In Reply to: "Do you like foreign films?" LOL! Yes! posted by clarkjohnsen on December 22, 2003 at 09:21:26:
I just grow weary of a certain critical attitude, which this leans toward. One that pits one art form against another, as well as one type of art to another is quite misinformed and futile, IMO.I also enjoyed POTC, but I would never compare it with 'Wings of Desire', 'Lonestar', 'Brazil' or 'Diva'.
How did you like 'Mysic River', 'Intolerable Cruelty', 'The Secret Lives of Dentists', 'Dirty Pretty Things' [british] and last year's 'Mulholland Drive' ?
I think the LOTR series is entirely enjoyable, entertaining and extremely well done. Perhaps a comparison to the Star Wars series and the three Matrix films is a decent way to look at them, rather than comparison to opera....
Later
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - clarkjohnsen 13:50:15 12/21/03 (87)
- finally read the original article - tunenut 21:03:46 12/27/03 (0)
- Re: Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - Czish 11:54:05 12/25/03 (3)
- Perhaps if the movies were in black and white and subtitled........... (nt - dennzio 16:17:27 12/25/03 (2)
- Re: Many EXCELLENT films - rico 07:09:14 12/26/03 (1)
- Can you detect sarcasm? (nt - dennzio 12:55:50 12/26/03 (0)
- Quite simply, it's a yarn for - tinear 05:28:01 12/23/03 (34)
- W. H. Auden didn't think so. - Harmonia 19:53:45 12/23/03 (0)
- Then Homer and Virgil will be over your head also. (nt - dennzio 12:55:09 12/23/03 (3)
- So now you've sunk to comparing the blind one and his - tinear 13:15:31 12/23/03 (2)
- The Aeneid was of course Virgil as a Homer wannabe. - dennzio 17:12:28 12/23/03 (1)
- PS: you can teach me about D&D someday. (nt - dennzio 17:13:35 12/23/03 (0)
- Did you people really miss the philosophical dimension of this epic? - Tadlo 07:40:46 12/23/03 (28)
- Doesn't it have to do with insufficient water? - geoffkait 09:06:03 12/23/03 (0)
- This is exactly WHAT'S wrong WITH it! - Troy 08:30:06 12/23/03 (19)
- Not entirely predictable - Tadlo 16:14:00 12/23/03 (0)
- YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! And long live Wagner. nt - clarkjohnsen 14:31:35 12/23/03 (1)
- Re: YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! And long live Wagner./The antisemit bastard.nt - patrickU 02:41:16 12/25/03 (0)
- With all due respect, you are rudely mistaken. - Audiophilander 10:08:00 12/23/03 (15)
- Re: With all due respect, you are rudely mistaken. - Troy 10:50:44 12/23/03 (14)
- You offered no real valid literary criticisms, just a very average personal opinion, how could anybody take offense? - dennzio 13:24:40 12/23/03 (0)
- "BBs are designed for people to put forth their opinions" - Well, one hopes that those opinions would be informed! - Audiophilander 11:46:31 12/23/03 (12)
- BwaaHAAAAAAAA! - Troy 13:06:02 12/23/03 (11)
- Re: BwaaHAAAAAAAA! - Tadlo 16:23:00 12/23/03 (0)
- And just to show . . . - Troy 13:37:07 12/23/03 (9)
- Yep, missed that one. - Audiophilander 14:47:32 12/23/03 (8)
- You missed this too - Troy 15:27:24 12/23/03 (7)
- I'll accept your intent, but let's get the impression straight. - Audiophilander 22:19:30 12/24/03 (6)
- Look past your "red haze" - Troy 11:42:27 12/25/03 (5)
- "If I was a troll, I'd have handled my responses differently than I have, goading you even further." LOL! - Audiophilander 23:54:12 12/25/03 (4)
- Hey, I'm just playing nice here - Troy 17:29:54 12/26/03 (3)
- One last time; I'll see your nice ante and raise it as politely as I can: - Audiophilander 00:48:27 12/27/03 (2)
- We just don't see eye to eye - Troy 08:42:43 12/27/03 (1)
- "chasing windmills" ...? Wrong movie; wrong book! Terry Gilliam has thus far failed where Peter Jackson succeeded. - Audiophilander 09:21:51 12/29/03 (0)
- Yup, just like I missed the great sociological insights of - tinear 08:03:52 12/23/03 (6)
- Well, there is this small difference - Tadlo 08:33:00 12/23/03 (5)
- Au contraire. The sociological insights ARE - tinear 12:03:17 12/23/03 (2)
- Re: Au contraire. The sociological insights ARE - Tadlo 16:39:24 12/23/03 (1)
- Ok, fair knight, I yield the field. But still, I think Mallory's much - tinear 11:57:43 12/24/03 (0)
- Re: And didn't Wagner... - rico 10:28:29 12/23/03 (1)
- One knows one has stumbled into fantasy-land when - tinear 11:59:14 12/23/03 (0)
- I must have missed something... - Tadlo 21:23:02 12/22/03 (1)
- A fair question. See my remarks just below. nt - clarkjohnsen 14:29:37 12/23/03 (0)
- Even if his thesis is true - Bulkington 10:53:23 12/22/03 (1)
- "I don't see the argument." OK... - clarkjohnsen 10:01:30 12/23/03 (0)
- Clark Johnson: The Micro Brain with the Macro Mouth - Yo Mama 09:43:23 12/22/03 (12)
- Hey, Clark might not know a good flick when it hits him in the chops.... - dennzio 10:00:02 12/22/03 (11)
- "Zero respect for the nastiness." Thanks, but... - clarkjohnsen 09:51:47 12/23/03 (5)
- "Yo Mama is suffering through pubesence" How generous of you, Clark! "Take pity" So says our compassionate curmudgeon... - Audiophilander 12:06:35 12/23/03 (4)
- Hey, you can't fault a guy who likes toy trains. (nt - dennzio 12:57:04 12/23/03 (3)
- Or toy audio systems? nt - clarkjohnsen 14:50:59 12/23/03 (2)
- Or overpriced tea. (nt - dennzio 04:59:30 12/24/03 (1)
- So, you've had it? And you *know*? Details, please. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:58:43 12/26/03 (0)
- Right on both counts and comment on reviewer BS - Yo Mama 12:41:26 12/22/03 (3)
- Then comment ont this... - dennzio 13:37:05 12/22/03 (2)
- Re: Then comment ont this... - Yo Mama 16:18:15 12/22/03 (1)
- Thanks. (nt - dennzio 17:24:00 12/22/03 (0)
- Hold on, dennzio! - Audiophilander 10:45:56 12/22/03 (0)
- That's not it - Troy 08:47:02 12/22/03 (0)
- There is a big difference between fantasy and myth, at least as I define it. - Audiophilander 23:06:14 12/21/03 (9)
- "As for Mr. Ross's opinion..." - clarkjohnsen 09:27:52 12/22/03 (7)
- Excuse me, but I thought that this was the Video Asylum Film Forum. - Audiophilander 10:32:54 12/22/03 (6)
- "...a stuffed shirt music critic's opinion." LOL! As low-brow as you've become... - clarkjohnsen 09:47:51 12/23/03 (5)
- Three responses to date? Indeed, I'm impressed; your audience is growing! - Audiophilander 10:39:52 12/23/03 (4)
- Three *intelligent* responses. Makes all the difference. - clarkjohnsen 14:53:41 12/23/03 (3)
- The difference is that you've succeeded in making asterisks out of your three supporters. (nt) - Audiophilander 22:29:05 12/24/03 (0)
- Oh giggle! Severius. You two deserve each other's admiration. (nt - dennzio 05:03:21 12/24/03 (1)
- Bad dennzio, ...bad, bad! - Audiophilander 22:45:28 12/24/03 (0)
- Re: There is a big difference between fantasy and myth, at least as I define it. - rico 08:09:14 12/22/03 (0)
- Re: Maybe... - Dave-A 20:29:53 12/21/03 (10)
- "Do you like foreign films?" LOL! Yes! - clarkjohnsen 09:21:26 12/22/03 (9)
- Re: All good films? - Dave-A 15:54:59 12/26/03 (0)
- Only thing worth smiling about was Johnny Depp. (nt - dennzio 09:52:53 12/22/03 (0)
- Re: How can one smile at the " Pirates of the Caribics " for - patrickU 09:37:29 12/22/03 (6)
- Rarely do I find myself supporting one of Clark's assertions, but... - Audiophilander 11:02:29 12/22/03 (5)
- Re: Rarely do I find myself supporting one of Clark's assertions, but... - patrickU 11:16:22 12/22/03 (4)
- Perhaps you would prefer Master and Commander. - dennzio 12:03:21 12/22/03 (1)
- Re: Perhaps you would prefer Master and Commander. - patrickU 12:27:21 12/22/03 (0)
- Sorry, but I beg to differ. - Audiophilander 11:33:32 12/22/03 (1)
- Re: May your wishes comes true... - patrickU 11:41:03 12/22/03 (0)
- This was the quote that caught my eye last week... - Harmonia 19:29:30 12/21/03 (1)
- "Repeated attempts in the intervening years have not changed muy mind." - clarkjohnsen 09:11:01 12/22/03 (0)
- If the movie bores you so much, why do you keep commenting on it? - Dalton 17:22:48 12/21/03 (2)
- Thge comments were Alex Ross's. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:16:02 12/22/03 (1)
- So? Does one need to post individual reviews which concur with one's preconceived notions... - Audiophilander 09:44:19 12/22/03 (0)
- Get over it. It's a movie. Eat some beans. (nt - dennzio 14:21:23 12/21/03 (2)
- Boston half-baked beans... - Audiophilander 08:08:30 12/22/03 (1)
- Some folks fancy themselves as the high brow set. - dennzio 09:50:40 12/22/03 (0)
Follow Ups
- Re: All good films? - Dave-A 15:54:59 12/26/03 (0)