Pretentious Movies

I generally love a reasonable percentage of british, french, scandinavian etc. films, lesser extent german, but mediterranean country films arent to my taste

Don't like Godard though, prefer anything by rivette, rohmer

 

I don't generally like Spanish or Italian films but I have enjoyed the odd Bigas Luna film. I think Almodovar is very overrated.

 

Terrible film. Terrible.

MTF

 

Possibly, i can only go by what i've watched. The stuff i have seen has been artsy fartsy gay bullshit.

 

I like French cinema.

Whoever said Donnie Darko, I agree. Fuck that film.

 

Tell me what you've seen.

 

:Thumbs:

 

Thin red line was awful

American Beauty

 

Well there's the ever popular: "Sexy, Sexy, Talk, Talk, Romance, Cheesecake"

A few others off the top of my head:

"Smoking Cigs While Eating Desert, Sexy Time"

"Parle' Vu, Paris, Fuck You!"

"It's Not Rape, If You Say Yes..................With Your Eyes"

"Parkour, It's French for Stupid!"



Of course, those are all loose translations of the titles. I'm not lookin' that shit up on IMDB.

 

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I can't hate on you too much though, since you like The Thin Red Line, which is an awesome movie.

 

As I thought, you've never actually seen a French film ::

God damn heathen, get off my land!

 

You favorite Japanese movies, MWS?

I like Kinji Fukasaku's gangster movies. Also Takashi Miike, and Takeshi Kitano (SNDartie:).

I like Fallen Angel, The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low by Kurosawa.

 

I've seen all the same ones.

 

Never watched much french cinema. Any recommendations of where to start?

 

I liked La Ceremonie, although it takes awhile to get going.

 

My mother is exceptionally well-versed in French cinema, I will ask her which ones are considered classic and let you know what she tells me, Hut

 

Cheers, brah

 

The 400 Blows is a good starting point, aka the best film ever made.

Then watch Bande a part.

Then watch Le Samourai.

 

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'd have to add Crash to this list. It was somewhat entertaining (as alot of these movies are) but it was tough for me to get past how hard the movie kept blowing itself.

 

agreed. classic example of a movie that gets pretty much universally feted on release - by critics, box office, and the oscars - because it pretends to be intelligent and meaningful but is actually a spiritless crowd-pleaser, divorced from reality. american beauty and traffic were others. on the tin they deal with "issues" (racism! drugs! suburban banality!), but this engagement is superficial really.

 

I like Kubrick. I think he was THE GOAT, even though his latter films were weak (I am in the minority here, but I hated The Shinning, but love 2001: A Space Odyssey still the greatest science fiction ever made which I watch at least once a year). Kubrick's earlier work like PATHS OF GLORY and SPARTACUS were highly entertaining films. I didn't thought much about A Clockwork Orange,obviously his most overrated work. Full Metal Jacket's first half was awesome. The second half was average.

David Lynch is full of shit. Never cared about his films except for "DUNE" which he fucked up (I wish the original director, Alejandro Jodorowsky, would have directed it. Yes, it was going to be even more weird, but at least it would have not been boring).

French films that I have enjoyed (mostly Truffaut):
Jules & Jim
Farenheit 451
The Wild Child
The Man Who Loved Women
La Femme Nikkita
Amelie
Beauty & The Beast (1946)
Jean de Florrette and its sequel Manon of the Spring
The Return of Martin Guerre (hated that lousy remake with Richard Gere & Jodie Foster)

 

I ♥ Huckabees

 

Loved Amelie.

 

FUNNY, I think Kubrick was generally awful. I think a Space Odyessy is one of the worst major films ever made and a close second is "A clockwork orange" aka the film every dipshit points to show their depth and intellect when it points the opposite way. Full metal Jacket was pretty average. The Shining is boring and awful, although the cinematography is excellent.

The funny part is , DR. Strangelove is one of the very best movies ever made. I love it . I just don't think much of ole Stanley's resume. I don't get him I guess.

 

American Beauty

what a stupid pile of shit that was, and beloved by artfags everywhere

 

I loved that movie. It was like a slap in the face of american suburbia.

 

Indeed

 

Yeah it was a good movie, though I see why people think it's pretentios, same with that other one where Tom Cruise is that crazy motivational speaker, Melancholia or something.

 

Magnolia. I loved it too. I love Paul Thomas Anderson's work.