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Dear everyone: The following movies were boring and massively overrated. - 8 Mile
- There Will Be Blood
- Lost in Translation
More as I think of them. - Ghost World
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 08:41:49 PM » |
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Lost in Translation was pretty massively overrated its okay though
I didn't see 8 Mile
There Will Be Blood owns p. hard
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 09:18:39 PM » |
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Lost in Translation should have lead to Sofia Coppola being shot
There Will Be Blood was awesome but not as good as No Country for Old Men, no matter what anyone says
8 Mile wasn't that bad
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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2009, 03:14:44 AM » |
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Why the fuck do you group 8 Mile with fucking Lost in Translation and There Will Be Blood?!
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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2009, 07:16:28 AM » |
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He heard the COD4:MW2 commercial and thought he'd check it out.
TWBB is very good and you're still a tardmuffin
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« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2009, 08:16:39 AM » |
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I really don't see Lost in Translation as ...overrated? It's a very good, simple movie with a decent enough premise and isn't too high-concept and is pretty much entirely character driven. The only thing that always throws me off when people talk about it is that they justify some sort of potential career for Ana Feris based on it ignoring that everything she's done ever besides it has been shit.
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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2009, 09:13:38 AM » |
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How is LiT considered overrated considering it has slipped from the public conscience? When it first came out, yeah, but not now.
Eternal Sunshine strikes me as being overrated.
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« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2009, 09:19:08 AM » |
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8 Mile was fucking great.
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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2009, 01:37:27 PM » |
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When it first came out, yeah, but not now.
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Asked if he thought it was a good investment to spend so much of his own money in a two-way Democratic primary to run against a popular Republican with millions in campaign cash, Greene replied: “Rather than just save the $10,000 and just go and buy gasoline with it, just take [it] and just be unemployed for [an] even longer period of time, I mean, that wouldn’t make any sense, um, just, um, but, uh, yes, uh … lowering these gas prices … that will create jobs, too. Anything that will lower the gasoline prices. Offshore drilling, the energy package, all that.”
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« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2009, 02:01:37 PM » |
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Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind was about forty times fucking better than Lost in Translation.
Lost in Translation was pretty much Garden State for old people.
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« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2009, 04:16:11 PM » |
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Am I the only one who still unironically loves both Lost in Translation and Eternal Sunshine? For what it's worth, I think the tone and even the themes of both are so similar and sentimental that I don't really understand liking one and not liking another, unless you are one of those people who didn't like the pacing. And if you don't like the pacing of Coppola movies, I would suggest not venturing into too much indie or foreign then because I've seen much slower. Definitely don't try Gus Van Sant or Ingmar Bergman.
And c'mon Lost in Translation was way better than Garden State.
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« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2009, 04:49:40 PM » |
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That's like saying Vekou is better than Albright. Not exactly a sterling achievement.
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« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2009, 05:07:12 PM » |
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Garden State wasn't just not good it was bad.
I don't mind the pace of Lost in Translation it just didn't seem like that much was there underneath despite both main actors turning in a good performance and it being decent enough in general
just saying is all
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« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2009, 05:47:19 PM » |
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Why the fuck do you group 8 Mile with fucking Lost in Translation and There Will Be Blood?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Mile_(film)#Reception8 Mile was generally well received among critics. The film currently holds a 74% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Ebert and Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating. The film was a surprise hit at the box office opening at #1, making $19,574,765 on its opening day and $51,240,555 over its first three days from only 2,470 theaters for an average of $20,745 per venue, making it one of the biggest opening weekends for an R-rated movie as well being as the biggest opening for a movie released in less than 2,500 theaters. The film made a total of $242,875,078 worldwide ($116,750,901 domestically, and $126,124,177 internationally). I saw 8 Mile in a theater with my college roomies, and it was so horrible I wanted to walk out on it - ended up staying after I couldn't talk anyone else into doing so. When I found out later how well it had done and had been received by critics, I was flabbergasted. TWBB made $75.7 million worldwide. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind was about forty times fucking better than Lost in Translation. IAWTC. I don't see them as similar at all, really. Eternal Sunshine had a plot, for one thing. That being said, I think I would stop short of calling it "good." |
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« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2009, 06:53:06 PM » |
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I'm ending this gay shit now Eternal Sunshine is great Lost in Translation and Garden State are pieces of shit 8 Mile is NOT that bad a movie CK is a fag The End  |
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« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2009, 07:49:33 PM » |
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TWBB made $75.7 million worldwide.
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« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2009, 10:40:19 PM » |
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TWBB made $75.7 million worldwide.
What was your personal beef with it Nothing about the money; just making the point that it was less fiscally successful than 8 Mile. And though I didn't particularly like it, I'd have to say TWBB was the better movie by far. |
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« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2009, 02:26:35 AM » |
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Lost in Translation is a great movie. I have its movie poster on my wall.
Brak what did you think of The Virgin Suicides and/or Marie Antoinette? I only saw Marie once and liked it, but god, that pacing was way slower than Lost in Translation. At least that's what it FELT like.
Since albright doesn't like either of these movies, I would like sort of a barometer of what you consider good Albright. Please stop short of posting animation, not because it's not valid but because we could guess you might like it and rattling off Spirited Away and a few Pixars would still leave us largely in the dark.
For me, Garden State was one of those movies that got worse the more you saw it. I feel the same way about Zach Braff in general, actually.
TWBB is such a great movie. Not as good as No Country for Old Men, but still great. I'll admit that you have to commit to spending your afternoon watching it. It is a long one. But, like, man it is so worth it.
I didn't know 8 Mile was loved by critics or made money either. Eminem was pretty big when it came out right, so I guess that's not too hard to imagine.
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« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2009, 11:19:53 AM » |
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Marie Antoinette sucked, it looked pretty but it was awful.
Virgin Suicides is her most tolerable but even then it's not particularly special.
I'll give her she has an eye for nice visuals but everything else is crap and Lost in Translation is the crappiest piece of crap she's made.
And god damn it, 8 Miles WAS NOT THAT BAD, I went in with low expectations and was surprised at how solid it was.
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« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2009, 08:30:09 PM » |
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Garden State is better than Lost in Translation because they're the exact same god damn thing, but at least Garden State attempted to be humorous. Lost in Translation was pointless AND unfunny. Great.
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« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2009, 09:03:39 PM » |
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Garden State is better than Lost in Translation because they're the exact same god damn thing, but at least Garden State attempted to be humorous. Lost in Translation was pointless AND unfunny. Great.
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« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2009, 09:14:23 PM » |
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Since albright doesn't like either of these movies, I would like sort of a barometer of what you consider good Albright. Looking through my Netflix history, the live-action vids I gave five stars to are: Little Miss Sunshine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (huh, I guess I did really like that one The Taste of Tea Hana Mom and Dad Save the World (really?) I heart Huckabees John Adams |
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the live-action vids I gave five stars to so what about cartoons then |
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« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2009, 09:27:55 AM » |
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Little Miss Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (huh, I guess I did really like that one
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Juno, Junebug, Thumbsucker, Wristcutters, Me You & Everyone We Know, Garden State, Virgin Suicides, Be Kind Rewind, Where the Wild Things Are, 500 Days of Summer, Sunshine Cleaning, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited, Ghost World, Bad Santa, Big Fish, Stranger than Fiction, Brick, The Brothers Bloom, probably Fantastic Mr. Fox, probably anything with Luke/Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody or Jason Schwartzman. might as well download a Belle and Sebastian CD too, go if If You're Feeling Sinister |
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« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2009, 10:21:08 AM » |
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Little Miss Sunshine
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« Reply #27 on: December 20, 2009, 06:18:53 PM » |
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I didn't like Marie Antoinette the first time I watched it.
But the second time, I felt it was simply an extension of Lost in Translation and an excellent film.
She's the master of mood. In Lost in Tanslation, she captures the essence of that expression, the complete out of sorts when stranded without friends of anyone you can communicate with. Marie Antoinette begins with a similar out of sortsness, her being the Russian Princess married off to a Franc, but as she becomes this overly debutantish girl, it fades from complete unfamiliarity to an almost over-familiarity. Marie Antoinette doesn't just capture a mood, it captures an entire panoply of moods all the way through to the tragic ending.
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I didn't like Marie Antoinette the first time I watched it.
But the second time, I felt it was simply an extension of Lost in Translation and an excellent film.
She's the master of mood. In Lost in Tanslation, she captures the essence of that expression, the complete out of sorts when stranded without friends of anyone you can communicate with. Marie Antoinette begins with a similar out of sortsness, her being the Russian Princess married off to a Franc, but as she becomes this overly debutantish girl, it fades from complete unfamiliarity to an almost over-familiarity. Marie Antoinette doesn't just capture a mood, it captures an entire panoply of moods all the way through to the tragic ending.
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« Reply #29 on: December 20, 2009, 11:43:50 PM » |
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It's true though. She's fantastic at pretty much everything but telling a decent story. Lost in Translation isn't even an issue there's no story to it and so it works out well enough.
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« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2009, 01:32:31 AM » |
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The Virgin Suicides had great source material. The book is great. I haven't watched the movie in forever but I'd say that had a good story to it.
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« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2009, 11:03:10 PM » |
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Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Ghost World Good, good, good, boring-ass shit EDIT: Adding Ghost World to the OP |
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The Life Aquatic is boring-ass shit, not Ghost World
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« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2009, 01:28:35 AM » |
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I think you are describing me and Albright is just really random in his taste
gah Ghost World was so good, bored bitchy scarlett johansson is my preferred version of scarlett johansson
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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2009, 02:28:11 AM » |
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Man Life Aquatic was so good
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« Reply #36 on: December 25, 2009, 12:56:59 AM » |
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New one: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Hey, everyone! We're using wirework and we don't care if that's totally obvious! That makes this movie really incredible for some reason!
Fuck that, let me see some of those wirework-less, friggin' insane stunt Thai martial arts movies instead.
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« Reply #38 on: December 25, 2009, 08:08:36 AM » |
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« Reply #39 on: December 28, 2009, 09:40:39 AM » |
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The Life Aquatic is boring-ass shit
I think you are describing me and Albright
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