Have you never heard directors talk about the ratings game? In some cases all they cut is like 2 seconds to get the change. It just has to be the right 2 seconds. In some cases they are so vague about it, they have to make multiple cuts to get it right.
That being said, it might be interesting to see the X rated version of Clockwork Orange.
Amazing the power that this tiny group of some 8? crusty old virgins with essentially zero life experience have over the film industry--as these are the 8 asshats that control the entire rating system with their puritanically fucktastic taste.
Imagine all of them being just slightly more tolerable than our own FelixDCat, and that is the MPAA ratings review board.
Which is just a testament to how bad it actually was. If the movie requires an incredibly large format screen and 3D, the merits of it being a movie are gone. It is a tech demo, with some bad acting and annoying characters.
Finally watched it to see what all the fuss was about. I didn't think it was that great. I think the sound was really well done and probably deserved the Oscars the film received in that category, but I thought some of the lines were pretty cheesy, for example
as she's "talking to" Clooney's character about her daughter as she's going through the sequence at the end, or the fact that he even appeared to her as a vision was very predictable.
Other than the sound, it was completely forgettable.
Have you never heard directors talk about the ratings game? In some cases all they cut is like 2 seconds to get the change. It just has to be the right 2 seconds. In some cases they are so vague about it, they have to make multiple cuts to get it right.
That being said, it might be interesting to see the X rated version of Clockwork Orange.
The movie won 7 Oscars. A movie with 7 Oscars should not have a qualifier on it that it needs to be seen in the theater. If it does, it doesn't deserve 7 Oscars.
Paranormal activity 1. It was on TV couple of days ago. I've seen it before but watching with bunch of friends on Halloween night is not scary, however watching alone is sort of creepy. 6.5/10.
Amazing the power that this tiny group of some 8? crusty old virgins with essentially zero life experience have over the film industry--as these are the 8 asshats that control the entire rating system with their puritanically fucktastic taste.
Imagine all of them being just slightly more tolerable than our own FelixDCat, and that is the MPAA ratings review board.
The movie won 7 Oscars. A movie with 7 Oscars should not have a qualifier on it that it needs to be seen in the theater. If it does, it doesn't deserve 7 Oscars.
IIRC, they were all for the technical aspects of the film, which doesn't make it a good film. The entire idea that in order to enjoy a movie, I have to see it on a large format screen in 3D means it isn't a very enjoyable movie. I might enjoy shit if you put enough sugar on it, but it is still shit.
They hype behind the movie reminds me a lot of the hype behind Avatar. While it was visually impressive, it wasn't a great movie. Sadly, visually impressive sells tickets and we continuously get that kind of crap. Thankfully, that trend isn't continuing as well in video games. Crysis is a great example of what is wrong with video games. Looking amazing means nothing if the gameplay is shallow and uninspired.
it's not that black and white. it's no masterpiece, but it's a really good thriller and the technical aspects themselves do add to the enjoyment, there's nothing cheap about that, and yeah, a bigger screen makes the experience better. but it's still an action thriller
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 7/10
Black and white. It was set around 1953, during the Korean War. A very small town in Texas.
So highly rated, I expected to like it a lot more. Didn't really work for me except for one big exception, which was Cybill Shepherd, ('Introducing...' said the trailing credits). She was a knockout as a faithless lustful blond beauty, who obviously absolutely enjoyed sex! She was spiteful if she didn't get it, had only so much patience. OMG, she played it perfectly. The rest of the movie, well it had its strong characters, but of the 15 or so "main" ones, only about 3 stood out at all for me, the protagonist Sonny, who was not a lot more than OK, a lot of the time he just stood there with a quizzical expression on his face and you are supposed to dig him, figure his feelings. There was Ben Jonson as Sam the Lion, he's a really good actor, and there was Jacy (the HOT blond).
I couldn't predict where it was going.
I could have predicted the idiot kid getting run down in the street if I'd thought about the early implications of showing him sweeping the middle of the street, but I didn't.
That seemed egregious, well a lot did, and honestly I several times thought to myself how hokey certain scenes and snippets of dialog were. Turns out it was an adaptation of the novel by Larry McMurtry, who cowrote the script with director Bogdanovich. I have to figure the latter was responsible for the hokey lines, but who knows. In all probability the novel is WAY better. It did occur to me that this was kind of like Peyton Place, a very steamy "trashy" novel of the period.
The music, well, it seemed that the majority of it was a total survey of Hank William's Greatest Hits, with Hank singing. I was motivated to look up Hank in Wikipedia after seeing it. Turns out it took him years to really break into the bigtime, born in 1923, died in 1953 at age 29. Probably not too different from Jim Morrison, drank himself to death, well, prescription drugs had a lot to do with it, but heart failure was the official autopsy reason given. He had an undiagnosed back problem and he took stuff for pain, who knows how much his drinking was involved with the pain, he must have been a PITA for a lot of people to work with because he became unreliable, extremely so at times due to his drinking, often arriving drunk to this and that.
Tarantino made a handful of decent flicks and a lot of garbage. BUT, as he's gotten more popular his awards and nominations increased dramatically. He was much better when he put out good movies and didnt give a damn what critics thought of him.
Hell Ride was also lousy. And Death Proof had potential, but it was all wasted away.
IIRC, they were all for the technical aspects of the film, which doesn't make it a good film. The entire idea that in order to enjoy a movie, I have to see it on a large format screen in 3D means it isn't a very enjoyable movie. I might enjoy shit if you put enough sugar on it, but it is still shit.
They hype behind the movie reminds me a lot of the hype behind Avatar. While it was visually impressive, it wasn't a great movie. Sadly, visually impressive sells tickets and we continuously get that kind of crap. Thankfully, that trend isn't continuing as well in video games. Crysis is a great example of what is wrong with video games. Looking amazing means nothing if the gameplay is shallow and uninspired.
Does it deserve that criticism if it wasn't even trying to be a movie? If it's trying to be something different (a thrill ride), we should judge it on those merits.
Now, though, it can't be judged on those merits. On home video, it's just a bad movie.
The "hype" was to experience the ride on the biggest screen you could (preferably IMAX 3D or better). Some people tried to praise the story and the acting, but that was simply wrong and I tried to counter those arguments when I encountered them. I, my brother, and my friends warned everyone that they should see it in the theater and should ignore the home release completely. No matter how much it was said, some people missed that message and deliberately waited for the home video release to "see what the hype was about." Consequently, they'll never see what the hype was about.
it's not that black and white. it's no masterpiece, but it's a really good thriller and the technical aspects themselves do add to the enjoyment, there's nothing cheap about that, and yeah, a bigger screen makes the experience better. but it's still an action thriller
The movie won 7 Oscars. A movie with 7 Oscars should not have a qualifier on it that it needs to be seen in the theater. If it does, it doesn't deserve 7 Oscars.
uhm, DID YOU SEE WHICH 7 OSCARS IT WON!? It was basically a technical masterpiece - the oscars say nothing about the plot/story/acting. It's pretty clear based on the oscars that for proper home viewing, you'd need at least a 120" calibrated screen + full 7.1 setup or something equally ridiculous.
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
uhm, DID YOU SEE WHICH 7 OSCARS IT WON!? It was basically a technical masterpiece - the oscars say nothing about the plot/story/acting. It's pretty clear based on the oscars that for proper home viewing, you'd need at least a 120" calibrated screen + full 7.1 setup or something equally ridiculous.
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Plus the fact that I've never thought Sandra Bullock was much of an actress. She was that Oscar years back basically on default. She's not bad at all but not Oscar worthy either. The movie just wasn't that great to me but kept me entertained.
Never saw Gravity in theaters, but I couldn't even finish it at home, gave up maybe half way in. Hell, I own Children of Men, so I was going in plenty willing to give the movie a fair shot. That said, I don't see the theater experience improving anything much, I saw Avatar in a 3D theater and that experience didn't even come close to saving that mess.
To each their own obviously, don't mind that people enjoyed it, but I certainly don't think it deserved best directing or cinematography.
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