What Should A Movie Be?

[Secret Chief]

The Castle is the greatest movie ever

Can I be pleibeian and say I've not even heard of it. It can't be great if it's not American of course.

 

[ChristineM]

Can I be pleibeian and say I've not even heard of it. It can't be great if it's not American of course.

I rather like Amélie, certainly not American.

And les visiteurs, a french film so good that america did a remake.

And les Intouchables, also made into a US movie the upside.

 

[Secret Chief]

I rather like Amélie, certainly not American.

And les visiteurs, a french film so good that america did a remake.

And les Intouchables, also made into a US movie the upside.

I tend to prefer British films, less superheroes generally. Recently saw The Duke. Excellent imo, but then it does star Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.
Spoiler trailer:

 

[Heyo]

I rather like Amélie, certainly not American.

And les visiteurs, a french film so good that america did a remake.

And les Intouchables, also made into a US movie the upside.

Also "Nikita" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Also worth mentioning (but didn't get remade): "Subway" and "Diva".
Everything Luc Besson did away from Holywood (and some he did in Holywood).
Everything Isabelle Adjani appears in (not done in Holywood).

 

[Alien826]

I like any movie with sex and (female) nudity. I just watched (again) "Sirens", the one with Hugh Grant, set in Australia. Really good. I think there was a story too, I'll have to check the reviews.

 

[HonestJoe]

Watching a BBC documentary about "The Godfather",
I'm struck by how many commentators call it the greatest
movie ever, but criticize it for not telling more stories about
more characters in it. Some want it to be more about the
women in it...flesh out their stories...provide gender equality.
Criminy...it's only 175 minutes long.

Are you sure they were actually criticising the film and not just highlighting how it is a product of it's time and genre? Remember that documentaries like this often edit the talking-head interviews to make them appear more dramatic and extreme that they actually are.

 

[Secret Chief]

I like any movie with sex and (female) nudity. I just watched (again) "Sirens", the one with Hugh Grant, set in Australia. Really good. I think there was a story too, I'll have to check the reviews.

Just checked Rotten Tomatoes and there wasn't a story

 

[Estro Felino]

I like any movie with sex and (female) nudity. I just watched (again) "Sirens", the one with Hugh Grant, set in Australia. Really good. I think there was a story too, I'll have to check the reviews.

I think the movie was quite profound, since it is about art. It is about the fact that nudity in general is not dirty, but is the celebration of beauty, and that is an ideal that we can see in Titian's Venus, or in Botticelli's Venus.
As for Goya, the Maya desnuda represents spirituality. It is the Maya vestida that represents "lust or sensuousness".
It is also about the Victorian hypocrisy...still there, of the Anglican priest speaking of sex as something dirty....whereas he is the first to fantasize about those women.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

A movie should be romantic, realistic, glamorous.

You and I probably can't go to the movies together...

 

[sun rise]

What Should A Movie Be?
Entertaining....that is all.

Getting two people to agree on what the greatest movie is...bout as easy to get to people to agree on the greatest food or greatest drink......

God help me because I agree with you.

 

[Nakosis]

Watching a BBC documentary about "The Godfather",
I'm struck by how many commentators call it the greatest
movie ever, but criticize it for not telling more stories about
more characters in it. Some want it to be more about the
women in it...flesh out their stories...provide gender equality.
Criminy...it's only 175 minutes long.

A movie should be entertaining. If I am entertained, I don't feel a need to look for anything deeper.

The movie is fictional, so I don't care about any societal messages/meanings as I see these as fictional too.
You can craft whatever narrative you to imply some moral message which need have nothing to do with reality.

 

[Estro Felino]

You and I probably can't go to the movies together...

I can imagine. I guess you are not into those movies as I am not into basketball games...(at all)

 

[Augustus]

Movies are good. Some are really good. But none of them are "great"...

Ancient Greek culture was 'great'. The Roman Empire was 'great'. The pyramids at Giza are 'great'. The story of Christ is 'great'.

"The Godfather" is just a very good/popular motion picture.

Strange comparisons.

"These are really great pork chops".
Huh? They are good pork chops, perhaps even very good, but they're not exactly the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are they? Now they were great.

 

[PureX]

Strange comparisons.

"These are really great pork chops".
Huh? They are good pork chops, perhaps even very good, but they're not exactly the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are they? Now they were great.

Yes. A 100 years of industrial strength commercial advertising has made absurd hyperbole absurdly commonplace. When a pork chop is "great", what does it even mean to call a thousand plus year old wall 1,000 miles long, in China, "great"?

 

[Revoltingest]

Are you sure they were actually criticising the film and not just highlighting how it is a product of it's time and genre?

That was the impression I had.
Some stories just aren't about both genders....
The Godfather.
Sisterhood of the traveling pants.
Conan The Barbarian.
Fried Green Tomatoes.

 

[Revoltingest]

A movie should be entertaining. If I am entertained, I don't feel a need to look for anything deeper.

The movie is fictional, so I don't care about any societal messages/meanings as I see these as fictional too.
You can craft whatever narrative you to imply some moral message which need have nothing to do with reality.

I like movies for a variety of reasons.
Entertainment is the biggest.
Being inspired is good too.

 

[Quagmire]

In a word, the movie has to be engaging.

It has to take me into another world, make me feel things, make me care what happens to the characters.