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Reply 20 of 51 (Originally posted on: 09-16-04 01:52:45 PM)
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Quoted from Extrapolation: My friends and I usually leave the theater talking and laughing, but after this film, we were all silent. Unable to speak, for the whole ride home. Very few movies have that effect on us, especially me.
Everything about the characters reflected so perfectly on what it's like to live in L.A., to go home, to put up with whacked-out people, on and on. It rang true for all of us.
But, sorry, I couldn't ignore this:
Quoted from johnhawks: Citizen Kane
You "appreciate" this movie because it's #1 on AFI's top 100 list. That's what every self-declared "film buff" does; hell, it's what I did when I was a freshman in film school. But show me anyone who genuinely watches C.K. actually going "Hell yeah! This movie kicks so much ass!" and I will eat my computer.
Quote: Resivior Dogs
You're only a real Tarantino fan if you like Jackie Brown, because all the shallow Tarantino pseudo-fans can't figure out why it's good. Pulp could have earned you some points too, as long as you didn't use the phrase "nonlinear narrative" to tell me why it's good.
Quote: Adaptation
Congratulations, Commander Ebert; you know who Kaufman is.
Quote: American Beauty
Great. Another quasi-artsy film for people who look for the metanarrative symbolism in every pebble on the sidewalk. Or you could see Thora Birch actually act, and rent Ghost World.
Quote: Eternal Sunshine
I have nothing against Gondry so I won't knock his film here. In fact, it was one of the most innovative films of the year. What can I say?
Now, it's not that I think there's anything wrong with any of these films; in fact, they're all superb works of cinema in their own ways. It's just that your taste reminds me of every frigging pretentious freshman who'd come to our film society meetings back at university. Claiming Citizen Kane as a favorite film has become so hilariously cliche and over-used that most film majors actually make fun of it now.
It looks like you combined what's universally accepted as safe choices, and added a few good films you watched recently. Where's the Bergman on your list? The Kurosawa? Fellini, Chaplin, Lynch, Coppola, Fincher, Hitchcock, Dreyer, Argento, Crowe, Kubrick, and Lang, to name a few, are all consipicuously absent. I realize there are just your favorite films, but there are so many thousands of truly great films out there.
I know I'm antagonistic about this, but I put up with way too much of it back in college, and now I'm jaded. Ah well.
My god are film students ever pretentious and annoying.
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