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04-26-2003, 03:23 PM
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Adam_S
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Meet the Parents, i thought it was funny, but i barely made it through the first time i saw it and can't stand watching it anymore. I just can't stand watching the protagonist make mistake after mistake.
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ahh that I understand, I occasionally have the same problem. I get TOO into the movie and get very upset when the protagonist is incredibly 'dumb' and doesn't stop making retarded decision on top of decision that just makes things worse and worse.
I've found a way to enjoy these types of movies though (Like Meet the parents, or another genre I have the same trouble with, horror). If I catch myself getting angry with the stupidity of the protagonist, I sit back, tear my mind out of the world of the film as brutally as possible and tell myself repeatedly, "I don't care about any of these people; it's just a movie; it's a freaking comedy; THIS IS FUNNY; I should be enjoying this!; everything will work out fine in the end because its a popular (or screwball) comedy!" I'll repeat this to myself several times. and then go back (now that i've forcibly removed/prevented myself from caring too much about characters that were designed to be more stupid than my seven year old sister and try to enjoy the movie.
This worked wonders for Dead-Alive/Braindead, which made me realize my problem is not so much that I don't like horror, but that I'm too empathic and invest myself TOO much in the characters on the screen. which bites you in the ass when you're supposed to be laughing at the character on the screen instead of sympathizing so much that you're berating him for being a retarded fool. 
Damn but I really want to go watch an S&S or thirties movie right now. especially since I've been AWOL from both for a while now. stupid 3000 word research paper...
Adam
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04-26-2003, 04:44 PM
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#303 of 3706
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I get TOO into the movie and get very upset when the protagonist is incredibly 'dumb' and doesn't stop making retarded decision on top of decision that just makes things worse and worse.
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that is exactly my problem. but i can only sometimes say to myself "this is only a movie and take it for what it's worth" and actually watch it without critiquing it (to fit my ideals).
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04-27-2003, 12:15 AM
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#304 of 3706
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04-27-2003, 01:21 AM
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04-27-2003, 02:04 AM
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04-27-2003, 02:25 AM
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Actually I probably agree with you, Arman, a lot more than I do with George when it comes to world cinema.
Just off your last post I'd agree with Yi Yi, Obscure Object, Fanny & Alexander and Shane (though I really should watch Shane again cause it's been 13-15 years since I saw it, while 90% of the S&S films I've seen have been in the last 2). I haven't seen L'Argent. Rio Bravo would be my only disagreement as I'd put it in the B+ - A- range.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
Ace in the Hole - B+ / Tokyo Twilight - B
Early Spring - B+ / Witness for the Prosecution - B
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
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04-27-2003, 07:27 AM
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#308 of 3706
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Well a lot of the foreign language films I haven't seen (or in lots of cases saw too long ago). The following are ones that I've seen recently enough to have clear enough recollections to form valid opinions, and I'll put them into two categories ("good, but not a masterpiece in my opinion" and "not my cup of tea"  )
Good, but not a masterpiece in my opinion:
La Règle du jeu (Rules of the Game)
8 1/2
Seven Samurai
Battleship Potemkin
Bicycle Thieves
La dolce vita
The 400 Blows
La Strada
Nosferatu
Umberto D.
Ashes and Diamonds
Not my cup of tea:
Jules and Jim
Grand Illusion
Cries and Whispers
La Belle et la Bête
Of course there's lot of English language films that fall into one of those two categories for me also.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
The Lakers may have sucked this year, but at least they didn't suck as much as the Spurs.
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04-27-2003, 02:21 PM
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#309 of 3706
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Well, I have just signed up for the challenge (and to the HTF boards, too) and I decided that I would just start at square one. I have seen about 50 of the films on the list already but I figured, what the heck, I'll start over. So I am officially at one by watching The Hidden Fortress for the first time last night. I'd give it an A, with the only mark going against it for the sometimes big leap in the time frame. But I would say that this being my first Kurosawa, it was a great introduction. Next up: Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Casablanca, one which I have seen and the other not. I'll let you guess which is which.
S&S Greatest Films Club: 14 seen. Last Film(s): Do the Right Thing(A), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(A-), To Kill A Mockingbird(A+)
The HTF 100 Great Films of the 30\'s: 1 seen. Last Film(s): After the Thin Man(A)
The New AFI Challenges:
Movies: 93 to go - Last seen: To Kill A Mockingbird(A+)
Laughs: 98 to go - Last seen: Arthur(A-)
Thrills: 94 to go - Last seen: Close Encounters of a Third Kind(B)
Passions: 96 to go - Last seen: Casablanca (A+)
Heroes/Villains: 95 to go - Last seen: Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird(A+)
Stars: 245 to go - Last seen: Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird(A+)
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04-27-2003, 10:43 PM
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#310 of 3706
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I just watched Rashomon(A+) last night. I thought it was pretty good up until the final scene. The final scene is just brilliant and made the film absolutely wonderful.
S&S Greatest Films Club: 60 viewed. Last Viewed: L\'Avventura(B+)
in no particular order: my top 20
my DVD collection
\"\'Gentleman, you can\'t fight in here, this is the War Room!\'\" - Dr. Strangelove
\"\'You ever been in love, Mac?\' \'No, I\'ve been a bartender all my life\'\" - My Darling Clementine
\"\'If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.\" - The Godfather: Part II
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04-27-2003, 11:32 PM
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#311 of 3706
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I just watched Rashomon (C) last night. I thought it was ok throughout, but it was nothing special. I do know that there was something special about kurosawa. The last 'witness' scene of the movie i think really was intense and i could sense kurosawa's greatness. Seven Samurai is one of my all-time favorites but some things about akira's films i just don't like, i don't want to get into them because i know i will just hear rants so...
My total is now at 60
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04-28-2003, 03:19 AM
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#312 of 3706
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Please don't feel like anything I've said should stifle discussion. If it doesn't add anything for me to say, "I disagree, my opinion is xxxx", then I'll just stick to writing about what I've watched.
Truly my only intent is to attempt to clumsily explain why certain movies that have gotten a less enthusiastic reaction from viewers here, deserve their place on the S&S list. I'm just very passionate about a lot of these films and tend to go overboard.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
Ace in the Hole - B+ / Tokyo Twilight - B
Early Spring - B+ / Witness for the Prosecution - B
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
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