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Dome, if you're going to continually insult these movies and feel that if a moovie aspires to be art that it is pretentious, why are you wasting your time here watching all these "artsy-fartsy" things?
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Cause not all films that aspire to be art are pretentious (e.g.
The Seventh Seal and
Wild Strawberries). It's crap like
L'Avventura and
Trois Colours: Bleu that irritate the hell out of me.
And there are three good reasons why I watch these films:
1. To educate myself in the cinematic language on a technical and artistic level and to evaluate them on a superficial to critical level.
2. There are movies other than
Star Wars out there.
3. Gotta do something with the three hours I don't dedicate to this forum, weightlifting, going to class, cooking, writing a book, and drinking on Thursday nights.
These Euro films that deal with isolation, desolation, depression, seperation, or any other "tion" bug me. Life is so much richer and livelier than that. Every time I sit down to watch a Euro movie, I have a mental check list of cliches I find in them. Unhappy marriages, affairs, the idle rich, you name it, it probably has it. The thing that irks me the most is the huge significance that is attached and such said significance is suppose to be more profound than anything else a "simpler" film has to say. Horse's ass is what I call it.
If Film Y is supposed to be such and such, why can't people apply same said criteria to film X. At this point, I'm surprised why people don't see
Showgirls as a religious experience...