Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Troy (A) on March 18, 2004 at 08:40:56

In Reply to: Don't be loyal to any oen country, beloyal to movie art posted by Victor Khomenko on March 18, 2004 at 04:39:04:

. . . whether you want to admit it or not.

Of course all this post of yours is just a bitter hollow smoke - seems like only those who believe that Hollywood is the Holy Grail of movie making do divide the world into two parts - as you are doing it here.

This is the crux of the problem right here.

You seem to always speak in absolutes. You think that if we disagree with your fnatical assessments that we must be fanatical in the opposite direction. If we don't want to watch an Afgani romantic drama that YOU deem to be great, that doesn't mean that we all want to watch "Tomcats", you know?

Don't you realize that YOU are divisive one? YOU are the one making posters with more populist taste uncomfortable prompting them to want to have a board where they won't be insulted for making a positive post about "Monster" or "Lost in Translation" or "Caddshack". It's YOUR fault Victor.

Unlike you, I am not stuck on any such division - I watch all sorts of movies, and then I say what I feel - without paying any attention to my special attachments. So I just as routinely call a French or a Rusasian film a kaka as I do an American one. You, OTOH, have that heavy bias, one I used to see in the Soviet leaders, paranoid about any criticism of their land.

You used this same line on me too. It doesn't hold any water. I watch foreign films too. I just watched "Le Grande Bouff" and have "Tokyo Story" on deck. Big deal. No one is debating whether or not you dislike movies from anyplace other than the US, but you DO have a special bias against American Hwood movies. And you have a special bias against anyone that COULD like modern Hwood movies. We're all desperately tired of your insults and your demeaning tone. To the point where some of us want a board where you won't post.

We're not overly paraniod about anyone criticising America at all. I criticize America every day. Most Americans do. I AM tired of your constant harping on this subject Victor. You seem to get into one of these same fights with someone every week. When are you going to understand that everyone else is right and you are wrong?

What I do is the only honest approach - call them ALL as they are. I don't have particular attachment to any one country or continent. Modern Russian movies mostly suck these days - I have no problem with stating this. You apparently do.

Fine. Most movies from every country suck. The problem is that when someone tries to debate the merits of something you call Kaka, you resort to insulting them, basically telling them that they must be cretins, philistines and animals for liking these films. It's fine to dislike a movie, but you are NOT better or more educated or sophisticated that someone that does like it. Stop acting like it.

Kukushka a dreadful art house movie? Beay Travail? Closey Watched Trains? Maelstrom? Mirror? Are you trying to show us how missguided you are?

See what I mean? I one doesn't have any desire to watch "Maelstrom" we are "Misguided". An demeaning insult.

This board is big enough for people to come in there and post threads about stuff like "School of Rock" if they want. You don't like it? You say it's bad and explain your points. You move on. You are NOT supposed to make these people feel inferior because YOU think it's a stupid and bad movie. It's just mean spirited.