P-C, Would you be able to explain why you hated Cache without giving away too much?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Laga - Dec 03, 2009 12:20:08 pm PST #5272 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2009 12:25:19 pm PST #5273 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
First of all, it was so extremely boring that I stopped the movie after the first hour and asked the Buffistas whether it was really worth continuing. I did not give a fuck about the characters, and Haneke didn't either, since they weren't even onscreen half the time. The second half had its moments, like the mentioned scene. But the shooting style, designed to mimic the look of the tapes, bugged the shit out of me. And the movie could have been a half hour shorter; it's full of random, pointless, time-wasting scenes. The eventual "payoff" is full of WTF, and at the end, I kind of wanted to punch Michael Haneke in the face.
megan walker - Dec 03, 2009 12:42:39 pm PST #5274 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
P-C, you'll be happy to hear that our best-selling film studies authors so love that film that they fought tooth-and-nail for a still to be the cover, despite everyone here thinking it was a very, very bad idea.
I didn't hate it, but I can see why someone would.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2009 12:48:19 pm PST #5275 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, you'll be happy to hear that our best-selling film studies authors so love that film that they fought tooth-and-nail for a still to be the cover, despite everyone here thinking it was a very, very bad idea.
Yeah, you mentioned that last year when I was watching it! Heh.
Laga - Dec 03, 2009 12:55:46 pm PST #5276 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks P-C. I often love movies other people hated but this doesn't sound like something I would enjoy.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2009 12:58:52 pm PST #5277 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Haneke doesn't make movies for people to enjoy.
Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing: it's hard to "enjoy" 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, but it's a great movie nonetheless, even though it uses a similar shooting style (almost no camera movement).
Laga - Dec 03, 2009 1:17:25 pm PST #5278 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I watched Slumdog Millionaire last night and I was a little disappointed. I didn't understand why a lot of the characters behaved the way they did and Jamal's stone faced reaction to stress made it hard for me to sympathize with him. I also wonder if seeing the picknick episode of The Office first ruined the movie for me.
Strega - Dec 03, 2009 1:48:39 pm PST #5279 of 30000
Oh, AV Club, sometimes you confuse the hell out of me.
the centerpiece of Park Chan-Wook’s revenge thriller bears a resemblance to a famous scene in The Simpsons that pits Sideshow Bob against a field of rakes. At first these scenes are thrilling, then they’re sickeningly sad, and finally, they become darkly funny comments on human persistence in the face of futility.
Remember how sickeningly sad it was when Sideshow Bob took a rake to the face? Yeah.
Anne Hathaway’s character in Rachel Getting Married ought to be about as likeable as Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds.Erm. You say that like... because he kind of *is*... wait, what?
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 2:04:19 pm PST #5280 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wish I'd seen the rake scene from The Simpsons. I can't even begin to imagine the parallels they're drawing. I need to check youtube when I get home.
bon bon - Dec 03, 2009 2:13:20 pm PST #5281 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The rake scene is a bit notorious among comedy nerds for having about nine iterations of a joke, instead of three or four, so it becomes funny just because the gag is going on far longer than you expect. Everyone's referent for the idea of doing something nine times in a row is that scene, seemingly.