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OT: Most over-rated movies!
Ellemeno:
Casablanca
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 17, 2006, 03:15:37 pm ---As far as Bertolucci goes, Chasing Beauty is also very good. And I think Little Buddha is an underrated film. (Plus you get to see Chris Isaac act in it!!) But my favorite film of all time is Bertolucci's The Conformist. Dominique Sanda is to die for! I would volunteer to lend it to you but I think my copy is on Betamax (yes I still haul out my 30-lb Betamax player occasionally to look at it).
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Gone today: Bernardo Bertolucci. :'( Director of what I consider to be the best movie of all time: The Conformist. A giant of filmmaking.
Jeff Wrangler:
Interesting thread to revisit.
Re: all those dislikes of The New World. I thought Colin Farrell was a ridiculous choice for Captain John Smith (they should have covered up Farrell's tattoos), but I was reminded a short while ago that the film got high marks from scholars of the period for the authenticity of its sets, costumes, and so forth.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 11, 2006, 08:48:58 pm ---Hi guys...I loved 'A New World'. ;D I even have the DVD and the soundtrack. Critics loved the movie as well. I'd never seen a Terrance Malick movie before, but my mood was right when I saw it. Lush cinematography, massive walls of gorgeous music and a non-linear story. Many critics said people who preferred straight-forward narratives would not like Malick's work. Apparently his 'Thin Red Line' was the same.
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The objections to Malick's work center on his substitution of "exquisite lighting, painterly compositions, dreamy dissolves, and fluid camera movements" for the more literary/theatrical tools of plot and character development to move forward a story. I've seen his methods used in many subsequent films, such as "Boy Erased", which I saw 2 days ago, which overused slow-motion and out-of-focus camera work to convey confusion or emotions.
CellarDweller:
For me, The Big Lebowski. Bleh!
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