"it was ok i suppose" : a non reaction to "polarazing" things

[luka]

like i cant ever really truly beleive that people love citizen kane. there's no fucking way. maybe im a philistine when it comes to film but thats what i think

 

[sus]

like i cant ever really truly beleive that people love citizen kane. there's no fucking way. maybe im a philistine when it comes to film but thats what i think

I like films but I also can't understand the obsession with Kane. Gone With The Wind, to name one example, is a far more moving film. Kane is so stilted and melodramatic

 

[luka]

i dont want to recover old ground but i will anyway, anytime someone says something like oh wonderful cinematography i always assume they are bluffing

 

[luka]

im not like craner though, im not a reverse snobbery man. i do like pretentious films, basic pretentious stuff like bergman. craner hates all that on principle. it has to be tits and explosions for him. and car chases.

 

[luka]

i feel like im not really answering the question though. what is the question?

 

[Corpsey]

There's a lot of stuff that inspires no particular reaction out there. I'm thinking of all the times I've played music I absolutely love to friends and they're just sort of shrugged their shoulders (and visa versa). They don't hate it, they don't even dislike it, but they would never bother listening to it again.

 

[luka]

There's a lot of stuff that inspires no particular reaction out there. I'm thinking of all the times I've played music I absolutely love to friends and they're just sort of shrugged their shoulders (and visa versa). They don't hate it, they don't even dislike it, but they would never bother listening to it again.

thats the worst thing

 

[sus]

You need principles for them to be violated or affirmed, that's one potential problem

 

[luka]

thats the worst thing

thats enough to sink me into a severe depression

 

[luka]

so alone in the world

 

[luka]

i quite like it, it has a nice mellow beat. thats the most sadistic thing you can say to someone. really vicious.

 

[craner]

like i cant ever really truly beleive that people love citizen kane. there's no fucking way. maybe im a philistine when it comes to film but thats what i think

It's not all about Kane though, there's the decadent luxury of the Dietrich/Sternberg movies, but you're right, those pleasures are reserved for aesthetes like what I am.

 

[Corpsey]

I find it hard to believe people love Miami Vice as much as I hated it.

 

[sus]

I find it hard to believe people love Miami Vice as much as I hated it.

I was always a Burn Notice fan myself

 

[craner]

I've never seen it but I have the entire original series on blu-ray. My fiance brought it for me for my birthday last year, it cost her £70

 

[forclosure]

im not totally indifferent to them and there are films which have made an impression on me but a lot of things i see people raving about, specially old black and white films, i cant even truly beleive people are telling the truth. i always assume they are just pretending to like it

see i would be on your side but i saw The Lady from Shanghai on the big screen some years back and in that moment thats when i got it

 

[sus]

I've never seen it but I have the entire original series on blu-ray. My fiance brought it for me for my birthday last year, it cost her £70

Ya gotta binge it. It's a wonderful American television show

 

[forclosure]

you might be like me webster, and just not be into films all that much

i like them but i'm talking specifically films and music that have these reputations for being divisive

 

[forclosure]

I like films but I also can't understand the obsession with Kane. Gone With The Wind, to name one example, is a far more moving film. Kane is so stilted and melodramatic

for a number of reasons that should be obvious i can't get swept up in Gone With the Wind

forget that Southern Lost cause crap

 

[catalog]

I watched a load of Orson Welles films last year and thought they were all really good. Citizen kane is OK but nowhere near as good as some of the later ones. Falstaff is particularly good but othello and the kafka ones are also good. And that restored one is decent as well.

Mr Arkadin is like a more fun rerun of citizen kane, much less depressing.