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The Lost Chord 
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:07 |
I am not very fond of them, personally, i find them so over the top nowadays...The last great 'film' i saw was Pan's Labyrinth which I thought was excellent.
But ranting and raving over spider-man 3 and Marvel movies, and seeing the over commercialized and heavily advertised 300 all over the place annoys me. They just seem like big money makers and have little substance of artistic creativity or anything...
Am i wrong about the artistic part? I feel something like spiderman 3 is an over the top out of control flick for the asses of the masses...I get a temperary entertainment from them, but it is short lived and they really have no impact on my life, very useless.
Well, lets hear from someone else..
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:09 |
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Not really- I usually like the smaller indi film, such as "Everything is Illuminated", "The Motorcycle Diaries" and so forth. I get tired of the high budget movies.
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:16 |
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For the most part, I'm not too fond of them. I think the quality of movies has been in steady decline the past several years. But once in a while, there are exceptions. Apparently The Departed was an excellent movie, and I still want to get around to seeing it.
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:17 |
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depends on the film. I like some and dislike others, it's hard for me to throw out all blockbusters that seems a bit ridiculous but its equally ridiculous to say they are all great.
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:19 |
 The Lost Chord wrote:
I am not very fond of them, personally, i find them so over the top nowadays...The last great 'film' i saw was Pan's Labyrinth which I thought was excellent.
But ranting and raving over spider-man 3 and Marvel movies, and seeing the over commercialized and heavily advertised 300 all over the place annoys me. They just seem like big money makers and have little substance of artistic creativity or anything...
Am i wrong about the artistic part? I feel something like spiderman 3 is an over the top out of control flick for the asses of the masses...I get a temperary entertainment from them, but it is short lived and they really have no impact on my life, very useless.
Well, lets hear from someone else.. |
 Pan's Labyrinth, which got shafted at the oscars movies are getting crappier overall
when the studio pumps a lot of money into something
they know its because it can't go it on writing and acting alone
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The Wizard
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 21:20 |
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300 looks really stupid but i'll proably see Spiderman 3 since I really enjoyed the last two.
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 00:12 |
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most of nowadays movies are quite good i think, but there're also a lot of bad ones
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 03:53 |
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Yes I do like them, but it depends how good they are. Can't wait to see the Silver Surfer in FF2!!!
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Rocktopus
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 04:20 |
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Hate most blockbuster movies, and I hate the fact that artists like Bergman or Truffaut today would have a hard time realizing their films, and getting their films in shown in cinemas. Without some producer or sponsor destroying it first. In US, it seems HBO are more important and relevant than Hollywood nowadays. If we're talking about making quality stuff, or even art, for the masses.
That said I kind of enjoyed the two first Spiderman movies, even if they were useless.
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 13:27 |
I don't care whether it's a blckbuster or not, I won't let that make the decision for me... If it's good, and it happens to be successful, then it's good anyway. If it's a piece of sh*t, even if it's "indie", it's still crap. (There's a LOT of sh*t that's produced by independents, too).... But, I have to say, due to a lot of factors, the fact is that 80% of blockbusters are indeed crap. Yopur spiderman and marvel are cgi, explosions-filled crap, though they can be entertaining when you just want to have some adrenalin pumped into your brain, and let's face it, every now and then you may want that. I don't go to the movies to see that kind of films (the "action" films about chases, explosions and cars, like that atrocity fast furious crap) but if it's on tv, and I feel like not exercisizing my brain too much, I'd sit through one of those, maybe to find out at the end that it was better than expected, or to change the channel.
I'm into westerns right now. My collection of movies is still growing, past the 500 mark now!  And, to be honest, I may have just about 10 chase-explosions action flicks... But I have good blockbusters, like Lord of The rings and stuff.... it'sot the blockbuster part, is the "no originality, no story, no actors" part that bothers me. |
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 13:29 |
Blockbusters may sometimes be excellent movies - like Ridley Scott's are. But usually I avoid them. I heard a new historical film is going to be released, and it's about the battle of Termopiles. I love this subject, but do I really want to see a film by the director of "Dawn of the Dead"? No. Edit: my favourite blockbuster is "Finding Nemo"  
Edited by andu - March 07 2007 at 13:31
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 15:53 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Yes I do like them, but it depends how good they are. Can't wait to see the Silver Surfer in FF2!!! |
Check out the two trailers at Marvel.com.
Personally,I can't wait to see Galactus!!!!!!!!
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:17 |
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300 could be cool or trash.
Graphic novel adaptations are generally better than comic book adaptations. I feel no loss for not having seen one Spider-Man movie.
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:31 |
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I usually don't appreciate Hollywood waste. If it sometimes happens to be a more high pressure good taste, it can work just fine for an evening's watch.
If it's the case of a brilliant movie (art or deep filming is my main orientation in watching and adoring films), which happens to be a success down the isle of cashing in (let's just take the example of The Departed this year: excellent movie, big time runner in the cinemas too), then there's no problem whatsoever.
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:45 |
Im really scared for 300, i dont know what to think.
It has been getting great reviews, but that hasnt served me well in a while.
They said it was as good as the Matrix, thats awful news if you ask me 
Ah well, thanks for the responses I was actually expecting alot of this...I agree with most here
I was actually discussing this with some friends last night and i threw the question "What will be remembered in 30 years as great achievemnts in film?"
That question basically threw out EVERY blockbuster movie, and we agreed they are really just simple pleasure for the masses, a quick fix and nothing more really.
Edited by The Lost Chord - March 07 2007 at 16:47
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 19:12 |
The last movie I saw at the theatre was Dances With Wolves.
I guess I'm not that into movies eh?
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Posted: March 08 2007 at 06:45 |
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Since blockbuster has gotten rid of all the classics,I don't like to go there anymore.
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Posted: March 08 2007 at 09:01 |
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not really, they present a very biased and one dimensional view of the world, which I don't think is healthy...
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Posted: March 08 2007 at 13:11 |
andu wrote:
Blockbusters may sometimes be excellent movies - like Ridley Scott's are. But usually I avoid them. I heard a new historical film is going to be released, and it's about the battle of Termopiles. I love this subject, but do I really want to see a film by the director of "Dawn of the Dead"? No.
Edit: my favourite blockbuster is "Finding Nemo"
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Dawn of the Dead (The original) was a gory thriller but full of irony and sarcasm, nothing like the blood-fest crap they try to sell you today as "thrillers".... George A. Romero's films may not be for everybody's taste, but he really developed the horror genre, he was original. The three first fils of the tetralogy were quite good within their genre (Night, Dawn, Day)... Land of the Dead is the lesser of the 4, with scarce irony and social comentary and more in the direction of today brain-less horror trend....
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Posted: March 08 2007 at 13:14 |
The Lost Chord wrote:
They said it was as good as the Matrix, thats awful news if you ask me |
For me The Matrix is way overrated.... It could've been much better than it is... The story, though a little bit confusing, is interesting... the theme (we are all part of a matrix) is even more... but instead of developing such a good theme with plot and twists and character development, they chose to appeal to the masses with cgi-rendered effects and explosions. It's not a bad movie but could've been actually good.
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