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aox wrote:I can't believe there is still a single person on this planet still trying to rekindle this debate in the year 2010. They literally have nothing on their side except......well, their own selfish vision.

domino harvey wrote:He lists Robin and the Seven Hoods among his favorite films. Yes, this is a man who knows quality cinema

Foam wrote:The "blank canvas" argument in the responses to responses video almost made me cry blood.

People either absolutely buy into his "in-depth, analytical and highly critical" review style, or they simply can't stand his "shrill, annoying, highly repetitive, and Completely Missing The Point rants". There's very little room for middle ground — he seems almost to cultivate polarization with his review choices and confrontational style.

Bottom liine - Stay away. You simply can't go wrong. At least judging from my experience where on top of the non-story, non-issues, etc. the version was an absolutely shoddy close to black on white DVD thing.

Numero Trois wrote:Yeah, but movies back then were mostly in b&w. No one in 1946 would confuse a still with the actual movie. Either way, I think it's just a matter of a minority few who don't want to read. The Amazon listing for the DVD describes it exactly. And surely the back of the DVD case does the same.

Someone on the Netflix Community Forum started a group called "Lobby against letterboxing"

It is time for the content providers to overcome the misguided idea that letterboxing of programming on television in any way improves or enhances the viewing of the programming itself. It is time to give the viewer some control over how the programming content is presented on our screens. I am tired, frustrated and completely alienated by the content providers that choose to diminish my experience by forcing a shrunken image onto half of my screen just to satisfy someones selfish vision of how the picture should be presented.

Thankfully, he was shouted down.

I’ve watched some atrociously painful crap but this flick wins this year’s “J.A. Hamilton Shitstorm award” for most pathetic waste of two hours. There’s nothing either endearing or compelling about this story, its characters or its tremendous lack of direction. Avoid it like a circumcision at twenty five performed with a spoon.
GREENBERG is not the sort of film that brings about a lot of buzz or attention. This coming from the director of THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, a film I’ve heard of but not seen. I’m not terribly big on films like this one, films that try so hard to be “something” but instead come off as strained and awkward. This is exactly what GREENBERG as a film and as a character is: painfully and thoroughly awkward beyond imagination.
First off we have the sad premise of “a dude who wants to do nothing.” Don’t get me wrong, there’s lots of hope for that sort of premise, look at SEINFELD, the show about nothing or even OFFICE SPACE, THE film about a man’s pursuit of nothing. Those are both hilarious endeavours spawned of the same idea, which leads me to ask the obvious question, how in hell did GREENBERG get it so damn wrong (bear in mind this film is no comedy yet I make this analogy simply because the box tries to imply that it is). Talk about a topic that has infinite possibilities, yet here we are with a dull ass flick that falls flat on its face very quickly and never even makes an attempt to get up.
Now it certainly doesn’t help that the character Greenberg (played by Stiller) is a complete and utter douchebag that you just want to hammer through a wall. Say he’s at a table of people talking movies; he’s the wannabe poser that outright loathes the one film everyone else loves for no better reason than because everyone else loves it. He’s such a flawed miserable character that he has to pick apart everyone else’s life to make himself feel better. I’m surprised half these people even talk to him after some of shit he pulls (like screwing over his band by not taking a music contract, sponging off his family and being a total jerkoff to his brother’s personal assistant). It’s hard to tell why anyone would feel anything for this guy but pity, which even then would be a fleeting emotion due to how much of a prick he is.

knives wrote:Now it certainly doesn’t help that the character Greenberg (played by Stiller) is a complete and utter douchebag that you just want to hammer through a wall. Say he’s at a table of people talking movies; he’s the wannabe poser that outright loathes the one film everyone else loves for no better reason than because everyone else loves it. He’s such a flawed miserable character that he has to pick apart everyone else’s life to make himself feel better.

aox wrote:RE: For All Mankind (CC BD)

Not for all mankind, August 2, 2009
By lohmeier - See all my reviews
This review is from: For All Mankind - Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Ok. Apollo was paid by the american tax payer, so the rest of the world has no right to see this awesome documentary. I understand. But i find it a little bit ironic that a blu ray with the title "For All Mankind" is region locked.

Ooh, His Girl Friday is a terrific example because I didn’t care for that brand of humor. While you’re at it, all of the Hepburn-Tracy rom-coms of the ’40s are dull.

FerdinandGriffon wrote:Ew, that EW thing just makes our skin crawl. "Zach" on His Girl Friday:

Ooh, His Girl Friday is a terrific example because I didn’t care for that brand of humor. .

swo17 wrote:That article is like staring into the sun, if the sun were a bunch of idiots who don't know the first thing about movies.

Entertainment Weekly wrote:An Affair to Remember (1957)
Sleepless in Seattle ruined Affair to Remember for me. Every time it’s on, all I can think about is Meg Ryan, Rosie O’[Donnell] and Rita Wilson bawling, and Tom Hanks’ WTF look. — SRD

Entertainment Weekly wrote:Gone With the Wind (1939)
Scarlett was supposed to be the ''heroine,'' yet she was a spoiled, rude, immoral tramp. The only part of the movie I liked was where Rhett walked out on her — I just wish it had happened about 3 hours sooner! — Flyer