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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 02:21:11 PM »
Not here, but elsewhere: Inglourious Basterds
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2009, 02:27:59 PM »
The Lake House
American Teen
Babel
Sin City
Double Indemnity
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3 Lost in Translation
4 Artificial Intelligence: AI
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2009, 02:44:03 PM »
Jerry Lewis movies.
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2009, 02:47:12 PM »

4 Artificial Intelligence: AI


So divisive in fact, that it quite honestly is on my Top 100 movies and my 25 worst list. 

Go figure. 

I'm Not There   may be a candidate for this same treatment!
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2009, 07:48:14 PM »
Audition - I watched with my flat mate and gf of that time.  They both got very After the the movie ended, she turned to me and said if you tell me you enjoyed that film then I am breaking up with you. 

Gummo - love it or hate it... enough said

Best in show - i suppose no reason but I love it and lent it to friends that could not stand it.  I think they just take it too personally as they cook dinner for their dog every night and so maybe they thought I was making fun of them when I lent them the movie

No Country for Old Men - some people seem to hate the ending so much





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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2009, 07:59:45 PM »
Aren't most great movies, by their very nature, divisive to a degree?
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2009, 08:28:55 PM »
Aren't most great movies, by their very nature, divisive to a degree?

This is especially true if you're Armond White

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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2009, 08:50:09 PM »
Aren't most great movies, by their very nature, divisive to a degree?
Not Casablanca, The Godfather or anything by Pixar

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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #18 on: November 06, 2009, 09:18:01 PM »
Aren't most great movies, by their very nature, divisive to a degree?
No.
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Re: Top 5 Divisive Films
« Reply #19 on: November 06, 2009, 09:22:37 PM »
here's my list

1. Adaptation

2. Pi

3. Irreversible

4. Donnie Darko

5. Starship Troopers

 

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