Movies i've never seen because.....

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by BluNatureFilms

I like mafia films, 70's era films, and love Coppola movies, but I can never finish either Godfather 1 or 2. Tried several times to get into them. Just don't understand the universal praise or love for them. Acting is good but nothing else holds my attention. Just don't get it.

Wow. That's actually amazing. To be a fan of Coppola in general, of mob films in general, and 70s films in general, but not the Godfather?? Congratulations, you may be literally the only person with that opinion (note: not sarcasm or intended to be mean; I am genuinely surprised and impressed).

Originally Posted by John Klein

And I was just about to recommend Weekend and Blue is the Warmest Color to you too, damn it.

Yeah the only Weekend I need is from Godard and as for BITWC, I'm pretty sure if I was in the mood for that, someone like Viv Thomas does it better than Abdellatif Kechiche. That being said, I am a hypocritical piece of shit who will in general watch a film about lesbians, for instance I thought Carol was pretty good.

Originally Posted by L.J.

Grew up watching westerns and looked up to actors portraying cowboys like Eastwood, The Duke, and Bronson. That's why I won't watch Brokeback Mountain.

Putting John Wayne in the same sentence as Eastwood and Bronson

Originally Posted by ArmyOfDarknessAW

You don't like movies with a happy and lighthearted relationship? They can't all be Blue Valentine.

Well played No, I in general, I incidentally am also uninterested in that, and would rather they all were Blue Valentine. (Attempt at joke: Furthermore, just for the sake of trying to do a triple entendre, I am also genearlly uninterested in films with a "stupid" relationship at its core, I guess Dumb & Dumber being an example?)

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Sorry, but if you quit NBK 15 minutes in then you are hardly in a position to comment on its thematic foundation. If you think that Oliver Stone made a film that glorifies psychopaths and needless killing -- given everything he's been through as a human being -- then you need help.

Oh come on. I agree with what you're saying, but you honestly can't understand why someone would take it that way? Even people who watch the whole thing often have that as a complaint, justified or not. If nothing else, the amount of alleged copycat crimes would indicate a lot of psychopaths and needless killers took the film as an endorsement.

Anyways, I prefer the original ending, although the theatrical is pretty dark in it's own way. Although what I would prefer even more would be some kind of combination of both:

[Show spoiler]If Mickey & Mallory did escape, and had a family, and THEN the entire family was murdered, not by Owen, but some random serial killer who took down entire families, in the style of the first BTK murder. THAT would have been something.