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Re: Unpopular Movie Opinions
« Reply #60 on: April 05, 2008, 01:02:50 PM »
The Departed isn't that great of a film, not nearly as good as Casino.

Lucas should be shot for adding those extra scenes in A New Hope...

Boogie Nights is better than There Will Be Blood.

I don't understand David Lynch.
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« Reply #61 on: April 05, 2008, 01:05:52 PM »
Boogie Nights is better than There Will Be Blood.

I don't understand David Lynch.

It is way better!

I don't need to understand David Lynch to enjoy his films.

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« Reply #62 on: April 05, 2008, 01:07:07 PM »
No it isn't.
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« Reply #63 on: April 05, 2008, 01:08:03 PM »
Is too!

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What great fun this is to finally voice my inner thoughts...
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Re: Unpopular Movie Opinions
« Reply #64 on: April 05, 2008, 01:10:52 PM »
Ok - I will just get this out - I didn't like TWBB - I didn't like any of the characters...not even in a "it's fun to hate them" sort of way. The only one I could even sympathize with was his son and he was just a sidebar.
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« Reply #65 on: April 05, 2008, 01:23:34 PM »
People who enjoy Apatow are not necessarily sexist so I'm not painting with a broad brush here and I'm not imputing your intent as sexist.  I don't believe that's true at all.  I'm simply saying that his film presents a situation which only works with an audience because it re-enforces ideas which are prevalent in our society concerning the status of men and women in relationships.  I think films aren't only a reflection of society, but have an effect of sanctioning behaviors that don't serve the greater good.  I want to laugh at funny stuff on film too, but Apatow is funny at a price and I'm not willing to pay that price.  It irks me that Apatow is the "voice" of the coming generation of men.  (Apatow himself may be a lovely man, but the men he presents on screen aren't.)       

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None of the women in these films are homely or overweight

Exactly. I think you failed the naming movies challenge, Sean.  :) 
Both Pretty Woman and Cinderella (I haven't seen the other two) are extremely problematic both from a feminist and a class standpoint.

Muriel's Wedding is maybe the closest thing to your description I can think of, Saltine? Hot, rich guy comes to apprectiate and even finds himself sexually attracted to slightly overweight, homely woman who ultimately rejects his offer to marry (stay married to) her because she discovers she doesn't need a man to complete her fairy tale.


In a lot of ways, the other two films are more egregious.
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Re: Unpopular Movie Opinions
« Reply #66 on: April 05, 2008, 01:37:37 PM »
Spiderman 3 was the best in the series, and even then it's not very good.
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« Reply #67 on: April 05, 2008, 01:38:58 PM »
Spiderman 3 was the best in the series, and even then it's not very good.

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Re: Unpopular Movie Opinions
« Reply #68 on: April 05, 2008, 02:10:05 PM »
Solid Blake, can you name one movie in which a truly HOT, upwardly mobile, climbing the ladder quickly guy unintentionally impregnates a homely, overweight, slightly obnoxious yet underneath-it-all sweet woman and sees her through the pregnancy and even hangs around to help rear their "love child"? 

Again, no impregnations, but Pride and Prejudice.

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Re: Unpopular Movie Opinions
« Reply #69 on: April 05, 2008, 02:12:22 PM »
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen Brothers' second-best film
I agree. After No Country which I don't really even like that much... :o

 

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