General Movie Thread

[samir]

Film of the year.

Martin will back me up, and he's an expert.

[Matt]

Did anyone else spend the afternoon watching Get Bruce, the doc on Bruce Vilanch?  ... no?  Anyone?  Just me?

Is that the prequel to LET'S GET FRANK?

[AllisonLeGnome]

Food, Inc. (in a 17-seat theater!) was great.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

The net result of this was when all those same friends said Titanic was actually really good, I was like nuh-uh, no fucking way, not on your life.

now i did see Titanic when it finally hit the dollar theatre because i was given the impression i was missing out on something great.  sure enough, i didnt drop a tear on this thing but i will always remember the girls in front of me SOBBING while the end credits rolled.  also, thinking it would be hilarious, i went back to tell everyone about the ridiculous sobbing poured on by the girls only to be told how heartless i was because everyone i was telling the story to cried as well.

give me a break. 

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

Anyway, on that second try I realized how truly evil the movie was.  Not just more tiresome baby-boomer nostalgia, but extreme 90s backlash, accompanied by the desire to piss all over everyone else's fun because the creators feel bad about all the shit they did in the 60s.  The underlying message of that film is to go through life like a retarded person and do everything that people in authority tell you.  You will become a multi-millionaire while your decadent hippie wife will get slapped by an angry black guy and get AIDS.

The net result of this was when all those same friends said Titanic was actually really good, I was like nuh-uh, no fucking way, not on your life.

1. WTF is "extreme 90s backlash?"
2. How does Forrest Gump piss all over your fun? Examples please.
3. "The underlying message of that film is to go through life like a retarded person and do everything that people in authority tell you.  You will become a multi-millionaire while your decadent hippie wife will get slapped by an angry black guy and get AIDS." ...

...Huh?? If you really believe that every movie is a message saying "live your life like the characters in my movie please," then you are wrong, to say the least. And how does the character (this is a work of fiction, I hope you realize that) only do what "people in authority" tell him?

I get it, it's the contrarian thing. If too many people like something, you feel the need to hate it.

Titanic is another example of a harmless movie that's meant to be purely entertaining. Obviously you can't be entertained if while you're watching it, you're wound up tight as a spring, just waiting for any opportunity to hate it. Like me trying to watch Monday Night Raw.

Anyway, I guess my point is, why are people still hating on Forrest Gump, and why expend energy hating something that's, to me, so innocuous.
 

[yesno]

F Gump was just boring, and people that like one thing I find boring tend to like other things I find boring.
 
That said, Tom Hanks seems like a super kind of guy, like a reverse Klaus Kinski. 

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Anyway, on that second try I realized how truly evil the movie was.  Not just more tiresome baby-boomer nostalgia, but extreme 90s backlash, accompanied by the desire to piss all over everyone else's fun because the creators feel bad about all the shit they did in the 60s.  The underlying message of that film is to go through life like a retarded person and do everything that people in authority tell you.  You will become a multi-millionaire while your decadent hippie wife will get slapped by an angry black guy and get AIDS.

The net result of this was when all those same friends said Titanic was actually really good, I was like nuh-uh, no fucking way, not on your life.

1. WTF is "extreme 90s backlash?"
2. How does Forrest Gump piss all over your fun? Examples please.
3. "The underlying message of that film is to go through life like a retarded person and do everything that people in authority tell you.  You will become a multi-millionaire while your decadent hippie wife will get slapped by an angry black guy and get AIDS." ...

...Huh?? If you really believe that every movie is a message saying "live your life like the characters in my movie please," then you are wrong, to say the least. And how does the character (this is a work of fiction, I hope you realize that) only do what "people in authority" tell him?

I get it, it's the contrarian thing. If too many people like something, you feel the need to hate it.

Titanic is another example of a harmless movie that's meant to be purely entertaining. Obviously you can't be entertained if while you're watching it, you're wound up tight as a spring, just waiting for any opportunity to hate it. Like me trying to watch Monday Night Raw.

Anyway, I guess my point is, why are people still hating on Forrest Gump, and why expend energy hating something that's, to me, so innocuous.
 

[dave from knoxville]

F Gump was just boring, and people that like one thing I find boring tend to like other things I find boring.
 
That said, Tom Hanks seems like a super kind of guy, like a reverse Klaus Kinski. 

Agreed! But I hated Forrest Gump, too; his one-note gimmicky performance was about as deserving of an Oscar as Ben Stiller's in Meet the Parents. And it wasn't a contrarian thing, I went in wanting to like it, but couldn't do it.

[dave from knoxville]

And my cousin's in it! (John Worsham, for you Hollywood types. Anybody know him?)

[fonpr]

 
 
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That photo made me sad. His beer landed upside down.

[hugman]

F Gump was just boring, and people that like one thing I find boring tend to like other things I find boring.
 
That said, Tom Hanks seems like a super kind of guy, like a reverse Klaus Kinski. 

Agreed! But I hated Forrest Gump, too; his one-note gimmicky performance was about as deserving of an Oscar as Ben Stiller's in Meet the Parents. And it wasn't a contrarian thing, I went in wanting to like it, but couldn't do it.

i disagree whole-heartedly, Dave.  The character was a simple man, but he showed a range and depth of emotions.  wow. forest gump. hot-button topic.

[jbissell]

I blame Benjamin Button.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

wow. forest gump. hot-button topic.

no kidding, jeepers creepers.

[Reeleyes]

I saw an interview with John Waters where he was asked about people protesting her movies and he said something to the effect of "People protest things that offend them for some reason. I didn't protest when Forrest Gump started running"

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

 

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That photo made me sad. His beer landed upside down.
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I used to get sad as a kid when I would see that poster or needlepoint thing with the kid whose ice cream cone fell cream-down!  It's nice to know we have something in common in some mutant way.

By the way, Fredricks, not to rob your posts of their singular charm, but the / usually means the end of something.  So quote is just the word "quote," in brackets, and when you want the quote to be over you use the /.  But you know, keep on doing whatever you want.