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Not going to bat for this movie, though I'll say its enjoyable moments did outweigh its cringy moments... all in all I liked it. But are you two literally retarded? Rotten Tomatoes doesn't review movies, all they do is collect the reviews that are out there and do the math to get an aggregate average.
Thanks OP, I was just in the mood for a lame hot take from some pissy A-hole with a 12 ft. 2x4 rammed all the way up his ass. Your post fit the bill perfectly.
No doubt it was way over the top. No doubt she was overdoing it. But major doubt that it wasn't absolutely 100% intentional and precisely what Lynch wanted her to do in the role. Like another poster mentioned, I laughed at virtually everything Ladd did in every one of her scenes. But I wasn't "laughing at her" per se. I felt like I "got it." Whatever "it" was, it went sailing right over your indignant head.
I'll assume you were trying to be amusing.
Let's not bullshit: Pam Grier's tits showed waaaaaay more of a disparity than normal.
I still would have liked to... you know... motorboat them. *brrbbrbrbbrbrrrbbbrbrbr*
Funny, I just posted in another thread how I first saw this movie as a teen because my mom couldn't wait to see it after Siskle & Ebert reviewed it. I had virtually zero interest, but I watched it because she rented it on tape, and in those days I'd watch virtually anything that was brought into the house. I loved it, it's gotta be somewhere in my top 100 movies of all time. I can't imagine what a miserable, soul-less P.O.S. a person would have to be to not enjoy it.
No idea. I remember watching Siskel & Ebert review it, I would have been 13 or 14. I didn't really think much of it, but my mom was all over it and couldn't wait to see it. She rented it probably about a year later. I watched it and fell in love with it. I must have rented it on VHS two or three times over the years. Then I bought it when it released on DVD ages ago, no idea how many times I watched it. Not that many, I'll go a number of years between watches. I just bought the Criterion blu-ray and watched it over the weekend. I've probably seen at least 10 times.
If you want to see a great "gentle comedy," yes.
I know nobody would give a shit, but Nolan explained it before the movie even released.
"For the soldiers who embarked in the conflict, the events took place on different temporalities. On land, some stayed one week stuck on the beach. On the water, the events lasted a maximum day; and if you were flying to Dunkirk, the British Spitfires would carry an hour of fuel. To mingle these different versions of history, one had to mix the temporal strata. Hence the complicated structure; even if the story is very simple. Do not repeat it to the studio: it will be my most experimental film."
Did you get back on your meds since you posted that gibberish?
A lot of it in general was trolling. Things like the little shit Eugene talking about how he "gets chased by n****ers in LA," that was not trolling. Darby using the term "wet back," that was trolling. At least, according to the Lexicon Devil book about the Germs. Darby claimed he said stuff like that occasionally not because he was racist, but only because it offended people. 9 times out of 10 when you see a punk wearing a swastika, it wasn't because they believed in nazism. It was because they got their kicks seeing "old people" get offended and freak out.
Personally, I get it. My parents did a fantastic job of teaching me to not be a hateful prejudiced bigot. But if they tried to teach me that it's not fun to make uptight assholes lose their shit over nothing, they failed miserably at that.
Exactly. I was sexually mature when I was 13. I had regularly recurring detailed sexual fantasies about my 7th grade teacher. She was at least 26. She might have been as old as 30, I never knew her age. I'd say her attractiveness rating would be about on par with Spacey in those old photos Cookie LA posted. She wasn't particularly attractive, no one in their right mind would have described her as "hot," but I wanted her to use me as her own personal sex toy and I would have been over the moon if she'd ever actually done so. I was ready and willing and raring to go at that young age. And she wasn't the only older woman I fantasized about. I hardly ever fantasized about girls my age back then... I knew they would have been just as clueless about sex as I was. It was always about older women showing me the ropes and how amazing that would be. The idea that I would have been traumatized, damaged and scarred by a sexual experience that I wanted so badly is completely laughable and ridiculous. And I know that I am completely average in every way, so I'm sure all of the above is true for the vast majority of males my age. At least the ones who grew up when I did, before the world became the milktoast pale shadow it is today.
She was great in terms of being a snarky abrasive creep you couldn't wait to see dead at the end. A little disappointing, but she'll get hers in the next one.
EDIT 4 years later in spring 2023: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
<blockquote>Also....
The Element of Crime.</blockquote>
Oh my god, thank you. I've been going crazy trying to remember the title of that movie, the director, who starred in it... I recently re-watched Paris, Texas for the first time in 25 years and for some reason it reminded of it, I must have originally seen them both around the same time. I kept thinking they were both Wim Wenders. It was bugging me for weeks and I'd given up, thank you...
Personally I loved it, which I attribute to my ability to ignore weak/cliche stories as long as the eye candy is worth looking at. (i.e. I have no problem enjoying stuff like Tron Legacy, Prometheus, etc.) This movie delivers visually to the point where that's more than enough. The story isn't bad or weak, really. It's just very simple and nothing new.
I don't recall ever seeing it, but I checked to see if Shelley Long ever did a teen sex farce in the early 80s, and she did one called Losin' It in 1983. Sure enough, Cruise was in it. The crabs/pool scene is definitely from Last American Virgin, though. That'd be hilarious if another movie ripped it off a year later.
<blockquote>If the writer and director happens to read your post, they'll be very happy. Anytime a story or scene can have such an impact is a major victory for the writer or director.</blockquote>
Somewhere I heard/read that the story is very much autobiographical on the part of the writer/director himself, so if that's true I imagine his reaction would be "You think it was cruel to show it in a movie? Consider how cruel it was to actually be the kid driving the car."
"We don't have the book to refer to when watching the movie. A movie must stand on its own."
I wasn't a huge fan of the movie myself, I thought many shots of nothing happening just went on far too long. Literally a waste of time.
But fuck off with these "laws" you think movies have to obey just to please you, or any other viewer. A movie or a book or a song or any other creative work can be precisely as vague and ambiguous as its creator chooses.
Yes it is hilarious that the people who wrote the book Colossus and made the movie The Forbin Project were ignorant of Moore's Law. So hilarious. Ha ha ha ha. I can not stop laughing because it is so hilarious. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Eric Braeden told a story in an interview, about working on Titanic. At the end of Braeden's scene, after saying "cut," James Cameron said, "Never!" Braeden thought it was a bizarre non-sequitur and assumed it was Cameron's odd way of saying he blew the scene. He was about to get pissed off, but the look on his face must have indicated that he was a little confused." Cameron said, "The last line in Colossus." And then Braeden got that he was being complimented.
Best part of the story is that it confirms the obvious assumption that Cameron was well familiar with this movie before he came up with the Skynet concept. (For all I know he's been very open about it, no idea)