Re: Napoleon (Ridley Scott) - 11/22/23
Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 3:35 am
Agreed. I expected much more of the latter. This movie made him seem boring, which I doubt he was.BurtReynolds wrote:
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Agreed. I expected much more of the latter. This movie made him seem boring, which I doubt he was.BurtReynolds wrote:
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I knew little to nothing about this going in, but watched it earlier this year and loved it.BurtReynolds wrote:Doesn't help that I watched Barry Lyndon recently and it's a thousand times better.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Did i hear correctly that the hunger games prequel beat this out in the box office?
A lot of people seem to love it. Rated high by the audience on letterboxd, rotten tomatoes and imdb. Big box office success as well.dimejinky99 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Did i hear correctly that the hunger games prequel beat this out in the box office?
My other half says the new hunger games is truly awful. And he’s a huge fan of the books and films.
Anders wrote:A lot of people seem to love it. Rated high by the audience on letterboxd, rotten tomatoes and imdb. Big box office success as well.dimejinky99 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Did i hear correctly that the hunger games prequel beat this out in the box office?
My other half says the new hunger games is truly awful. And he’s a huge fan of the books and films.
I enjoyed the original movies, not seen this one yet. But YA movies often feel a bit fake to me, in a way even something like Lord Of The Rings or Star Wars doesn’t. Like those it’s a fantastical setting, but somehow feels a bit less genuine. If Harry Potter can be considered YA, they did it right though.dimejinky99 wrote:Anders wrote:A lot of people seem to love it. Rated high by the audience on letterboxd, rotten tomatoes and imdb. Big box office success as well.dimejinky99 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Did i hear correctly that the hunger games prequel beat this out in the box office?
My other half says the new hunger games is truly awful. And he’s a huge fan of the books and films.
Good stuff. I never got into it at all. Guess himself is just one of them nerdy purists you hear about:p