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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:12 pm 
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Though I disagree that there's hardly any good movies from before 1960.


Tbf if you aren't a cinephile, watching even the "greatest movies of all time" pre-60s can be a chore. With some exceptions. You couldn't get me to watch Citizen Kane again if you paid me


I only saw it once in a class in high school, and that was enough. I also would never sit through "Gone With The Wind" again. Those old time movies just don't seem realistic due to the social restraints and censoring factors of the times. It's like trying to jerk off to the 1940s idea of porn.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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pave wrote:
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Though I disagree that there's hardly any good movies from before 1960.


Tbf if you aren't a cinephile, watching even the "greatest movies of all time" pre-60s can be a chore. With some exceptions. You couldn't get me to watch Citizen Kane again if you paid me

I can enjoy movies from all eras though not as much from movies before 1950 or so. (Though I can enjoy Charlie Chaplin's movies any day of the week).


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ManPerson wrote:
pave wrote:
pauldrach wrote:
Though I disagree that there's hardly any good movies from before 1960.


Tbf if you aren't a cinephile, watching even the "greatest movies of all time" pre-60s can be a chore. With some exceptions. You couldn't get me to watch Citizen Kane again if you paid me

I can enjoy movies from all eras though not as much from movies before 1950 or so. (Though I can enjoy Charlie Chaplin's movies any day of the week).


Never thought much of Chaplin's stuff. I guess you had to be there. Could someone do that stuff today and be popular?


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Could someone do that stuff today and be popular?

No, but in terms of products of their time IMO Chaplin is about as entertaining as you can get.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Keaton, too.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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ManPerson wrote:
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Could someone do that stuff today and be popular?

No, but in terms of products of their time IMO Chaplin is about as entertaining as you can get.


It's not like there was much to choose from in film then. It's like Milton Berle on TV in the late 40s.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Maybe but it still definitely holds up imo.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Here's another one: Eddie Redmayne has never appeared in a "GOOD" movie.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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I have conflicting feelings on Lawrence of Arabia. On one hand it's one of the most beautiful and well shot films of all time and yet it also manages to be really boring for a good amount of the run time. Also Peter O' Toole is good in the movie but not as good as some people say he is.


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I'm not a huge fan either. Saw it once a long time ago and didn't really care of it. Great acting, writing, music, and cinematography, yet feels like a very empty movie...


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Stalker is objectively the worst film ever made, period. No ifs, ands or buts about it, if you think otherwise you're a simpleton, plain and simple.

The only people who (pretend to) like Tarkovsky are communist dudebros who should all be publicly castrated.

You are wrong but I'll allow you to be.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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ManPerson wrote:
I have conflicting feelings on Lawrence of Arabia. On one hand it's one of the most beautiful and well shot films of all time and yet it also manages to be really boring for a good amount of the run time. Also Peter O' Toole is good in the movie but not as good as some people say he is.

I’m a big O’Toole fan, but I find his reputation as a virtuoso amongst some as unfounded. He’s a powerhouse of heightened emotion, and his best roles are ones that let him lean into that (other than Becket which is high-camp in an annoying self-serious film).


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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I don't know how unpopular this opinion is but I'll say it anyway.
Vertigo's score > Psycho's score (though I like Psycho overall as a movie more)


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Both are equally great honestly. I also really love the North by Northwest score as well.


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 Post subject: Re: state your unpopular opinions as facts (Movie edition)
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Cinema Paradiso is a pretty good movie and nothing more.


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