Bigg Bigg Blue
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They are made to entertain you mate, nobody takes them seriously :)
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Last Film You Saw
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Bill Walker
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I do.They are made to entertain you mate, nobody takes them seriously :)
Kompany Car
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It’s a sad state of affairs if you have to sit and try to figure out what the director was trying to portray to find the value in a movie. I can honestly say I have never watched a Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola or Tarantino movie and had to sit and wonder about hidden meanings to provide any value in what I’d watched even though in some cases there was additional depth.I agree it could have been done better, but I think the director has intentionally hidden the story within a story.
The more I think of it, the more I'm convinced about it. The 'main' story is an intentional distraction. We don't know the president's name, what side he's on or what the war is about at all. I think this bit is the bit confusing people.
The director has to address the war through the crazy interaction on the ground with different types of 'soldiers'. He doesn't give a fuck about that. It's filler, but that's what sold the audience through the trailer, so he fucked it for himself, really.
Character development came in that short spell of growth and despair travelling; what made them now, not went before. Before doesn't matter anymore and that's clear in the 'Lee' character's arc continued through to 'Anya' (?); kind of phoenix-like.
Again, just what I see/ saw.
Like I say, it's too clever for itself, but I understand the decisions made.
People trying to find hidden meanings all feels a bit like the modern art critics who see’s someone has painted a canvas white and then sits and ruminates about how it represents the mental state of the artist when it’s equally as possible that they were just taking the piss or we’re just a shit artist.
Bigga
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It’s a sad state of affairs if you have to sit and try to figure out what the director was trying to portray to find the value in a movie. I can honestly say I have never watched a Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola or Tarantino movie and had to sit and wonder about hidden meanings to provide any value in what I’d watched even though in some cases there was additional depth.
People trying to find hidden meanings all feels a bit like the modern art critics who see’s someone has painted a canvas white and then sits and ruminates about how it represents the mental state of the artist when it’s equally as possible that they were just taking the piss or we’re just a shit artist.
I, kind of, agree with you.
But, at the same time, I hate the dumbed down version of telling stories sometimes.
Do we want good, interesting stories or not? That's the question. And whilst the story shouldn't be told like it's in braille (nobody seems to mind most of Christopher Nolan's ambitious crap), there shouldn't all be big crayon spelling A-B-C storytelling and (because of the general US audience, I believe), there's a lot of that.
No offence, Yankee Doodles.
They do neither, unless your about 5 and even then .....They are made to entertain you mate, nobody takes them seriously :)
Bigg Bigg Blue
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Each to their own mate.They do neither, unless your about 5 and even then .....
Bigg Bigg Blue
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I can understand that with LOTR, if you have ever been to Stalybridge it would seem real. :)I do.
Blue Maverick
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For me SW reminds me of my childhood if you’d been old enough in 78 to see the star destroyer coming in overhead I’d never seen anything like it, it’s what gave me my love for cinema, the escapism, the story telling. I take it serious in only that I’m a huge fan not as as something that is worth arguing over. LOTR adaptation of the book was mind blowing lots missed out but to put those books in screen was a feet in itself, same with HP, lots more in the books and they had to be condensed down to achieve very watchable films.They do neither, unless your about 5 and even then .....
I’ve watched many films were as I wouldn’t have read the book but then maybe later will go and read it, or watch a film on a subject then google information and dive into a subject, Apocalypse Now gave me a fascination for the Vietnam War, Zone of Interest more recently stuff about the holocaust.
SW transports me back to queing round the Odeon with my dad as an 8 year old it’s one of abiding memories of him (he’s not dead yet ) and I think that’s why people take it serious for want of a better word.
shevtheblue
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Watched Furiosa on Imax at Printworks, really good imo. Thought Hemsworth actually stole the show, really good OTT performance from him. Some of the CGI was annoying at times, but good addition to the franchise. Heard its not doing great so maybe wont be any more of these, defo get to pictures to watch it if you were a fan of Fury Road..
jamesha
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Watched Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" last night on Amazon Prime. We had watched a four person production of it at the theatre a few weeks ago.
TBH it was very basic for a modern audience.
TBH it was very basic for a modern audience.