HORRIBLY TERRIBLE

Hey....I gave it a 4 too!

This movie was pretty bad....I was expecting a better movie too. I watched it with my dad and his quote was "none of these characters have any type of opening for the audience to relate too."
and my quote was
"you know a movie is bad when all you can think about is it ending and what you'll do after."

~But that's just me~

I wish your posts were grammatically correct.

Furthermore, title-dropping, as it were, proves nothing.

At any rate, The Seventh Seal was a *beep* mess, as are your arguments.

It's funny that someone who seeks "exceptional works of intelligence" and hates movies with any "unsubtleness" (is that a word?) speaks so bluntly and, to be honest, in such a juvenile manner.



You're a pretentious *beep* Take off your beret, sir, and realize that your pedestal is false.

;)

You are so pretentious, I hardly have words.

i don't understand how you say it's poorly written, and tell me how it was predictable, did you know the two friends were brothers, i don't see how you saw that, and I thought the writing was impeccable, it captured every emotion from a teenage perspective who is from a troubled family. Not even financially but emotionally becuase their problems ran deep and it seemed the whole society they lived in had similar problems. Suicide is a tough subject to film I can see how you might think they overdid it ... but it happens man everyday some teen is killing themselves because they feel that life has no purpose for them or they struggle to find meaning. It is a very bold subject and I think this film was excellent from the acting ( Jeff Daniels Squid and the Whale and Imaginery heroes are works of art) to the writing

Sorry about the name franny. I still have to disagree with you though. I think that the characters were dealing with it in their own way. And thats what I meant in my own original post. Sure the fathers pain was obivious. But think back to how all the rest of the charaters were responding. The only character we didnt see on a regular basis was the sister, but she did break down towards the end also when she learned that her mother might also be dying. I dont think the movie was really intended to deal with these people learning to cope with a sucide. The sucide was just a way to start a snowball of changes that these people were going to have to deal with in their own way.

Again...just my opinion. I liked this movie because it was one that I couldnt stop thinking about. I dont expect anyone else to feel the way that I do.

if you think this movie was horribly terrible, you haven't seen Gigli
::shudders::

this movie was great.

well, i liked it no doubt but found it inferior to Short Cuts, it no doubt had some great scenes that were very touching(unlike Imaginary Heroes) and the message and End were good, but the only reason i wouldnt call it great is that i found it hard to get through the seemingly endless country music scenes(only a couple) and im not someone who finds it hard to get through very many films.

Last Film I Watched-
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance(2nd) - Chan-wook Park(8/10)

"I mean, you conatasntly say how your own films are better"

what are you talking about, i said the below statement once, "constantly" and i also said they were amateurish, i was not so much saying anything good about my films as much as saying how bad this film is.
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"i believe i can and have done better. Even for how ameteur my films are they are still above this, no doubt about it. "
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i dont know what you mean by "putting a list of films" if you are talking about my profile, thats what profiles are mainly used for, to describe your taste.
As for French New Wave being dull, which ones have you seen, because some of them are masterworks: A Woman is a Woman, Masculin Feminin, The 400 Blows, etc. as for calling you half retarded, no i wont, but i would say for myslef that you can have an opinion about films and even the French New Wave films, but i think its a fact that many of the French New Wave films are good, you can like them or not, but i dont think its a question of opinion when it comes down whether they are good and such, its like calling DaVinci or Michaelangelo's masterworks bad, you can go ahead but i think you're wrong, you can slate me for my opinion on opinions as im sure its a somewhat radical opinion when put into words but save your breath, please.

as for constructive criticism, well its hard to start with one category, its like Crash, the whole thing is bad, you would have to start over from scratch. But lets just say i enjoy family films that are a lot more subtle, for example, watch Ozu's Tokyo Story, its one of the best films i have ever seen and most definitely the best family film i have ever seen.

and as for my films, they run from 45min to an hour and they are all on video edited from two vcrs, partly for lack of resources and partly for simplistic aesthetics.

Last Film I Watched:
The Isle - Ki-Duk Kim(8/10)

I thought this film was (i'll use another poster's word & say) "subtly" inspiring. It's like you felt, in parts, the family just wasnt connecting or either they weren't connecting to their roles. Either way, I think was intended...to leave yourself open to any interpretation. To me it was thought provoking & for some enlightning. For the poster referring to the drug element in the movie...I don't think it played such a pivotal role in the film.