Well, I certainly buy, " ... it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River." But I think Mystic River was a great movie in precisely the way that American Beauty, Ordinary People, or Porky's were great movies: better than Titanic, but not remarkable.
do you mean to say that no genuinely good american films have been made in the past two or three years? granted, I buy into the hollywood sucks school of thought, but there are still a lot of good american movies released each year.
I saw this last night, and I have to say that it's a type of movie that has angered me before - now don't get me wrong, some of my favorite movies are of this type, and I try to judge all films by the same standards - but by the end I was so mad and felt so distant from the picture that I wanted to go into the projection booth and tear up the actual film strip, just so I could feel something.
"Type" rather than race, "some of my favorite movies" rather than some of my best friends, etc.: the kind of language people sometimes use to talk about race applied to the movie.
Anger and distance: what the characters seem to feel most of the time.
just to feel something: opening line of movie about how people in LA crash into each other just to feel something
I actually had a mixed reaction to the movie. I didn't like it, but didn't feel a strong dislike either. One of the friends I saw it with absolutely hated it, and I'm usually much more critical of things than she is.
Well, I certainly buy, " ... it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River." But I think Mystic River was a great movie in precisely the way that American Beauty, Ordinary People, or Porky's were great movies: better than Titanic, but not remarkable.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 7:51 AM
do you mean to say that no genuinely good american films have been made in the past two or three years? granted, I buy into the hollywood sucks school of thought, but there are still a lot of good american movies released each year.
an odd definition of great.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05-30-05 9:46 AM
I'm going to wait for the double feature of Crash with Crash.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 05-31-05 9:27 AM
I saw this last night, and I have to say that it's a type of movie that has angered me before - now don't get me wrong, some of my favorite movies are of this type, and I try to judge all films by the same standards - but by the end I was so mad and felt so distant from the picture that I wanted to go into the projection booth and tear up the actual film strip, just so I could feel something.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:50 AM
I'm going to wait for the double feature of Crash with Crash.
Why stop at just a double? Then the next night, they could run the Crush marathon.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:01 PM
eb, I'm not sure I understand.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 2:15 PM
"Type" rather than race, "some of my favorite movies" rather than some of my best friends, etc.: the kind of language people sometimes use to talk about race applied to the movie.
Anger and distance: what the characters seem to feel most of the time.
just to feel something: opening line of movie about how people in LA crash into each other just to feel something
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 3:14 PM
I actually had a mixed reaction to the movie. I didn't like it, but didn't feel a strong dislike either. One of the friends I saw it with absolutely hated it, and I'm usually much more critical of things than she is.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 3:16 PM