12 Movies that the critics were wrong about (1 Viewer)

[NCCommish]

Like Scorsese, for instance.

This is starting to get pretty hipsterish now.

His subject matter doesn't speak to me and I can't root for his anti-heroes.

I'm not a huge fan of Elvis but I can recognize his contributions and impact.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Like Scorsese, for instance.

This is starting to get pretty hipsterish now.

His subject matter doesn't speak to me and I can't root for his anti-heroes.

I'm not a huge fan of Elvis but I can recognize his contributions and impact.

And I didn't say Scorsese's not an important and/or skilled director.

I'll give this to him - I'd rather watch his movies than Woody Allen's.

 

[NCCommish]

Like Scorsese, for instance.

This is starting to get pretty hipsterish now.

His subject matter doesn't speak to me and I can't root for his anti-heroes.

I'm not a huge fan of Elvis but I can recognize his contributions and impact.

And I didn't say Scorsese's not an important and/or skilled director.

I'll give this to him - I'd rather watch his movies than Woody Allen's.

Common ground

Although I did like a couple very early Woody Allen films.For instance Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex and Sleeper.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I hate these threads. The most pretentious posters come out in full force.

I hate it when people post in a thread just to say they hate coming to said threads.

 

[kentric]

The Sixth Sense Has a great twist, but otherwise just OK. The mother poisoning her own daughter is chilling though.

Im pretty sure the care taker/babysitter poisoned the child. Maybe I misremember. I dont think it was her mom.

It was the mom. There was no babysitter.

But the mom was also the babysitter. That's what made this movie so great. You see the twist there? huh. do ya?

 

[KarmaPolice]

I don't think Wes Anderson is self-important. I think he's self-indulgent, but that's something different. The guy makes the movies that appeal to him. They're kind of the furthest thing from "important" or "serious." They're whimsical and silly. I generally like them (he's had movies too twee even for me, but they're the exception).

Spielberg is about 1000 times more self-important than Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson would never make Munich or Amistad, for better of for worse.

Self-indulgent. Yes, that's the term I was looking for.

couldn't a lot of top directors be described like that though?

Yes, and it's likely that when you started listing them that I'd say I don't like most of their work.

Like Scorsese, for instance.

He would come to mind.

Would also put Tarantino at the top of a list like that, and O.Stone comes to mind. Spielberg has a bit of that in him too. As they should, I think most directors when they have the ability to do so, will make movies that they want to see on screen. Why wouldn't they?

 

[timschochet]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Boogie Nights After Schindler's List, probably the best movie of the 90s for me (just above Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, and The Silence of the Lambs). Just incredible storytelling, characters, dialogue. The whole package.

Pun intended?

 

[KarmaPolice]

I don't think Wes Anderson is self-important. I think he's self-indulgent, but that's something different. The guy makes the movies that appeal to him. They're kind of the furthest thing from "important" or "serious." They're whimsical and silly. I generally like them (he's had movies too twee even for me, but they're the exception).

Spielberg is about 1000 times more self-important than Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson would never make Munich or Amistad, for better of for worse.

Self-indulgent. Yes, that's the term I was looking for.

couldn't a lot of top directors be described like that though?

Yes, and it's likely that when you started listing them that I'd say I don't like most of their work.

Like Scorsese, for instance.

This is starting to get pretty hipsterish now.

Hipster would be saying the only Scorsese movies worth watching are Bringing out the Dead and Kundun.

 

[kentric]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

I've never seen it. I have this strange idea that I will see it and not like it. Then when I die I'll go straight to hell.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this fear.

 

[Insein]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Ill give it as an important film but its too much for me. Barely made it through one viewing. Will never watch again. I dont think that makes it good though.

 

[Sarnoff]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Fell asleep halfway through.

 

[NCCommish]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Have to admit I have never seen it.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Schindler's list is great...until the Jews are transferred to Brinnlitz. Then it seems to fall apart.

 

[Josie Maran]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Not sure. I was making out with a chick through most of it.

 

[TheIronSheik]

The article is definitely trolling for hits. Didn't bother reading after seeing Unforgiven listed at 1.

This is why I listed all of the movies in my post. So you didn't have to go through the article and give him clicks.

 

[Josie Maran]

The article is definitely trolling for hits. Didn't bother reading after seeing Unforgiven listed at 1.

This is why I listed all of the movies in my post. So you didn't have to go through the article and give him clicks.

Some men can't be helped.

 

[Tom Hagen]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Not sure. I was making out with a chick through most of it.

How did you get her into an R rated movie?

 

[Josie Maran]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

Not sure. I was making out with a chick through most of it.

How did you get her into an R rated movie?

:golfclap:

Well done, sir.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

I thought they were really heavy-handed when it came to the "bad guys". Spielberg obviously had an ax to grind.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

I thought they were really heavy-handed when it came to the "bad guys". Spielberg obviously had an ax to grind.

Finally! Someone stands up for the Nazis.

 

[msommer]

I always thought that Unforgiven was supposed to be a kind of antithesis of or a revisionist western; to the point that it kind of destroys the traditional Western that permeated the 50s, 60s and 70s. For sure there were others,......but I thought Unforgiven kind of makes such a point it kind of makes any future going back to the traditional Western motifs and imageries kind of silly. It killed the traditional Western.

Interestingly there are two westerns being unveiled at Cannes now. The Homesman by Tommy Lee Jones and The Salvation with Mads Mikkelsen

 

[NCCommish]

I always thought that Unforgiven was supposed to be a kind of antithesis of or a revisionist western; to the point that it kind of destroys the traditional Western that permeated the 50s, 60s and 70s. For sure there were others,......but I thought Unforgiven kind of makes such a point it kind of makes any future going back to the traditional Western motifs and imageries kind of silly. It killed the traditional Western.

Interestingly there are two westerns being unveiled at Cannes now. The Homesman by Tommy Lee Jones and The Salvation with Mads Mikkelsen

I don't know anything about The Salvation but The Homesman doesn't sound like a typical western to me.

 

[Sarnoff]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

I thought they were really heavy-handed when it came to the "bad guys". Spielberg obviously had an ax to grind.

Finally! Someone stands up for the Nazis.

I was gonna say, although I'd only watched half of it decades ago, the only character I remember as being interesting was the German who'd shoot jews from the balcony. The rest of it was

 

[Aerial Assault]

Are there really people out there who think that Schindler's List is a bad or mediocre film?

I thought they were really heavy-handed when it came to the "bad guys". Spielberg obviously had an ax to grind.

Lies!!!!!!!!1111ONE