The 29th Hall of Fame

Yeah, this.

Also, as I said in my above post, given she reviewed Goldfinger over a year ago on Letterboxd, there is physical evidence that she has already seen the film.

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Agreed.

I think You’re taking their words too seriously, as those posts she wrote were clearly meant to be facetious in light of the complaints her films have received in the past. They were likely meant to be taken as somewhat self deprecating.

Robot is pretty popular in its home country, India.

I read those quoted words as someone wanting to call attention to their behavior.

We had a member here, Mr Minio who made it a continuous point to be a film snob who was condescending to other people's mainstream views. One day, he posted "I'm such a little prick" just to call attention to his behavior, which he was obviously proud of and wanted everyone to know it.

Obviously 100% true.

I'd be willing to guess she didn't rewatch it because she'd rather do the bashing, like 80% of her reviews for the Hall

So, Mr Minio was the user who was banned from all Halls?

Perhaps ueno can come in here and confirm what her intention was with those posts, but I agree that she was likely just being facetious. Just joking about how her nominations have done really poorly in these Halls. Nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned.

Don't just assume that's her intention though. Like cricket said, since there's no evidence to the contrary, we should just take her word at face value. Also, as I said up above, if you look at her reviews for the films in this Hall, you'll see that most of them have been positive so far.

Is this what we're turning this thread into...really?

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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue — a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then it’s a good film; if it’s not a dialogue, it’s a bad film."

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It was Guaporense. Though technically no one was banned, people just said they were tired of his crap attitude.

It's fine, we're just discussing...and maybe some positivity will come from this. If you want to read some real HoF drama you got to read the really old ones, now those got spicy!

I'm good with dropping the subject from here. In fact I got my own crappy review coming.

Anyways.

If I remember correctly, @Citizen Rules asked at some point why Synecdoche, New York hasn't been nominated in any of the HoFs yet, and upon re-watching it just last night I'm actually glad it wasn't. While I do heavily recommend it and think of it as one of the most essential films out there for any moviegoer, it's also an impenetrable film on the first watch. I'd much rather have the viewer gather and collect his thoughts and feelings upon multiple viewings than read just what his initial reaction was, especially since the first viewing you're barely able to follow the plot after a certain point and can only detect some of the major themes out there.

I haven't seen it of course, but it still sounds interesting to me. So many movies, not enough time to watch them all.

It's been nominated before. Somewhere around HOF 2-4

Welp, there goes that I guess. Apparently it was nominated for the 4th HoF. I wanted to check out the thread just to see how people reacted to it, but I found no section dedicated for all of the linked reviews on the first page, so I guess that concept somehow wasn't introduced yet at the time.

That was me who introduced the review links idea, I did that for the first time in the 10th HoF.

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I just went to Cincinnati about 3 weeks ago and yes, you have to visit their zoo as it is splendid and definitely try their Cincinnati chili. It's a bummer we never got see Michael be able to do this.

In all seriousness though, this is a rather unique film. Not because we haven't seen intelligent animated films like this made before but because the story and themes are explored in unique and different ways.

It's a movie that doesn't really like people get too attached to the characters, and usually something like that wouldn't work for me but I didn't have any real issue with it this time. I thought it a bit goofy for the females to have male voices though, think it could have worked if there was one male voice and one female voice, but that little part through me for a bit of a loop.

I don't feel the animation was great but again I found it to be unique. I think the way the story was told animation was clearly the way to go. I liked a lot of the clever humor: the hot/cold shower scene definitely gave me a chuckle.

Kaufman is generally hit or miss with me (actually, usually more of a miss), but I think this was a really well put together and fun film to watch. I'm always glad to see an animated film nominated in a general and it would be cool to see this one do well.

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Glad you like it, raul. I personally don't mind that Tom Noonan is voicing both men and women. One, he's a good enough actor to pull it off, the guy has a beautiful voice and he's able to add a feminine lilt to it when necessary. I just looked his name up on Audible and he doesn't narrate audiobooks, unfortunately.

I do want to try this someday. A brand called Skyline sells it in the frozen food section here, and I like it, but I'm sure it's a far cry from the real thing.