PolarisDiB
Asked 7 years ago
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This Summer in Movies
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The Brothers Grimm is coming out this month. That makes a total of, like, FOUR notable movie releases this entire summer, which if my memory serves is about a billion less than other summers, which at least had negligable sequels to make fun of. Is it me, or was this like the slowest summer in recent history? If I hear studios complaining about low audience turn-out during 2005, I'm going to throw something.
--PolarisDiB
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Sumytra1
Answered 7 years ago
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The Brothers Grimm is coming out this month. That makes a total of, like, FOUR notable movie releases this entire summer, which if my memory serves is about a billion less than other summers, which at least had negligable sequels to make fun of. Is it me, or was this like the slowest summer in recent history? If I hear studios complaining about low audience turn-out during 2005, I'm going to throw something.
--PolarisDiB
I'm looking forward to Brother's Grimm as well but since all the summer releases have been disappointing I'm not getting my hopes up.
Summer is when I have the time to go take a deserved break from teaching and go to movie theaters but there has been nothing to pick from. Even the art houses are going overboard with documentaries.
It isn't just you. It's at least you and me and a few others.
--Sumytra
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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Oh yeah, and then there's documentaries... Again, I don't know if it's just me, but ever since documentaries started getting more major theatrical release, they've become even less interesting and more poorly made. I blame Michael Moore for popularizing a sort of new style of documentary that is exactly NOT what a documentary, in theory, wants to do: high-paced editing, quick dialog, "cool" factors, and lack of a real thesis. For instance, in Fog of War, numbers and examples and names would shoot across the screen at an ever increasing rate... Now, I'm sure that was meant to show how they seem to just keep going and going and going, but seriously, why are you taking your proofs and just flashing them before moving along with other crap before anybody's had the time to sit down and think about what you just said...
...unless of course you don't want people to think about it.
--PolarisDiB
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vargus
Answered 7 years ago
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Oh yeah, and then there's documentaries... Again, I don't know if it's just me, but ever since documentaries started getting more major theatrical release, they've become even less interesting and more poorly made. I blame Michael Moore for popularizing a sort of new style of documentary that is exactly NOT what a documentary, in theory, wants to do: high-paced editing, quick dialog, "cool" factors, and lack of a real thesis. For instance, in Fog of War, numbers and examples and names would shoot across the screen at an ever increasing rate... Now, I'm sure that was meant to show how they seem to just keep going and going and going, but seriously, why are you taking your proofs and just flashing them before moving along with other crap before anybody's had the time to sit down and think about what you just said...
...unless of course you don't want people to think about it.
--PolarisDiB
Yeah, I hear you about the documentaries. Especially during the election last year we had a whole slew of rush-job documentaries about Karl Rove and John Kerry and whatnot. Totally unwatchable unless you're a rabid partisan. And Michael Moore just keeps getting sloppier and more self-indulgent with every doc he cranks out. Frankly, the only really good one he ever made was Roger & Me, and that was 16 years ago. Re Fog of War: I think part of the point of all those numbers flashing across the screen was to underscore the nerdy, number-crunching aspect of McNamara, and how being a mere brain detached from our common humanity can lead to disastrous consequences for everybody. McNamara, after all, was nicknamed "the IBM computer with legs".
I have to admit, though, that I'm still a sucker for a well-made nature documentary like March of the Penguins.
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Sumytra1
Answered 7 years ago
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Oh yeah, and then there's documentaries... Again, I don't know if it's just me, but ever since documentaries started getting more major theatrical release, they've become even less interesting and more poorly made. I blame Michael Moore for popularizing a sort of new style of documentary that is exactly NOT what a documentary, in theory, wants to do: high-paced editing, quick dialog, "cool" factors, and lack of a real thesis. For instance, in Fog of War, numbers and examples and names would shoot across the screen at an ever increasing rate... Now, I'm sure that was meant to show how they seem to just keep going and going and going, but seriously, why are you taking your proofs and just flashing them before moving along with other crap before anybody's had the time to sit down and think about what you just said...
...unless of course you don't want people to think about it.
--PolarisDiB I have to admit, though, that I'm still a sucker for a well-made nature documentary like March of the Penguins.
I'm considering March of the Penguins but only because there is nothing else to see.
--Sumytra
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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I do hear good things about March of the Penguins. But just like Sumytra said... 'cause there's nothing else to see.
--PolarisDiB
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Sumytra1
Answered 7 years ago
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I liked Sin City a lot but it's technically not a summer movie. And I'm looking forward to seeing Murderball, Wedding Crashers, Mad Hot Ballroom, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Also there are foreign releases out that are interesting: 3-Iron (Bin-jip) and Tony Takitani (not in system).
I've only read the short story of Tony but I did see 3-Iron and it is INCREDIBLE. There's lots of good stuff coming from Asia now and it's not just horror and anime (which is also good.)
Movielens gave me 3.5's and 4's for all these movies but I don't think I'm going to spend the $$ to see them in a theater. I'll wait until they are on video which should be next week!
--Sumytra
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Ryuukuro
Answered 7 years ago
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Strictly Ballroom was a melodrama (pretty good) and Dirty Dancing is...Dirty Dancing.
Did you not like them because you don't like dancing or did you not like them because they were bad?
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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3-Iron I've been wanting to see for a while, but it's already out of the theatres (at least around here) now and so I'm just going to have to wait until it comes out on DVD.
The rest of them are 3.5s and 4s, like Sumytra, and like Sumytra, that doesn't spell out "$10 tickets" to me.
--PolarisDiB
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