which all the other “ordinary kiddies movie” were/are based, including modern hits as Stranger Things! Even cult hits as Donnie Darko homenaged it! Oh, definitely I wouldn't argue that Spielberg is a master of the image and that ET was influential. I really was looking at it from just my POV and I just didn't get all the fuss about it being so great. It just didn't click with me at all (and it seemed cliched - even though I saw it pretty soon after it came out in the cinemas). But really it was just a gut reaction to it and perhaps I should revisit it and look at it more from a technical POV. Sometimes perceptions of a movie can change a lot upon repeated viewings. Apocalypse Now was one such movie for me. I was so disappointed in that movie when I saw it the first time in the cinema and then I saw it again (several times actually) and really liked it and appreciated it on many levels so much so that I can't believe I originally disliked it. Same for Master and Commander. Both Dan and I really disliked it the first time we saw it. Now it is one of our most favourite films. Honestly I would watch it a hundred times and still enjoy it. :-))
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Post by mllemass on Sept 30, 2017 15:39:09 GMT
I agree - it changed the way they made movies about kids. I thought it was really good for a science-fiction movie, which I normally don't like.
I remember when they re-issued ET on video with some changes to make more suitable for children. The original version had a lot of the government men smoking, which is a no-no these days. So I heard that they replaced the cigarettes with coffee cups!
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 30, 2017 15:49:50 GMT
And guns with walkie talkies or was just in the South Park parody?! I can’t distinguish between South Park and reality anymore!
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Post by igs on Oct 1, 2017 8:04:08 GMT
I've never done a walk-out either. The closest I got were Desolation of Smaug (but I stayed mostly to see Smaug) and this Russian movie I saw maybe a little over a decade ago. I can't for the life of me remember its name, but it wasn't a critically panned film at all I don't think, for some reason I just absolutely hated it.
Objectively the worst films I've seen must be one of those "Shark v Tornado v Airplane v Megalodon" or whatever movies. One was on TV once and I watched it and it was...yeah, as bad as one could imagine. I searched through my IMDb ranking history and movies I've given a 1/10 rating to include among others Junior (the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant), Sherlock: Undercover Dog (why exactly have I watched this film?), Bad Teacher (the one with Cameron Diaz), and National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion which I suspect I watched because it has Bryan Cranston. I barely remember anything of these films but apparently I didn't like them.
Biggest disappointments are definitely the first respective films of the Hobbit and Harry Potter series. Desolation of Smaug is much worse than An Unexpected Journey (didn't see Battle of the Five Armies) but I was prepared to DoS sucking unlike UJ which I saw at midnight premiere with high hopes. Similarly I think of the HP films Philosopher's Stone is only the 2nd worst but it was a shock at the time since I was such a massive Harry Potter fan. By the time I saw Chamber of Secrets and the rest I was already resigned to not liking them, I still haven't seen them all.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2017 12:27:39 GMT
When I was in high school, all the "cool" kids would talk about this movie that I'd never heard of, so when my friend won tickets to see it from a local radio station, we were so excited! We went to the Sunday matinee showing, and there were probably ten of us in the artsy theatre. My friend and I sat in the back, and a group sat near the front - which was really weird. Once the movie started, that group got really noisy and we were about to go and complain when I realized what was happening. They were acting along with the movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was fascinating to watch! By the end, I was totally in love with the movie.
The following weekend I took my sister along to see it, and she loved it, too. We never did the costumes or talking out, but it was great fun to be there and watch. That old theatre showed it every weekend for years until it shut down. About 10 years after they first showed it, the theatre re-opened for one final screening on Halloween, and a big group of us went to see it to celebrate my cousin's 25th birthday (his birthday is on Halloween). There was a huge lineup, but we managed to get in. It was absolutely wild with everyone in the audience participating, although the most we did was bring along newspapers to cover our heads when it rained!
I think TRHPS is the reason I stay to watch movies even if I don't like them at first - it just might turn out to be an unforgettable experience.
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 1, 2017 13:16:02 GMT
I walked-out from two movies.
One is "The parapluies de Cherboug". It is a musical and all dialogues are also sung. I couldn't stand it.
The other movie is "El crimen de Cuenca" directed by Pilar Miró. It is a movie based on a real story of two men accused of killing another one who had gone missing in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. They are tortured to make them confess and I could not watch anymore the torture scenes which seem to go forever. The torture seen in Pan's Labyrinth is nothing compared with the scenes in this movie.
Lately, I was very, very disappointed with Okjia. I hated it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2017 13:43:11 GMT
I didn’t hated Okja but I was slightly disappointed. It’s so politically stupid and what happened with Jake Gyllenhaal. His performance was awful! I always have admired him even when he was considered just a pretty face. Believe me! But this movie shows that being intentionally big and funny is not easy! My respect to Jim Carrey! 😉
I remember a few critics described the last scene as horrific and disturbing but I really can’t feel anything for those digitally created creatures! It’s so stupid!
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