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Is there any movie you don't find boring

Charlies Angels.

And Charlie's Angels 2

Both are correct. Though I'm aware how poor Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is. The first, however, is a good piece of popcorn cinema.

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I like Cannibal Holocaust but slightly prefer Cannibal Ferox. Don't bother with Eaten Alive.

I watched this a long time ago and I didn't remember it well so I decided it was time to watch it again in a more conscious way!
Well, first of all, Jack Nicholson delivers another great performance! Only an incredible actor would shine the way Nicholson does on a role like this, much more neutral than his roles on The Shining and Cuckoo's Nest!
The sountrack is also a fascinating element of this movie, giving it a very noir atmosphere and keeping an interesting suspense in some scenes!
However, the movie as a whole seemed a bit boring and uninteresting to me, and I looked at the time too many times! The plot was excessively dragged out and except from some key scenes, which I found really great, this seemed to be going in circles!
Maybe I'll rewatch it someday and change my opinion but it won't be soon!

Chinatown is a perfect film. How someone can ever think it's boring or uninteresting is beyond me.

Every frame of it is loaded with visual perfection and intelligence, every word of the script indicates a deep understanding of society and humanity as a whole and the film's atmosphere transfers the feeling of an all encompassing tragic indifference that still somehow seems to elevate the ones that are taken by it, instead of bringing them down.

I suggest you watch it some other time in an even more "conscious" way, because you're missing out on something truly special, neiba.

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I really liked Chinatown the first time I watched it, but there was something about it I really wasn't a fan of. I will have to rewatch it myself as well, to be sure of my rating of it. But as I can see on my IMDb page, I actually gave it a 8/10, but somehow I remember liking it less than that... Anyways, only a rewatch will tell!

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This is precisely how I also felt, but it's been nearly two years and I feel like giving it a rewatch pretty soon. Am hopeful but who knows

Well, I mean, what's so exciting about them? It's not like they're actually eating real people, anyway. It's just a movie!

I don't get what your point is.

They're supposed to be movies about cannibals, yet, how can they be interesting if the meat they're eating isn't actually human flesh? It's probably just some kind of animal meat. So while they may be pretending to be cannibals, they're actually eating chicken or something. Big whoop. Of course we don't want the cannibals to actually be eating people, but if they're not eating people, they're not really cannibals, are they?

That's why it's boring. It's like I decided to go buy a bucket of chicken from KFC, came home, got out the video camera and started filming a movie where I'm supposed to be a cannibal, yet the meat is my KFC chicken meat. How exciting is it to watch me eat KFC while claiming to be a cannibal eating a person? It's not very exciting. But if I was actually eating someone, that would at least be more interesting to watch, even if it was very disturbing.

I know, but you could say that about most movies. Why do you like (picking a random film I know you like here) Nightmare on Elm Street, for example, when you know all the blood and whatnot is fake? It's all fake. Your supposed to suspend your disbelief.

I know, but Honeykid was the one who said cannibal movies were boring. I was just explaining why that might be so. At least if you fake kill someone, there's some fake violence going on and all that. But pretending to be a cannibal? You're just watching someone eat chicken or beef and going, "MMMMMMMM! I'm a cannibal! Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom......."

You could edit Precious into a cannibal movie if you tried.

It would be a lot harder to edit Precious into something like Nightmare on Elm Street. But maybe.

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I dunno, I feel like the whole point is to suspend your disbelief. You sound like my dad right now. He's always on about how movies are fake. "It's just a movie!" but the whole point is to suspend your disbelief and try to believe, for the duration of the film, that what is going on is real. Maybe not literally, but to pretend. I mean, if I'm going to be like that and hate cannibal movies just because they're eating KFC, then why not hate every movie in existence because the actors are just acting. After all, what's going on is not real.

I was just trying to see into Honeykid's POV. It's not like I dislike cannibal movies because they're not eating real people. If that were the case, I wouldn't like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. Maybe that's why Honeykid doesn't like them. Leatherface doesn't eat real people.

I know, I was just a bit confused - didn't mean to start a fight.

I usually agree with you Neiba, but I think Chinatown is a rare masterpiece!

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