I am suprised so many great movies are being thrown under the boat. Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Titanic, Clockwork Orange, LA Confedential and even Caddyshack and Ferris Bueler. And some even walked out of the theatres during these! Wow! Does anyone else in here like pretty much all of these critically acclaimed movies being mentioned? All of the above and more mentioned in the thread were some of my fav's.
I wish I could remember what movies I was having trouble understanding. Anyway, the whole time traveling thing in BTTF did not make much sense to me.
Never saw Translation, Clockwork Orange or LA Confidential...but Magnolia, Titanic, Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller...damn good movies and (w/ the exception of Magnolia) are classics. Most time travel movies don't make much sense...Donnie Darko was damn good but hard to understand w/o watching the commentary. And Deja Vu was a pretty good movie that starts to lose some understanding when the time travel element comes into play. As for movies that I don't understand...I'll throw in Ghost in the Shell 2 (never saw the first one)...so weird I couldn't finish it. And movies I don't get (why they're considered good)... Napolean Dynamite (boring), Scarface (overblown cheese), Pulp Fiction (overrated), Hellboy (total trash) and any Adam Sandler movie in the past few years.
I never understood Lost in Translation until I started travelling alot again. It seems the more people that around me that I don't know, the lonelier I get when I'm on the road. It really struck home when I was in Sydney early last week. I was by myself for the first 3 days there. I was feeling very lonely even though I was in one of the coolest places in the world.
Pulp Fiction is the best movie I've ever seen. Great shots, classic lines, hilarious one second, disturbing the next, several riveting stories within the story, the way everything is tied together at the diner at the end of the movie. Brilliant in my opinion.
Excellent, Manny. I really loved the flick. At least for me, the more I saw it, the more I liked it. Kubrick has a way of getting under your skin. I keep hoping that a version with scenes I read somewhere were cut will get released someday. Might be a long wait.
I don't know, for me it was The Wizard of Oz. Like, how come some of the farmhands at the end look like the tinman, scarecrow, and lion? Were they like related or something? And like water would really make someone melt. How unrealistic.
We have enough water falling from the sky, so we do not really need another thing falling from the sky. My brother really loved it, but when i watched it i was in anticipation of a great ending, you know an ending that you suddenly think: yes now i get it. but when that ending was supposed to come it started raining (frogs). Other films i do not get, i really really disliked Unfaithfull. other movie such as eyes wide shut. I also thought Hitler rise of evil, was bad. Der untergang was also overrated.
OK, the first one was fine I guess. But let's take on the 2nd and 3rd movies. In BTTF II, wouldn't Jennifer and Marty's future selves be expecting to see their younger selves in the future? Like when older Jennifer ran into younger one, wouldn't the older one expect her to be there? If Biff traveled back into to time when he did and then returned when he did in the movie wouldn't that future then be altered as well? In BTTF III, if Doc went on his time traveling escapades wouldn't that negate everything that happened in all the films?
Seriously, I don't understand what is so hard to 'get' about Lost in Translation. It's a movie about loneliness. Both characters are in a strange land and they're both lonely, even though they are both in other relationships. What's not to get? JunkyardDwg, agreed about Scarface. That's nothing more than a below average B movie. Pacino's fake Cuban accent is such a distraction. The next time I hear a soundbite of "say hello to my little friend!!!!" will be too soon.
No because of the theory of ALTERNATE TIMES LINEs they basically went to a Time Line where they have not gone before The fact that they went. . means a new Time line was created because since they know some of the future. . their actions when they come back will change it This is where it gets screwy. Biff taking the book back to himself and then coming back before marty notices would have violated the theory but was convient for the movies Doc creating new times lines is no biggie but changing the past would not change now. . it would simply creat a new time line. . a New Now . . . somewhere else in the 'time stream' Rocket river
That is what I thought. For some reason when the Minister of Interior comes to visit Alex, their whole conversation was filled with ambiguity, at least it was to me. However, Kubrick was well-known for that. In almost all of his movies, his endings always left the viewer wondering, "What the hell?" (See also 2001 and The Shining for this trait).
Pun, The alternate time lines that River is talking about has always bothered me, too. I just try not to think about and enjoy the movie for what it is. However, when you try to break it down by thinking like that, it can cause your brain to hurt!
Primer is not only one of the most convoluted time travel movies I've ever seen, it's also one of the most confusing movies ever made in the history of film. Even after I read the Wikipedia entry on the movie (chock full of illustrations and recaps of the various timelines), I was still left scratching my head. According to the filmmakers, you must watch Primer multiple times to understand it. I hate movies like that. I just watched the director's cut of Donnie Darko 2 weeks ago, and I thought the movie was not that hard to comprehend. However, you do have to give your full attention to the movie to understand it (and be sure to read the pages of the time travel book as they are shown on the screen). The scene at the end of the movie (the one set to Tears for Fears' "Mad World") is extremely moving and well done. Add me to the list that didn't get Napoleon Dynamite.
