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| Oct 11th 2011, 05:15 |
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That sounds alot like SeanFlynn talking. |
| Oct 11th 2011, 08:04 |
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Yes, never liked that name, regretted from my second day here.
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| Oct 11th 2011, 09:16 |
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Dancing With Wolves Forrest Gump The English Patient Shakespeare in Love Crash The King's Speech. |
| Oct 11th 2011, 11:05 |
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However, your namesake did spotlight a very interesting person and life (and I don't think most people had ever heard about him before). |
| Oct 11th 2011, 11:09 |
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That was the intent, and I referred to his story at times. But later I realized his nephew (same name, although his real name is not Flynn since his mother is Sean's sister) had become something of a teen star and I worried people might thought he was the one I was channeling. My new name (the SF connection is coincidental, but helpful) is a movie homage, but to a character. My sense is that nearly everyone figured out who I was right away, didn't want to make a big deal about it. I've noticed a couple others who seem to have changed names.
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| Oct 11th 2011, 15:04 |
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I can understand the lack of love for No Country, but imo. the film is a masterpiece. As for films with 'stupid' characters. geez. where do I start? The Sunne in Splendour; I prefer my Roses White |
| Oct 11th 2011, 15:37 |
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Of those I've seen: A Beautiful Mind Oliver! (for what it beat) Ben-Hur We are such stuff that dreams are made on, and our lives are rounded by a little sleep. |
| Oct 11th 2011, 22:08 |
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"...for me, after Sunrise, .." Outside of the cinematography, which by any time or standard is spectacular, I dont care for "Sunrise" at all. Sacrilege perhaps, but I border on detesting that film. And "The Greatest Show on Earth" can bite me. Same with "Out of Africa", but not quite as hard. At least "The Color Purple" didnt try to put me to sleep with it's 'sweeping grandeur' and lion-hunting. The Sunne in Splendour; I prefer my Roses White |
| Oct 11th 2011, 22:14 |
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Sunrise for me may be the greatest film ever made, the highest apex of cinema. Chacun a son gout, n'est-ce pas? O yes. So I've heard. "Sunrise", is the biblical ideal of what it means to be a woman.
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| Oct 12th 2011, 19:57 |
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| The Deer Hunter. Could have been a good one if the three acts that make up the film didn't last what felt like a century. But they do, and the film is terrible because of it. | |
| Oct 12th 2011, 21:35 |
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A Beautiful Mind. Not only because I think it is bad, but also considering how great 2001 was for film (Mulholland Dr., A.I., LOTR, Amelie, Shrek, Vanilla Sky, etc.), I was already displeased with the nominees and they picked the worst film in the bunch. |
| Oct 13th 2011, 17:29 |
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The Sunne in Splendour; I prefer my Roses White |
| Oct 13th 2011, 17:47 |
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<<Sunrise for me may be the greatest film ever made, the highest apex of cinema. Chacun a son gout, n'est-ce pas? O yes. So I've heard. "Sunrise", is the biblical ideal of what it means to be a woman.>> I did not write that last line, but it is included in my post. Someone with access to editing people's post added that. I'll will be checking to find out how something like this can happened, and if they can find out who so it can be dealt with.
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| Oct 13th 2011, 18:48 |
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For me, the two "worst" Best Picture winners are a dead tie between "Around the World in Eighty Days" and "Cavalcade." I completely understand why many people are won over by "Around the World..." It is certainly beautiful to look at, and the score by Victor Young gives great lift to the proceedings. But there's a lack of cohesion to all the decorous trappings of "World," a sense of everything and the kitchen sink thrown in that feels desperate to distract rather than pulling to entertain. David Niven could play Phineas Fogg in his sleep (and Niven knows it), and the oleaginous muck of guest stars pop up indiscriminately, with more than a few looking pretty embarrassed for themselves (heck, Frank had won his Oscar only three years before). It's certainly a colorful extravaganza, but the lack of heart or even theatrical conviction ala DeMille or Griffith makes the largesse simply hollow for me. 1956 is one of the rare years where I would have given the Oscar to any of the other four nominees first. "Cavalcade"...well. I always maintain that in order to get the most out of a movie, one needs to watch it inasmuch as possible with the sensibility of the time in which it was made. I hate to dismiss a film simply because "it hasn't dated well." But "Cavalcade" is the only Best Picture winner where I not only fall back on that statement, I fall back without a bit of guilt. It drives me crazy that with a writer as sophisticated as Coward and Frank Lloyd, a director who could whip up terrific excitement and blistering human drama, this picture feels so hopelessly adrift to me. (I also have a weakness for period films.) All of the actors, many of whom were heralded among the greats of the British stage and cinema of the period, seem spectacularly boring to me, especially Diana Wynyard, whose acclaim I've never been able to fathom and whom I've only ever found partially adequate once, as the frightened princess of "Rasputin and the Empress" (avoid the 1940 British "Gaslight" at all costs; even non-Bergman fans will be moved to become acolytes). The eccentric Una O'Connor, who was seen to much better advantage in other films, is the sole saving grace of "Cavalcade" for me, if only because she's the only member of the cast who is at least trying to be interesting. Again: one can see why the film would have been well-regarded upon release; for the production is handsome and the cinematography adequate. But in terms of acting, writing, editing and even in its Oscar-winning direction, the film feels leaden beyond leaden to me. Again (with the possible exception of the fluffy but not despicable "Smilin' Through,"), I would have been much happier to see the Oscar go to any other of that year's nominees, though "Cavalcade" assuredly feels like the most "Oscar-y" film of the lineup. By the by, count me in the "Sunrise" fan club. No matter how many times I've seen it, Janet Gaynor's closeup when her husband asks her out for the boat ride remains one of the most compelling and disarming moments of acting in all silent cinema. And there are a dozen other such moments in the film that are so gorgeously and unforgettably rendered that it's like having diamonds sift down into your system when you watch those moments. Certainly one of the three best efforts in all silent film. |
| Oct 14th 2011, 01:59 |
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It's actually pretty easy. Just type some text between the quote bookends. No need to get all huffy about it. |
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