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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-12-08
Replies: 242
Who is the most overrated director?
Posted By Nexus
Re: Who is the most overrated director?

Hitchcock is generally a considered a great craftsman than a great artist. The hype isn't about profundity, it's about technical innovation.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-05-08
Replies: 23
Funny Games and Michael Haneke in general...
Posted By Nexus
Re: Funny Games and Michael Haneke in general...

I'm pretty sure those unconventionally long takes of his are there to disengage you with the material, and his breaking the fourth wall is obviously not a generic thriller device either. He wants you...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-04-08
Replies: 23
Funny Games and Michael Haneke in general...
Posted By Nexus
Re: Funny Games and Michael Haneke in general...

I found Funny Games rather meh. There's something rather condescending about a film director who feels he's in a position to chastise his audience for sitting through a violent film.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 09-04-08
Replies: 155
Sedai, Pyro Tramp and all the others who doubted Christopher Nolan
Posted By Nexus
Re: Sedai, Pyro Tramp and all the others who doubted Christopher Nolan

Are you familiar with the term "show, don't tell"? I'll agree that The Dark Knight was a good film, but Nolan does very little 'telling', as he should do. To tell the story rather than show it is...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-04-08
Replies: 14
Political references In Mainstream cinema.
Posted By Nexus
Re: Political references In Mainstream cinema.

All films have political references, often unintended ones. Films don't exist in a vacuum, they are products of their time and they all reflect the collective social conciousness of that time. The...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-26-07
Replies: 107
Worst Directors Of All Time
Posted By Nexus
Re: Worst Directors Of All Time

I believe it was the readers who voted though.
Replies: 74
DVD Aficionado
Posted By Nexus
Re: DVD Aficionado

I definitely like the old design more (the floating menu on the side is especially terrible) but it's not bothering me that much. I actually quite like how they split the collection up into different...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-04-07
Replies: 83
I. Hate. Shakycam.
Posted By Nexus
Re: I. Hate. Shakycam.

David Bordwell recently wrote two brilliant articles on it:

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=1175

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=1230

My favourite quotes:
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-31-07
Replies: 65
Fave movie soundtrack?
Posted By Nexus
Re: Fave movie soundtrack?

Anything by Angelo Badalamenti and Ennio Morricone, really.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-31-07
Replies: 41
300 or The Departed?
Posted By Nexus
Re: 300 or The Departed?

I haven't seen 300 but I'm guessing The Departed is better.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 08-31-07
Replies: 23
Bean: The New Chaplin?
Posted By Nexus
Re: Bean: The New Chaplin?

Chaplin too.

While it's not surprising people are comparing them, Bean would obviously still never be as considered as great as Chaplin and Tati were. City Lights isn't considered a classic just...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-31-07
Replies: 11
Formalism vs. Realism vs. Surrealism
Posted By Nexus
Re: Formalism vs. Realism vs. Surrealism

I wouldn't call Science of Sleep a work of surrealism, it's more of a film that's quite surreal. I mean, Un Chien Andalou is surrealism, Meshes of the Afternoon is surrealism, and some of the works...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 08-31-07
Replies: 23
Bean: The New Chaplin?
Posted By Nexus
Re: Bean: The New Chaplin?

I think comparing him to Tati would make more sense. His new film is a homage to Mr. Hulot's Holiday, after all.
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-24-07
Replies: 73
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)
Posted By Nexus
Re: INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)

Like Mulholland Dr., it is attacking Hollywood. A recurring theme in this is prostitution. I think the overall meaning of the film is that Hollywood treats its stars like disposable, cheap whores....
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-19-07
Replies: 73
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)
Posted By Nexus
Re: Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)

Even though I didn't enjoy this much on the big screen (I found it overlong), I'm going to get the DVD and give it another chance.
Replies: 18
NEW: Stanley Kubrick Collection
Posted By Nexus
Re: NEW: Stanley Kubrick Collection

I must admit, I prefer the design of the original DVDs.
Replies: 30
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Posted By Nexus
Re: Blade Runner: The Final Cut

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800037822/video/#3485021

I'm having such a huge geekgasm right now.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-01-07
Replies: 16
Whoa...2001: Mixed Emotions (spoilers?)
Posted By Nexus
Re: Whoa...2001: Mixed Emotions (spoilers?)

Sooo...having no story and only five pages of dialogue means a film is bad? I'd love to see your reaction to the likes of Wreckmaster Harmonies and The Last Laugh.:D

I understand that it's not...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-01-07
Replies: 16
Whoa...2001: Mixed Emotions (spoilers?)
Posted By Nexus
Re: Whoa...2001: Mixed Emotions (spoilers?)

Just because it was made in 'an entertainment industry' does not mean it has to be entertainment. 2001, while still a unique and original film, is not the only 'art film' in existence.

There are...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-25-07
Replies: 69
The Best MOVIE of ALL TIME
Posted By Nexus
Re: The Best MOVIE of ALL TIME

Did you really, really think this thread hadn't all ready been made before?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-24-07
Replies: 7
Blade Runner: Final Cut Trailer
Posted By Nexus
Blade Runner: Final Cut Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hYs1jBy8Y

They're making it look like an action film...typical.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-18-07
Replies: 95
whats the worst comic book hero to be made into a film
Posted By Nexus
Re: whats the worst comic book hero to be made into a film

Batman & Robin is a very silly film.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-13-07
Replies: 111
Foreign films
Posted By Nexus
Re: Foreign films

Why are they an "obscure film form"?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-13-07
Replies: 111
Foreign films
Posted By Nexus
Re: Foreign films

I look at them like I do with every other film, obviously.
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-07
Replies: 84
Purandara's Reviews
Posted By Nexus
Re: Purandara's Reviews

What happened to this guy? I enjoyed reading his stuff.

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