I’ve just flicked through the list of best picture winner, I’ve not heard of most of them Ive seen a few, and those I have seen have been brilliant, with the exception of the hurt locker, which I thought was pretty good but that must have been a **** year for films if it won, definitely a level below the likes of LOTR, Gladiator, Braveheart. Oppenheimer is in my watch list although I think literally everyone I know who watched it said it was ****e. Can’t remember the last modern release I came away wowed from to be honest, Interstellar was heading that way until about 2/3 of the way in when it just got stupid.
Yeah Hurt Locker was pretty average. Crash was one that I hadn't really heard of but I thought was brilliant. Although that may be because I love when films are put together like that with the inter-related plots.
I have a magical ability to watch a film and think it alright, good, or rubbish and yet within 10 minutes or so not be able to remember anything of note that happened. Complete Unknown, completely cocked up all the bits with the motorcycle, and in some scenes young bob looked like a young John cooper Clark.
There was the jungle scene when they were prisoners and then in Saigon after the Americans had withdrawn and where the Christopher Walken character eventually killed himself.
There’s two and it’s just one of them that is the really famous scene that made the film. I thought it would have been better slightly shorter, but it’s still a great film.
Isn't there the scene with them in the hut on the river, then the scene in the city in the gambling den, and then there's the scene at the end of the movie where Walken dies? The second two are both in similar settings though so I guess they blend together in peoples' memory. Which is the one that 'made the film' - is it the final one?
It covered many topics (maybe too many) in three hours and you take from it what you want. A lot about masculinity, changing blue collar America, young men being expected to sacrifice their lives/be crippled for a country that wouldn't accept their freedom of sexuality, women at the time being trapped in unhappy relationships, the US being a blend of cultures and religions... I thought it was a film showing how ****ed up humankind was and de Niros character let the stag live because he saw the purity in nature in comparison to the mess that he'd seen/caused in Vietnam.
I absolutely think it resonates differently with people who lived through that era which is why I'm not dismissing anyone's enjoyment of it - I'm just explaining why it didn't resonate with me as someone who didn't live through that and as someone who watched a lot of films with similar themes in a short space of time. I just don't quite enjoy someone telling me I'm stupid for not liking something but then not expressing why something resonated with them. Your and Red Top's responses have been very much appreciated.
I didn't love it, but I liked it - the original studio cut (that maybe Cityzen/OLM saw regarding one Russian roulette scene - I can't remember the exact differences) was a different film from the director's European cut that I saw more recently, with an extra hour or so. One was a friendship and war story and the latter was far more critical of the US and the demands and hypocrisies it put on its ppl at the time.
One in the jungle, one where Walken dies. You’re spending a lot of time trying to get people to talk to you about a film you didn’t even like.
Ye, I remember many were disappointed and considered it boring when it came out.. went to see a war film and then had to sit through an hour long wedding scene. I think the studios cut a lot of films to make then more palatable for the audiences at the time - apocalypse now, get carter, Leon etc.
Morning everyone, I seem to have stumbled onto the BAFTA thread, I notice syd’s in the middle of a disagreemnt again. I hope we win tonight, it’s so ****ing boring on here without a game
You're the one that replied to me erroneously correcting me. My response even acknowledged it would be easy to blend two together. Sorry for.. Replying?
