One of the beautiful things about being single...I don't have a lass twisting my ear to go see that film(never watched it on TV, so I have no desire to pay to see it). By my calculations, if I do see it, it will be about 30 years from today, in the nursing home. Heavily sedated, hopefully.
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Now Now Joseph each to there own.....

and by the way if you are heavily sedated you will be asleep as you well know...Ha!Ha!
So you will not see it then either!
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Well, if forced to watch Sex In The City, I too would prefer to be on a morphine drip.

Having only seen about 10 minutes of the show during it's entire run on TV, I have not impulse to shell out the the theatrical version...

Now, The Happening, with all it's bad reviews, does sound like it could be very interesting movie. I will be seeing it (at least to actually like or dislike it) but not sure if that will be theatrical or on DVD.
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Now, The Happening, with all it's bad reviews, does sound like it could be very interesting movie. I will be seeing it (at least to actually like or dislike it) but not sure if that will be theatrical or on DVD.- Antony Burt

Well, now I understand how even bad films make huge amounts of money(did we really need 2 Hulk movies made in one decade?). People see them to judge how bad they are. Perpetuating the money grinder, so that they can crank out more bad films.


and by the way if you are heavily sedated you will be asleep as you well know...Ha!Ha!
So you will not see it then either!- Georgia Hurst

No, Georgia, I'm sure they won't allow me to slip into unconciousness, just dope me enough to be unable to wrest the remote control away from the nurse.
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I'm not about to waste good money on a film I know I won't enjoy. But I have enjoyed other (but not all) films by M. Night Shyamalan. I am willing to give the film a shot.

I know that critics and viewers sometimes pan very good films. Just because a few people did not enjoy a film because it was slow, or they did not understand it, does not mean I can't gain any enjoyment out of it.

On the average I enjoy slow paced films as they seem to have more depth to them.
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Something I don't understand about this wave of comic book movies- does this mean literature(i.e. books) have been scuttled forever? Fahrenheit 451 cults springing up in the woodlands? The Age of Disenlightenment? Typewriter jockeys like Stephan King and Tom Harris held up as pinnacles of the lit world? All films must seek their roots in graphix, anime, old TV shows and horror flix from Korea?

Pretty sad.
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I pay a certain amount each month for a cinema pass giving me the freedom to watch as many movies as I like. If I see more than two movies a month I get my money's worth. When there is very little on I still feel compelled to see anything that's on and that includes vacuous money makers. It's not a great excuse but I'm sticking with it. This should also mean I get to see more obscure movies which I normally wouldn't have seen. Unfortunately the cinema I'm with is very commercial and regrettably so is the taste of my other half.

Just on the point of slow paced movies I'd like to say that I agree that not all people are going to like them. Some people want to entertained and if the pace isn't fast enough they loose interest. To say that these people's lack of appreciation means that they don't understand is a little elitist. No offence meant but I think it's a weak argument. I have a friend who likes all the movies I consider to be evil commercial pants of the highest order. He loves the New Star Wars movies!!! Is he stupid. God no. He's a games programmer with an incredibly high IQ.
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I enjoy many different types of movies for many reasons. Zombie movies are by no means born of literature and I posit that 99.9% of them are written horribly with no to little story. They are just a guilty pleasure for a lot of the people who see them. Other folks enjoy them as bloodfests. I have seen many zombie movies. When compared to Super hero movies, I have to say that the comic book movies will always have more character development, story line, production, and depth. The Fantastic Four movie and Superman movies are big exceptions.

I saw the Hulk and it was a fairly well written movie with sympathetic characters. It was by far a superior movie to Ang Lee's Hulk and Ang Lee is a man known for his depth of film making. That Hulk took itself way too seriously. The timing was off and the production of it took you out of the film.

As far as The Happening is concerned, I am waiting for the DVD. I have been progressively more disappointed with M N Shyamalan. I thought Signs was complete drivel. Apparently he had help when he made his earlier films from Frank Marshall and someone else who's name eludes me right now and that is posited as a reason they were stronger films. As he has taken more on himself, the quality of his films has declined.

The movie genre that I do not understand is the one that gives birth to such atrocities as The Love Guru, Austin Powers, Harold and Kumar (sp?), and Borat. I have watched the Austin Powers movies. Well I watched the first and attempted the second before turning off the DVD player. Borat was one of the worst things I have ever subjected myself to. Those moves really seem bottom of the barrel intellectually and comedically to me. Still a lot of people see them.

I'd say I do not understand how 75-80% of the movies that are released get made in the first place. I think to myself, aren't folks smarter than that? Then I find myself laughing my butt off watching Shaun of the Dead.

A movie that I thought I'd hate but I ended up liking was Lars and the Real Girl. A friend kept prodding me to see it and it was a decent little story.

Anyway... Gonna go make some popcorn and watch Millers Crossing again. Go Cohen brothers!
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I hate stupid comedies, for the most part, but have to admit, I liked BOrat(both the show and film). The situations presented on screen, were not as funny as the knowledge, that the people involved actually fell for what was going on. It was an uncensored Candid Camera or Magic Christian to me.
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Ian, I did not lump together those who dislike a slow moving film, and those who don't 'get' a film. Those are unrelated reasons to dislike a film. To not enjoy a film pace does not at all require misunderstanding. I have read a couple of other reviews where the viewer did not understand the film.

When I hear a movie takes a new direction for a director, is slow, meanders, is difficult to follow due to flash backs, flash forwards and dream sequences, or leaves things unexplained, these for me are not reasons to avoid a film. I often enjoy films which take a different track. And this film sounds different.
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You mean Henry Ford, father of the "gas crisis"? He couldn'ta taken an extra few weeks or so, and figured out how to make the damn things run on salt water. That, we got plenty of!
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Sorry, I keep replying to the last post on the first page. Harry needs to reset the default on the forum.
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I rewathed Barton Fink last night. Not my favorite Cohen brothers movie. It's not bad mind you, it just kind of meandered it's way along. I really wanted to kill Barton. He was sooo centered on himself and though he professed to be a writer, he never listened. Very irritating. Too bad he didn't burn up in the hotel fire.

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One of the few films I like John Goodman in.
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Re: Stupid comedies/stupid humor.
I used to wonder how they got made as well. However, as I am watching a second teenage son grow through movie tastes, I believe conclusively that it is the teenage market that they make those movies for.

Now for the guilty admission: When I am really tired or in just the right mood I sometimes find them funny (as I did years later when I found Austin Powers #1 on tv, same with Dumb and Dumber) However watching them a second time has proven not to go over as well.
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Its funny how as we grow older something we thought was brilliant fades into a foggy mist later in life...and while viewing again; with the question Why? oh why did I think this was good....

As we grow and pass through the journey of life... so many things look SO different......

Im not sure whether it is a good or bad thing...somtimes I think naivity is beautiful....
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However watching them a second time has proven not to go over as well. - Keri Mills

Now you know why so few comedies have ever won Acadamy awards. I still enjoy Blazing Saddles, now and then. I don't laugh as hard and long as I used to, at it, but I always get a kick out of the cast. Considering it's been around since 1974, that's a pretty good shelf life for a comedy.
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What about a bit of European cinema?
Has anybody seen French film "13" made by an Armenian immigrant. Some people may think it starts slow (black and white with subtitles), but then it leaves you stuck to your chair, heart pounding. (Best watched without reading any reviews or reading the DVD box for extra impact)

Or "Pusher", Danish gangster flick, gritty and earthy.

"Diva" classic French movie with criminals and opera singers.

Or how about some Austrailian films, they just make up their own rules like they've never seen a Hollywood blueprint.
"Bad Boy Bubby", "Long Weekend". "Cars that ate Paris".
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I like Euro-cinema(actually all-world cine), but mostly, the older stuff. Topping my list of newer Euro-mainstream directors would have to be Besson, but my more outer faves would include Tinto Brass, Sergio Corbucci, Michael Haneke. My tastes run to the bizarre, so films like Irreversible and Baise Moi would be on my list. Anything by Jean Rollin. And, of course Sergio Leone.
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Has anyone seen "The Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 3D? I think the technology is so much better than previously! It was a really fun movie to take your kids to! My daughter and I had a blast dodging the tentacles, prehistoric creatures and well the mine ride was pretty cool if you are a rollercoaster buff!
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