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| Syd |
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billyweeds wrote: SPOILERS FOR FUNNY GAMES
Marc--"Nail-biter" usually implies suspense with catharsis. It doesn't imply the brutal murder of an entire family including the preteen son and the dog, and the escape without punishment of the killers. Even Psycho, which killed off the innocent heroine, brought Norman Bates to justice.
Actually, the innocent heroine was a thief on the run. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:20 pm |
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Syd wrote: billyweeds wrote: SPOILERS FOR FUNNY GAMES
Marc--"Nail-biter" usually implies suspense with catharsis. It doesn't imply the brutal murder of an entire family including the preteen son and the dog, and the escape without punishment of the killers. Even Psycho, which killed off the innocent heroine, brought Norman Bates to justice.
Actually, the innocent heroine was a thief on the run.
True, but she didn't deserve what she got. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:22 pm |
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I found this quote from the imdb.com about the 1997 version of FUNNY GAMES interesting. It brings up voyeurism which is a common theme of Haneke's.
MILD SPOILER
...the viewers are forced mostly to imagine [the violence] and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:23 am |
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Quote: Marc--"Nail-biter" usually implies suspense with catharsis. It doesn't imply the brutal murder of an entire family including the preteen son and the dog, and the escape without punishment of the killers. Even Psycho, which killed off the innocent heroine, brought Norman Bates to justice.
billy, this is an example of the shit you've railed against in the past - reviewing a film you haven't seen. You've developed the same disease that Gary has in regards to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
Michael Haneke is a talented director and the original FUNNY GAMES is not superficial torture porn. I haven't seen the film in many years, but I do recall being impressed by it. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:28 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:06 am |
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Don't get me wrong. I will stipulate that Funny Games is well-made and intellectually "interesting." But the fact remains that I will never subject myself to the sleepless nights that will inevitably follow seeing innocent people massacred at the hands of smarmy preppies.
Thank goodness I am not that much of a film buff. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:33 am |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:54 am |
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| There's nothing courageous in going to see a movie you're pretty sure you're going to hate. On the other hand, when I talked a friend into seeing "In the Company of Wolves" with me, he never let me forget how much he hated it. Get over it already, I told him. (And I paid for the tickets!) |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:34 am |
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| Kind of liked Enduring Love myself... |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:00 am |
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| Not saying I didn't like Enduring Love or that it wasn't good, it is just that it was one of those films during which, if I watch it at home, I tend to find myself regulalry going to the kitchen to fix myself a drink or a snack. Hmm, fix is an Americanism, isn't it? Enduring Love has a high I-can't-stand-to-watch cringe factor, I find myself embarrassed for the protagonists and, if not concentrating, will unthinkingly try to put some distance between them and myself. I'll probably watch the film another time, when I'm in a less distracted mood. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:46 am |
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carrobin wrote: There's nothing courageous in going to see a movie you're pretty sure you're going to hate. On the other hand, when I talked a friend into seeing "In the Company of Wolves" with me, he never let me forget how much he hated it. Get over it already, I told him. (And I paid for the tickets!)
I convinced a friend to go see Grace Jones in Vamp with me - she wouldn't let me pick the movies for the next five years (no joke).
It was bad, but still... |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:34 pm |
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Michael Haneke is BY FAR my least favorite critic's darling Director.
BLECH! |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:05 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: Michael Haneke is BY FAR my least favorite critic's darling Director.
BLECH!
I was gonna say, but I figured you'd be much more eloquent than me. *lol* |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:02 pm |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:09 pm |
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jeremy wrote: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2265525,00.html
Why Lars and The Real GIrl is rubbish.
I agree with his first paragraph (admittedly I haven't seen the movie) - although I never quite put saving Gotham and thawing Mr Darcy's heart on the same level before.
Jane Austen and the Myth of the Superhero |
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