Movies You Don't "Get"

[Diwundrin]

The Proposition passed me by at the movies, only saw it on TV and yes it was damned good. Lantana got a rerun a few weeks ago and that was a goody too. Haven't seen Picnic at HR for years, strange they don't give that run now and then. They rerun Terminator 2 about every 6 weeks! TV programmers either have very small libraries or very narrow tastes.

So did you watch Dr Who OH???

 

[SifuPhil]

On the subject of shows I don't 'get'.

DR WHO

... So who's game to admit they watched it and what did you think of it??

I didn't watch that particular one, but I tried watching an earlier episode and I just didn't "get" it - this Victorian dandy jumps into a phone booth aka Superman and time-travels? "A one-trick pony" thought I, and boring to boot. But one man's poison ...

I do like a good clasic Western, regardless , of 100-s dead and often bizare concept, it is relaxing.

I've been getting into old Westerns a bit more lately, I think because of my constant exposure to TV Westerns on the nostalgia channel. Things were far simpler then, women dressed like women and men like men, and everyone had a gun.

Same with "asian kung foo" movies, where a guy makes 3 salto mortales to go to the toilet, and 3 salto mortales to go back from the loo.

HEY now! Don't disrespect chop-socky films - I spent most of my formative years in dark Chinatown theaters, watching guys screaming and dismembering each other. To this day, every once in a while when I'm walking down the street or in the middle of shopping, I'll stop and scream "TEEEEAAACHER! THEY KILLED TEEEEAACHER!!!"

... ahh, the memories ...

What really gives me the s**ts, are the "studio coloured in" B&W movies.
Can you immagine "CASABLANCA' in color.
The light &shade, the black and white technique, is what makes some movies, films and photography what they are.
Coloring (or colouring)them is bizare and kitch!

I've seen the colorized Casablanca and it's certainly different - not quite sure how I feel about it. I guess I can take it or leave it.

Couldn't handle "Inception"... even after reading through the back and forth analysis from Wikipedia... Understood what was going on, but the deliberate obfuscation was too much doubletalk for me.

Yes! I forgot about that one ... I agree, way too confusing, too many levels ... "had to go down 2 levels to restore them to life, then up one level to kill them, then down 3 levels to wake up ..."

Unless I'm rewarded with sex or pepperoni pizza, that's far too much work.

 

[Old Hipster]

The Proposition passed me by at the movies, only saw it on TV and yes it was damned good. Lantana got a rerun a few weeks ago and that was a goody too. Haven't seen Picnic at HR for years, strange they don't give that run now and then. They rerun Terminator 2 about every 6 weeks! TV programmers either have very small libraries or very narrow tastes.

So did you watch Dr Who OH???

Oh yes, just watched it this morning. I loved it and I am so excited for the new Dr.

 

[Katybug]

I do like a good clasic Western, regardless , of 100-s dead and often bizare concept, it is relaxing.
Same with "asian kung foo" movies, where a guy makes 3 salto mortales to go to the toilet, and 3 salto mortales to go back from the loo.
What really gives me the s**ts, are the "studio coloured in" B&W movies.
Can you immagine "CASABLANCA' in color.
The light &shade, the black and white technique, is what makes some movies, films and photography what they are.
Coloring (or colouring)them is bizare and kitch!

Don't even want to imagine CASABLANCA in color....and I love the somewhat relatively new trend in photography with lots of black/white shots...stunning. Just saw quite a few of them recently that were done at a family wedding, far more interesting than color. It's captivating to me...takes me back to a time when there was no color, and then for so many years there was nothing else.

 

[SifuPhil]

Back when I was doing freelance photography I also did my own film processing and printing. Even though I did both B&W and color I much preferred B&W - it was a simpler, less critical process and open to much more artistic manipulation than color (at least at the time).

It was also a lot cheaper.

 

[That Guy]

Plan 9 from Outer Space . . .