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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5460 on: June 27, 2010, 05:12:00 PM »
The Great Dictator or All The Presidents Men?

Haven't seen 'The Great Dictator', but I can highly recommend 'All The Presidents Men'.
So I would go with that choice. It's worth it, just for Jason Robards 'I'm gonna get mad' scene with Hoffman and Redford towards the end of the film.


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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5461 on: June 27, 2010, 08:16:56 PM »
The Great Dictator or All The Presidents Men?

Haven't seen 'The Great Dictator', but I can highly recommend 'All The Presidents Men'.
So I would go with that choice. It's worth it, just for Jason Robards 'I'm gonna get mad' scene with Hoffman and Redford towards the end of the film.

I second this AtPM is good stuff, plus its filmspotting pantheon soo....

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5462 on: June 27, 2010, 08:48:37 PM »
AtPM is much better.

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5463 on: June 27, 2010, 09:30:59 PM »
The Great Dictator is in my top 50 of all time. I found All the President's Men enjoyable, but forgettable. You should probably see both.

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5464 on: June 27, 2010, 09:43:11 PM »
All the Presidents Men is an awful film pretending to speak truth to power, The Great Dictator is a masterpiece that actually does.
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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5465 on: June 28, 2010, 02:06:28 PM »
All the Presidents Men is an awful film pretending to speak truth to power, The Great Dictator is a masterpiece that actually does.

The opposite of this is where it's at, except The Great Dictator isn't awful, just painfully unfunny.

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5466 on: June 28, 2010, 02:26:41 PM »
All the Presidents Men is an awful film pretending to speak truth to power, The Great Dictator is a masterpiece that actually does.

The opposite of this is where it's at, except The Great Dictator isn't awful, just painfully unfunny.

The dance with the globe is the single funniest scene in any movie ever.
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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5467 on: June 28, 2010, 02:29:28 PM »
The Great Dictator isn't awful, just painfully unfunny.

Then why is there so much laughter whenever I've watched it? Explain!

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5468 on: June 28, 2010, 02:31:54 PM »
All the Presidents Men is an awful film pretending to speak truth to power,

this is the biggest OK FLY comment I have ever read on this forum.  :o

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Re: What should I watch?
« Reply #5469 on: June 28, 2010, 02:41:43 PM »
The Great Dictator isn't awful, just painfully unfunny.

Then why is there so much laughter whenever I've watched it? Explain!

Funny is subjective, you know that. We've also had this discussion a few different times, and my feelings remain the same, The Great Dictator is just like every other Chaplin talkie, painfully unfunny with jokes that never hit, that's as much of an explanation as you'll get this time around.  :)