The Explain Why You Like This Movie ('cause I don't understand) Thread

[NSW]

I didn't think we had a thread like this...so I decided to rip off the album one. There ya go.



I saw this for the first time a couple months ago. Ever since my teens, people in my age group have been going on and on about how hilarious this movie is. A couple of them have even gone so far as to say it's THE FUNNIEST MOVIE they have ever seen. Seriously? I'm not saying it's a terrible movie. It did bring some lols my way. But no where close to being the funniest movie I've ever seen. I'm thinking maybe it's because I waited so long to see it...maybe Mike Myer's brand of humor seemed alot more hilarious back in 1993, when it was fresh? Someone explain...

[duga]

It's not he funniest movie, but you have to at least admit that it had its moments. It also had a pretty good plotline, in my opinion.

Best part of the movie is near the end when you first find out that her roommate is the crazy one. She plays a great crazy person...her acting is hilarious. And the police chief...I love that guy.

[NSW]

Not denying that it had it's moments...I guess I was just disappointed after everyone talked it up so damn much.

[duga]

I actually had the other end of that...I remember watching it in the mid 90's and just cracking up. I ran across it recently and my friend had never seen it, so of course I told him how funny it was. As I was watching it, it was one of those moments where I remembered it being a lot more funny the first time around. Like I said, at least it was still entertaining.

[crash_override]

I've only seen that movie once, but I remember it being ok. A few parts made me laugh. It was watchable.

[Bulldog]

Yeah, I saw it once a couple of years back. It was alright, but definitely not as 'enormously funny' as the poster there says.

I'll try and think of a film of my own for this thread soon enough as well.

[TheCunningStunt]

Good thread.





Schindler's List - so overrated and quite dull.

Saving Private Ryan - don't get me wrong, I think it's the genre more than the actual film, as far as war films go it was good. But again, so overrated.

No explanations needed really, I've heard it all before about these two films. I think they're just one of them things. The whole idea of threads like these is to uncover something you didn't see before and hope that it gives you a different perspective. I'll post a film that I didn't "get" but there's still time for my to change my mind when I think of one.

[joderu95]

Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Good thread.




Schindler's List - so overrated and quite dull.

The movie shows the "banality of evil" which isn't always the most entertaining thing to watch.

[TheCunningStunt]

Originally Posted by joderu95

The movie shows the "banality of evil" which isn't always the most entertaining thing to watch.

I don't mind evil, it usually builds up a great tension and can be sinister, that film just doesn't do it for me

[boo boo]

Anyway. Some of mine.



This has pretty muched turned me away from seeing any more Cassavetes films, it's not as terrible as Shadows, but still, incredibly boring, incoherent, annoying and amateurish. I don't get what's so great about the acting either, Rowlands and Falk have never been so hammy and over the top ridiculous. If I didn't feel for or understand the characters, which I don't, that would be fine as long as they were interesting, but they're not. You know what you get when you make a movie of two people doing nothing but having dinner conversations and screaming and freaking out for no explicable reason for two and a half hours?

Something that starts out mildly amusing for it's laughable badness but gets really damn boring fast, that's what.



Color Purple lost best picture to THIS? And Brazil didn't even get nominated.

Seriously. People like this movie? I want to know how and why. I forget what it's even about, all I remember is that it's the most painfully boring film I've ever watched, and I'm usually a pretty big Streep and Redford fan. It's one of those movies that has "we want oscars" written all over it but there's really nothing going on.



I like Holly Hunter but her character may very well be the most unlikable character in movie history, there's not a scene where she isn't doing something both incredibly bitchy and incredibly irrational and confusing and that might work if the filmmaker used that thing called exposition every now and then. Simply watching characters flip out isn't emotionally poignant to me, I know that these kinda filmmakers are going for objectivity and realism but f*ck that, this is storytelling, you need cause and motive goddammit.

Like, when this bitch tries to kill herself just because she can't play the f*cking piano, is that supposed to be touching? She really doesn't have anything to live for other than her piano? So terrifying the f*ck out of her kid just because she can no longer play a piano while staring at Harvey Keitel's naked ass is no big deal to her? The whole movie is her being a bitch, but we're supposed to be touched by her passion in music?

There's passion in music, and there's having a f*cking problem.



The visuals are fantastic (including Nicole Kidman's red headed hotness) and Jim Broadbent is kickass as always, but those are really the only things it has going for it. Everyone is ridiculously hammy and over the top (even by musical standards) but not in an entertaining way, more like a creepy "wtf is going on and why should I care" kinda way. The film fails to entertain whenever Broadbent isn't on screen, his cover of Like a Virgin is by far the best scene in the movie.

The film has so much going on and yet nothing that should be going on, the love story should be the focal point but it never evolves beyond a mere plot device and for a plot that takes forever to get anywhere. The original songs are quite overbearing and forgettable, and the covers and references to contemporary pop and rock songs seem like a pointless excuse to be "hip". McGregor and Kidman, usually pretty reliable actors, are incredibly annoying in this movie.

But you know what I hate most about the film? The editing. Yeah, that's right.

I have never seen so much ludicrous overuse of fast paced editing, I swear not a single shot lasts more than a second, what good are vibrant and imaginative visuals if you can never get a good look at them because the camera is cutting away so damn much? I can barely make out actor's facial expressions it's so damn fast.

I guess that's Baz Luhrmann trying to be all arty and MTV for ya.