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In fact it is so small I can't recall its members. But last night I had an addition...I usually resist the urge to turn a film off. I keep looking, trying to find something worth my time, and usually there is something. My wife is usually far quicker about pulling the trigger... or plug.
So last night I fought her for about fifteen minutes, before pulling it myself.
The film in question was Jean Cocteau' The Blood of a Poet.
Anyone here feels I am not developed enough to appreciate that sublime work?
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i have only stopped watching 2 movies ever because i totally HATED them!!! biodome and lost highway, oh my god those movies were sooo bad!!! i have never gone back to finish them, and i dont think i want to!! tonight i watched shadow of a doubt and dawn of the dead the new one, they were both really good!jen
...Jaws.No, seriously, I *like* Poet.
I can understand how someone could like the Poet, given the right mindset and circumstance. Jaws - I can't, but its popularity even among the more educated ones is something I don't understand. I think Patrick likes it... maybe that's a fair exchange for my "fascination" with Clueless? :-)
> Jaws - I can't, but its popularity even among the more educated ones is something I don't understand.Even if you don't like the characters or plot or anything else, it's a technically brilliant film. Very well put together, with a dozen nods to the great suspense directors in it's construction. Yes, he steals a lot, but also comes up with a lot of original ideas. As tinear said, the proof is in it's impact.
It's a similar phenomenon with Titanic, with it's terrible acting and cheap romance novel plot, it's beautifully shot and masterfully put together.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
three main characters. To me, that is the attraction: all three are far above average and they deliver a little chamber piece finely played.
Now, I don't know if you saw this when first it came out. For its day, it had the same impact as Psycho. Well, perhaps moreso in that after the Hitch hit, shower-taking didn't decline. Immediately after Jaws, swimming in oceans world-wide was impacted. To this day, many people say that they won't do so because of that movie.
whole thing a couple of weeks ago. Then, last week, I saw Orpheus (for the umpteenth time, but for the first in years)--- and I forgave Cocteau. A masterpiece. Death, the motorcycle messengers, Heurtebise, the beautiful raven-haired shop owner named Angla-something or other... The beginning shots of the young "poets" in the cafe I found fascinating and watched mutltiple times in slow-mo. They looked so contemporary and there were so many "babes" in there!
I guess I must allow myself some de-Cocteau-ization period before seeing another of his films.So you sat through the whole thing? Was it worth the torture? I could see certain esthetic value to the exercise... I can live on esthetics alone for some time, but from time to time my body wants red meat too.
harm me. I wouldn't miss any sleep thinking I had let a great cinematic experience get away, were I you. It was an experiment which Cocteau and his friends enjoyed but I think one had to be there to "get it."
Orpheus really is quite different and I rate it equal to Beauty and the Beast, which I greatly enjoy.
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Why should I write a word more? You said it all.
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