Okay. While we're still in the introductions and everything, warming up Ye Olde Forum, it's a natural that eventually, we need to discuss our less positive points. Or at least, where we brush against the grain. That's this thread. Consider this the confessional. Snobbery be damned, this is where you make admissions that make other film buffs, gamers, audiophiles and bibliophiles cringe in disgust. Be it that you think Mega Man is a pedestrian game series, or you thought that Transformers 2 was a cinematic achievement. Give us your best.



For me, my biggest confession of Heresy is a newer development. I can not fucking stand Stanley Kubrick. If you come on TSE's vent, you probably know about Streetwraith, a guy who frequents the vent. Well, we got to talking, and he pointed out all these... problems, with Kubrick's style. And while I'm not nearly as fully versed in these issues as he is, the more I try to go back and rewatch these movies, the more I see he's right. Now, it's not to say I hate all of Kubrick. I like the first half of Full Metal Jacket. But the rest... I dunno. I really just can't stand his style these days.

I'm working on relieving the problem, but I am a cinematic newbie. Raised in kind of a sheltered life, I was raised mostly on popcorn flicks and the PG side of the spectrum of cinema. It's really only been since I turned seventeen or so that I've started to see good movies, and so many of the classics, I still need to see. So as much as I fancy myself a buff, I'm no where near.

For a second there I thought you said "brush against the groin" and oh, the memories just came rushing back.

I didn't like Inception as much as everyone else seemed to.

Actually, I'm with you there. I thought it was fine, it was a decent flick, but I think it kinda suffers from this weird thing where it was the mainstream movie that was accessible and good for everyone, but because it's been so long since a mainstream accessible came out, everyone drooled all over the fucking thing. Which is kind of a shame, you know? Cause it was a good flick. It just... wasn't THAT good, c'mon, people.

I honestly think the Godfather movies are terribly overrated. They aren't bad. I don't know, I just found them extremely middle of the road. In fact I couldn't sit through Part 2. It was so boring, and I can sit through slow paced long movies. I actually really love 2001, especially the first thirty minutes, which are without dialogue. I just don't get why they are such lauded films.

I also frakking hated There Will Be Blood. Ugh, what a horrible soundtrack.

I haven't seen one of the movies Snob talks about. I'm more the ROBOT MONSTER-era type of awful.

I take it back. After perusing the archives, I realized that I have seen a few Snob films, wayyyyy back on new release day in the mom-n-pop video store by the barracks. I blame my lack of memory on the fact that when I was picking them out I was usually plastered out of my mind on a deadly combination of Domino's, pork skins and Raspberry Ripple.

Slugs
Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning
Troll
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Deathrow Gameshow
Silent Night Deadly Night, Part 2
New Year's Evil

Would it be poor snobbery to say that James Cameron and Christopher Nolan are possibly the two most overrated directors in Hollywood?

I have to agree with the whole Stanley Kubrick thing.

I wanted to like the guy. I enjoyed the first half of Full Metal Jacket immensely. The second half not so much. When I tried to watch 2001 I legitimately fell asleep.

Still, I'm willing to give the guy a shot, as I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange yet.


People always seem to find it shocking I didn't enjoy Shaun of the Dead much. But it wasn't that I absolutely hated it as a film. I just went into it going "okay, parody of zombie movies" and I didn't feel they really went as far with it as they could have. Though admittingly British humor doesn't always click with me.

I didn't care for Clockwork Orange. 2001, Shining, Fullmetal, and especially Dr. Strangelove, I loved. That's all I really have to say about it. I can see why some people don't like them. It's whatevs.