Comments on: When Classic Movies Go Bad

By: Alexia Wimer

Alexia Wimer — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:27:29 +0000

I adore Tom Cruise movies, his movies are always the best!.

By: Charponnaise

Charponnaise — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:21:20 +0000

Haha! Aww, man. I love Blow Up. It’s a pretentious pile of bull but nonetheless pretty enjoyable. I have a 1960s fetish anyway, so I just get lost in transferred nostalgia for an era I never lived through. And David Hemmings was reasonably hot back then, before he turned into a baked potato.

I have no patience or tolerance for the Godfather trilogy. This is strange as I love gangster movies and mafioso shit. But it bores me.

Also maybe this is sacrilege from a movie-buff point of view, but Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris vs Stephen Soderbergh’s remake with George Clooney – I prefer the remake! I almost never prefer the remake, but this one is so beautiful and strips everything down to the barest, most human elements, and by contrast the original is pretty to look at but doesn’t wrench at you the way Soderbergh’s version does.

By: Esz

Esz — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:01:12 +0000

I was thoroughly disappointed with Mad Max – Mostly I think because the blurb on the back of the DVD pretty much explained the whole story right to the end and through the whole thing I was waiting for something MORE to happen.

Also dont ‘get’ the Big Lebowski and I’ve done my fair share of ‘substances’ hehe.

As for literary classics, I didn’t really like Catcher in the Rye either. At first I thought there was some fundamental message I was missing but it turns out it really is just about a whiney teenager who hates everything. *yawn*

By: SwanDiamondRose

SwanDiamondRose — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:31:59 +0000

you really have to watch Le Weekend. it’s about yuppies fighting it out in parking lots with tennis rackets and guns. it’s about endless bloody multi-car crashes filling the highways. it’s about right now even though it was way back 60s then. it has groovy hippies and groovy french mods in crayola bright outfits that take same yuppies hostage in the woods where they play in their band amongst the nature. and convert the yuppies into killers? or something. you have to watch this thing.

i blogged it, not sure if a link is obnoxious but here goes-
http://www.swandiamondrose.com/godards-weekend-says-noooooooo-not-my-hermes-handbag

and ya, michael mann can be a hard sell, to a certain crowd! but i never stop trying.

By: Carole

Carole — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:24:43 +0000

@Cricket9: do you mean the 1941 version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith?

By: fashionherald

fashionherald — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:05:55 +0000

I felt so sad when I first saw Casablanca, as I thought I may have enjoyed it if I hadn’t heard the punch line a million times before seeing the film.
I hated The Big Lebowski the first time I saw it, and oddly, saw it a few times after and now like it.
I too, had problems with Blow Up. And I keep waiting to dislike Fellini, but so far was only kind of bored by The Ship Sails On. La Strada is one of my all time favorites, and his wife was freaking brilliant.

By: Suebob

Suebob — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:17:11 +0000

I saw some Antonioni where everyone was restless and bored, first on a boat and then on a Greek Island…a big yawner.

My Dinner with Andre made me run screaming.

Mark doesn’t like The Wire? It is the best TV show ever produced, ever, in any way shape or form. It is made of awesome. The Wire makes Shakespeare look silly. The Wire is like caramel-coated chocolate caramel. With sprinkles.

By: Miss Cavendish

Miss Cavendish — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:13:23 +0000

Following an earlier commenter, I was so excited about seeing Edie in Ciao Manhattan. But it was dreadful.

By: Constance

Constance — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:13:42 +0000

Not a movie but a classic, i can’t stand Catcher in the Rye, but americans almost orgasm talking about it.

By: Constance

Constance — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:52 +0000

I love Blow up. Sister you are wrong this time.