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how can you not like a movie which includes the line "take your flunky and dangle" ?
That's a shame, especially because you're missing out on their true genius...comedies. Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Oh' Brother Where Art Thou...
Any movie containing Marilyn Monroe. She was as bad as a actor as Charo was a comedian. Cuchi-cuchi.
I've not seen it but I always thought I would hate it.
My problem is that I have often quite irrational prejudices against actors/filmmakers/subjects etc. So I find myself not watching films because of these prejudices. For example, I refuse to watch Woody Allen films: I saw the first five minutes of one (I can't recall the title but it was on a double-bill with Young Frankenstein sometime in the late 1970s *) and I thought it was truly awful. I walked out and, as far as i recall, I haven't seen one of his films since then.
* I can't remember the film's title but can remember who I was with (my dad), the cinema we were in(Granada 2, Bedford) and where we were sitting (by the aisle, halfway down, right hand side). It's strange how memory works.
Out of interest: I haven't seen The King's Speech: what were the historical distortions?
Hitchcock … 50s … I'm being shown things about the director's psyche that I would prefer not to be shown.
Try to get someone who came of musical age in the late 70s to middle 90s to like Bob Dylan. His utter garbage Jewish/Catholic/Oops I'm Jewish again truly awful period has tainted opinions on Dylan to this day.
I'd say you succeeded rather than failed. You watched the movies, and determined they weren't to your liking. I believe comedy is quite possibly the most subjective of all forms of entertainment; as the saying goes, "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."Blimey, I keep coming up with more stuff I just don't get: The Marx Brothers.
We have worked our way through a box set of all their films (so at least, for once, I can say I'm speaking from the perspective of having seen the films I'm criticising) and I just didn't like them. There was nothing there for me. I tried, and I failed.
Blimey, I keep coming up with more stuff I just don't get: The Marx Brothers.
We have worked our way through a box set of all their films (so at least, for once, I can say I'm speaking from the perspective of having seen the films I'm criticising) and I just didn't like them. There was nothing there for me. I tried, and I failed.
The Shawshank redemption. It may or may not be over appreciated, but it is definitely over shown. If you are interested in seeing it just turn on the Shawshank redemption channel on cable.
True...and the same with The Green Mile here lately. However,in my view..Two exceptional movies..!!
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Great point.I'd say you succeeded rather than failed. You watched the movies, and determined they weren't to your liking.
"inglorious"