Movies You don't 'get'

What didn't you understand about Mystic River?

 

Ohh... I thought this was about not "getting" films, like not understanding why people think they are good. Hmm... the only movies I don't understand are the ones I come in a quarter through on HBO, without getting the full story...like American Psycho.

Question :

I didn't read Ellis's novel, so it may be in there, but in the film does Bateman actually kill those people or is it all in his head?

The police chase made me believe he was imagining it, but when he went back to that apartment and they were cleaning it out and that lady looked angry at his questions, it became a little less clear. I also didn't understand the part about everyone confusing him with someone else, or not knowing that he was Patrick Bateman. I guess that was a statement about yup's looking alike...

 

It's left open, I think the book does the same.

 

Has anyone seen The Holy Mountain? WTF was that all about?

 

No but I saw another film by the same director called El Topo, and it sounds like he's consistent in his ability to make the viewer go "What's the point of all this?"

 

Barton Fink-It got great reviews, and it is considered one of the best from the Coen Brothers. Maybe I'll watch it again, it's been along time since I've seen it.

 

The Thin Red Line was a great film...slow yes, but very powerful.

 

Same dude did *The New World*... also powerful.

 

Yes, it had the power to make people get up out of their seats and leave the theater, fall asleep, or otherwise just get pretty pissed off that they wasted their money on such a huge pile of donkey crap. Only pretentious movie snobs like bore-fests masquerading as war movies like TTRL. If someone makes a movie like that, it isn't fair to the audience to show all the action sequences in the trailers.

 

I'm almost positive that was the studio's decision not Malick's.

 

I'm not a pretentious movie snob by any stretch of the imagination and I loved the movie.

 

Smokey and the Bandit.

What I didn't get was why it was illegal to ship Coors beer.

 

Brokeback Mountain...

 

Due to dumb state liquor laws back in the day, it was illegal to ship Coors east of Texas.

 

thats really obscure. why Coors? who in Texas orders Coors anyways?

 

I dunno. That's just how it was. Can't really find any real reason why. It was a regional beer for a long time.

 

They wanted the Coors in Atlanta.

Coors could not be shipped east of Texas from some reason. So nobody east of Texas could get it. But Texas was the closest they could get it.

And Texarkana could be considered Arkansa.

 

I remember buying it in Marble Falls, when we went from Houston to Paleface Park on weekends. Not because it was any good, but because it was hard to get.

 

I think back in the day it was a fairly well know law as well