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Xealot posted:The last part is kind of literal, though. Bela Tarr has movies that run for 7 and a half hours. How is that supposed to be exhibited? As much as I admire Tarkovsky, I understand why someone would find him boring. But Tarr's films are consistently engrossing despite their length, even (especially) his 7.5 hour film Satantango. Which Tarr have you seen?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Hungarian cinema in general is paced like continental drift. The Hungarians make the Russians look like they're Guy Ritchie.
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Grease is a nasty piece of work. Deadpool is just an internet meme repackaged and put into cinemas, the mountains of praise thrown at this film baffles me. There was talk about Holocaust films up-thread and dissatisfaction with them, but I'd really recommend Son of Saul, it uses a 1:33:1 ratio to stunning effect with an intensely affecting lead performance.
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Karloff posted:Grease is a nasty piece of work. You're the second person I've heard dislike Grease today, why?
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got any sevens posted:You're the second person I've heard dislike Grease today, why? I dislike it because I find that it glorifies bullying and I also think the oft-criticized finale displays kind of a gross attitude without examination. But aside from that I find it aesthetically boring and the songs deeply uninspired. Unless you're asking why I am the second person today, I dunno, bad luck?
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Haha no normal person is watching 7 and a half long hour films, autistic weirdos maybe. And Grease is an actual masterpiece of cinema, I can understand goons not liking a movie about teenagers who actively try to get laid though.
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Karloff posted:
Yeah, I didn't care for it either. I know zany-wacky is his whole schtick, but it got grating fast.
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Ramagamma posted:Haha no normal person is watching 7 and a half long hour films, autistic weirdos maybe. People binge watch 10 -15 hour seasons of TV shows all the time
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Feb 15, 2017 18:06
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Most people only watch like 3-4 episodes in row though. 7 hours is a lot unless you split it up across more than one day and everyone know that splitting a film is heresy
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Feb 15, 2017 18:20
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I couldn't make it through all of Deadpool, it was an empty corporate jerkoff. Guardians of the Galaxy sucks too. Also every Marvel movie, they're all lovely wastes of time.
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DeimosRising posted:People binge watch 10 -15 hour seasons of TV shows all the time Do people do this? I feel myself atrophying physically and mentally after about 2 and a half.
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Feb 15, 2017 19:24
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Can you believe there are weirdoes out there who play games for longer than an hour without getting up and doing a full set of squats? Heh, freaks of nature...
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FreudianSlippers posted:Most people only watch like 3-4 episodes in row though. 7 hours is a lot unless you split it up across more than one day and everyone know that splitting a film is heresy I bless and sanctify your right to watch Satantango in three or even four chunks. God with god
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Lurdiak posted:I don't understand the appeal of Will Ferrell. All he does is yell. All most actors do is talk, so that's one up on the normies.
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Spatulater bro! posted:As much as I admire Tarkovsky, I understand why someone would find him boring. But Tarr's films are consistently engrossing despite their length, even (especially) his 7.5 hour film Satantango. Which Tarr have you seen? Just Damnation. Which is less than 2 hours, but did not remotely feel that way. His films are beautifully composed, but a several-minute-long sustained shot of the back of a guy's head as he stares out his window and nothing happens is more than I am able to handle. I'm not saying I need frenetic action every second or dislike slowly-paced media as a rule, but there's slow pacing and glacial pacing. I'm told Damnation isn't even superlative as "slow Tarr movies" go, so that pretty much explains why I haven't watched anything else by him.
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This Tarr guy sounds downright obnoxious and more than a little pretentious.
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Feb 16, 2017 00:52
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Satantango sounds like a Dirty Dancing sequel starring the Devil. Which I would watch the gently caress out of.
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Lurdiak posted:Anyone who's read the horror thread knows I hate pretty much every big horror movie from the 2000s. The Ring, the Grudge, Saw, Paranormal Activity... It's all poo poo. Color-correcting your boring, shittily written movie to pale blue doesn't make it scarier. And I really don't care for found footage, either. Anyone who reads the horror thread knows your foolishness is WELL documented.
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fat bossy gerbil posted:This Tarr guy sounds downright obnoxious and more than a little pretentious. Nope.
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fat bossy gerbil posted:This Tarr guy sounds downright obnoxious and more than a little pretentious. Actually he sounds dope.
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Ramagamma posted:Do people do this? I feel myself atrophying physically and mentally after about 2 and a half. Some people have a decent attention span. Sorry about your difficulty focusing.
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Jurgan posted:Some people have a decent attention span. Sorry about your difficulty focusing. Oh I have no problem with my attention span, I'll happily sit and play 5+ hours of videogames at the weekend, just sitting staring blankly at a screen without interacting with it is mind numbing though. I don't think I've ever in my life watched 2 movies in a row because it's just excruciating.
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Feb 16, 2017 09:20
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Sitting in the same spot for multiple hours can get rather uncomfortable. But Satantango is well-suited towards an episodic viewing approach, so feel free to take some breaks in-between. It'll also allow you to digest what you've seen so far.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Anyone who reads the horror thread knows your foolishness is WELL documented. You come at the king, you better not miss.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Sitting in the same spot for multiple hours can get rather uncomfortable. But Satantango is well-suited towards an episodic viewing approach, so feel free to take some breaks in-between. It'll also allow you to digest what you've seen so far. IIRC there aren't any title cards or anything like that but the various stretches of the movie are pretty episodic in tone, structure, etc.
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I've always found people's aversion to lengthy films a strange thing. As Ebert put it, a good movie can never be too long and a bad movie can never be too short.
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It's directly related to the death of the intermission.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's directly related to the death of the intermission. But now we have the pause button.
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Spatulater bro! posted:But now we have the pause button. People act like you're a philistine if you don't seal yourself into a sensory deprivation chamber before starting a movie
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with turning a movie off after 20 minutes because its boring shite
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Ramagamma posted:There is absolutely nothing wrong with turning a movie off after 20 minutes because its boring shite Spend your time how you like but 20 minutes isn't really much to go on.
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Now I'm curious what awesome movies have terrible first 30 minutes.
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DeimosRising posted:Spend your time how you like but 20 minutes isn't really much to go on. I think at that point its more to do with your own personal mood than the contents of a specific film but id say 20 minutes is about double what you need to determine if you will enjoy a movie.
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Karloff posted:Deadpool is just an internet meme repackaged and put into cinemas, the mountains of praise thrown at this film baffles me. I loved Deadpool, but I think it succeeded more about what was going on, movie wise, than the movie itself. I can't remember a lot of stuff coming out around the time it did, and most of the other comic book movies in that space in time were more serious, end-of-the-world stuff. Having a wacky comedic superhero movie like Deadpool set it apart, which made it more noticeable to average moviegoers.
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While everyone was running around going on about how much they loved Her I was trying to figure out if I was the one suffering from brain damage or if it was everyone else. The movie is essentially Baby's First Satire with writing about as subtle as a rod up the urethra, like serious freshman screenwriting class bad in terms of Sad Mumble Man With a Weird but Indicative Future Job Gets Into a Weird but Indicative Situation stereotypicality. Maybe I just take the movie personally as a guy with a mustache but I loved The Lobster, which was clever in all the ways Her isn't.
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got any sevens posted:Now I'm curious what awesome movies have terrible first 30 minutes. The first 30 minutes of every Taken movie are total rubbish. The "story" in the first Raid movie is rubbish. Basically the answer every time will be action movies, assuming you like the rest of it.
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It takes 26 minutes before Toshiro Mifune shows up in The Hidden Fortress. Not saying the preceding time was bad, but he dominates as soon as he shows up.
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Squashing Machine posted:While everyone was running around going on about how much they loved Her I was trying to figure out if I was the one suffering from brain damage or if it was everyone else. The movie is essentially Baby's First Satire with writing about as subtle as a rod up the urethra Please do not kinkshame here got any sevens posted:Now I'm curious what awesome movies have terrible first 30 minutes. Hard to say without knowing what you think is awesome but you've never come around on a movie?
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I do enough basic research on the movies I watch so that its pretty rare that I end up sitting down to something that's just 100% pure poo poo for the entire first 20 minutes.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's directly related to the death of the intermission. I miss intermisisons so much. I wanna all go to the lobby. 
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