I really like Coen Brothers movies though. Especially The Big Lebowski. It's just so, well, silly. Terry Gilliam is great for similar reasons, and Brazil is one of my favourite films of all time. Worried that I relate so strongly to the lead in that film. Yikes.
― Paul Strange, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I see what you mean about Ween Stevie. Does that make Barton Fink their Push Th'Little Daisies? (ie A film based on just one joke).
― Pete, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just saw AI, and it had its ups and downs but Spielberg *really* blew it with the tacky tacked-on coda w/ extraterrestials. Otherwise, it would have ended on the perfect note --sad, lonely and beautiful, yahoo.
I also like campy/goofy movies that get that smart aleck gay sensibility right, like early John Waters and Paul Morrissey. Or Bruce La Bruce. And recently, I saw "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (the movie) at a preview. Loved it!
And I agree with whoever said up there that what they want from movies is better scripts. Not more dialogue/less dialogue or more plot-just better scripts. And more male frontal nudity.
Kind of agree with Tarden about the Coen Bros., especially with regard to the hick accents. But I did like "The Great Lebowski", maybe it was the charm of the title character. Or Jeff Bridges. And Ween have some really gorgeous, lush pop songs that are very far removed from their wacky side. Still don't think I could ever spend money on a record of theirs, though.
And "The Wizard of Oz" has everything you'd ever need from a movie, except cute guys.
― Arthur, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for Coens = Ween - I am appalled. Ween can suck it. The Coens make movies to entertain. Ween make records so they can afford to buy more glue to sniff. Plus: despite all the other stuff, I think the heart of Big Lebowski is the relationship between the Dude, Walter, and Donnie, and that is superbly done.
― Josh, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I have no recognition of what good and bad acting is, with the obvious exception of the impossibly bad Ashley off of Eastenders.
Films I seem to watch every time they're on even though I know they're crap and pointless and excruciating and I've seen them a million times before: Short Circuit 1+2, Back to the future 1+2+3, Honey I Blew up the Kids 1+2, Flight of the Navigator. And so on.
― Graham, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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