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There's a person in my movie society at university who is one of the worst people I have ever met.
He's a popular guy when it comes to the society as a whole, but I know him for what he really is. A fraud. He pretends that his favourite film is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, yet when I was talking to him about the film once, I realised he'd never seen it or at least properly seen it. He just said it was his favourite film to maintain this aura of him liking a "higher class" of film. I never spoke to him again one on one, but during pints one night after The Big Lebowski (Which won the vote for film of the week, and that week's theme was "sports movies". Yes.) I heard him talking about Once Upon a Time in the West. And I quietly thought to myself "you massive f**k" and "how dare you talk about that masterpiece as if you like it, to impress people". He probably hasn't watched that either. I think he's vice president now.
How is this relevant you might ask? It's not really, but the point is that people should like what they like, and not what they think other people might like. SC makes jibes about people on this forum liking "art house" cinema, but that's kind of what this group is, a forum for movie lovers, so it's only natural that people on a specialist forum of this nature would have an affection for films off the beaten track. And, of course, being the diverse community that this is, there's people who have an affinity with horror films, or action films, or sci-fi films (thank god we don't have any massive Bruceploitation lovers here, or at least I think). Any kind of film is acceptable to love or hate!
Basically, no one here lies about what they like, and that's what I like about the place. Sure, I absolutely love La Dolce Vita and Anchorman, and think Vivre Sa Vie and Donnie Brasco are both massive steaming hot piles of...but the point is: Stop arguing about art-house/mainstream and let's just all agree that we like movies. Because we all do. And if you don't, you can always become the vice-president of my university's film society.
He's a popular guy when it comes to the society as a whole, but I know him for what he really is. A fraud. He pretends that his favourite film is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, yet when I was talking to him about the film once, I realised he'd never seen it or at least properly seen it. He just said it was his favourite film to maintain this aura of him liking a "higher class" of film. I never spoke to him again one on one, but during pints one night after The Big Lebowski (Which won the vote for film of the week, and that week's theme was "sports movies". Yes.) I heard him talking about Once Upon a Time in the West. And I quietly thought to myself "you massive f**k" and "how dare you talk about that masterpiece as if you like it, to impress people". He probably hasn't watched that either. I think he's vice president now.
How is this relevant you might ask? It's not really, but the point is that people should like what they like, and not what they think other people might like. SC makes jibes about people on this forum liking "art house" cinema, but that's kind of what this group is, a forum for movie lovers, so it's only natural that people on a specialist forum of this nature would have an affection for films off the beaten track. And, of course, being the diverse community that this is, there's people who have an affinity with horror films, or action films, or sci-fi films (thank god we don't have any massive Bruceploitation lovers here, or at least I think). Any kind of film is acceptable to love or hate!
Basically, no one here lies about what they like, and that's what I like about the place. Sure, I absolutely love La Dolce Vita and Anchorman, and think Vivre Sa Vie and Donnie Brasco are both massive steaming hot piles of...but the point is: Stop arguing about art-house/mainstream and let's just all agree that we like movies. Because we all do. And if you don't, you can always become the vice-president of my university's film society.
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movies are movies. a movie isn't automatically terrible because it aspires to be a higher form of art and a movie isn't great just because it's non-stop action, and vice-versa.
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There's a person in my movie society at university who is one of the worst people I have ever met.
He's a popular guy when it comes to the society as a whole, but I know him for what he really is. A fraud. He pretends that his favourite film is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, yet when I was talking to him about the film once, I realised he'd never seen it or at least properly seen it. He just said it was his favourite film to maintain this aura of him liking a "higher class" of film. I never spoke to him again one on one, but during pints one night after The Big Lebowski (Which won the vote for film of the week, and that week's theme was "sports movies". Yes.) I heard him talking about Once Upon a Time in the West. And I quietly thought to myself "you massive f**k" and "how dare you talk about that masterpiece as if you like it, to impress people". He probably hasn't watched that either. I think he's vice president now.
He's a popular guy when it comes to the society as a whole, but I know him for what he really is. A fraud. He pretends that his favourite film is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, yet when I was talking to him about the film once, I realised he'd never seen it or at least properly seen it. He just said it was his favourite film to maintain this aura of him liking a "higher class" of film. I never spoke to him again one on one, but during pints one night after The Big Lebowski (Which won the vote for film of the week, and that week's theme was "sports movies". Yes.) I heard him talking about Once Upon a Time in the West. And I quietly thought to myself "you massive f**k" and "how dare you talk about that masterpiece as if you like it, to impress people". He probably hasn't watched that either. I think he's vice president now.
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I really don't make jibes about people, though. Who have I really targeted? I just get upset when a bunch of obscure stuff makes a countdown and a lot of great well known stuff gets left off. I hate when certain things stand out and represent the decade.
You want a face for someone who actually does pick on people for liking stuff they don't like?
HONEYKID.
Blame Honeykid! He's the absolute most irritating about this with people.
You want a face for someone who actually does pick on people for liking stuff they don't like?
HONEYKID.
Blame Honeykid! He's the absolute most irritating about this with people.
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Well at least it wasn't me. But yes, I like LA Dolce Vita and Tokyo Story. And I hate 8 1/2 and Cries and Whispers. So I'm not a one trick pony either.
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None of the films you talk about are obscure SC, maybe to you but not to the forum as a whole which is why they turn up so high.
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@Weeman, I couldn't get past the part where you called The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly a higher class of film.
You make good points. Another conversation that probably needs to be had elsewhere is how we define art house and the like. As near as I can tell for many it just means foreign or not released in the multiplex. I love The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly but consider it very mainstream. Spaghetti westerns forty years ago are about the equivalent of a comic book flick today. It is weird how a film gets some distance behind it and has the right director can become "smarter" just by default.
You make good points. Another conversation that probably needs to be had elsewhere is how we define art house and the like. As near as I can tell for many it just means foreign or not released in the multiplex. I love The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly but consider it very mainstream. Spaghetti westerns forty years ago are about the equivalent of a comic book flick today. It is weird how a film gets some distance behind it and has the right director can become "smarter" just by default.
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None of the films you talk about are obscure SC, maybe to you but not to the forum as a whole which is why they turn up so high.
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I really don't make jibes about people, though. Who have I really targeted? I just get upset when a bunch of obscure stuff makes a countdown and a lot of great well known stuff gets left off. I hate when certain things stand out and represent the decade.
You want a face for someone who actually does pick on people for liking stuff they don't like?
HONEYKID.
Blame Honeykid! He's the absolute most irritating about this with people.
You want a face for someone who actually does pick on people for liking stuff they don't like?
HONEYKID.
Blame Honeykid! He's the absolute most irritating about this with people.
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Spaghetti westerns forty years ago are about the equivalent of a comic book flick today.
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sexy honey?
kinda like that, actually -- it's dirty ANY delicious
kinda like that, actually -- it's dirty ANY delicious
Take that back.
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