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ckent22 · 03-13-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by horseflesh

Am I the only one with absolutely no interest in Braveheart, Gump, Titanic and Gladiator??

Yeah, you probably are. Those films are wonderful.

Jonty · 03-13-2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by horseflesh

Am I the only one with absolutely no interest in Braveheart, Gump, Titanic and Gladiator??

I doubt it. While I enjoyed them, there's no way I'm sitting though Titanic again. Maybe gump and braveheart... The only one I am somewhat interested in is Gladiator. For me it's not just the quality of the movie, but the rewatchability factor...

ckent22 · 03-13-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonty

I doubt it. While I enjoyed them, there's no way I'm sitting though Titanic again. Maybe gump and braveheart... The only one I am somewhat interested in is Gladiator. For me it's not just the quality of the movie, but the rewatchability factor...

Why didn't you like Titanic?

Doctorossi · 03-13-2009, 02:58 PM

I also have only a mild interest in Gladiator. The rest of those can kiss it.

Jeff Kleist · 03-13-2009, 03:03 PM

Titanic I always saw as the greatest string puller ever

You're all weepy the first time through, and then you hate yourself a week later. It's not a very good movie, it's very good at knowing what buttons to push.

Jonty · 03-13-2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ckent22

Why didn't you like Titanic?

It's not that I didn't like it (although I only thought it was okay), but I just don't think I could sit through. Too long and slow for me. Maybe I just had a bad theatre experience. Either way - not interested in owning it at all.

Anyway, that's all I have to say because I don't want to derail this thread. There are more interesting posts than the reasons I won't buy titanic...

Doctorossi · 03-13-2009, 03:13 PM

Hey Jeff, have you gotten anywhere near to the bottom of the Monsters, Inc./A Bug's Life situation yet?

Jeff Kleist · 03-13-2009, 03:26 PM

no, probably won't for awhile

People aren't even in the office in CA yet, and it's friday, not a good time

Bullseye · 03-13-2009, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by fatediesel

Probably. 4 best picture winners, including the biggest movie of all time, are pretty big deals.

How Gump beat Shawshank is beyond me. Shawshank is in a different league.

spartanstew · 03-13-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

How Gump beat Shawshank is beyond me. Shawshank is in a different league.

Well, Shawshank is my number one movie of all time, so I partially agree with you. Gump, however, is in my top 10, so I partially don't.

Doctorossi · 03-13-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

How Gump beat Shawshank is beyond me. Shawshank is in a different league.

I think they're both solid, well-crafted two-and-a-half-star movies. Pulp Fiction is ten times both of them put together.

horseflesh · 03-13-2009, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ckent22

Yeah, you probably are. Those films are wonderful.

Well for me, those 4 films are perfect examples of the artistic decline of Hollywood in the last 20 years; they are nothing more than lowest-common-denominator multiplex fare, masquerading as art.

hanser · 03-13-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by horseflesh

Am I the only one with absolutely no interest in Braveheart, Gump, Titanic and Gladiator??

No, I am with you.

Esox50 · 03-13-2009, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

You're all weepy the first time through, and then you hate yourself a week later. It's not a very good movie, it's very good at knowing what buttons to push.

[REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]Yeah, but you also get to see Kate Winslet's t!ts.[/REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]

STARSCREAM · 03-13-2009, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Esox50

[REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]Yeah, but you also get to see Kate Winslet's t!ts.[/REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]

HAHAHAHA. YES!

Grubert · 03-13-2009, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Esox50

[REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]Yeah, but you also get to see Kate Winslet's t!ts.[/REVERT TO TEENAGER MANY YEARS AGO]

In that regard Kate has always been very generous.

Come to think of it, who has the rights for Jude? (I have the OOP DVD, but it's non-anamorphic.)

GabrielB · 03-13-2009, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

How Gump beat Shawshank is beyond me. Shawshank is in a different league.

Gump's traction was much better than Shawshank's. Shawshank began to be popular afterwards.

Oscars seem to notice commercial successes much much more than anything else.
Would Slumdog had won if it hadn't develop its word of mouth thing beforehand?

Esox50 · 03-13-2009, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by GabrielB

Oscars seem to notice commercial successes much much more than anything else.

Like The Dark Knight?

GabrielB · 03-13-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Esox50

Like The Dark Knight?

Of course you could find hundreds of examples I'm sure.
But the facts are still there.

Ask Jeff why the Academy doesn't like films like TDK.

(and then you could say, "like Return of the King?"

) And then it would be a neverending discussion.

ckent22 · 03-13-2009, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by horseflesh

Well for me, those 4 films are perfect examples of the artistic decline of Hollywood in the last 20 years; they are nothing more than lowest-common-denominator multiplex fare, masquerading as art.

You don't really understand the term lowest common denominator. That means a film is dumbed down per say so that even the simplest audience member can understand and that relatively no brain power is used whatsoever.

I'd beg to disagree with you on these 4 films appealing to the lowest common denominator.

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03-13-2009, 02:58 PM	#3864
Doctorossi Blu-ray Knight Member since:Feb 2009 4K collection:134 Blu-ray collection:478	I also have only a mild interest in Gladiator. The rest of those can kiss it.

03-13-2009, 03:03 PM	#3865
Jeff Kleist The Digital Bits Member since:Jul 2008 Trading Score:1	Titanic I always saw as the greatest string puller ever You're all weepy the first time through, and then you hate yourself a week later. It's not a very good movie, it's very good at knowing what buttons to push.

03-13-2009, 03:13 PM	#3867
Doctorossi Blu-ray Knight Member since:Feb 2009 4K collection:134 Blu-ray collection:478	Hey Jeff, have you gotten anywhere near to the bottom of the Monsters, Inc./A Bug's Life situation yet?

03-13-2009, 03:26 PM	#3868
Jeff Kleist The Digital Bits Member since:Jul 2008 Trading Score:1	no, probably won't for awhile People aren't even in the office in CA yet, and it's friday, not a good time

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