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re: Gun to your head: Saving Private Ryan or Shawshank
Posted on 2/4/13 at 8:12 am to TigerMyth36
Posted on 2/4/13 at 8:12 am to TigerMyth36
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People heap praise on SPR all the time but does anyone ever really rewatch the whole movie. I like bits and pieces of it but it is a very harsh film and not one I like to watch on a whim.
I can watch Shawshank over and over.
I'm pretty much here on this - ditto for Blackhawk Down - Ridley did a great job with a great story - just a perfect storm of filmmaker, Bowden's story and the actual events themselves, but not like Shawshank for repeatability.
Does that make Shawshank better?
I've watched Pulp Fiction more than once in a single day. I'll pick up Casino almost from any point and watch it until the end, regardless. Ditto for Goodfellas.
But, SPR is a great film. I'm not sure I've watched it all the way through more than 3 or 4 times. I saw it at the theater with my father - could that really have been 15 years ago?
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Posted on 2/4/13 at 8:41 am to Ace Midnight
I am going to get crucified for this but I have always found Black Hawk Down to be one of the most overrated war movies out there.
Maybe I'm just not a fan of Ridley Scott, maybe I'm just not a fan of slightly contemporary war movies, but Black Hawk Down was a struggle to get through on the first viewing. I didn't really care too much for Hartnett's acting, nor did I care much for the accents put on my Jason Issacs, Eric Bana, and Orlando Bloom - even though he was in the film for like two or three scenes.
Maybe had I seen the movie when it first came out, before I was familiar with most of the actors in the film, I wouldn't have been so annoyed by their accents, but their voices grated on me after a while.
I also loved how Ridley Scott seemingly raided the set of Pearl Harbor for a lot of his actors.
Maybe I'm just not a fan of Ridley Scott, maybe I'm just not a fan of slightly contemporary war movies, but Black Hawk Down was a struggle to get through on the first viewing. I didn't really care too much for Hartnett's acting, nor did I care much for the accents put on my Jason Issacs, Eric Bana, and Orlando Bloom - even though he was in the film for like two or three scenes.
Maybe had I seen the movie when it first came out, before I was familiar with most of the actors in the film, I wouldn't have been so annoyed by their accents, but their voices grated on me after a while.
I also loved how Ridley Scott seemingly raided the set of Pearl Harbor for a lot of his actors.
Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:20 am to Ace Midnight
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Blackhawk Down
Didn't like it. A lot of inaccuracies
This post was edited on 2/4/13 at 10:21 am
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