Flicks You WANT to Like But Just CAN'T

[Mutagen]

Apr 9, 2012 18:05:20 GMT -4 Shanmac said:

Mar 19, 2012 9:00:36 GMT -4 Mutagen said:

I think half the reason I like John Cho so much is because he is literally the only part of American Pie that made me laugh.

I remember nothing from "American Pie" (I saw it when it first came out and promptly forgot all about it), but I might watch it again just for John Cho. He's such a cutie.

He is!! But don't rewatch all of American Pie. Find his three-minute (I'm being generous) scene on YouTube.

I haaaated "Crash." With a passion. I shut it off 3/4 of the way through because I didn't want to waste any more time on it. Blech.

I. HATED. This. Movie. I am one of those people who feels compelled to finish a movie even if I hate it, and Crash does not get better. It gets worse. The phony moralism in this movie makes me want to puke.

[tszuj]

Every time I see people talking about Crash, for some reason my brain defaults to the other Crash movie (the freaky one about people who have a sexual fetish for car crashes). It made the run up to that Oscars fun, anyway. I liked that one a lot more.

[huntergrayson]

Cronenberg is STILL pissed off about it, which is awesome.

People liking 'Crash' more than 'Far From Heaven' in my race/class/gender in cinema class was one of the most depressing things I experienced.

I admire 'The Godfather' more than I love it.

[kateln]

Apr 26, 2012 18:32:00 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

I admire 'The Godfather' more than I love it.

Because by the time I'd gotten around to watching it, I had seen/known so many references to "The Godfather" (the horse head in the bed for example), that the movie just was dull to me.

I can see how someone going in with no prior knowledge could love it, but I just didn't.

The same thing with "Casablanca" and "Scarface".

[Hamatron]

Oh man, I hated Casablanca. I was expecting high cinema, and it just felt like a bad romance movie. I never got the love for that thing.

Scarface also sucks to me. I feel like people who idolize Al Pacino's character are missing the point. He was an asshole who failed miserably as a lover (his wife openly hated him through most of the movie), sucked during his brief time as a crime boss, and then he went down in a blaze of stupidity. Like, really? He was a loser, then he died. Big whoop. The big guns killed him then they went back to their shady business. He was a blip on their radar for a year.

[chonies]

ITA about Scarface, but I love Casablanca, which I knew about from Bugs Bunny and the Anastasia Krupnik books. The romance is the lesser issue for me--I find the refugees who are the collateral damage of war to be much more fascinating and compelling. The part where everyone starts crying during "La Marseillaise" makes me shiver just thinking about it.

[Shalamar]

Me too. *sniffle* That scene is even more poignant to me now that I know that many of the "actors" in that scene were actual refugees trying to escape the Nazis at the time. When they started crying, it wasn't acting.

[huntergrayson]

That's a huge part of it for me too, kateln. Stop doing terrible Brando impressions, everyone!

[chonies]

Apr 29, 2012 17:17:54 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

That's a huge part of it for me too, kateln. Stop doing terrible Brando impressions, everyone!

I don't remember where I read it (here, probably) but somewhere I came across the tidbit that until the Godfather, all the mobsters who were being wiretapped by the FBI spoke more like Jimmy Cagney in the original Scarface. Then everyone started doing their own Brando impressions.

[huntergrayson]

Speaking of, the original Scarface? SO much more screwed up! I have no idea how they got away with it, but there's a really much more explicit incest-y subtext between Tony and his sister.

Pfieffer's "fuck-you" hauteur is what I like about the De Palma one. That and all the ridiculous 80s neon.