Roma is awfully painful to watch.
If you spend your 2+ hours washing dishes and picking up dog shit, you'll have gotten the gist. Oh, almost forgot, take a 30 min nap in between, then you've had the full experience.
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I'm sure Steven Seagal has a film out that is more to all of your liking.
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Not my style of movie.
Seriously, what did you like about that boring, lazy, pointless movie?
There is a reason film experts loved it.
They watched it on LSD.
That is the only conceivable explanation.
Cuaron is a wonderful film maker - this quasi docudrama is conceived well
the dream like nightmare becomes all too real with no explanations needed.
Like I thought, no specifics.
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How specific does it have to be. It's a well made film - I and the audience I was with
were enthralled from beginning to end. The images are stunning and even mesmerizing, the story of hope and destiny are rich, epic, a masterpiece of cinema.
What were a couple of your favorite parts?
It had no real plot.
There was almost zero character development.
I fell asleep at least twice.
It's not a car chase or cool gun movie, it's about the film itself. Because you tired of it
doesn't make it a bad film or a painful film to watch. We'll just agree "it's not your style of movie".
Or a Steven Spielberg movie from the last 30 years.
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Current films - Try and keep up.
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I place your reviews alongside Rex Reed reviews.
Say what you will, his flamboyance makes his a little more entertaining, if no more on target.
I see Travers gave it a good review. We're usually on the same page, so I won't actively avoid watching this one, given the opportunity.
Did I mention the new Steven Seagal film might be more to his liking? Nuff said.
PS: there's a reason Rex works for the NY Post and not the NY Times or even WSJ.
What?!?! Rex Reed is a poor movie reviewer???
It's almost like I said as much in my previous post!
You try too hard...
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Thank you. I've waited decades to finally earn the title, "Overachiever!"
You should try harder to raise your standards on what constitutes a good movie.
Give us your ten best films of all time.
PS: Not someone else's, yours.
Ten is tough off the cuff. A few that I can't imagine not including:
The Bicycle Thief, Battleship Potemkin (visually mesmerizing), Cinema Paradiso, among foreign films. At the same time, I would include films that the snobbiest film critics might sneer at for being too commercial, but I think are great, like North by Northwest (a perfect movie) and Jaws (still Spielberg's best film). It's now fashionable to label Citizen Kane "boring" and "overrated," but technically, it has its place near the top. Eastwood became one of our greatest directors and his greatest work is Unforgiven, which I would place near the top.
I'd need more time to whittle it down to ten.
It's difficult not to place any Hitchcock film in a top ten
because in reality, they were all great films - But I'm asking for a personal group a group that keeps you enthralled always.
I have favorites like Suspicion and Birds. As for other films I lean to, Sexy Beast, the Kubrick Canon, Orson Wells canon, and so many others - you mention The Bicycle Thief and Cinema Paradiso with that I'd add The Icicle Thief and Il Postino, the Jules Dassin canon too. Metropolis, Far From Heaven, King Kong (original), Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Casablanca, The African Queen, Double Indemnity and so many others.
I enjoy the Birds, but I would not rate it among...
North by Northwest, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Frenzy, Vertigo, The 39 Steps. I also find Strangers on a Train to be underrated.
Dr. Strangelove would probably be in my top 10. I'm not a fan of 2001 but it is an important film. I think The Shining is the greatest horror movie ever made (and I've seen a whole lot of them) with many layers.
Watch The Favourite and wonder about 10 nominations, " The Emperor Has no Clothes.
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I've been told that we should not question the experts.
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The Favourite has an interesting Rotten Tomato split. 94% for critics. But 64% for audience.
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Re: Watch The Favourite and wonder about 10 nominations, " The Emperor Has no Clothes.
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This not worth two posts, but I erred as my computer skills are again exposed.
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Thank you
When most were falling over themselves to praise this steaming pile of dog shit (literally), it made me question why I hated it so much. Sure, I'm a knuckle-dragging cretin, but what was I missing?
Turns out, I had it right. It stinks. If wanted to watch some Mexican chick do domestic chores all day, I'd just stay home. (Joke!)