I knew about most of these, but it's interesting to have your own intuitions confirmed or negated.
An article about mostly really terrible movies...however, you missed the point on why they weren't actually terrible.
No. They weren't brilliant and I didn't "miss the point" as they were terrible movies. And fuck off with Fight Club. It was a fun movie that made tons of money, not a shift of culture.
Even more enjoyable than the first. BtDKR and Nolan's The Dark Knight (Just the second one, the other two bored me) are my favourite Batman adaptations to date. The cartoon show had some really good episodes too.
Is this the petri dish, naked news, lots of talk and little if any Batman adaptation?
I knew about most of these, but it's interesting to have your own intuitions confirmed or negated.
An article about mostly really terrible movies...however, you missed the point on why they weren't actually terrible.
No. They weren't brilliant and I didn't "miss the point" as they were terrible movies. And fuck off with Fight Club. It was a fun movie that made tons of money, not a shift of culture.
Cool. See this when it is released:
What? There are some great movies on that list, regardless of whatever it says about them. You hate RoboCop, Natural Born Killers, Lolita, The Shining, Lost In Translation, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and American Psycho?
That's why I said "mostly terrible", as anyone who doesn't love ROBOCOP obviously has a severe screw loose from the foundation of awesomeness.
But damned if people don't try to make movies more than they are. ROBOCOP, for fucks sake, isn't about religion and Murphy isn't crucified. He's blown to bits.
However it would have been awesome if Saint Peter woke Jesus up after his death to exclaim "You're going to be fucking awesome!".
And as if NATURAL BORN KILLERS didn't make light of murder. Sheesh. Of course people cheered when a pedophile got whacked.
THE SHINING is almost perfect. I say "almost" because blowjob bear still freaks me out. That and the movie is related to Groundskeeper Willie's death, so that's also not something good. And all the callbacks to the Shining in the Toy Story movies is neat but weird.
AMERICAN PSYCHO is great, but overrated and made ten years too late. Not sure if I remember the line right or wrong, but I laughed my ass off at "Please Insert Cat". Again, it's a great piece but felt overdue.
LOST IN TRANSLATION is boring. That's part of the charm of the movie, or to the movie, but it's a one and done for me. The Coppola family...That's an entire different discussion.
SPACE ODYSSEY is film school fanboy nonsense. Not saying it isn't fabulous, as I'm deliberately talking out of both sides of my mouth, but within seconds you either give a shit or think the movie is nothing but shit. More eloquently, you either have both hands on your chin the entire movie or continuously roll your eyes.
You must have been terrible about finding the meanings of books in english class.
Robocop as a martyr is practically a given, although slightly turned on its head in some sense.
I'm kinda surprised at the look at Fight Club though. To me, it always came off as anti-technology and anti-soceity and a return to the more primal, tribal nature of humanity. Fight Club was about becoming the manly, hard person you were supposed to be as a man, while still being accepting of a wide variety of men. But, like most of this analytical stuff, it's all really bullshit, so I guess it doesn't matter.
There's a reason we use the blue text though. Getting sarcasm out of a written sentence can be pretty damned hard to do. I thought it was a serious statement, and it's not wrong. Martyr figures/selfless can-do-no-wrong guy is generally a Jesus reference. Its one thing I was taught when it came to literature, and can usually be applied to movies to. If it sounds like it is even possibly biblical, it usually is, assuming it comes from a predominantly Christian group.
