Attack-Free Unpopular Opinion Thread

**Philip J. Fry** · 03-04-2019, 06:01 AM

Quoting Philip J. Fry (view post)

Logan and Batman: Under the Red Hood are the only great superhero movies that have come out since The Dark Knight (I still haven't seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, I hope that's number 3).

Yup, Spider-Verse is no. 3.

**megladon8** · 03-04-2019, 05:26 PM

Just watched it last night, and the 2014 Robocop is actually pretty good.

**Dukefrukem** · 03-04-2019, 05:40 PM

Quoting megladon8 (view post)

Just watched it last night, and the 2014 Robocop is actually pretty good.

Yup

**Skitch** · 03-06-2019, 06:07 PM

The American is a fucking great film and how Anton Corbijn doesn't have a dozen more films made is disappointing.

**Ivan Drago** · 03-06-2019, 08:20 PM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

The American is a fucking great film and how Anton Corbijn doesn't have a dozen more films made is disappointing.

Um, YES. SO MUCH YES.

**transmogrifier** · 03-06-2019, 08:52 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

They managed to innovatively convince Bong Joon-ho, Adam Wingard, David Ayer, Jeremy Saulnier, Paul Greengrass and Dan Gilroy to make their worst films yet, so there is that.

And now J.C. Chandor has made his worst reviewed film with them as well in Triple Frontier. The curse is real!

**megladon8** · 03-06-2019, 09:58 PM

Tarkovsky can frame a nice image, but not much else.

**baby doll** · 03-06-2019, 10:40 PM

Quoting megladon8 (view post)

Tarkovsky can frame a nice image, but not much else.

He can also sustain them over several minutes.

**baby doll** · 03-06-2019, 10:41 PM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

The American is a fucking great film and how Anton Corbijn doesn't have a dozen more films made is disappointing.

Personally I'd rather watch a real Jean-Pierre Melville film.

**megladon8** · 03-06-2019, 10:56 PM

Quoting baby doll (view post)

He can also sustain them over several minutes.

I can do the same thing with a screenshot.

Overrated filmmaker is overrated.

**baby doll** · 03-06-2019, 11:18 PM

Quoting megladon8 (view post)

I can do the same thing with a screenshot.

Overrated filmmaker is overrated.

That's not what I meant by sustaining a shot in duration, since the idea is that it isn't simply a static image but that something is happening in the frame.

Tautologies are tautological.

**megladon8** · 03-07-2019, 01:32 AM

Quoting baby doll (view post)

That's not what I meant by sustaining a shot in duration, since the idea is that it isn't simply a static image but that something is happening in the frame.

Tautologies are tautological.

I understood what you meant, I just think he’s a boring filmmaker.

Plenty of other directors are able to sustain incredible images for several minutes while also keeping me engaged, instead of making me check my watch.

**baby doll** · 03-07-2019, 04:39 AM

Quoting megladon8 (view post)

I understood what you meant, I just think he’s a boring filmmaker.

Plenty of other directors are able to sustain incredible images for several minutes while also keeping me engaged, instead of making me check my watch.

Simply saying a film bores you doesn't necessarily mean it's unsuccessful; it could be that you need to adjust your expectations or that it's simply not for you. Can you point to any specific failing in Tarkovsky's films that you think makes his work less successful than other directors working in a similar mode (e.g., Antonioni, Angelopoulos, Kiarostami, Hou)?

**Skitch** · 03-07-2019, 07:03 AM

Quoting baby doll (view post)

Personally I'd rather watch a real Jean-Pierre Melville film.

Can you explain your reasoning for putting the word "real" in that post? I've been pondering it and I cant quite understand.

**Morris Schæffer** · 03-07-2019, 10:59 AM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

Can you explain your reasoning for putting the word "real" in that post? I've been pondering it and I cant quite understand.

Simple though no? He's saying The American is a pale copy of the real thing, the real thing in this case being, oh, Le Samourai perhaps.

Not that I agree or anything.

**baby doll** · 03-07-2019, 11:45 AM

Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)

Simple though no? He's saying The American is a pale copy of the real thing, the real thing in this case being, oh, Le Samourai perhaps.

That's what I meant.

**Grouchy** · 03-07-2019, 11:47 AM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

The American is a fucking great film and how Anton Corbijn doesn't have a dozen more films made is disappointing.

I agree, so much.

**MadMan** · 03-09-2019, 08:34 AM

Quoting baby doll (view post)

Personally I'd rather watch a real Jean-Pierre Melville film.

He's dead. Also boring movies do exist. Swimming Pool comes to mind.

**baby doll** · 03-09-2019, 02:44 PM

Quoting MadMan (view post)

He's dead. Also boring movies do exist. Swimming Pool comes to mind.

I didn't say they didn't (although I do like Swimming Pool).

**MadMan** · 03-11-2019, 06:00 AM

I wanted to like Swimming Pool. Oh well.

**Philip J. Fry** · 03-17-2019, 04:11 AM

Jet and Let Me Roll It are the best things Paul McCartney has done post-Beatles.

**Milky Joe** · 03-17-2019, 04:26 AM

Quoting Philip J. Fry (view post)

Jet and Let Me Roll It are the best things Paul McCartney has done post-Beatles.

Indubitable sir!

**Skitch** · 04-12-2019, 05:48 AM

Meet Joe Black and Anti-Trust are decent flicks, and Claire Forlani is a treasure that Hollywood wasted.

**MadMan** · 04-15-2019, 08:00 AM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

Meet Joe Black and Anti-Trust are decent flicks, and Claire Forlani is a treasure that Hollywood wasted.

I like Claire Forlani.

Also I hate to go back to an old topic but after seeing it again this month I really like A View To A Kill now instead of disliking it as I did before. It is a solid, goofy fun send off for Roger Moore.

**megladon8** · 04-15-2019, 02:26 PM

Tanya Roberts is a babe.

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