Films that you know are quality but......

[Octoberist]

the godfather... classic lines and scenes, but dude that movie is boring..

i can appreciate it but nothing more i guess...

Back in the day when Pacino was actually handsome and soft spoken.

 

[Octoberist]

the godfather... classic lines and scenes, but dude that movie is boring..

i can appreciate it but nothing more i guess...

Back in the day when Pacino was actually good looking and soft spoken.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I have high respects for The Usual Suspects but I cant help it to think it's losing its impact throughout the years.

Not for me. I've watched it five times and it still packs a punch. The way Singer and McQuarried crafted it is incredible. The execution, the performances, everything is important for what happens in the end.

Back in the day when Pacino was actually good looking and soft spoken.

In Glengary Glenn Ross, Pacino ain't soft spoken and it's probably my favorite role of his.

 

[Octoberist]

Well, good looking then!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Pacino's hair at one of the award shows made him look like he was struck by lightening.

 

[Bunker]

Blade Runner will always be remembered for its lush visuals. But yeah, it's very slow, very ponderous. I wish someone punched up the script a bit back then, and add SOME FRICKIN' HUMOR. The only think that I thought was funny was Harrison's 'gay voice' when he snuck into dressing room.

I do like Roy Batty's last speech before he dies.

The original script had some really cool sounding scenes that would have made the movie a lot better. Like, the opening in the original script was Harrison Ford dropping down from a drop ship, going into a log cabin and brutally murdering a replicant. The storyboards for it looked awesome.

 

[redhawk23]

I don't jump to conclusions without researching things first. Everything I've learned and heard suggests this. Needing to see them is irrelevant.

I think my eyes litterally did a sommersault. Seeing a movie and not digging it is one thing, or just making generalities about entire genres ( ie: I don't like most romantic comedies) But pointing out specific movies and saying you don't like them, or saying that they take themselves to seriously (very particular critiques about specific movies) is a rather rediculous practice.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Another one for me was The Deer Hunter. I just felt like crap after watching it.

Man I know what you mean, I rented it knowing how notorious the russian roulette scene has been parodied in other movies but you have to wait for like a good hour and a half of boring talking to get to that scene.

Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken give dynamite performances there but the movie itself is only famous for that one scene in fact I rarely ever seen the movie shown on cable TV.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Man I know what you mean, I rented it knowing how notorious the russian roulette scene has been parodied in other movies but you have to wait for like a good hour and a half of boring talking to get to that scene.

Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken give dynamite performances there but the movie itself is only famous for that one scene in fact I rarely ever seen the movie shown on cable TV.

Yeah, it is mainly just a somewhat sombre character piece on a group of friends going off to war, as opposed to being in the war together(apart from that one scene). Showing the war's effect on a small community.
It is a good movie, it's just not a war movie. I love DeNiro's character 'The Deer Hunter', and I love that scene where they all go hunting, John Cazale forgets to bring his hiking boots, and DeNiro refuses to lend him his spare boots, 'No...this is this!' really funny.
It is a good character study on someone who has hidden depths, that are brought out when he is put under extreme circumstances. I have it on dvd, but it's long sombre movie, so i don't feel like putting it on much.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The film is long, but neccessary. The first act is before the war, the second in the war, and the third is after. Each act the characters are very different. Maybe apart from DeNiro's who seems to have been bred for war and handled the return home the best. Or not. It's been a long time since I watched it.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Oh, Vertigo. It may be Hitchcock's masterpiece but I couldn't get into it. It's a shame, I was digging the hell out of the opening.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

The film is long, but neccessary. The first act is before the war, the second in the war, and the third is after. Each act the characters are very different. Maybe apart from DeNiro's who seems to have been bred for war and handled the return home the best. Or not. It's been a long time since I watched it.

Yeah, DeNiro is the only one who handles the trauma, the thread through the movie is that he is the deep thinker of the group, the guy who the others don't fully understand(Cazale calls him out on this when he won't lend him his boots, calls him 'a nut'). He is more mentally prepared for the unexpected horrors they go through in Vietnam. His friends are the patriotic types who don't think much past the staples of life, 'the American Dream'... wife, kids, home, job, they have never meditated on anything beyond what they see with their own eyes in their perfect little town. So their minds are completely unprepared for the dark underbelly of human nature, as experienced by their captivity in Vietnam, and don't come out intact as a result.

 

[The Englishman]

The Godfather Part II. I sort of like it, but I can't understand why so many people consider it to be that much better than the first.

Agreed. I thought i was the only person who thought this, i likt the 2nd but i think the 1st movie is a much better film...

 

[The Englishman]

....you just havent been able to 'get into them' a.k.a. Good movies that you should like but dont (or cant).

Take my main two for example, the likes of 'the Usual Suspects' and 'Carlitto's Way'. Even though I know how critically acclaimed they are, how wonderfully directed, excellently scripted, excellent cast; whenever I've tried watching them I've never been able to get that 'connection' that draws you in and says to you 'dont even think about turning the tv off until you've seen the end'............

It's weird - I absolutely love other films similiar in theme and style to them [with the same or similiar actors too] and all logic would suggest that I should like them too yet the watchability simply isnt there for me, despite [as I said] being fully aware of how good they are.
Anybody experienced such a phenomenon?

I actually think this about Scarface and i think Carlito's Way is a much better film.

 

[Drizzle]

Agreed. I thought i was the only person who thought this, i likt the 2nd but i think the 1st movie is a much better film...

A lot of people say the second one is better because of Michael's story arc, but I think his story arc in the first film is much more tragic. In the first film, he goes from war hero Ivy League college graduate to crimelord. In Part II, he just goes from bad to worse. Another reason why I like the second film less is because of the absence of Brando and Caan. But without a doubt, my favorite aspect of the second film is the young Vito Corleone subplot.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

But without a doubt, my favorite aspect of the second film is the young Vito Corleone subplot.

Yeah, same here, when I was at school I took a day off sick and watched the lot of the Godfathers, but it wasn't the movies, it was the tv serial edit. Coopola edited the two movies into a multi-part serial, with lots of added footage. So, in that cut, the first part is just all the DeNiro stuff edited togther, before you get to Brando. It annoys me to watch the film cut nowadays as there there is some good footage in the tv cut that isn't in the movie. eg In the movie, they only refer to Don Fannuchi getting his throat slit by some chancers, but in the tv cut you get to see DeNiro witnessing the attempted hit, it's a v good scene.
I also prefer the 1st Godfather movie.

 

[Fanticon]

The Green Mile...never got around to it. Don't want to be depressed or uplifted at the same time, and three hours of those feelings..I guess "there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him."

 

[Mace Dolex]

Yeah, it is mainly just a somewhat sombre character piece on a group of friends going off to war, as opposed to being in the war together(apart from that one scene). Showing the war's effect on a small community.
It is a good movie, it's just not a war movie. I love DeNiro's character 'The Deer Hunter', and I love that scene where they all go hunting, John Cazale forgets to bring his hiking boots, and DeNiro refuses to lend him his spare boots, 'No...this is this!' really funny.
It is a good character study on someone who has hidden depths, that are brought out when he is put under extreme circumstances. I have it on dvd, but it's long sombre movie, so i don't feel like putting it on much.

Oh yeah I love that that scene too because I have dumb friends who just don't think to bring the necessary stuff whether it's camping or coming over to a friends house to watch sports and they forget to bring the beer.

 

[Bunker]

A lot of people say the second one is better because of Michael's story arc, but I think his story arc in the first film is much more tragic. In the first film, he goes from war hero Ivy League college graduate to crimelord. In Part II, he just goes from bad to worse. Another reason why I like the second film less is because of the absence of Brando and Caan. But without a doubt, my favorite aspect of the second film is the young Vito Corleone subplot.

Pretty sure that's everyone's favorite part of the film.