Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by dvining

Satyricon is something I simply cannot get into. It's intentionally distancing from the audience, and I just don't engage with it on any level except in admiration of the physical production.

However, in terms of his later stuff, City of Woman and Ginger and Fred are both magnificent films. My favorite overall is Nights of Cabiria.

I totally agree

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by dvining

Billy Wilder > Nolan

Carl Theodore Dreyer > Fincher

Yes to that.

[AreaFive]

Originally Posted by dvining

The better way to look at it is that you have a lot to discover still.

It should be a great feeling.

Very true. I am by no means a film expert and it's always a real joy to discover new films and creators (this year for example, I've begun exploring Yasujiro Ozu and Andrei Tarkovsky). I'm glad to know that there is such a wealth of things out there to experience.

Also, this year I went from having never heard of Come and See to owning it and being absolutely floored. What an incredible treat cinema is.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Foggy

I get you, it’s his polarising one, but as I was watching it I was simply like “this feels like a nightmare and I love it”. For some reason, films like that don’t go that depraved or nasty (unless it’s Caligula), so I thought it was great.

But I’m also a massive shill and love La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 completely and unconditionally like the complete film bro that I am.

I keep reading Ebert's two 4 star reviews of Satyricon wondering what I'm missing. I've seen the movie three times, and each time I just end up watching the sets and costumes.

Perhaps it's the complete embrace of the fractured nature of the source material (an incomplete poem) that does it for me. There are times when the main characters feel so different from scene to scene that they cease to feel like the same characters.

It really is like a pure dreamscape, but I just don't think it works in the cinematic medium.

And 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita are both fantastic.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Darthvaderrocks

Bunuel is the man Lynch spent his entire "career" trying to be.

/threadover

Not really, Lynch has always held Fellini up as one of his main inspirations. Lynch’s films have never been as overtly satirical or political as Bunuel’s films.

[AreaFive]

Originally Posted by Darthvaderrocks

Had no doubt about that

Classy.

[dallywhitty]

The only Fellini film I've seen is the segment he did for Spirits of the Dead. I've had 8½ on Blu-ray for years and still haven't watched it...

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by mwynn

The Champ is here.

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Time to go to work:

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Darthvaderrocks

Had no doubt about that

that's rude ...

[dvining]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

Very true. I am by no means a film expert and it's always a real joy to discover new films and creators (this year for example, I've begun exploring Yasujiro Ozu and Andrei Tarkovsky). I'm glad to know that there is such a wealth of things out there to experience.

I remember being in my mid-20s thinking that I had seen everything that mattered because I had seen all of the IMDB's top 250 that I cared to watch and most of the Best Picture winners. It was such a narrow view, but I just kept watching (thanks to my Netflix DVD subscription that I've had since I was about 20) and realizing that there's so much more out there.

Film has been a medium for over a hundred years and dozens of countries have taken part. It's vast.

My new small obsession is Polish film, but so little of it is English friendly.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Not really, Lynch has always held Fellini up as one of his main inspirations. Lynch’s films have never been as overtly satirical or political as Bunuel’s films.

Yeah, only someone who understands neither Bunuel nor Lynch would make that comparison.

Lynch has even said he's never seen a Bunuel film.

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

Very true. I am by no means a film expert and it's always a real joy to discover new films and creators (this year for example, I've begun exploring Yasujiro Ozu and Andrei Tarkovsky). I'm glad to know that there is such a wealth of things out there to experience.

That's the spirit! I was just about to say that everyone here should watch more Ozu and stop nagging about Fincher and Nolan all the time.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

Classy.

DVR is one to talk.

[Darthvaderrocks]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Not really, Lynch has always held Fellini up as one of his main inspirations. Lynch’s films have never been as overtly satirical or political as Bunuel’s films.

Lynch always said he was influenced by Bunuel.

Both are surrealistic directors.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

The only Fellini film I've seen is the segment he did for Spirits of the Dead. I've had 8½ on Blu-ray for years and still haven't watched it...

Well,...

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Mothravka

That's the spirit! I was just about to say that everyone here should watch more Ozu and stop nagging about Fincher and Nolan all the time.

AreaFive should also get into some Bresson films as well.

[Darthvaderrocks]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

that's rude ...

I apologize if it seemed rude. But generally speaking, I don't think most of people in boards are "experts" since you can't quantify someone's else "experience" or knowledge about films.

And at the end of the day, it's all up to a personal opinion, even for guys like Ebert it was like this.

I think moviegoers or people interested in films more than the casual audience (not to knock them) is a more fair term.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

AreaFive should also get into some Bresson films as well.

Yes! I love Bresson!

[dvining]

The 50s were the best decade for film ever.

[Darthvaderrocks]

90s all the way!

Se7en, T2, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Shawshank, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Goodfellas, Silence Of The Lambs, Following etc