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K. Waste posted:Yeah, Brokeback is pretty good. It's, like, at least the second best Ang Lee movie I've seen. What have you seen? I like brokeback a lot but wedding banquet, eat drink man woman, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and lust, caution are all at least equally good. And I'd go to bat for pushing hands, hulk, and sense and sensibility too
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precision posted:2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
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Spatula City posted:It's effective for anyone that likes good movies, because Ang Lee is a great fuckin' director, and Heath Ledger was a great actor. I'll give you Ledger but Ang Lee is awful.
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Skwirl posted:I haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but everything else there is definitely better than Crash. It's better than Crash. There are definitely some bad movies on there but loving lol at starting with The Hurt Locker. That movie's legitimately fantastic.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'll give you Ledger but Ang Lee is awful. I cannot loving believe that anyone on earth, let alone these forums, unironically enjoyed Ang Lee's tire fire that is Hulk
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Why y'all tryin to discredit Cronenberg's only oscar?!
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Detective No. 27 posted:Hulk rules. In bizarro world where good is bad and bad is good
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'll give you Ledger but Ang Lee is awful. The gently caress dawg? THE gently caress? Improbable Lobster posted:In bizarro world where good is bad and bad is good Maybe the same bizarro world where YOU'RE NOT A HUGE JERKFACE. I realised that I've now implied that Hulk is actually bad. It was a confusing call out. Hulk rules.
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Hulk has all the worst aspects of comicbook films with none of the good whatsoever
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My main takeaway from seeing Shakespeare in Love was that the only reason it isn't treated the same as stuff like Never Been Kissed, Whatever It Takes, Saved!, etc. is because there's respected British people in it & a large dose of epic Robot Chicken style reference humor where it's funny because you understand that when Shakespeare asks if he should compare the lady to a summers day, well, let's just say the real scholars in the audience will get the ref 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'll give you Ledger but Ang Lee is awful. This is insane.
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Casimir Radon posted:Is Brokeback Mountain at all effective for someone who doesn't get upset about the idea of gay cowboys?
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Hat Thoughts posted:My main takeaway from seeing Shakespeare in Love was that the only reason it isn't treated the same as stuff like Never Been Kissed, Whatever It Takes, Saved!, etc. is because there's respected British people in it & a large dose of epic Robot Chicken style reference humor where it's funny because you understand that when Shakespeare asks if he should compare the lady to a summers day, well, let's just say the real scholars in the audience will get the ref
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Skwirl posted:I haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but everything else there is definitely better than Crash.
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FlamingLiberal posted:A Beautiful Mind tries to be biographical but most of what happens is completely made up. It's a pretty typical example of a 'Hollywood historical film' which just twists actual history or an actual person for dramatic effect.
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FishBulb posted:Why y'all tryin to discredit Cronenberg's only oscar?! If there's anything good to come out of Crash winning Best Picture it's that confused moviegoers went to Blockbuster and picked up Cronenberg's Crash instead.
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Josh Lyman posted:Yeah, I want to like the movie so much more but Ron Howard really hosed up with this one.
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FlamingLiberal posted:A Beautiful Mind tries to be biographical but most of what happens is completely made up. It's a pretty typical example of a 'Hollywood historical film' which just twists actual history or an actual person for dramatic effect. That's also an accurate description of Braveheart and that movie is loving awesome.
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Skwirl posted:That's also an accurate description of Braveheart and that movie is loving awesome. There were 2 unforgivable things they did with A Beautiful Mind: 1) When they show the Nash Equilibrium, the thing for which he won the Nobel loving Prize, what they showed was NOT a Nash Equilibrium when they could've just as easily done so. 2) They made his Nobel acceptance speech about the "mysterious equations of love".
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I’m 100% ok with Hollywood films fabricating poo poo and pretending it’s a true story. Drama should be compelling, and artists should do whatever they think will get them towards that end. The only exception is when misrepresentation contributes to some systemic injustice. But who the hell cares if some famous egghead wasn’t faithfully depicted? Don’t be mistaken. A Beautiful Mind is boring as heck, but that’s just Ron Howard goofing it up, not because he didn’t tell the truth.
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Chairman Capone posted:It made me wonder about why that movie was made. Even without the whole dog abuse thing, the movie seemed designed to make its core demographic (huge dog lovers) cry for the entire movie. It seems like your second sentence answers your first.
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Casimir Radon posted:Ron Howard hasn't done anything good in at least a decade. I really liked Rush.
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precision posted:And in what crazy universe is The English Patient even noteworthy at all? there was a good seinfeld episode about how elaine hated it while everyone else raved about it. Improbable Lobster posted:I cannot loving believe that anyone on earth, let alone these forums, unironically enjoyed Ang Lee's tire fire that is Hulk "let alone these forums" do you have any idea where you're at. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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DeimosRising posted:What have you seen? I like brokeback a lot but wedding banquet, eat drink man woman, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and lust, caution are all at least equally good. And I'd go to bat for pushing hands, hulk, and sense and sensibility too I was trying and failing to imply that I hadn't seen enough of his movies - I've only seen Brokeback, Life of Pi (meh), Crouching Tiger (boss), and, yes, I'd go to bat for Hulk, too. Improbable Lobster posted:Hulk has all the worst aspects of comicbook films with none of the good whatsoever Nah, dude, Hulk is good. Come for the bizarro, post-Atom Age love story / stay for the Brechtian distanciation.
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Ang Lee is a good director and his Hulk was, maybe still is, top tier superhero movie.
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Wandle Cax posted:In a universe where people have good opinions? I seriously have not heard a bad word about the english patient in my whole life. (raises hand) I enjoyed English Patient when it came out, even defended it to some people. About the worst I admitted at the time was that it was "just" a melodrama. Rewatched it recently and found it incredibly silly and mawkish. (What nurse? You don't want to continue with the convoy? Okay, just hole up in this glamorously dilapidated mansion and take tender care of this dying traitor while we proceed to the front line. I'm sure other significant characters will be able to find you there. Come along when you're done.) Others I spoke to found it the same way. It's a pretty picture but a fairly shallow one.
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Hat Thoughts posted:My main takeaway from seeing Shakespeare in Love was that the only reason it isn't treated the same as stuff like Never Been Kissed, Whatever It Takes, Saved!, etc. is because there's respected British people in it & a large dose of epic Robot Chicken style reference humor where it's funny because you understand that when Shakespeare asks if he should compare the lady to a summers day, well, let's just say the real scholars in the audience will get the ref The review from a colleague of mine has stuck with me: Shakespeare in Love isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is.
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precision posted:2009 - "The Hurt Locker" Chicago is loving  . What the hell?
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All I know about The English Patient is that the Ford Ranger is the official truck of it.
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Gatts posted:Ang Lee is a good director and his Hulk was, maybe still is, top tier superhero movie. Yeah, top tier to watch if you want to see a really bad movie
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Ang Lee's Hulk and BvS fall into a pretty similar zone for me: I can appreciate a lot of what they're going for, but most of it doesn't really land for me.
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FlamingLiberal posted:A Beautiful Mind tries to be biographical but most of what happens is completely made up. It's a pretty typical example of a 'Hollywood historical film' which just twists actual history or an actual person for dramatic effect. Haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but who cares? Why does this matter?
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DeimosRising posted:Haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but who cares? Why does this matter? A not-insignificant number of people assume that films based on real people/events are accurate to reality
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Chairman Capone posted:Had to go see A Dog's Purpose with my girlfriend. It made me wonder about why that movie was made. Even without the whole dog abuse thing, the movie seemed designed to make its core demographic (huge dog lovers) cry for the entire movie. I did laugh at the realization that the director's name is Lasse and that one of the main actors is named Pooch. Also how Douglas Quaid's character's father is driven to alcoholism by his nihilistic response to the prospect of nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was an article in the paper today where the humane society or something reviewed the tape and said it had been edited to look worse and the timing of it going public right before the premiere is suspicious. Hulk rules, I just bought the blueray last year actually. Better than any Marvel movie from the last five years, anyway.
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Skwirl posted:I haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but everything else there is definitely better than Crash. A Beautiful Mind really does give Crash a run for its money
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got any sevens posted:There was an article in the paper today where the humane society or something reviewed the tape and said it had been edited to look worse and the timing of it going public right before the premiere is suspicious. There's a very angry article on Cracked, criticising it's SFX, as if its very vibrant, cartoony look was somehow a mistake. A mistake that an Oscar winning director specifically insisted on.
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Snowman_McK posted:There's a very angry article on Cracked, criticising it's SFX, as if its very vibrant, cartoony look was somehow a mistake. A mistake that an Oscar winning director specifically insisted on. I don't dislike the look of Hulk, but as this whole conversation bears out, oscar-winning directors are perfectly capable of making poor decisions. Also, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned The Ice Storm in Ang Lee chat because it's easily his best movie.
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