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I just saw Renoir's Rules of the Game, commonly cited as one of the ten greatest films ever made. Not the case. At best, it's a mildly diverting social satire devoid of technical mastery or lasting substance. Those who place this alongside Citizen Kane or Vertigo are daft.
Anyone up for slaughtering some sacred cows?
elleng
(131,141 posts)Just don't GET Bergman.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)I made it like 2 hours in and I realized that it was hackneyed and trite.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)I can't even tell you how many times I had to watch that travesty when I was in college.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Only the acid I dropped got me through it.
Do tell
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I've tried watching it a million times. I fall asleep every friggin' time. Not a fan of Bogart, so that probably doesn't help. But, I do love African Queen.
Bucky
(54,080 posts)I still get goose pimples whenever Victor Lazlow leads in impromptu "La Marseillaise" outsinging "Deutschland uber Sein Sorry Arsch".
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Loved 8 1/2 but could not relate to La Dolce Vita.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Dated and ridiculous. The targets Fellini chose to skewer are too easy and obvious. I wonder if those who put it at the top of his films have seen it lately.
Yet on the other hand Fellini's true masterworks like La Strada and 8 1/2 just keep getting better and better with repeat viewings.
lastlib
(23,308 posts)...every time i see it on, I want to bitch-slap Scarlett. (that'll probably get me tombstoned.....)
And I SUPPORT the Violence Against Women Act.....!
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)And I truly hate Scarlett O'Hara.
Bucky
(54,080 posts)Pure bullshit and hammy over-acting.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)The only part of that movie I enjoyed was at the end..."Frankly my dear I don't give a damn"...that summed up how I felt about it too.
lastlib
(23,308 posts)Bucky
(54,080 posts)I didn't like the 3rd one even the first time I saw it. What a waste of Tina Turner.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)how's that for going way back ...
hunter
(38,328 posts)Response to hunter (Reply #12)
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)zbdent
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(19,847 posts)phylny
(8,389 posts)solara
(3,836 posts)The English Patient
Titanic
Avatar
Slumdog Millionaire
Chariots of Fire
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I mean by critics and those who would be interested in good cinema.
The others you listed, I don't know enough about.
solara
(3,836 posts)innovative.. and somehow 'ground breaking' ( go figure)
and they were two of the top grossing films of all time I believe. so the masses must have believed the hype.
I think eventually some critics came to the conclusion that Academy Award winner, James Cameron, who stood at the helm of both of these pictures, was really not all that, and neither were his two biggest pictures.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I saw Avatar. I was interested in the technology behind it, and did find it interesting for that reason, but it was still just "Dances With Smurfs."
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Rob H.
(5,352 posts)She said they should have called it The Endless Patient, instead.
Another friend refers to Slumdog Millionaire as DumbSlog MillionBore. I haven't seen it myself, though.
solara
(3,836 posts)The Endless Patient!! Dumbslog Millionbore!!! Ohhhh yes!
JVS
(61,935 posts)solara
(3,836 posts)But it was a disappointment after all the hype
And I really didn't think it was as good as other people thought it was.
sorry.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, The Hours, Chicago and...There Will Be Blood.
It kills me to post that last one.
RZM
(8,556 posts)I'd never seen. I was surprised how many underwhelmed me.
A Clockwork Orange and Midnight Cowboy were the biggest letdowns. Although I did think the cinematography of Clockwork was incredible, as a whole I didn't particularly enjoy it.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)It was made to be disturbing.
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)This guy Rob Ager does some first rate analysis and points out a ton of stuff even I've never noticed and I'm a diehard Kubrick fan. Some interesting interpretations with some videos in the chapters.
http://www.collativelearning.com/ACO%20expanded%20analysis%20.html
pink-o
(4,056 posts)In the early 90s my friends all lovd this film and I found it unwatchable. My ex husband was German and he hated it worse than I did. But we're both agnostics so maybe that had something to do with it.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I love Kubrick, but not this.
I don't know how a film full of so many beautiful naked women could be boring, unsexual, and pointless. But there it is.
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Ordinary People
Kramer vs. Kramer
to name two.
Under-rated:
Taxi Driver
Barry Lyndon
They Shoot Horses Don't They
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, 2001, Manchurian Candidate, Pulp Fiction... meh.
RZM
(8,556 posts)I thought it was good, but I don't think I would call it 'great.'
SoDesuKa
(3,173 posts)I don't think I could sit through four hours of it again, although it was considered a cinematic triumph when it came out. Chuck Heston wasn't such an asshole back then.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I'm a fan of Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart ( my favorite being 'Rear Window' ) and it's a great movie "on paper" ( nicely shot, and Kim Novak looked great, and I love the creepy music on the opening credits ) but even by my patient standards it moved just too slowly and was pretty much a snoozer. By the time the plot twist was revealed, I found it anti-climactic and I just didn't give a shit anymore.
Another eagerly anticipated "classic" I ultimately found disappointing was 'The Maltese Falcon'. Another dull one.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)Grand Illusion (1937)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Darling (1965)
Giant (1956)
solara
(3,836 posts)Giant was a major disappointment to me