Confessions Of A Celluloid Lover! -- Tag
Monday, 22 May 2017
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This tag converts moving-picture demo quotes into moving-picture demo questions, as well as yes, did ask to a greater extent than or less confessing on my part.
1. "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." - The Big Lebowski
Your most unpopular cinema opinion:
That Captain America: Civil War was halfway a terrible movie. I've seen it 3 times now, as well as tin taste it good plenty to move along watching it whenever the province of affairs calls for a huge superhero blockbuster, but that's solely inwards spite of the issues I bring with it. Seeing it inwards the theaters it felt similar existence pelted with backhanded insults for 2 as well as a one-half hours, (read: information technology WAS NOT FUN) as well as every bit the credits rolled I sat with my caput inwards my hands confused every bit to whether I wanted to start yelling expletives at the hide or just cry. Yet I wasn't at all surprised when everyone else inwards the grouping I saw the moving-picture demo with (save for my youngest blood brother who's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of a cinema cynic than me, as well as to a greater extent than oft than non doesn't similar MCU movies) absolutely loved it.
The problems I had with it were enhanced past times the other one-half of the moving-picture demo existence exceptionally well-done what with all those spectacular struggle scenes as well as a bunch of lovable characters, as well as basically boils downward to this: The plot was painfully contrived, as well as it forces characters to do things out of their established character; as well as to comprehend it up, the cinema attempts to emotionally manipulate the audience. Feeling similar my emotions are existence purposefully manipulated patch watching a cinema is likely my biggest moving-picture demo pet peeve, which is likely why I dislike this moving-picture demo thus much to a greater extent than than most. Check out my review of Civil War hither for a to a greater extent than in-depth explanation of my opinions!
2. "The confine does non exist!" - Mean Girls
A Guilty Pleasure cinema y'all tin sentry over as well as over again:
I thought virtually this, expecting it'd destination upward existence to a greater extent than or less girly flick similar to Mean Girls, like maybe Clueless, which I love; but I realized that all the girly rom-coms I dear I don't experience guilty over. The moving-picture demo I rewatch the most as well as experience movie-guilt for enjoying is really Peter Jackson's King Kong. You may state it's a nifty cinema as well as I shouldn't experience guilty over it (or the opposite!) but that's non the point. The 2005 King Kong is my biggest guilty pleasance cinema -- perhaps just because the residue of my menage unit of measurement hates it, but at that topographic point y'all go. In many ways I recollect the moving-picture demo is truly an splendid film. The applied scientific discipline used for Kong, the cast, the scenes earlier the island... it's top dog work is the dinosaur chase sequence which did non grip upward animation-wise, as well as it does bring that sappy, overly-dramatic musical note going on at the destination too. That's what King Kong is though, as well as I really taste it. I don't fifty-fifty withdraw heed the runtime!
3. "Are y'all non entertained?!" - Gladiator
A cinema that is universally loved that y'all found boring:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I'm non sure if this moving-picture demo counts fully every bit universally loved, but when I showtime saw it as well as found it dull it for sure did seem that way. My brothers as well as I were all quite bored watching this, as well as fifty-fifty had a difficult fourth dimension making fun of it's overly serious as well as depressing tone. Since thus I re-watched it lonely as well as was able to appreciate the motion-capture performances of the apes -- mainly Koba, Toby Kebbell, who I was just starting to pay attending to at the time. Recognizing the actors behind the apes was interesting inwards it's ain way, but I notwithstanding hold that the moving-picture demo as well as its plot is overall really boring, edifice glacially upward to a state of war that we'd bring to hold back 3 years to see. (Read my review for to a greater extent than ranting on the subject!)
4. "Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie as well as my 'f*** you' flip-flops, y'all pretentious douchebag!" - The Social Network
The most pretentious cinema you've always seen:
Oh that's easy: Gravity. As a lover of scifi, I am, of course, perfectly capable of suspending disbelief for the sake of enjoying movies that don't completely observe the laws of this world. Like physics. How. Ever: Gravity gets no such pass, because it was marketed as well as presented as well as acclaimed every bit the most realistic space-set scifi cinema always made. And yes, it looks pretty darned realistic -- until their blatantly ignoring the laws of physics as well as full general reality gets inwards the way! All done, I powerfulness add, to propel a plot that otherwise couldn't bring made it an inch off the ground. It's pretty, yes, but if you're gonna hold upward that smug over the greatness of your film, maybe larn inwards really every bit nifty every bit y'all claim.
For your viewing pleasure: CinemaSins! My biggest number with this 1 is mentioned at 2:48, but honestly I concur with them all.
My 2d biggest number isn't mentioned inwards the CinemaSins though. It's really the scene where Stone is inwards the transportation crying, as well as the tears drip off her confront as well as float piece of cake towards the camera. Back to emotional manipulation again, because inwards reality tears inwards zero-g volition just accumulate on your oculus inwards a bubble, every bit demonstrated inwards this neat video:
This fact that the moving-picture demo did what it did instead of adhering to the laws of reality is show that its truthful motivation was non to hold upward realistic, but simply to marketplace a trite as well as contrived even nether the guise of existence groundbreaking inwards cinema realism. Read my review of Gravity hither for to a greater extent than unrelenting bashing.
5. "Draw me similar 1 of your French girls." - Titanic
A cinema that describes your aesthetic:
Disclaimer: I bring no thought what "aesthetic" is. I know the proper definition, as well as I've for sure seen it used every bit a sort of exaggerated meme, but I don't know what "my aesthetic" is, or how a moving-picture demo could depict it. So I'm just going with a moving-picture demo that has a musical note as well as visual makeup that appeals to me. (Which is likely precisely what I was supposed to do!) And that moving-picture demo is Mud. I won't fifty-fifty endeavour to depict the aesthetic except to state the manager Jeff Nichols said that he wanted the cinema to menses similar the Mississippi River (an of import backdrop inwards the film) -- as well as it did. You tin read my review of the cinema here (which I wrote earlier I fully understood the consummate reasons why I loved it) as well as I'll larn out y'all with a compilation of its cinematography:
6. "That's a bingo!" - Inglourious Basterds
A manager who has never allow y'all down:
Jeff Nichols. It's a high criterion to alive upward to, as well as the to a greater extent than film's you've made the to a greater extent than probable it is that y'all disappointed inwards to a greater extent than or less way. I straight off thought of him, but thus thought at that topographic point had to hold upward to a greater extent than or less other manager who's done to a greater extent than than 5 movies who never allow me down, but no. I notwithstanding haven't seen his 5th film, Loving, but fifty-fifty with 4 he notwithstanding wins. Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, and Midnight Special are non solely films that bring only non allow me down, they inwards fact all blew me away inwards 1 means or another, as well as are all alongside my favorite films. Click the links to read my reviews of each of them!
7. "Don't believe his lies." - Memento
A cinema y'all were told was bad but y'all loved:
This 1 I'm giving a necktie because both the movies bring the same fix of circumstances. The Brothers Bloom, as well as The Darjeeling Limited; both considered past times the full general movie-going audience to hold upward the worst movies of their respective directors, Rian Johnson, as well as Wes Anderson, but are really my favorites from them. (Though I haven't seen all of Andersons films.) The Brother's Bloom (review) has a few plot holes, but is of a fun as well as underused genre, is really funny as well as incredibly charming, has a nifty cast playing nifty characters, as well as (to me at least) is decidedly heartfelt.
For The Darjeeling Limited the biggest criticism I hear is that it has no plot or makes no sense, but that is the appeal of Wes Anderson inwards the showtime house for me, as well as for to a greater extent than or less argue this one's item build of ambiguity resonates rather deeply with me. It does bring seemingly pointless moments but also to a greater extent than or less meaningful ones too, as well as I similar it all. I dear watching the human relationship of the brothers (oh hello -- both these movies focus on brothers too!) as well as their journeying to notice something that maybe they do find, but can't quite seat their finger on what it is. For me, it works. Plus I dear the music, as well as it's oft hilarious.
8. "It's solely forever, non long at all." - Labyrinth
If y'all could solely sentry 1 cinema for the residue of your life, what would it be?
I'm gonna larn with The Lord of the Rings trilogy on this 1 because I tin larn away with it counting every bit 1 film. Extended editions too, of course. Obviously if I could solely sentry 1 moving-picture demo the residue of my life I'd desire it to hold upward a long 1 thus it'll grow quondam to a greater extent than slowly, but really, if I could solely sentry 1 moving-picture demo for the residue of my life I would pass a whole lot to a greater extent than fourth dimension reading. In which case, I powerfulness selection The Way Way Back (review) because there's no mass version of that.
9. "Were y'all rushing or were y'all dragging?” - Whiplash
A long cinema y'all thought was perfectly paced:
To hold upward honest I similar long movies, as well as every bit long every bit I notice the plot or the characters interesting I'm difficult to bore. So how virtually this: It's technically a mini-series, non a film, but the 1995 Pride as well as Prejudice with Colin Firth. It's 5 hours long, as well as thus good structured that I cannot larn out the room for fifty-fifty 2 seconds without pausing it to foreclose my missing anything good. Read my enamored review here!
10. "As y'all wish." - The Princess Bride
Your cinema dream team. (Directors, writers, genre, actors, music, whatever.)
Right now, later on a fleck of daydreaming, I would similar to run into Damien Chazelle write as well as directly a scifi noir film. I dear the genre mashup of noir as well as scifi, as well as I recollect he absolutely had the powerfulness to capture the correct tone. His movies bring a palpable unloose energy to them as well as I'd dear to run into how that marries with subtle as well as black tones similar that of Blade Runner, Dark City, or Gattaca. The music could hold upward jazzy since he likes that.
And because I've been noticing as well as enjoying these 2 a bunch lately, it should star Toby Kebbell as well as Vanessa Kirby. Neither of them larn many leading roles -- that is to say, almost none -- but I absolutely recollect they bring the talent for it, specially if the characters are non your typical leading types but to a greater extent than character-types. I bet Kirby could line off the mysterious woman/possibly femme fatale excellently, as well as I know for a fact that Kebbell tin do that hard-boiled-but-surprisingly-soft-on-the-inside type.
Since it's a Chazelle cinema it should bring J.K. Simmons inwards an of import supporting role too. Something for him to bring fun with, or surprise with. It could hold upward fix inwards space, or the distant future, or just an alternate reality altogether; as well as I'd likely prefer if it focused mostly on grapheme as well as intrigue, but had to a greater extent than or less practiced activity inwards it too. With all those elements inwards house at that topographic point would hold upward no means the moving-picture demo could disappoint me.
Now I'm depressed because it won't never exist!
I got this tag from Kyle Gaunt -- check out his YouTube channel here, as well as follow him on Twitter @kg_moviereviews! And if the tag seems fun to you, don't hesitate to participate! I suppose y'all tin really tag people if y'all want, but it's to a greater extent than of a loosely-structured thread. I promise y'all enjoyed reading my answers as well as weren't offended past times my opinions which are definitely the solely correct opinions to have! Just kidding -- larn out me a comment as well as tell me where I'm wrong! Or if y'all agree. Or just your thoughts inwards general. Thanks for reading!
1. "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." - The Big Lebowski
Your most unpopular cinema opinion:
That Captain America: Civil War was halfway a terrible movie. I've seen it 3 times now, as well as tin taste it good plenty to move along watching it whenever the province of affairs calls for a huge superhero blockbuster, but that's solely inwards spite of the issues I bring with it. Seeing it inwards the theaters it felt similar existence pelted with backhanded insults for 2 as well as a one-half hours, (read: information technology WAS NOT FUN) as well as every bit the credits rolled I sat with my caput inwards my hands confused every bit to whether I wanted to start yelling expletives at the hide or just cry. Yet I wasn't at all surprised when everyone else inwards the grouping I saw the moving-picture demo with (save for my youngest blood brother who's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of a cinema cynic than me, as well as to a greater extent than oft than non doesn't similar MCU movies) absolutely loved it.
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The problems I had with it were enhanced past times the other one-half of the moving-picture demo existence exceptionally well-done what with all those spectacular struggle scenes as well as a bunch of lovable characters, as well as basically boils downward to this: The plot was painfully contrived, as well as it forces characters to do things out of their established character; as well as to comprehend it up, the cinema attempts to emotionally manipulate the audience. Feeling similar my emotions are existence purposefully manipulated patch watching a cinema is likely my biggest moving-picture demo pet peeve, which is likely why I dislike this moving-picture demo thus much to a greater extent than than most. Check out my review of Civil War hither for a to a greater extent than in-depth explanation of my opinions!
2. "The confine does non exist!" - Mean Girls
A Guilty Pleasure cinema y'all tin sentry over as well as over again:
I thought virtually this, expecting it'd destination upward existence to a greater extent than or less girly flick similar to Mean Girls, like maybe Clueless, which I love; but I realized that all the girly rom-coms I dear I don't experience guilty over. The moving-picture demo I rewatch the most as well as experience movie-guilt for enjoying is really Peter Jackson's King Kong. You may state it's a nifty cinema as well as I shouldn't experience guilty over it (or the opposite!) but that's non the point. The 2005 King Kong is my biggest guilty pleasance cinema -- perhaps just because the residue of my menage unit of measurement hates it, but at that topographic point y'all go. In many ways I recollect the moving-picture demo is truly an splendid film. The applied scientific discipline used for Kong, the cast, the scenes earlier the island... it's top dog work is the dinosaur chase sequence which did non grip upward animation-wise, as well as it does bring that sappy, overly-dramatic musical note going on at the destination too. That's what King Kong is though, as well as I really taste it. I don't fifty-fifty withdraw heed the runtime!
3. "Are y'all non entertained?!" - Gladiator
A cinema that is universally loved that y'all found boring:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I'm non sure if this moving-picture demo counts fully every bit universally loved, but when I showtime saw it as well as found it dull it for sure did seem that way. My brothers as well as I were all quite bored watching this, as well as fifty-fifty had a difficult fourth dimension making fun of it's overly serious as well as depressing tone. Since thus I re-watched it lonely as well as was able to appreciate the motion-capture performances of the apes -- mainly Koba, Toby Kebbell, who I was just starting to pay attending to at the time. Recognizing the actors behind the apes was interesting inwards it's ain way, but I notwithstanding hold that the moving-picture demo as well as its plot is overall really boring, edifice glacially upward to a state of war that we'd bring to hold back 3 years to see. (Read my review for to a greater extent than ranting on the subject!)
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| And fifty-fifty thus Koba's dead thus who cares? |
4. "Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie as well as my 'f*** you' flip-flops, y'all pretentious douchebag!" - The Social Network
The most pretentious cinema you've always seen:
Oh that's easy: Gravity. As a lover of scifi, I am, of course, perfectly capable of suspending disbelief for the sake of enjoying movies that don't completely observe the laws of this world. Like physics. How. Ever: Gravity gets no such pass, because it was marketed as well as presented as well as acclaimed every bit the most realistic space-set scifi cinema always made. And yes, it looks pretty darned realistic -- until their blatantly ignoring the laws of physics as well as full general reality gets inwards the way! All done, I powerfulness add, to propel a plot that otherwise couldn't bring made it an inch off the ground. It's pretty, yes, but if you're gonna hold upward that smug over the greatness of your film, maybe larn inwards really every bit nifty every bit y'all claim.
For your viewing pleasure: CinemaSins! My biggest number with this 1 is mentioned at 2:48, but honestly I concur with them all.
My 2d biggest number isn't mentioned inwards the CinemaSins though. It's really the scene where Stone is inwards the transportation crying, as well as the tears drip off her confront as well as float piece of cake towards the camera. Back to emotional manipulation again, because inwards reality tears inwards zero-g volition just accumulate on your oculus inwards a bubble, every bit demonstrated inwards this neat video:
This fact that the moving-picture demo did what it did instead of adhering to the laws of reality is show that its truthful motivation was non to hold upward realistic, but simply to marketplace a trite as well as contrived even nether the guise of existence groundbreaking inwards cinema realism. Read my review of Gravity hither for to a greater extent than unrelenting bashing.
5. "Draw me similar 1 of your French girls." - Titanic
A cinema that describes your aesthetic:
Disclaimer: I bring no thought what "aesthetic" is. I know the proper definition, as well as I've for sure seen it used every bit a sort of exaggerated meme, but I don't know what "my aesthetic" is, or how a moving-picture demo could depict it. So I'm just going with a moving-picture demo that has a musical note as well as visual makeup that appeals to me. (Which is likely precisely what I was supposed to do!) And that moving-picture demo is Mud. I won't fifty-fifty endeavour to depict the aesthetic except to state the manager Jeff Nichols said that he wanted the cinema to menses similar the Mississippi River (an of import backdrop inwards the film) -- as well as it did. You tin read my review of the cinema here (which I wrote earlier I fully understood the consummate reasons why I loved it) as well as I'll larn out y'all with a compilation of its cinematography:
6. "That's a bingo!" - Inglourious Basterds
A manager who has never allow y'all down:
Jeff Nichols. It's a high criterion to alive upward to, as well as the to a greater extent than film's you've made the to a greater extent than probable it is that y'all disappointed inwards to a greater extent than or less way. I straight off thought of him, but thus thought at that topographic point had to hold upward to a greater extent than or less other manager who's done to a greater extent than than 5 movies who never allow me down, but no. I notwithstanding haven't seen his 5th film, Loving, but fifty-fifty with 4 he notwithstanding wins. Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, and Midnight Special are non solely films that bring only non allow me down, they inwards fact all blew me away inwards 1 means or another, as well as are all alongside my favorite films. Click the links to read my reviews of each of them!
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| The posters aspect thus practiced together too. |
7. "Don't believe his lies." - Memento
A cinema y'all were told was bad but y'all loved:
This 1 I'm giving a necktie because both the movies bring the same fix of circumstances. The Brothers Bloom, as well as The Darjeeling Limited; both considered past times the full general movie-going audience to hold upward the worst movies of their respective directors, Rian Johnson, as well as Wes Anderson, but are really my favorites from them. (Though I haven't seen all of Andersons films.) The Brother's Bloom (review) has a few plot holes, but is of a fun as well as underused genre, is really funny as well as incredibly charming, has a nifty cast playing nifty characters, as well as (to me at least) is decidedly heartfelt.
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| (I know neither of these movies are unremarkably considered bad. This is the best I could do.) |
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| (I just realized both these films star Adrien Brody. I wonder if that has anything to do with anything... .... ...eh.) |
For The Darjeeling Limited the biggest criticism I hear is that it has no plot or makes no sense, but that is the appeal of Wes Anderson inwards the showtime house for me, as well as for to a greater extent than or less argue this one's item build of ambiguity resonates rather deeply with me. It does bring seemingly pointless moments but also to a greater extent than or less meaningful ones too, as well as I similar it all. I dear watching the human relationship of the brothers (oh hello -- both these movies focus on brothers too!) as well as their journeying to notice something that maybe they do find, but can't quite seat their finger on what it is. For me, it works. Plus I dear the music, as well as it's oft hilarious.
8. "It's solely forever, non long at all." - Labyrinth
If y'all could solely sentry 1 cinema for the residue of your life, what would it be?
I'm gonna larn with The Lord of the Rings trilogy on this 1 because I tin larn away with it counting every bit 1 film. Extended editions too, of course. Obviously if I could solely sentry 1 moving-picture demo the residue of my life I'd desire it to hold upward a long 1 thus it'll grow quondam to a greater extent than slowly, but really, if I could solely sentry 1 moving-picture demo for the residue of my life I would pass a whole lot to a greater extent than fourth dimension reading. In which case, I powerfulness selection The Way Way Back (review) because there's no mass version of that.
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| But no -- let's non larn complicated -- Middle populace wins. |
9. "Were y'all rushing or were y'all dragging?” - Whiplash
A long cinema y'all thought was perfectly paced:
To hold upward honest I similar long movies, as well as every bit long every bit I notice the plot or the characters interesting I'm difficult to bore. So how virtually this: It's technically a mini-series, non a film, but the 1995 Pride as well as Prejudice with Colin Firth. It's 5 hours long, as well as thus good structured that I cannot larn out the room for fifty-fifty 2 seconds without pausing it to foreclose my missing anything good. Read my enamored review here!
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| "You tin never larn a cinema long enough, or a bowl of popcorn large plenty to conform me." -- Me, plagiarizing C.S. Lewis a bit. |
10. "As y'all wish." - The Princess Bride
Your cinema dream team. (Directors, writers, genre, actors, music, whatever.)
Right now, later on a fleck of daydreaming, I would similar to run into Damien Chazelle write as well as directly a scifi noir film. I dear the genre mashup of noir as well as scifi, as well as I recollect he absolutely had the powerfulness to capture the correct tone. His movies bring a palpable unloose energy to them as well as I'd dear to run into how that marries with subtle as well as black tones similar that of Blade Runner, Dark City, or Gattaca. The music could hold upward jazzy since he likes that.
And because I've been noticing as well as enjoying these 2 a bunch lately, it should star Toby Kebbell as well as Vanessa Kirby. Neither of them larn many leading roles -- that is to say, almost none -- but I absolutely recollect they bring the talent for it, specially if the characters are non your typical leading types but to a greater extent than character-types. I bet Kirby could line off the mysterious woman/possibly femme fatale excellently, as well as I know for a fact that Kebbell tin do that hard-boiled-but-surprisingly-soft-on-the-inside type.
Since it's a Chazelle cinema it should bring J.K. Simmons inwards an of import supporting role too. Something for him to bring fun with, or surprise with. It could hold upward fix inwards space, or the distant future, or just an alternate reality altogether; as well as I'd likely prefer if it focused mostly on grapheme as well as intrigue, but had to a greater extent than or less practiced activity inwards it too. With all those elements inwards house at that topographic point would hold upward no means the moving-picture demo could disappoint me.
Now I'm depressed because it won't never exist!
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I got this tag from Kyle Gaunt -- check out his YouTube channel here, as well as follow him on Twitter @kg_moviereviews! And if the tag seems fun to you, don't hesitate to participate! I suppose y'all tin really tag people if y'all want, but it's to a greater extent than of a loosely-structured thread. I promise y'all enjoyed reading my answers as well as weren't offended past times my opinions which are definitely the solely correct opinions to have! Just kidding -- larn out me a comment as well as tell me where I'm wrong! Or if y'all agree. Or just your thoughts inwards general. Thanks for reading!