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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #30 on: September 08, 2005, 12:10:18 AM »
Flash Gordon is a lot of fun. Therefore, it is a good movie.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #31 on: September 08, 2005, 01:13:08 AM »
I agree with Ookla.
fun=good
boring=bad

Thats why I like flash Gordon and hate the Harry Potters.

I don't believe in over-analyzing things like movies since it takes the fun out of them, the people I know who do this can't just simply enjoy a movie.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #32 on: September 08, 2005, 03:38:38 AM »
I prefer to complexly enjoy a movie.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #33 on: September 08, 2005, 09:40:36 AM »
yeah, analysis *is* the fun of stories and movies.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #34 on: September 08, 2005, 09:42:58 AM »
But you're enjoying the analysis not the movie, you could easly replace the movie with anything else and get the same enjoyment.  I like to watch movies for the sake of watching movies and don't care to be very judgmental.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #35 on: September 08, 2005, 10:26:40 AM »
That's not at all true. The analysis is a) inseparable from the film it is of, and b) different from film to film.

Some films are no fun at all to analyze. Others are better created and worth analyzing.

Note, I'm not saying at all that your reasons or methods for enjoying a film are invalid. I think you should enjoy it on your own terms. I'm just pointing out that it's an error to assume that enjoying film analysis is separate from film viewing.
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« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2005, 11:06:03 AM »
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I don't care about Fleming or the character of bond or rubbish.

The moore films were BETTER MOVIES.


If you mean better in the sense of "unbearably stupid" than I concede your point. Moore is a terrible actor, and  his films were parodies without the laughs.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2005, 11:15:30 AM »
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I agree with Ookla.
fun=good
boring=bad

Thats why I like flash Gordon and hate the Harry Potters.

I don't believe in over-analyzing things like movies since it takes the fun out of them, the people I know who do this can't just simply enjoy a movie.


The very last statement in this post simply isn't true. I have spent my whol life watching movies, and there's no one out there who enjoys movies more than I do. If a movie is just trying to fun, and succceeds at doing that, but at little else, like "Twister," for example, I will give it credit for that and say that I enjoyed the movie, and that it worked. How did I arrive at that conclusion? BY ANALYZING THE MOVIE. Anyone who appreciates film as an art form can't watch a movie without analyizing it some level, and people who don't appreciate film as an art form are the reason there are so many bad movies out there.

Have you watched "Flash Gordon" recently? It doesn't hold up the way it did when we were kids. Personally, I love the Harry Potter books and films, and find them to be the model of fun and interesting, without ever being boring. Again, taste varies from person to person.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2005, 11:39:11 AM »
I watched it within the last few years, and it was still good. But we have a low amusement threshold in this house.
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« Reply #39 on: September 08, 2005, 12:22:24 PM »
plues I always find movies like flash Gordon funnier now just because of how old and cheesey it is now
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #40 on: September 08, 2005, 07:45:01 PM »
You're an idiot.

Moore is an excellent actor, and his films were the strongest in terms of plot, character, and cinematography.

EDIT: That's the humourous, semi sarcastic, over the top "You're an idiot" not the insulting personal one.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #41 on: September 08, 2005, 09:35:54 PM »
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You're an idiot.

Moore is an excellent actor, and his films were the strongest in terms of plot, character, and cinematography.

EDIT: That's the humourous, semi sarcastic, over the top "You're an idiot" not the insulting personal one.


The Moore films have NO plot, No characters, and utterly  flat cinematography (there is a difference between shot composition and cinematography. When most people talk about cinematography, they misuse the term, and I am guessing you are one of those people. If that sounds rude, then I mean in the "over the top,sarcastic way."). Never actually looking at the camera doesn't qualify Moore as a great actor. His Bond is all right in some of his early films ("Live and Let Die," for example), but it became one of the laziest performances in the history of cinema.


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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #42 on: September 08, 2005, 09:37:37 PM »
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I watched it within the last few years, and it was still good. But we have a low amusement threshold in this house.


I tried to watch it in the last few months, and I found it surprisingly hard to watch. Still, in the right mood, I'm sure I could still enjoy it as a fun bit of nostalgia, like watching an old "G.I. Joe" cartoon.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #43 on: September 09, 2005, 10:57:19 AM »
You're an idiot.

Not in the sarcastic way. You really are in idiot.

You're gonna [frolic with puppy dogs]. I'm [happy] and [in love with life]. TWICE.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #44 on: September 09, 2005, 11:15:45 AM »
Patrick, ignore the troll

Jam, stop trolling. You're supposed to be the reasonable moderator.
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