100 Things That Piss Me Off About Movies (beatles, Nirvana, American)

jackhammer · 09-18-2008, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by UberFilmBuff

Lol, completely agree. Chevy Chase is pretty mediocre at best.

That is far too nice a word for this douchebag.

Surell · 09-18-2008, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by FireInCairo

im a pretentious film student
but i watch lots of movies!!! and id say most do

ur just insekure.

The Monkey · 09-19-2008, 08:09 PM

Has anyone ever finished one of these lists?

~~Fyrenza~~ · 09-19-2008, 10:03 PM

was wondering the same thing when i was thinking of what kind of list i could make

oh

if i do make a list
it will be more like 10 things
better chance of finishing it

boo boo · 09-19-2008, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by UberFilmBuff

Lol, completely agree. Chevy Chase is pretty mediocre at best.

Now c'mon.

He's been in a LOT of sh*t.

But he's great in the first Vacation movie (and Christmas Vacation, the only other good one), Caddyshack and Three Amigos.

Molecules · 09-19-2008, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by UberFilmBuff

99: Film Studies Students

I'm not talking about Film Production students, that's a key difference. Film Production is making films, and studying how they are made. Film studies is "studying them", and from what I've seen that basically means you pay to watch films and listen to someone talk about them.

These people wouldn't bother me so much, but every one of them I've met on the internet are incredibly pretentious, and they don't really seem to know all that much about film. From what I've seen, all they've learned from their years of studying is how to ignore every film that's not in the AFI's top 100 list or an equivalent list. You'd think after years of studying film, they'd learn something beyond the canonized norm.

Also, many of these people seem to think that their opinion is much more important than other people's because they majored or minored in film studies. Usually that would be true; if you majored in medical science, your medical opinion would be more valid than mine. But based on the "knowledge" they display, what they have learned would be the equivalent of going to medical school and only learning how to do the Heimlich maneuver. Yes, The Godfather/Annie Hall/Vertigo/Citizen Kane/various other canonized movies are all great, but mentioning only the canonized doesn't show any real knowledge about film. Whenever someone's top ten list consists of all super-canonized films, that pretty much guarantees that they know sh*t and are trying to impress someone.

If anyone here was/is a film studies student, I'm sorry if I offended you. For all I know there is a great film studies program out there, and maybe it actually helped you. I have yet to encounter anyone who actually came out of a film studies program knowing more than I do. Everyone I've met who has an impressive knowledge of film learned it on their own, like me.

lmfao
my brother just switched to Bolton from ^^Aberdeen uni... where he took film studies. I 'studied' the same for a year in 2005, only to realise (too late) it was 99% meaningless garbage. If you're really passionate about film you fork out and go to film school or do video production or whatever; but the size and multitude of these courses (in the UK at least) is unnecessary... do we really need another few thousand film critics? Any other guy can do their own research online these days, get hold of the classics and teach themselves, you don't need to pay crazy money to do it. There are benefits, some good seminars with industry types and I had one or two great lecturers... And if a module on classic Japanese cinema really pushes your buttons then you could do worse whilst flunking your tinpot degree

Molecules · 09-19-2008, 11:40 PM

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NOT FUNNY.

**Janszoon** · 09-20-2008, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

He's been in a LOT of sh*t.

But he's great in the first Vacation movie (and Christmas Vacation, the only other good one), Caddyshack and Three Amigos.

Yes to everything except Caddyshack. It's true he's done a lot of absolute garbage but he has at least those three funny movies under his belt.

RoemerMW · 09-22-2008, 01:21 AM

98: Internet Forums
Or more specifically, the lack of any good ones. Their are plenty of good filmmaking ones, but there don't seem to be any film versions of Musicbanter. On every film forum I've been on, every post that isn't abut some crappy film in theaters is about a highly popular, overly canonized film. The best one's I've found would be the musical equivalent of a music forum where everyone only talked about The Beatles and Nirvana.

RoemerMW · 09-22-2008, 01:32 AM

97: Quentin Tarantino Fanboys
I love Tarantino's films. But I, for the most part, despise his fans. A hardcore Quentin Tarantino fan is the cinematic equivalent of a hardcore Nirvana fan, all but ignoring every other director to ever make a film the past 100 years. He is great, but his hardcore fans are by far the most annoying. Pulp Fiction is a good movie to quote, but it's not the only god-damn film out there. There are plenty of better directors making films out there, and its not like QT invented badass dialogue.

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~~Fyrenza~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: high above the Republic of Texas Posts: 216	was wondering the same thing when i was thinking of what kind of list i could make oh if i do make a list it will be more like 10 things better chance of finishing it