American Beauty was quite good not a incredible movie but still a good commentary on surburban life
Classic films that some students think are "rubbish"
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I agree. It captured many aspects. Insecurities of a teenager, the pressures of the modern (American equivalent) of the middle class family, the mid life crisis.
There just seemed to be a lack of a real killer touch to make it an all time great
Yeah, Spacey was great though he moved up in my eyes a lot in that film
I wouldn't call any of those rubbish exactly.
I enjoyed Heat but it wasn't quite as good as I had hoped - largely due to Val Kilmer I suspect - but very watchable anyway. Cloverfield bored me and seemed to borrow from all sorts of places to little effect.
The rest are fecking great and you should execute your students as soon as possible for crimes against good taste.
I was hugely let down but then again I saw it after the entire rest of the Western world so I knew everything about the film. If you watched it early on after only hearing the email/web viral marketing I think it could have been a great cinematic experience.
Hang on Spoons...was that you then at the back of my class, fiddling with your mobile phone under the desk, thinking I wouldn't notice with the lights down?
I use The Birds for two sequences in particular, both to do with editing, but its not one of my favourite Hitchcock films, I have to admit.
This week's films that could potentially be 'rubbish':
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Halloween
Doing cinematography with them this coming week, but who knows what's going to come up in the lectures!
Raging Bull might be open to claims of 'rubbish' as it is black and white...we shall see.
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Halloween
Doing cinematography with them this coming week, but who knows what's going to come up in the lectures!
Raging Bull might be open to claims of 'rubbish' as it is black and white...we shall see.
Saving Private Ryan is one of my favourite films of all time.
I usually show about ten minutes of the beach landing, and a few years back a few students started laughing at the point where a soldier picks up his severed arm. Maybe it was ignorance, I don't know, but since then I have shown them a few interviews with D Day vets, who describe exactly what they witnessed that day. That normally helps put it all into context and I haven't had any laughing since.
I hate Saving Private Ryan. But that's my problem, cinematographic it has got some good scenes. But the storyline and ending got too stupid/poor for my liking.
That's all you need to see. Incredible opening 20 minutes then a long boring search for Matt Damon. Personally I couldn't give a shit.
Same with Amistad, 20 minutes of remarkable imagery scattered sparsely throughout a 3 hour courtroom bore fest.
Jaws (and Duel) for the win.
Raging Bull is Scorsese's masterpiece.