War Room Lounge v132: Jack used rhetoric. It’s not very effective...

[Gregolian]

FilmS, plural.

Rashomon
Drunken Angel
Yojimbo
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
Ikuru
Red Beard

Like Seven Samurai is good and all, but it's just scratching the surface of his mastery.

The only thing that can compare to his movies is this IMO, for at least a similar setting:


And it's still slightly over the top

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I ve never seen ET

Wtf?

 

[Falsedawn]

I ve never seen ET

Here's a quick breakdown

 

[Sara]

Wtf?

Yeah there’s a lot of movies I haven’t seen

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Anime chicks are responsible for many an adult male's costume fetish. Lord bless em.

The only other stereotype I hit fairly regularly is horse chicks. They're crazy as shit. And I dated a lot of them. Killer legs though.

I too have a thing for female horses. Ever since that Kool Keith song...

 

[Andy Capp]

In before @Andy Capp asks for a bikini pic

No haram in wishful thinking.

 

[Trotsky]

7th

The list of pre-1970 classic cinema I can recall seeing is pretty short.

Spoiler

Metropolis
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Ben Hur
The Ten Comandments
Seven Samurai
Dr Strangelove
Psycho
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
Pinocchio
The Wild One
The Great Escape
To Kill a Mockingbird

I realize this is a hill that many people will die on, but I maintain that most supposedly great classic films are pretty mediocre.

I watched the original Cape Fear last week. There was one well-shot scene, and the rest was pretty bad. The entire climax scene was inscrutable and the viewer had no sense whatsoever of where any of the characters or locations were relative to each other.

 

[Falsedawn]

I too have a thing for female horses. Ever since that Kool Keith song...

Spoiler

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[Possum Jenkins]

I have never seen Gone With The Wind

Apparently it's huge with older white people.

That book on white saviors that I mentioned a few weeks back was assigned in a race and film class. There was an entire chapter on Gone With the Wind and the general consensus among the students was that the whiter, older, and more southern your family was, the more beloved the movie.

About half the class had never seen it.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

You absolutely hate to see it.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

The best old movie I've seen is Arsenic and Old Lace.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[Prokofievian]

I guess I have no choice but to become a nazi now.

 

[Ruprecht]

7th


I realize this is a hill that many people will die on, but I maintain that most supposedly great classic films are pretty mediocre.

I watched the original Cape Fear last week. There was one well-shot scene, and the rest was pretty bad. The entire climax scene was inscrutable and the viewer had no sense whatsoever of where any of the characters or locations were relative to each other.

I don't watch a great number of movies period, and my favourite genre is Scifi which is relatively small.
I did enjoy Metropolis, although mostly as a historical artifact. Likewise I really enjoy Golden Age and Cold War scifi, so movies from Soviet Russia like Stalker (1979) which reflect a massively different perspective I tend to appreciate beyond their entertainment value or artistic merit.
I vastly prefer novels though.

 

[Falsedawn]

I guess I have no choice but to become a nazi now.

Clearly you have no choice. If the left hadn't taken Gone With the Wind, you'd know how bad being a nazi is. If only they taught something like that in a class about history.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

@Trotsky @Quipling @panamaican

Have you ever heard of anything like thia before?

 

[Jack V Savage]

The best old movie I've seen is Arsenic and Old Lace.

Double Indemnity or the Maltese Falcon for me. The Apartment (1960, so not sure if it counts as old), Casablana, Citizen Kane, and Sunset Blvd. are all high on my list.

 

[Trotsky]

You absolutely hate to see it.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I have never seen Gone With The Wind

It's almost as long and boring as the Dark Knight, if you can imagine. Also like the Dark Knight, it's some rightist propaganda.

 

[Trotsky]

@Trotsky @Quipling @panamaican

Have you ever heard of anything like thia before?

Nope.

Latest in a series of new firsts to my ears.