The 7th MoFo Hall of Fame

Thrilled that you enjoyed it so much, raul!

I never know what to expect when you watch something I love. It's not that often that we see eye to eye on films.

Shawshank is the only film I have left to watch for this HOF (though I may still rewatch BJM before I turn in my ballot). I've always liked it, but it's been awhile since I last watched it. I'll probably get to it this weekend.

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How about after she has realized her errors, does she "deserve" him then?

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WTF did I just see?
There are some days when you need something different and today was one of those days... I was too tired to watch something deep so I got lucky with this movie because I didn't know nothing about it, except it was on cricket's avatar.
It has some incredibly creative stuff, I loved the script with all that gory violence and dark humor and the ending is glorious! The camera work has some really nice details too!
The acting is by most of the cast is only decent. However, Juno Temple and especially McConaughey are great on this!
I am loving this HoF!

Not in my opinion.

To me it's odd that you are judging characters on the way they are at the start of the film rather than the end - the journey of each of the characters is one of the things that makes the film great. Anyway, each to their own as they say

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Her reaction to the situation was much too extreme for me to change my mind about her at the end.

I guess I'm just not a very forgiving person.

Yeah, I want to see an arc in my characters.This is not exactly a grounded movie either. It's all good. This is a movie I would not expect a lot of modern audiences to connect to. It is pretty silly, just in a charming way for me.

It's not really silly unless you're working your dream job and living your dream life, and all of us MoFos are, of course, doing that. Capra made it the American Dream though by making the Jean Arthur character have social independence as her family's birthright but acquiring wealth through marriage too.

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I don't mean that the themes are silly. The characters and the situations certainly are though.

I don't think I need to say a lot about this movie. This was one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love I have ever seen. It was so well done; I was feeling the girl's longing and pain after only about ten minutes. Two brilliant performances, expertly directed, beautiful musically, and it looks great. I felt like I watched an epic love story condensed into under ninety minutes. There's was no time at all wasted. I loved it!

I've seen 12 of the 18. I have four more first time watches and then 2 rewatches (Shawshank and You Can't Take It With You). I will finally get to Platform on Monday, and then I'll be shipping it off to Swan.

How about the rest of you?

Really glad you enjoyed it so much Cricket. I find Ophuls to be an amazing director visually - the lighting, sets and costumes are always fantastic - and he mixes it well with compelling characters and well told stories. Hopefully others get as much out of it as you did

I didn't read any of the discussion on it and knew nothing about it going in, so it was a very nice surprise. As I mentioned in my little Before Sunrise write-up, I can be a sucker for the right kind of love story. This one certainly played out to my taste.

Still just need to rewatch Shawshank. I might also rewatch Being John Malkovich, but I last watched it right before nominations so I don't really need to watch it again.

I'm also at 12/18 like you raul!


Only, that's the unwatched count for me. 6 watched and 6 rewatches left wuhuu

I have 7 new watches and 2 rewatches left!

I already sent in my list over a month and a half ago.

Platform

Well, I really don't know where to begin, because this was a train wreck for me. The story isn't one that engaged me at all. I felt that there were many unnecessary scenes that didn't need to be in the films. The biggest disappointment for me was the camerawork. It's pans lagged and I didn't see any sense in it as it wasn't grabbing any type of emotion by doing it that way. It also wasn't that candid of scenery to look at, so I'm surprised the director went that route numerous times. It was often pointless to here nothing but the wind and a see shot with nothing going on for about 15 seconds. The acting didn't strike me as anything that came close to a professional level so again I'll use the comparison of a home video. The lack of close ups really makes me feel as if none of this was supposed to be about connecting with the characters. I'm sure I hit another cultural barrier wall but this wasn't a wall I wanted to get over anyways.

The best thing for me? The DVD title song and the Fargo-esque score.

I'm sorry Bluedeed, but I'm glad you and Cricket have gotten something out of it. Hopefully a few others do.

Your scathing review made me break my over 1 week streak of not watching any movies due to lack of interest and a bit of mild depression kicking in again. Thanks Raul!

Watching Platform tomorrow - I've already acquired it.

I don't think that's going to help your depression.