Agreed, this was a cliched festering piece of shit film. But strangely enough, I don't think I know anyone who actually liked it. Seems to be another one of these films that gets by on critical acclaim alone.
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Agreed, this was a cliched festering piece of shit film. But strangely enough, I don't think I know anyone who actually liked it. Seems to be another one of these films that gets by on critical acclaim alone.
Jurassic Park might be an epic in most people's eyes
I find it too slow paced and boring.
I find it too slow paced and boring.
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Anchorman
Just dont find it funny at all. The only decent scene was where the news reporters have a gang fight and Ben Stiller made me laugh more in 1p seconds than the rest of the movie combined
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Just dont find it funny at all. The only decent scene was where the news reporters have a gang fight and Ben Stiller made me laugh more in 1p seconds than the rest of the movie combined
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Million dollar Baby. Bat shit boring.
A more recent one - The Irishman. Boring as batshit however was amused in the de-aged De Niro kicking someone on the street curb (looked like a 40 year old but moved like a 70 year old). Felt like most of the love was nostalgia for Scorsese doing mob films again.
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Most of the Fast and the Furious franchise
I enjoy the first purely because it's Point Break on 4 wheels instead of a surfboard.
I enjoy the second one even though it's a bit try hard
I tolerate the 4th because it's like reunion of the cast from the first movie
But 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are trash.
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To me it was the last time he was in excellent filmmaking form. Wolf, Irishman and Silence are all good but more inessential and back-in-the-pack. Shutter suffered a little on release from being a big opening weekend thriller, which meant a wider audience and more genre expectation, as well as the slight stink of a release delay, but Scorsese's commanding touch then hasn't been seen since.
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Hard disagree, Wolf is vastly superior to Shutter Island. Everything in shutter island is horrendously telegraphed, all the imagery that’s meant to be methaphoric and subtle is ham fisted. It’s just a shit thriller and everything falls apart on itself if the basis of the film is laughably revealed.
Having said all that, it’s got a good IMDb and most people seem to like it so this is my hill and my hill alone.
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Maybe you need to revisit Shutter and I need to revisit Wolf. I wasn't that big on Shutter in release but caught up with it again last year and was impressed (I'm not a plot person, but felt Scorsese knew exactly what he wanted to make and demonstrated command of the terrain).
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It doesn't feel flabby, direction on-point, the central intrigue compelling, the visual prowess consistently taut and delectable.
If there is one flaw, it is that we don't quite emotionally connect with Teddy strongly enough for Shutter Island to become a more greatly involving film.
If there is one flaw, it is that we don't quite emotionally connect with Teddy strongly enough for Shutter Island to become a more greatly involving film.
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Shutter Island is amazing.
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To me (and i appreciate there are other opinions) the central premise of the film is the mystery of Teddy and i found the visuals and visions (the imagery, pacing and direction) were so blindingly obvious to the big reveal of the plot that you knew within 15 minutes what had happened and what was going on. Once that central premise is (really badly) revealed the next hour and a half of the film is contrived and pointless and ultimately building to a reveal that we already know down to the detail.
Its like an 8.1 on IMDB, generally very well recieved by audiences so im well aware i stand on this hill alone and im not trying to convince anyone im right but I hated it (and i had great expectations for the character actor cast and Leo/Scorcese pairing).
I think Wolf is great film and he made some great choices in it but ultimately its more fun than substance. I actually think Hugo was probably his last great run in the directors chair and if that doesnt do it for you (very unscorsese) The Aviator and The Departed a few years prior to Shutter Island are fantatsic as well.
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As I said, I don't really watch films for plot, more for directing and editing, therefore the mystery of Teddy can be readable from the get-go and not worry me, as the film has much else to offer me. Visually the film works really well for me from post to post, at a level that Scorsese hasn't managed since, whether because his films have been overlong, a little too tech-conscious, patchy in their visual ideas or treading well-worn ground for him.
I've seen all of Scorsese's features (except some of those pre-Mean Streets ones and Color of Money). Aviator, Departed and Shutter are all in my top 10 films from him, whereas everything else post-Casino is good, but not something I could give a 4/5 rating to. New York, New York is the only film of his I wouldn't readily recommend.
Anything with a super hero, I don't just hate them. I loath them.
What else can they be but crap with special effects. Still I never watch them, I like stories not crud!
I have seen two Batman movies early ones Michael Keaton and maybe Christian Bale I think? But they all come out the same.
Bale was in the Machinist I think its called, and he was a kid when he played in The Empire Of The Sun, crikey you'd reckon after performances like those Batman would be just a money maker for him.
I will be happy when the super hero stuff disappears, and some good movies are made, but I guess they are all partly stopped now too, because of corona?
I generally watch for entertainment. Plots?? Are they not important?
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I found the Shutter Island twist blatantly obvious and hackneyed by the time it came out. The movie is slickly made, but I wasn't impressed.
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I don't like the Harry Potter movies, and my attempt to read the books didn't go any better. Maybe I'm just a muggle?
