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    What held me back was more the repetitive nature of the film and how, outside Mifune, few of the characters lingered in the memory. I'm a big fan of what I've seen of his work otherwise.
    I've seen his movies from Drunken Angel to The Seven Samurai and they all have the same problem for me. The worst offender is Ikiru, which is essentially two movies: one pretty great 90-minute one, and a really boring 60-minute one which laboriously explains the former. Still, despite this and their too slow pace, I enjoyed these films overall because Kurosawa was such an inspired visual storyteller, but they're far from what I'd consider being among the greatest movies ever as most people do.

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    While I do think Kurosawa was a master and made some ridiculously incredible films, I’ve always thought Seven Samurai was one of his lesser efforts.

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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    This thread is now filled with popular opinions and personal attacks.
    It's like a Reddit thread on r/movies which asks something like "What is a popular movie that everyone likes that you don't?"; everyone who answers with a popular movie that everyone on Reddit likes gets downvoted. It's a trap, people!
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    It's like a Reddit thread on r/movies which asks something like "What is a popular movie that everyone likes that you don't?"; everyone who answers with a popular movie that everyone on Reddit likes gets downvoted. It's a trap, people!
    Hah, I tried that once or twice. Then I got downvoted and realized it was a politician's game.

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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    Here's a few.

    My favorite NolanBatman is The Dark Knight Rises.

    I didn't get into The Seven Samurai and liked The Magnificent Seven more.

    Solaris and Alphaville were worth watching but only intermittently engaging.
    I love Alphaville. It doesn't get enough credit for being an influential sci-fi movie.
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    Fellowship is the best of the LOTR movies (and by a very wide margin).

    Timothy Dalton was a great Bond.

    Rob Zombie is a very strong director who needs someone else to write for/with him, and to stop casting his absolutely godawful wife.

    The original Superman with Christopher Reeve is better than anything from Marvel.

    Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant > Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant.

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    I believed in that Rob Zombie idea, until after Halloween. His movies have been outright terrible ever since. Not really sure what happened.

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Fellowship is the best of the LOTR movies (and by a very wide margin).

    Timothy Dalton was a great Bond.

    Rob Zombie is a very strong director who needs someone else to write for/with him, and to stop casting his absolutely godawful wife.

    The original Superman with Christopher Reeve is better than anything from Marvel.

    Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant > Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant.
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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    I believed in that Rob Zombie idea, until after Halloween. His movies have been outright terrible ever since. Not really sure what happened.
    I stan Lords of Salem.

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    Yeah Lords of Salem is great. I'll defend it, too.

    ROTK is better than Fellowship imo. Dalton is my favorite Bond. I also prefer Herzog's BL over the original, although the Cage one wasn't really a remake.
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    Tilda Swinton was very good in Michael Clayton without being super extravagant.
    She was great in The War Zone too playing a normal mom - ugh what an ugly (but good) movie.
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    Quote Quoting Peng (view post)
    What do you think of Hopkins in The Remains of the Day?
    I was going to ask the same question - one of my favorite films and he's impeccable in that.

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    Out of the Past is just a bad film. There's really nothing to recommend to it above hundreds of other movies. There are tons of B movie noirs that are much superior films.

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    Out of the Past is just a bad film. There's really nothing to recommend to it above hundreds of other movies. There are tons of B movie noirs that are much superior films.
    What are the titles of those hundreds of other B-movie noirs? I'd like to see them.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
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    Really? I thought ROTK was generally the favorite, people consider Dalton the worst Bond, generally dislike Zombie, Reeve Superman is considered outdated, and Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant was considered an interesting distraction but not much more.

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    ROTK is the worst of the three.
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    None of them are all that great to begin with.
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    I thoroughly enjoy the Director’s cuts of Zombie’s Halloween and have probably seen them more than the original.

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    Lord of the Rings trilogy bores me for the most part. Best part was the suicide bomber in the second one. I laughed heartily when he lets out that last ‘yelp’ or whatever when he dives into the tunnel / wall.
    “What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”

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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    What are the titles of those hundreds of other B-movie noirs? I'd like to see them.
    The Narrow Margin was a recent rewatch.

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    Quote Quoting Scar (view post)
    Lord of the Rings trilogy bores me for the most part. Best part was the suicide bomber in the second one. I laughed heartily when he lets out that last ‘yelp’ or whatever when he dives into the tunnel / wall.
    Had to look it up. And I laughed after your description and then watching it. I never remembered this scene...

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    Quote Quoting Yxklyx (view post)
    The Narrow Margin was a recent rewatch.
    Force of Evil is a great, lesser known noir as well!

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Really? I thought ROTK was generally the favorite, people consider Dalton the worst Bond, generally dislike Zombie, Reeve Superman is considered outdated, and Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant was considered an interesting distraction but not much more.
    This was my overall impression, too,.

    Quote Quoting Scar (view post)
    Lord of the Rings trilogy bores me for the most part. Best part was the suicide bomber in the second one. I laughed heartily when he lets out that last ‘yelp’ or whatever when he dives into the tunnel / wall.
    Not an opinion, but a confession: I disliked the first two movies enough that I never bothered to see "Return of the King."

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    I like how they have a bespoke torchboy and clear a very visible path. It's like, "Hey good guys, if you need a target, here ya go."

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