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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 21, 2007, 09:20:40 pm ---Late to the party - and just popping in to say I think An American in Paris should come off the over-rated list. George Gershwin and Gene Kelly - who could ask for anything more?
My sister's boyfriend's brother was on United Flight 93. I'm not ready to see it. Though I go through dark phases of scouring the internet about it every six months or so.
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I agree with you about An American in Paris! Did you know that Leslie Caron will be in an upcoming episode of Law & Order?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 30, 2007, 10:21:28 am ---While I appreciated the history/fantasy/allegory, I found the violence appalling. To me, it was gratuitous and unnecessary to the story; the brutality could easily have been suggested more subtly. It spoiled the film for me.
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That's too bad. It sounds like a movie that, if not for the violence, I'd like to take my kids to see (I don't know if any of us could handle it -- me included!). And it seems as if they're cutting their own nose off to spite their face (so to speak ;D). You'd think the audience for über-violent movies and the audience for fantasy movies don't have a huge overlap. Reduce the violence, and I bet a lot more people would go.
I hear "Smoking Aces" is really violent, and of course my sons want to see that, and they can't. But in that case, it makes more sense; from what I've read, it's the kind of movie that would attract an audience that would tolerate -- if not prefer -- lots of violence.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 30, 2007, 10:31:37 am ---Really, Paul...thanks for this.
Tony wants to take Hannah to see Pan L. I have no interest and have been of two minds about Hannah seeing it...I will share your comment with him. He may do some re-thinking.
Leslie
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How old is Hannah? I don't think I'd take a kid much younger than 15 or 16, myself. It's pretty intense.
It's interesting that I didn't find the violence nauseating. Usually gratuitous violence really turns me off and spoils a film for me, too. Not sure why I was in a frame of mind to accept it this time. For what it's worth, Saturday was the 15-year anniversary of my mother's death. I wanted to see something that took me completely outside of myself. This did the trick for me. But I agree - it's not for everyone. And impressionable young people (and impressionable old people, too) should steer clear.
That said, I haven't had any nightmares about it, whereas I had nightmares for 2-3 weeks following seeing "The Passion of the Christ" and "Saving Private Ryan." The 2-3 extremely violent scenes were fairly fleeting and you could see them coming and know to look away ahead of time. Which I did. BTW, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" has the dubious distinction of being the only movie I've ever walked out of the theater in the middle of. (I at least did it discretely so as not to spoil it for the folks who were actually enjoying it.)
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 30, 2007, 10:21:28 am ---I saw "Pan's Labyrinth" last night on a number of friends' recommendations.
While I appreciated the history/fantasy/allegory, I found the violence appalling. To me, it was gratuitous and unnecessary to the story; the brutality could easily have been suggested more subtly. It spoiled the film for me.
I'm all for dark fairy tales. This one was nauseating.
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You're not the first person to say that to me. It's not my kind of film to begin with, but I probably will be avoiding this one.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 30, 2007, 11:33:44 am ---That said, I haven't had any nightmares about it, whereas I had nightmares for 2-3 weeks following seeing "The Passion of the Christ" and "Saving Private Ryan." The 2-3 extremely violent scenes were fairly fleeting and you could see them coming and know to look away ahead of time. Which I did. BTW, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" has the dubious distinction of being the only movie I've ever walked out of the theater in the middle of. (I at least did it discretely so as not to spoil it for the folks who were actually enjoying it.)
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That's the only reason I never saw "Saving Private Ryan," and one of the reasons I never saw "The Passion of the Christ." "Kill Bill" I never saw because it looked like it would be violent and gimmicky and pretentious. (I could be wrong about that, I guess.)
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