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So you can't explain why you thought it was excellent?

It doesn't make my opinion wrong as my opinion is about why I didn't think the film was particularly good. You can't argue someone into liking a film.

Plenty of **** films have won Best Picture over more deserving films by the way.
I’m not telling you to like it
It’s like saying gone with the wind is ****
Or Laurence Olivier is a **** actor

you can have that opinion and you’re welcome to it
You just look an idiot
Carry on
 
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Are we signing De Niro on a freebie?

Guess we still need some experience.
Should be a decent finisher based on your discussions, bit of a sniper?
 
Nothing special? I think you may need to add imho to that
It was an excellent film and has rightly been lauded as such

I thought there was only one scene of them playing Russian roulette. Syd seems to think there were quite a number of them.
 
I’m not telling you to like it
It’s like saying gone with the wind is ****
Or Laurence Olivier is a **** actor

you can have that opinion and you’re welcome to it
You just look an idiot
Carry on

Gone With the Wind is an utter bore. It did so well at the box office because there was virtually nothing on and it was extravagant for the time. All Quiet on the Western Front by contrast is an utterly excellent film.

It doesn't make me an idiot just because I don't go along with the crowd and blindly like a movie without reflecting on how it is presented.

You still haven't explained why you think it's excellent. Are you seriously saying it's excellent because lots of people say so?
 
Gone With the Wind is an utter bore. It did so well at the box office because there was virtually nothing on and it was extravagant for the time. All Quiet on the Western Front by contrast is an utterly excellent film.

It doesn't make me an idiot just because I don't go along with the crowd and blindly like a movie without reflecting on how it is presented.

You still haven't explained why you think it's excellent. Are you seriously saying it's excellent because lots of people say so?
I’d like to see Quatermass again to see why I sh1t scared as a 14 year old.in 1956.
 
Gone With the Wind is an utter bore. It did so well at the box office because there was virtually nothing on and it was extravagant for the time. All Quiet on the Western Front by contrast is an utterly excellent film.

It doesn't make me an idiot just because I don't go along with the crowd and blindly like a movie without reflecting on how it is presented.

You still haven't explained why you think it's excellent. Are you seriously saying it's excellent because lots of people say so?
Don’t demand anything off me
Again crack on with your opinion
 
Well I'm passing judgement on a film, of course it's an opinion and not objective fact. I didn't think it was particularly great and reflects the quality of a lot of best pictures at the time - throw people into a war setting and comment on the horrors of war and clean up at the Oscars. The number of scenes of them playing Russian Roulette really dulled the impact.

What made it excellent in your opinion?
In my opinion it was one of the best movies I’ve seen, opinions are like onions just a p and i in the way…never have I ever not watched a movie because someone else said it’s not as good as they thought, if I did that when my friend said chariots of fire is just about posh boys I’d of missed another wonderful movie.. just an opinion not an onion….
 
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Don’t demand anything off me
Again crack on with your opinion

I'm not demanding anything. I offered an opinion and you responded to me telling me I was wrong without explaining why I was wrong.

The fact you can't even formulate a response of "Why did you like this movie" says it all. You just want to tell others they're wrong without being able to formulate an original thought on why they're wrong.

If you're seriously trying to say it's good cos everyone says so then try having an original thought Chazz. No issues if you like it, but tell me why YOU like it.
 
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I'm not demanding anything. I offered an opinion and you responded to me telling me I was wrong without explaining why I was wrong.

The fact you can't even formulate a response of "Why did you like this movie" says it all. You just want to tell others they're wrong without being able to formulate an original thought on why they're wrong.

If you're seriously trying to say it's good cos everyone says so then try having an original thought Chazz. No issues if you like it, but tell me why YOU like it.
Why don’t you just **** off you boring arguementative prick
 
In my opinion it was one of the best movies I’ve seen, opinions are like onions just a p and i in the way…never have I ever not watched a movie because someone else said it’s not as good as they thought, if I did that when my friend said chariots of fire is just about posh boys I’d of missed another wonderful movie.. just an opinion not an onion….

Chariots of Fire was great, agreed.
 
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Why don’t you just **** off you boring arguementative prick

You're the one that picked an argument with me ffs. <laugh> I was talking to red top not you.

Have an original thought Chazz, please. Tell me one thing you liked about Deer Hunter. Did you like the music? The performance from De Niro? The cinematography? What was it?
 
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You're the one that picked an argument with me ffs. <laugh> I was talking to red top not you.

Have an original thought Chazz, please. Tell me one thing you liked about Deer Hunter. Did you like the music? The performance from De Niro? The cinematography? What was it?
As I keep saying
You’re a prick and argumentative prick
Now do **** off you stupid ****

it doesn’t need saying you ****ing idiot
That you can’t see it only highlights what a **** you are
Did I say an argumentative one? yes you are
Now enjoy your night trying to goad others to talk to you
 
You're the one that picked an argument with me ffs. <laugh> I was talking to red top not you.

Have an original thought Chazz, please. Tell me one thing you liked about Deer Hunter. Did you like the music? The performance from De Niro? The cinematography? What was it?
For me it was all of the above and many more, I sometimes sit and listen to the music and literally walk back into my young self. Remembering some of the things I got up to and got away with back then. For me it’s about the futility of war, of how friendship can be so close you’d give up your life for another, something I think would almost never happen these days with how selfish the younger generation is. There is so much more to the film I could write but it’s ****ing late and my coco is getting cold lol but I will leave you with this thought. When de Niro shot over the stag’s head and not kill it unlike the others ****ing idiots. For me that was such a beautiful moment… good night and god bless….
 
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As I keep saying
You’re a prick and argumentative prick
Now do **** off you stupid ****

it doesn’t need saying you ****ing idiot
That you can’t see it only highlights what a **** you are
Did I say an argumentative one? yes you are
Now enjoy your night trying to goad others to talk to you

What an over the top reaction. Next time I'm talking to someone else and you feel like getting involved, please don't.
 
For me it was all of the above and many more, I sometimes sit and listen to the music and literally walk back into my young self. Remembering some of the things I got up to and got away with back then. For me it’s about the futility of war, of how friendship can be so close you’d give up your life for another, something I think would almost never happen these days with how selfish the younger generation is. There is so much more to the film I could write but it’s ****ing late and my coco is getting cold lol but I will leave you with this thought. When de Niro shot over the stag’s head and not kill it unlike the others ****ing idiots. For me that was such a beautiful moment… good night and god bless….

And that makes complete sense. Thank you for a reasoned response.

For me when it comes to those broad themes of friendship/futility of war I just felt there were a lot of films released around that time that dealt with the same themes. Apocalypse Now, Platoon, etc. and Deer Hunter just didn't strike me because the Russian Roulette theme just came off quite cheap.

But of course you're entitled to your opinion and makes sense to me why it would resonate with you.
 
What film are you all on about with Russian roulette?

Deer Hunter, it's a recurring theme through the movie where the characters are forced to play Russian Roulette as a way of drumming up tension. The director tried to claim it was something he saw in some newspaper article as happening with the VC then couldn't cite the article, then said it wasn't meant to have literally happened. Think he also tried to claim the movie was somewhat autobiographical until people pointed out a bunch of inconsistencies and then he backtracked on that too.
 
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Deer Hunter, it's a recurring theme through the movie where the characters are forced to play Russian Roulette as a way of drumming up tension. The director tried to claim it was something he saw in some newspaper article as happening with the VC then couldn't cite the article, then said it wasn't meant to have literally happened. Think he also tried to claim the movie was somewhat autobiographical until people pointed out a bunch of inconsistencies and then he backtracked on that too.

Honestly never heard of it, it’s a bit old though. At a 3 hour run time I’ll probably never get round to watching it either.
 
Honestly never heard of it, it’s a bit old though. At a 3 hour run time I’ll probably never get round to watching it either.

Watched it because my wife and I worked our way through all Best Picture winners to try to expose ourselves to movies we wouldn't otherwise watch as for the same reason as you, it's easy to have a bunch of movies in the cultural zeitgeist pass us by. Maybe that coloured my perception of it too as I was watching a lot of similar films around the same time, and watching it when it first came out may have left a different impression.