re: Which movies are you in the minority

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And the best Scorcese film might be Bringing Out the Dead.

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I think I completely agree with this. Gangs Of New York being a close second. Flame away.

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Boondock Saints is some of the worst shite I've ever seen.

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everyone around you loves that you're not so high on



Avatar

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I have yet to meet someone in person that liked Avatar. I know many people that have seen it (myself included), but no one liked the end-product. Most people I know are in agreement that visually it was a nice movie (the nighttime scenes were my favorite). But I still don't know anyone that enjoyed the movie.




For me, a pretty recent one is Horrible Bosses. I know a lot of people that found it absolutely hilarious. I was completely underwhelmed. Maybe everyone around me just built it up to a point that no movie could live up to...but I didn't really care for it.

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I absolutely hated Wall-E.

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Because it described you too much?

Arkansas connection makes sense...just sayin.

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RonSwanson

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I can't stand it.

Along the sames lines, Donnie Darko is a really pretty, absolutely shitty film. Great use of color, great cinematography, but an atrocious film that thinks it is way deeper and meaningful than it actually is. Its shite.

I don't hate Scarface but it's not as good as the Howard Hawks orgional at it's definitely second rate De Palma.

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Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver is a perfect double feature. A lot of the same themes. They really work as a couplet.

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I had found a nice interview with Schrader about it. Most of it's about the process of screenwriting but this is the exert on the movie:

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Question: Tell us about Bringing Out the Dead

PS: It s about 3 nights in the life of a paramedic, an ambulance driver. Like the taxi driver, he drives around at night on the cusp of social decay. But unlike the taxi driver, he s on God s team. He s on the side of the angels, he s trying to save lives. But he still goes crazy. By the time the film starts, he s already a loony. And he gets progressively worse over this long weekend in New York.

But instead of heading for violence, I mean, it s 20 years later in terms of Scorcese and myself, and the character s not heading for violence anymore. He s looking for some kind of peace. He can t sleep, he can t these images out of his head. The dead are following him. The people he s lost. When we meet him, every major case over the last 5 or 6 weeks have died on him and so he feels that he's jinxed. And he feels that God s good angel has turned into the evil angel. So that s what he's dealing with.

His problem is that he defines his mission as a goal rather than a process. And the moment you define life as a goal, you re fricked. Because nobody gets out alive. So he comes to see himself as a failure because he doesn t see himself as part of the process. He sees himself as part of the forces of right and salvation. Not spiritual salvation but saving lives.

What he comes to at the at the end is he s respited. It s like a period of calm, like respited before the storm. A period of calm.

At the end he does two things. He kills this one guy, who he has been trying to save, but who is a vegetable, so he releases him. And the other guy, who his partner has tried to kill, who is a crazy person, he saves his life. So those two events are like the flip of what he s always thought of doing..

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I definitely get why people like it. And its weird for me too, because I love Equilibrium, which is the same kind of shitty but kinda badass movie.

Although I love Wes Anderson and Rushmore is one of my favorite films of all time, he has been very underwhelming lately. Until Fantastic Mr Fox that is, which was incredible.
I will however defend PT. He is our generations Robert Altman and I could go on and on about the brilliance of Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, etc. But hey, it's just my opinion.