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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 17:35 |
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 17:40 |
^ Now that's a slow movie with a lot of action and explosions. Take that!
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The T
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 18:15 |
Baldjean, I'm 31, I love 2001, I love many slow films, I hate most blockbusters.... I think your theory has failed.
Maybe people born after 1990, you should have added...  ...
Really, not liking 2001 is not the crime of the century. I can even understand why someone would not love it. Why can't you?
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Drew
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 18:17 |
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The T
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 18:19 |
Drew wrote:
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
BaldJean wrote:
Drew wrote:
I watched it stone sober and was absolutely bored to death (2001)
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no wonder. your generation has been buried beneath fast-paced blockbusters. you simply can't appreciate a slow tempo. I hate molst modern movies; hardly any director takes the time to really tell a story. it is just one action scene after the other. and that bores me to death
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I'm in the same generation, and I love slow movies. I'm a big fan of the Coen brothers, for example. Have you seen No Country For Old Men? 
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I enjoyed the crap out of that film
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You see... I didn't like that one. But i liked 2001...
Why do we all have to like the same things???? Is these kind of judgments that make "art" people look so unlike they pretend to be.. UTTERLY PREDICTABLE
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Drew
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 18:22 |
Given the music we both like, I bet we have MUCH ore in common than with 98% of the rest of the world
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A Person
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 18:26 |
The T wrote:
Baldjean, I'm 31, I love 2001, I love many slow films, I hate most blockbusters.... I think your theory has failed.
Maybe people born after 1990, you should have added...  ...
Really, not liking 2001 is not the crime of the century. I can even understand why someone would not love it. Why can't you? |
I was born in 1990 so I will agree with you.
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alphawave10
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 20:25 |
AAAAAArrrgh...i didn't ask you to name the worst movie(s) you'd ever seen but the most hyped. Some of you have got it ......................others usuing self loathing and fast or slow paced movies to tie in......no no no.
Over-hyped is the terminology here.....oh and....there's another human being who enjoys Eraserhead....i'm not alone, i'm not alone yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..............sorry.......self birching time again...ouch....ouch..ouch..........................................
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zappaholic
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 20:31 |
SaltyJon wrote:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks The Godfather is fairly overrated. |
<Peter Griffin> It insists upon itself. </Peter Griffin>
Surprised there's been no mention of THEE most overrated movie ever: Napoleon Dynamite. Was there any point to that at all?
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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A Person
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 20:32 |
Yeah, we kinda got off topic with 2001. To be fair, it is a very hyped movie.
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LandofLein
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 22:11 |
The one that comes to mind right now would have to be The Hangover
I was told it was a funny movie, but all it turned out to be was 3 guys yelling "oh F***! We are so F***ed! What happened last night?!"
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 22:43 |
I tried to watch 2001 once, but I didn't make it very far. I cannot tolerate boring visuals with music, even if I could listen to the music by itself with no problem. This is a personal problem, and I don't think it has anything to do with "my generation".
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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A Person
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 22:49 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
I tried to watch 2001 once, but I didn't make it very far. I cannot tolerate boring visuals with music, even if I could listen to the music by itself with no problem. This is a personal problem, and I don't think it has anything to do with "my generation". |
I agree. Age or generation doesn't have much to do with taste.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 23:16 |
I don't know what hype has to do with anything ever anymore as I'm not plugged into culture enough to know half a sh*t about what people like that said, I could probably safely say The Dark Knight was overrated, and it was a pretty damn good movie
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A Person
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Posted: January 04 2010 at 23:19 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
I don't know what hype has to do with anything ever anymore as I'm not plugged into culture enough to know half a sh*t about what people like that said, I could probably safely say The Dark Knight was overrated, and it was a pretty damn good movie
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I agree. It was good, but nowhere near as much as the hype led me to believe.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: January 05 2010 at 02:40 |
Not sure which generation/demographic this puts me into, but I'm 47 this year, enjoy slow movies ( and shallow blockbusters - there - I said it), love (good) science fiction, both in novels & especially film, yet (deep breath)...
I really do not see what all the fuss is about the film generally hailed as the greatest science fiction film of all (except by a notable few here  ): yes, 2001!
I've seen it many times, but always found it fractured, stilted for a great part of the movie & to me the great ending sequence was a director running out of ideas & throwing in a few abstract concepts with some 1960's special effects to keep the stoners guessing.
But hey - that's just me
We're all individuals, with our own opinions - however, it usually stands true that when movies get huge critical acclaim, there will always be those to knock them down because they were highly praised.
Everyone's opinions matter, so long as that's what they are - genuine opinions & not just knee jerk reactions to media hyperbole.
Except anyone here who criticised The Godfather - they shall be first against the wall come the revolution 
Edited by Jim Garten - January 05 2010 at 02:41
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TODDLER
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Posted: January 05 2010 at 08:08 |
There are about a thousand films to mention but, I will spare everyone of that. Almost every film that I see must include today's lingo in the script. Unfortunately this is not a indication that you are watching a timeless film. Today's camera work is truly annoying. Little Children was an okay movie as it didn't include any of the lame concepts I've mentioned. The story drags a bit but at least I didn't have to hear......Gotcha, dude you rock, hello?, etc. The 70's and 80's were annoying too. Every so often, along comes a film which does not include that most un-enjoyable recipe. Bio films on rock music are the most annoying. The film on Miles Davis includes interviews with people discussing his relationships with women. How wonderful. Who matters, who never did, who won't anymore and who always will. How about if we stick to specifically the detailed aspects of his music and not the circus. The bio on Woodstock is not a very good representation of what the 60's was all about. Interviews with people who rolled and pee pee in the mud at the festival. Many discuss the importance of the acts and how they influenced the future of rock music. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to hear it all. Most of the bands performing there were already washed up by early 69'. The newly formed Santana were fine but the acts that hailed from 1967 were pretty awful at that point in time. If anything, Woodstock was the downfall of rock music as it motivated promoters to place bands into stadiums while dumping sugar all over the music and the dress code of the 70's. How sad.
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fusionfreak
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Posted: January 05 2010 at 09:12 |
Sweeney Todd:such a bore,I fell asleep in the theatre
On the other hand there's a film I find underhyped:John Boorman's Zardoz
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
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crimson king
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jampa17
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Posted: January 05 2010 at 10:58 |
Yeah... The Godfather was overrated, but it's good, if you put in the mood and rythum of that particular time... we are too much involved on the fast scene edition, but well, for me, Pearl Harbor and Gladiatior are the most overrated movies and are pure crap... happy that no one have mention Citizen Kane because that's a brilliant movie, and deserves a great place on history, of course, I'm not saying that is the best... but its good enough...
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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sleeper
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Posted: January 05 2010 at 11:30 |
The Star Wars films, all 6 of them. Its not that they're bad films because they arent, they're just massivly over hyped with every single aspect of them best described as OK.
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