Mr Minio's Top 185 Films aka I bet you haven't seen it!

Only seen Repulsion from that last set, which I liked. I was surprised I didn't love it though, seeing as it is exactly the type of movie I end up adoring.

Have you seen Reygadas's newest film, Mr. Minio?

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Yes. I've just watched it several days ago.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Yeah, I'd about agree with that. Much less readable and cohesive than his other features (on purpose of course) which makes sense as an autobiographical piece . It felt like a much less linear and self-contained kissing cousin to The Tree of Life, but Reygadas is too interested in very specific binaries for it to be as compelling as his other work.

Film4 shows them quite often, Daniel.

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I quite liked Barry Lyndon and Repulsion but Oldboy was a letdown for me. It was ok but I thought it was silly. I don't mind silly, but not when it's supposed to be serious.

What was so silly about Oldboy?

The whole thing for me. I know a lot of people love it, and I respect that, but that's just how I felt. I did like the twist but even that was nothing that shocking or special for me. I didn't hate the movie, but I think it's one of those things where you like it less, because of high expectations.

Okay, I respect your opinion, sure, but saying the whole thing, doesn't explain anything at all. What exactly in Oldboy is silly?

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I watched Uncle Boonmee yesterday and loved it, I like your little text with it

It's all about expectations. I was expecting a serious, somewhat realistic drama. I only got that in the tone of the film. Mostly what I thought was silly was the way the characters acted throughout the film, and different directions the story went. It's really that simple. Maybe absurd would be a better word than silly? Even the famous fight scene; it wasn't exciting or believable, but I wouldn't think it was silly in a standard action film. I really thought it was a mess, but with good qualities.

Isn't that 99% on you then?

He didn't say it wasn't. He said it was a letdown and he thought it was silly.

I really don't know how to answer that. I mean, my expectations were based upon what I had heard about the film. I could really just say that anyone would be responsible for their expectations or feelings about a film. Isn't that kind of obvious?

You could say that, given the expectations impeded the purpose of whatever film. I tend to see lots of foreign films maintain both a serious and whimsical mood, so generally I have zero expectations and it is thus much easier to digest/critique something from a clean slate. I'm not offended by not liking Oldboy, it's my least favorite Park film, but it being silly because you wanted something hard-boiled just struck me as a bit odd.

The tone of the film, at least to me, suggests a serious and believable film. I'm not sure how you can find my simple opinion odd. If that is truly odd to you, then I guess you haven't seen many odd things in your life.

So..pointing out something that is odd, means nothing else is odd? What? This is going nowhere. Minio continue on

You're telling me my feelings about a movie are odd; you may like the movie and that's fine, but my feelings about it can't be argued.

And yet here we are several posts in