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09-19-2024, 04:08 PM | #31 |
Ain't no relax!
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09-19-2024, 04:23 PM | #32 |
My work speaks for itself!!!
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Only movie I ever walked out on was when I was a kid and my parents took me to see terry gilliams “Brazil”.
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09-19-2024, 05:01 PM | #33 |
Spiraling down the Drain
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Start drinking heavily.
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09-19-2024, 05:17 PM | #34 |
Ultrabanned
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Saw the first Borat in theatres.
Started off with The Running of The Jew bit and people got up and left in decent numbers. Don't know what they expected but it wasn't that. My friends and I stayed and had a fantastic time |
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09-19-2024, 05:24 PM | #35 | ||||
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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My wife's theory after the movie was that the director was intentionally making the movie uncomfortable and disturbing to reflect the fact that she felt uncomfortable and disturbed about the subject matter (which, I'll reveal, is climate change). I can see that if she was going for pure avant-garde, but I don't think I fully agree with it. I think each of the three scenes was meant to portray human impacts. The first scene was nothing but water, and that was pre-human. The second scene with the still scenery and random wildlife sounds was the introduction of people (or maybe wildlife) into nature. And the third scene with the boat was intended to show humans beginning to exploit nature. That would kind of make sense as a literal interpretation, but jimmy Christmas, you can do that a lot more efficiently than making us stare at nothingness for 48 minutes. Maybe if I had stayed longer, I would have cracked the code with confidence. Quote:
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My theory is that she was going for something really deep and symbolic. However, if people eventually get frustrated and annoyed enough to leave, you're not going to deliver your message. I think she tried to go high art and didn't acknowledge that it also has to engage the viewer in some way. There was no context of anything in the 48 minutes that I saw. If she didn't say in the intro that it was about climate change, I would've never known. Last edited by Rain Man; 09-19-2024 at 05:33 PM.. |
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09-19-2024, 05:33 PM | #36 | |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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We were sitting in the front and the entry was near the screen, so it was mercifully a short walk to get out. I couldn't see how others were doing, but I could tell that the couple next to me were bored, because they were doing surreptitious thumb-wrestling or something below the level of the seat backs. If the director chased me down to yell at me, my diplomatic plan was to say that I have trouble with flashing lights, and that's true. They issued a warning as it started that flashing lights would be happening, and I wasn't happy to hear that. |
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09-19-2024, 05:50 PM | #37 | |
The Beast Inside Your Head
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My grandpa had just passed away and while watching Rogue 1 I just kept thinking how that movie was totally shitting on him and his generation. I couldn't do it. Left maybe 30 minutes in. I don't remember it's been so long. |
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09-19-2024, 06:08 PM | #38 | |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Same with Thin Red Line. Like Moonstruck, it was another critical darling that was just awful. I lasted about 45 minutes, which seemed to include nothing but blowing weeds and overwrought voiceovers. |
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09-19-2024, 06:12 PM | #39 |
The man you could post like.
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Had to walk out of Multiverse of Madness but that was because my dad's truck had just been stolen.
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09-19-2024, 06:12 PM | #40 | |
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You really should give Rogue One another go. It's awesome. |
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09-19-2024, 06:15 PM | #41 |
The man you could post like.
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It's pretty sad to see just how badly Disney has mauled Star Wars. From Cultural Icon to being reviled or treated with indifference.
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09-19-2024, 06:22 PM | #42 | |
pie is never free
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I'm glad your perp walk was short, remember feeling the exact same way leaving Royal Tenenbaums... the crowd mostly seemed to be 10 years and older than the ex wife & I on our dinner date It was one of the strangest feelings I've ever had in public... ok maybe we're just not smart enough to get this piece of crap, but we just can't bring ourselves to care here, well bye |
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09-19-2024, 06:27 PM | #43 | |
pie is never free
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09-19-2024, 07:04 PM | #44 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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09-19-2024, 07:16 PM | #45 |
Feeling Victorian
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Why didn't you go then? You should have known after that was just getting all their goodbyes in.
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