The other side of film dissonance...

[Mallus]

Wouldn't it have been easier to write "you love america and woman are soft and nice but useless when it comes down to it" on a lead pipe and beat me over the head with THAT for a few hours...

I don't know about easier, but it would been a more pleasant experience.

Oh, that reminds me, any film touched by Michael Bay's clumsy spastic bear-paw of hand...

[Ah, thought of terrible films being soothed away by the dulcet?! sound of Bjork in her Sugarcubes days... Hit is a marvelous song]

 

[Viking Bastard]

I'm one those funny buggers that actually liked Titanic, although
it kinda goes downhill after the ship starts to sink.

Now, I can't stand Armageddon. I kinda liked it in the theatre,
because it looked kewl and had Steve Buscemi an' Bruce Willis in
it an' stuff. Then I saw it on TV later and felt ill.

Gladiator is movie I just cannot understand what the big deal is.
Sure, it's a fine flick. Kinda neat. But not. That. Bloody. Good.

I can't stand Shakespear in Love and I'm one of those rare types
of straight males that can actually sit through complete romantic
movies without strong abominal pain. Even the large cast of
excellent actors couldn't save it for me.

The Maltese Falcon. I like Noir movies. I like Humphrey Bogart
movies. Yet, I found it horribly dull. Dull. Dull. Dull.

First Knight. I know it didn't get outstanding reviews all around,
but my friends seem to like it. Why I don't understand.

And there are many, many more. I just can't remember 'em.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Titanic: Hated it...except for when people started to die. That really helped.

Armageddon: Ick...that AND Deep Impact...both I didn't like...but hey, people died again...so, redeamed somewhat.

Fargo: Just kind of...eh...wasn't as good as everyone seemed to claim.

On others...Gladiator I loved...I'm a sucker for Roman stuff, even if it isn't completely accurate. It was a fun movie...Rocky Horror Picture Show...you don't HAVE to like this. You just have to see it once in your life. Its okay to be scarred by it.

 

[John Crichton]

I actually liked 95% of the above movies, especially Fargo. Bygones.

One movie I hated that others seemed to love was "The Thin Red Line." I got the plot and everything that they were going for as for the themes but it was just a flat movie.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I too loved Fargo, but I was always surprised by the movie's
popularity, because IMO you really need an special sense of
humour for them.

And I just don't *get* Thin Red Line. I mean, the plot an' all,
sure, but it's just so boooooooring.

 

[Fast Learner]

I'm also a big Fargo fan, loved There's Something About Mary, though Happiness was simply amazing, and like most of the other movies already mentioned, but...

Gladiator was awful. I really don't understand what anyone sees in it. Totally predictable, really lousy acting, very dull fighting, and utterly unbelievable. Yuck. Oscar winning? It is to laugh.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Ooh, I have something original for this thread!!!

Erm, yeah.

Minority Report. I don't see why everyone thought that it was a great film. The only two parts I thought were cool were Tom Cruise and the psychic running away through the mall, and the fact that the whole ending could have been a halo dream. Otherwise I thought the film was horrible, and I'm really glad I had a friend working at the movie theater so I could get in for free.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Gladiator was awful. I really don't understand what anyone sees in it. Totally predictable, really lousy acting, very dull fighting, and utterly unbelievable. Yuck. Oscar winning? It is to laugh.

B... but... they based the music off of Holst's Mars!

No, you're right, definitely not Oscar winning. But then again, I've lost total faith in the Oscars after the last few years.

 

[RangerWickett]

No, you're right, definitely not Oscar winning. But then again, I've lost total faith in the Oscars after the last few years.

Yeah, ever since they let, of all things, Driving Miss Daisy win an Oscar. . . . Sheesh! Do the Oscar folks only care about moving storytelling and well-wrought drama? What's with them?



On a lighter note, I went to review Gladiator for my highschool newspaper when it came out. I walked out after the first little war scene, because it looked like they were just doing a documentary of a Roman war. Just combat for its own sake. The storytelling was too slow, and there was no point to having 15 minutes of melee at the beginning of the movie when you don't even care about the characters yet.

I've rewatched Gladiator since then, and I still don't groove with the characters. Russel Crowe is too subdued for me to really care for his character. When I compare Gladiator to Braveheart (both have lots of battles, and a hero that rebels against the king after his family is killed, and who dies at the end), I find that Braveheart was just a more interesting movie. The characters in Braveheart had flavor, and could be serious and dramatic while still being fun to watch.

However, my walking out of the theater on Gladiator did pay off a little. I walked into another theater, playing Love and Basketball, by Spike Lee. That movie was fun.

 

[Villano]

I thought Gladiator was okay. Certainly not the "great" film it was made out to be.

I used to feel the same way about LotR: FotR. However, after being pretty much abused everytime I've been asked my opinion about it, I now officially hate the movie.

Seriously, there are people to which you can't say, "Well, it was okay, but I don't think I'll ever watch it again". I think there are some people in the world with such self-esteem issues that they feel that they need to constantly validate their likes or dislikes. I honestly think that they need to convince other people to like the same things they do or else that would somehow make them wrong.

Personally, I don't give a crap if someone dislikes a movie I like or vice versa. Their opinions don't take away my enjoyment of it.