Which movie(s) have you seen recently- VIII Remake of the 80s

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Why does anyone like Citizen Kane?

Anyways not exactly a movie, but I have been watching the first season of Doctor Who recently. Never seen any of the early stuff, personally feels better to me than the current. Just got finished watching the Marco Polo recons 9.2/10 very good.
 
because it's a pretty generic story.

a good 10-20 page short story but not much more than that. And people still act like it's the #1 thing of all time when really it's a tired tale.

yeah sure directing for its time blah blah but we're spoiled nowadays, don't have to think about that.
 
Kennigit said:
yeah sure directing for its time blah blah but we're spoiled nowadays, don't have to think about that.
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Yeah directing...but also the cinematography, visual effects, acting, video editing, sound editing, lighting, blocking, and damn near everything else about that movie.
 
I can't compare the cinematography well from that era, so my main "meh" reaction to Citizen Kane is from its story. I just never sympathized with or disliked Kane throughout the movie, the whole thing just left me indifferent - from how I heard it described from people I was expecting something "different"

Completely overrated imo. At some points it verged on just plain drivel - in fact it reminded me of some Randian crap [The Fountainhead] I read too long ago.
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Speaking of movies from the 40s - what do you all think of Spielburg's remaking of the Grapes of Wrath [One of my favorite movies]
 
I only watched a few minutes of the Citizen Kane movie. I don't doubt it was groundbreaking in regards to actual cinematography and related things, and i also liked a few scenes due to the angle in which they are presented which seems to make them more pronounced. The story was not interesting in my view, but like i said i watched only a part of it.

The same director also had made an adaptation of Kafka's "The Trial". I tried to watch that, but gave up a lot sooner... Also i have read that the ending, instead of the ceremonial knife, uses an explosion. Well, i am pretty sure there is no explosion in any of Kafka's literary works, so that idea alienates me as well, given that i view it as a very unkafkaesque metaphor.
 
"The same director" is none other than Orson Welles, man, one of the most famous and influential filmmakers ever.
 
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Yeah directing...but also the cinematography, visual effects, acting, video editing, sound editing, lighting, blocking, and damn near everything else about that movie.
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As a piece of cinematic art, it is indeed fanatstic. All the elements you mention are done exceptionally well. As a film though, as a piece of entertainment, well, it's boring. Really boring.
 
We already had a discussion on this particular topic and I very much like the post above me.
I am pretty much sure that advertising Citizen Cane as a great movie is a big fraud. It may be a great peace of movie history (don't dare to be the judge of that) or a great peace of particular theoretical techniques (again don't want to be judge of that - but that keeps being argued).

It is not a great movie. Objectivity so if there is any objectivity in rating movies I dare to say.
 
The Hunger Games. It was on Netflix and I hadn't seen it so figured what the hell. Kinda stupid. Ended with, well, basically this feeling of, "oh, that's it? Wow, that was kinda stupid."
 
Pierrepoint
In America released as The Last Hang Man - Perrepoint

It was a shot into the blind. The American titel intrigued me.
It was a lucky shot.
Very beautiful, on several levels.
Lots to be said about this movie.
I will spoiler the rest, because at least for me - it would spoil the experience of it.
Please do not continue to read if you may want to watch it.
In any case

Highly recommended

Spoiler :

What me personally - for perhaps political reasons - intrigued me the most was the message on the death penalty as such. It IMO did a great job in illustrating what exactly is wrong about killing people even if they have done great wrong. I would have to go on a long rampage to cover this topic sufficiently, but (most likely not by all fully understood - as said, there is some considerable need for explanation) in the gist of it - because they all are humans.
However - the movie manages to convey this message without a head held high, without an unspoken presumption of moral superiority swinging by. Simply by showing things the way they are, as interwoven into the personal destinies of the story.
Beautiful.
And another testimony to publicly funded entertainment.
A notable quote: "At least they killed in jealousy, haste or passion. What about me? What can I say?"
 
Kung Pow, Enter the Fist

it was rather childish and silly, not good, but I did laugh a few times. Which, I have to say, is more than I've done for some other movies.

Maybe like a 4.8/10? But it doesn't leave a sour taste in my mouth, which is generally what I call "bad" films.
 
Okay, I have only gotten through Akira, but I saw it 23 years ago.in a theater with a very special friend who was having a hard time and she and I were both moved by it - and she is now happily married with two beautiful children so all is good.

Did Miyazaki do Ghost in a Shell? No... Nausicsaa... Loved the manga, did not see any films.
 
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