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Your Controversial Movie Opinions !
« on: March 08, 2016, 11:23:55 AM »
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Annoy your fellow DTF poster !

List your opinions about movies that differ from "the norm".

I'll start !!!!!

The " Match Cut " in 2001 is one of the sloppiest cuts in movie history and incredibly un-noteworthy. Even for the time they could have done better than that and I can't believe Kubrick

thought that was good enough.

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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2016, 11:38:36 AM »
Can't wait to see Blob lose it.


I've enjoyed the last 2 Star Trek Movies more than any Next Generation movies except for First Contact.
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2016, 11:40:13 AM »
Can't wait to see Blob lose it.


I've enjoyed the last 2 Star Trek Movies more than any Next Generation movies except for First Contact.

Me too. In spite of their problems - they're entertaining as hell.

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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2016, 11:49:48 AM »
Episode III is a top 3 Star Wars Movie.


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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2016, 11:51:45 AM »
Episode III is a top 3 Star Wars Movie.

Steady on ! :lol


It's easily the best of the prequels .

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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2016, 11:53:28 AM »
Watchmen is one of the toughest movies I've ever had to sit through. While not as bad as Sucker Punch (both would be in my top10 worst films), I started watching the clock during the opening credits almost. That movie did not suck me in at all, and it felt like watching paint dry for 3 hours.

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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2016, 11:56:07 AM »
I prefer Superman Returns to Man of Steel.

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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2016, 12:16:21 PM »
I prefer Superman Returns to Man of Steel.

I am the opposite of you on this.

Watchmen is one of the toughest movies I've ever had to sit through. While not as bad as Sucker Punch (both would be in my top10 worst films), I started watching the clock during the opening credits almost. That movie did not suck me in at all, and it felt like watching paint dry for 3 hours.

I agree with Sucker Punch but Watchman was not that bad at all.  I loved the opening sequence.

Episode III is a top 3 Star Wars Movie.



I like III more than VI.  That's it though.
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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2016, 12:19:02 PM »
I've never heard anything good about Sucker Punch.

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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2016, 12:31:55 PM »
Not against a specific movie, but there are two movies tropes I'm very sick of:

- Sex scenes. The woman is a wonderful wild beast of desire, she makes love like she's a pro, but comes moring she becomes a prude and she covers her chest with the sheets... in every damn movie since the invention of cinema.

Look, I completely understand that not every movie can be a porn, or an adult oriented one. I'm fine with actors not showing their nudity. But really, in all these decades no one was ever able to come up with another way to not show nudity than "Hey I let you bang my brains out but now all of a sudden I feel ashamed to show you my body and I will cover completely with the sheets"??? just cut the sex scene altogether, there are ways to let the audience know a couple had sex without having to show them in bed.

- People starting to talk "exotic" languages for no absolutely darn reason at all.

Peter Jackson is the worst offender of this. Elves talk to themselves in english, and then they stick a single word of elvish here and there. There's a movie set in Japan? you can bet your ass the japanese characters speak english, but at the beginning or the end they say a word or a sentence in japanese.

WHY, WHY, WHYYYYYY??!??!?!?! who ever in the entire history of mankind talked like that? I'm italian, it's like if I would say at the end of a dinner at the restaurant "Bene ragazzi, la cena è stata molto buona. Now let's go home" *. WHO DOES THAT? absolutely nobody. But in movies this happen. Please stop it.

*translation is: "Ok guys, dinner was very good".
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2016, 12:34:09 PM »
Welsh people talk like that :lol

Ble mae yr bottle of milk ?

Oh maen mewn yr fridge at the back .

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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2016, 01:00:08 PM »
I know a number of people who are fluent in English and Spanish who switch back and forth, sometimes in the middle of a sentence.

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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2016, 01:25:39 PM »
Tarantino's best film is Inglorious Basterds, not Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs

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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2016, 01:36:08 PM »
Avatar is completely overrated. Doesn't stand up to repeat viewings.

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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2016, 01:38:32 PM »
Citizen Kane?  Boring.

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« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2016, 02:15:32 PM »
John Wayne's best movie is not one where he plays a cowboy. 


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« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2016, 02:23:24 PM »
John Wayne's best movie is not one where he plays a cowboy. 


Any guesses?

The Quiet Man?

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« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2016, 02:35:46 PM »
John Wayne's best movie is not one where he plays a cowboy. 


Any guesses?

The Conqueror. Duh.
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« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2016, 02:55:58 PM »
John Wayne's best movie is not one where he plays a cowboy. 


Any guesses?

The Quiet Man?

This is my answer.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
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« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2016, 03:11:36 PM »
Yay!! Lucky guess! Where do I collect my prize?  :lol

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« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2016, 03:40:31 PM »
If we can also bring up annoying tropes, I thought of one when I was watching Lost. Two people from the same foreign language, speaking English in conversation with each other for no reason. Maybe it's the fact that I'm used to subtitles and don't mind it, but it's so weird if you have two characters from the same country speaking english just for the viewer.

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« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2016, 03:42:48 PM »
If we can also bring up annoying tropes, I thought of one when I was watching Lost. Two people from the same foreign language, speaking English in conversation with each other for no reason. Maybe it's the fact that I'm used to subtitles and don't mind it, but it's so weird if you have two characters from the same country speaking english just for the viewer.

You mean Jin and Sun?

I can say, living in a non-English speaking country, often times people who DO speak the same language will choose to speak the language of the people around them just to keep up their practice.

I doubt that's why Lost did it, but still.

Actually To Be or Not to Be with Mel Books covered that well. They start off speaking Polish, then a narrator says that they're going to switch to English to save everyone a headache.
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« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2016, 03:46:22 PM »
If we can also bring up annoying tropes, I thought of one when I was watching Lost. Two people from the same foreign language, speaking English in conversation with each other for no reason. Maybe it's the fact that I'm used to subtitles and don't mind it, but it's so weird if you have two characters from the same country speaking english just for the viewer.

You mean Jin and Sun?

I can say, living in a non-English speaking country, often times people who DO speak the same language will choose to speak the language of the people around them just to keep up their practice.

I doubt that's why Lost did it, but still.

Actually To Be or Not to Be with Mel Books covered that well. They start off speaking Polish, then a narrator says that they're going to switch to English to save everyone a headache.

No, it was Sayid and his officer/general in the Iraqi army. Hence why it was so weird since there were no english people around, and took place at their base I guess. I guess the simple solution might be that the actors don't know the language sometimes, and only learn a sentence or two, but it's still a bit weird sometimes. They greet in their own language, and then continue in english. :P

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« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2016, 03:47:48 PM »
Ohhhhh yea. I totally agree. In this case, the dude playing Sayyid isn't Arab lol, so I'm guessing he's not going to learn Arabic for a few minutes of a scene.

But yea, that general idea bugs me a lot too.
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« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2016, 03:55:19 PM »
Batman Begins is easily the best of the Christopher Nolan Batman films.

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« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2016, 04:24:08 PM »
Batman Begins is easily the best of the Christopher Nolan Batman films.

I agree. I always thought The Dark Knight had too many acts and too many characters and I don't know what's going on most of the time.

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« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2016, 04:29:19 PM »
It's like I don't even know you anymore.  :lol

Yay!! Lucky guess! Where do I collect my prize?  :lol

A virtual high five?

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« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2016, 05:30:30 PM »
Tarantino's best film is Inglorious Basterds, not Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs

I might agree with this (although I still need to see the The Hateful Eight).  Basterds and Pulp Fiction are 1a and 1b for me, and I love Jackie Brown almost as much. 

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« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2016, 05:33:39 PM »
I definitely preferred Django to Inglourious.


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« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2016, 05:52:06 PM »
Batman Begins is easily the best of the Christopher Nolan Batman films.

I agree. I always thought The Dark Knight had too many acts and too many characters and I don't know what's going on most of the time.
I think he has a tendency to make his movies too long, too big in scope, too involved, etc., and it ultimately weighs everything down. Batman Begins is not a short movie by any means, but compared to the other two, it sure feels like it. It is a little shorter, but it's mainly just more focused.

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« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2016, 05:56:34 PM »
I'm not the best at following plots but The Dark Knight is like ??? what ?

I have no idea what the chinese ?? guy has to do with the plot and i've seen the film several times.

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« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2016, 07:15:12 PM »
I sort of mentioned this in the Pixar thread but UP is an amazing 10 minute short film that is followed by a plodding run of the mill stupid kids movie.

The Life Aquatic is Wes Anderson's best movie and The Royal Tenenbaums is fairly boring.

I don't understand the popularity of Scarface since he's not even entertaining in how unlikeable he gets.

This one may not be really controversial since I've read similar pieces online, including Ebert's review, but that one scene at the end of Super made me so uncomfortable that it completely ruined my thoughts on the movie.

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« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2016, 08:15:04 PM »
The Life Aquatic is Wes Anderson's best movie
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« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2016, 08:23:06 PM »
In Bruges dragged on, and on, and on....

Battleship was entertaining, as was John Carter.
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« Reply #34 on: March 08, 2016, 09:14:39 PM »
A couple of my own:

1. Mars Attacks! is a great movie. Weird, but great. How my parents let me watch that movie when I was 7 I can't understand.

2. Airheads, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky are great movies.