In Reply to: Absolutely...in terms of cast, art direction, cinematography, coloration.... posted by mr grits on June 4, 2011 at 15:11:46:
Bresson's budget was 1/1000th of Hollywood and in the areas you mention, it outperformed 99.9% of the huge budgets you love so much.
Look at a Bela Tarr or Tarkovsky film and see how much your "X-Men" films defeat it in any of your categories.
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- Grits, a whore dressed in designer clothes, with Chanel 5, is still a whore. - tinear 15:31:34 06/04/11 (10)
- a whore dressed in designer clothes, with Chanel 5, is NOT still a whore, now she's a Call Girl. - Elizabeth 22:44:44 06/04/11 (1)
- Actually, I think the term is Escort - Jack G 08:02:29 06/05/11 (0)
- What the hell are you babbling about? - mr grits 15:35:10 06/04/11 (7)
- It's called a metaphor. I already know your learned answer: - tinear 19:34:22 06/04/11 (6)
- It's a lousy metaphor - Analog Scott 11:19:15 06/06/11 (0)
- Stop it, smutmeister. * - mr grits 12:46:41 06/05/11 (4)
- You probably think the remake of the Swedish classic, - tinear 13:53:37 06/05/11 (3)
- It blew the original away....film snob pretensions don't raise your social class. * - mr grits 16:19:24 06/05/11 (2)
- Inferior in every way, including cinematography, sound, acting. A slavish and poor copy. nt - tinear 07:30:29 06/06/11 (1)
- Can't say I agree with you about the acting - Analog Scott 11:15:20 06/06/11 (0)