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Originally Posted by sputnik
happy evil dude, are you on crack? first the lorie shit and now you like crash better than brokeback and atonement better than no country for old men. makes no sense!  |
Tell you what friendo, it makes all the sense in the world, and I've never touched a single drug in my life. People have different opinions and tastes when it comes to movies, music, literature, etc, and even other people...And thank god for that! Yes I do like
Crash better than
Brokeback Mountain. I absolutely love Paul Haggis's works and believe him to be one of the most talented screenwriters working today, and while I think
Brokeback Mountain is a great movie and one of the very best of 2005, but it's also one of the most overrated movies of 2005, hell of the 21st century. Even though I list it among my favorite movies (a list over 200 movies long) it's not that special after all, and overly long. In fact I can list several other movies from 2005 which I also believe to be superior:
Munich,
Match Point,
Pride & Prejudice,
The Constant Gardener,
Walk The Line and the first
Narnia movie. I think Ang Lee deserved the Best Director Oscar which he got, but not the Best Picture. As a filmmaker myself I'm attracted to different things in different movies and to me beautiful imagery and great acting was what
Brokeback Mountain and
No Country For Old Men have going for them the most. I've seen quite a few Coen movies (at least half their filmography) and my opinion is that as a film,
No Country... is their weakest. And you know what, it's great that you loved it, I really liked it too, but a lot of people didn't like it, and even hated it. Even quite a few people right here in this thread. I will defend stuff which I like, but I won't defend myself for liking it, that's just ridiculous. I like what I like, I prefer what I prefer, you like what you like, you prefer what you prefer, I don't see why you need to get on my throat. I think
Atonement is one of the 5 best movies of 2007 and
No Country For Old Men is maybe one of the 10 or 15 best. Good for you if you think otherwise, give yourself a nice hand.
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Originally Posted by Grimmlok
Ugh.. Crash.. that obvious, hamfisted piece of Oscar bait shit. Could it get any more pedestrian, pablum-like and easily digestible? It was like watching "A Beautiful Mind", but more lame.
Barf.
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Oh yay! The guy who thinks
Fantastic Four has "comedic timing" and
Silent Hill has "no story" thinks
A Beautiful Mind and
Crash are lame. Whoop-di-doo! Could I care less? Why don't you do me a favor and show-off your great screenwriting skills... Perhaps you can write
The Fantastic Four At The Barbershop for Tim Story, thus creating the first ever double trilogy. By the way
Brokeback Mountain was 10000 times more an oscar-bait movie than
Crash...Especially with everyone involved constantly boasting how they were going to win every award and Ang Lee throwing a public tantrum when he didn't get Best Picture.
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Anyway, while Grimmlok was showing off his lack of taste (no offense, you guys disrespected me), here's what I watched:
Rough (2006), by Kentarô Ôtani, at home => A swimming competition centered romantic drama based on Mitsuru Adachi's manga of the same name. Adachi's incredible talent for storytelling is visible in every frame of this movie, very tastefully filmed by Kentarô Ôtani wo graces the viewer with some superb visuals. The actors (including Masami Nagasawa, one of my favorite people of the world) did a great job at giving the right sensibility to their characters. A very pleasant movie.