<p>hanna…ok I’ve trust you know the scene in Fargo better than I do. </p>
<p>I guess I just don’t like sick, twisted, gruesome…“comedies.” Folks talk about how hilarious this movie is. I don’t get it. How could a film with so much blood and sick violence be funny? </p>
<p>IMO, this is a over-hyped movie. And a sign of the times. But I know I’m in the minority here!</p>
<p>RSB…your wife walked out on GEORGE CLOONEY???</p>
<p>Anyway, I liked SOLARIS but I have kind of unconventional taste in movies. I like the quiet ones. Except for Terminator. Love the Terminator.</p>
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<p>Tone, the “hilarious” elements of the movie are not the violent scenes (talking about Fargo here). It’s actually the juxtaposition of the horrible violence with the humorous facets of the story which made it compelling, imo. I believe it was based on a true story. The factual part of the tale is indeed horrific. But I don’t believe the movie would have been successful if it were simply a series of hack scenes.</p>
<p>Wait…Friday the 13th…Saw…The Texas Chainsaw Massacre…okay, never mind.</p>
<p>Agree with Avatar which someone else mentioned. Also, The Big Chill- great motown music doesn’t make a movie great.</p>
<p>This goes back some time ago, but the movie “Reds” starring and directed by Warren Beatty. It was so long they had an intermission. At that point, I was more than ready to leave. Unfortunately, I stayed. To this day, I still cannot stand Warren Beatty.</p>
<p>Walked out on a movie a couple of years ago. Batman Begins. Movie was fine, hubby let son fill up on too much popcorn and projectile vomited in the theater. </p>
<p>For some bizarre reason my mom too me to see The Exorcist when I was about 7 (she is a little flaky and probably didn’t realize what it was). I didn’t really understand it. I was more fascinated by the reaction of the audience. An older lady ran up the aisle screaming “Oh help me Jesus!” over and over. </p>
<p>Also hated Star Wars. My sister was just engaged to my BIL at the time and we was trying to get me to give my blessing to the wedding so they took me. Just hated it and he was crushed.</p>
<p>I rate movies by how many times I look at my watch. Good movies are a no-watcher or maybe a 1-watcher. If it is a 2-watcher or a 3-watcher, boredom had definitely set in.</p>
<p>I fell asleep during the original Star Wars.</p>
<p>Re: Fargo and Pulp Fiction.</p>
<p>Liked them both. My internal meter reacts to how the movie reacts to the bad stuff. If the movie makes it clear that it’s bad, really bad, then that’s okay. If the movie excuses it or makes light of it, then that’s not okay. To me, both of those movies made it clear that the bad stuff was bad, and those doing it were, too.</p>
<p>Clockwork Orange, on the other hand, wanted you to laugh at the bad stuff, and/or excuse it (“we’re all that way”). that’s why I find it inexcusable. It laughed at horrible things happening to random people, especially women. It almost ruined Singing in the Rain for me. It was nihilistic. Fargo and Pulp Fiction have moral centers, though it takes work to find them.</p>
<p>I remember reading an anecdote from Steven Spielberg, about how he knew that Jaws was going to be a success when someone actually ran out of the theater to the lobby, where he got sick to his stomach - and then ran back in to the theater. :D</p>
<p>I agree about Fargo having a moral center, largely embodied by the Frances McDormand character. I think one measure of how brilliant her performance was is the degree to which she counteracts the disgusting violence in the rest of the film. And I’m a fan of No Country for Old Men, as well, though in that one it seems as if good has given up in the battle against evil. I’m not bothered by violence in films if it isn’t used for purely sensationalistic or exploitative reasons. It is a violent world, and people wonder where violence comes from - it’s a compelling theme in many great films.</p>
<p>One theme I’m a bit tired of is “middle class = bad.” I feel that way about American Beauty and Revolutionary Road. I always want to say, “We get it already, Sam Mendes.” (Though I liked his Road to Perdition.)</p>
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<p>I never really thought about it in that way, but I think you’re absolutely right. </p>
<p>It totally cracked me up the way she was such a junk food junkie. From the very beginning, it’s clear she is a brilliant investigator, which at first seems a bit at odds with her overly polite, perky demeanor.</p>
<p>I also found The Sting to be tedious as heck.</p>
<p>I always wonder about the motivation of people who make completely depressing movies (Last Picture Show, Sweet Smell of Success), movies with no likable characters (No Country for Old Men, Blue Velvet, Terms of Endearment, Silence of the Lambs), and movies whose ONLY purpose is to make you cry (Love Story).</p>
<p>Another movie I loved that nobody has heard of: The Ice Harvest.</p>
<p>Most ironclad sign that a movie will suck: it features Robby Benson, Drew Barrymore, Kate Hudson, Keith Carradine, Ronny Cox (except Robocop), or Armand Assante. ESPECIALLY Assante.</p>
<p>Sign that I like a movie: I don’t want it to end. I don’t think “Nashville” was great, but it got me to know a lot of interesting characters (everybody except Keith Carradine) whom I didn’t want to say goodbye to.</p>
<p>One more thing about Fargo - the line at the beginning that it’s based on a true story is a joke by the Coen brothers. </p>
<p>I should have walked out on Pan’s Labyrinth, great movie but way too violent for me.</p>
<p>And Eraserhead — yecccccchhhhh!</p>
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… Ben Affleck? That’s not entirely fair, but I can’t think of another actor who’s been in so many dogs. I like his bit in Shakespeare in Love, and I also like Paycheck and State of Play (didn’t really care for him in the last one, though). Thought he did a good job directing Gone Baby Gone. But I always wonder what he was thinking when he read most of the scripts he’s done.</p>
<p>Just read his IMDB entry and realized that he’s done more good films than I thought! Good for him. I was put off by Armageddon, Reindeer Games, Pearl Harbor, Gigli, The Sum of All Fears (the guy never should have tried to follow Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford), etc. But he’s done some good ones, too - Hollywoodland is worth rewatching.</p>
<p>Affleck was really good playing barely talented superficial actor George Reeves in “Hollywoodland.” One might even say he was BORN to play that role, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Something worth watching - the story about the making of “Jaws.” Everything was a disaster - it’s amazing that they put a movie together. The “shark” wouldn’t behave. It reminds you that special effects were not then what they are now.</p>
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<p>LOL, that just figures. Those guys…</p>
<p>My first: Inception!</p>
<p>No one metioned this one yet - Astronaut Farmer. WTH? Even DH said it was stupid even though the main character managed to assemble (and orbit the Earth in) a homemade spacecraft.</p>
<p>I’ve never walked out of a movie but I’ve had some fabulous air-conditioned naps in them. Agent Cody Banks had me asleep within five minutes.</p>
<p>Y’all have mentioned many of my favorite movies. Love Fargo, The English Patient, Harold &Kumar.</p>
<p>If I pay my money I’ll stay but the three toughest to sit through;
Kill Bill - Not entertaining at all.
Avatar (2D) - If only I saw it in 3D I could have said “Look at all the floaty things”.
ET - Oh why didn’t I “go home”?</p>