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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#3651 Post by swo17 » Thu May 17, 2018 12:42 pm

tenia wrote:See again the bit about the woman in Le cercle rouge : it's pointed out, and then ? Nothing. Why pointing it out then ?
Her point here is self-evident, and hammers home her earlier comment about the film being dominated by men.

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#3652 Post by MichaelB » Thu May 17, 2018 12:45 pm

Brian C wrote:Well, personally I don’t have a problem with you finding her uninteresting anymore than I do with her finding the Melville boring. But the implication that she’s doing something wrong kinda bristles, I guess. I feel like you’re doing the same thing to her that you’re accusing her of doing with these films, e.g., not evaluating the context in which it appears.

Not every piece of film writing has to be a deep dive! This piece exists mostly, it seems, to give fans of the band some idea of what the event was like. It’s not a submission to Film Comment.
We are not the target audience (massive understatement), and the author has made absolutely no secret of where she's coming from: she's not pretending to be any kind of 1970s film expert. I suspect if I were to review the same event, I'd focus much more on the films and skip over the music in a couple of sentences, which I imagine would be the preferred approach here... but presumably not there.

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#3653 Post by domino harvey » Sat May 19, 2018 5:37 pm

Very hot and raunchy, the lead actress was stunning. She basically has a series of sexual encounters. She is pumped numerous times, but she takes it very well. It is very sexual.

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#3654 Post by DarkImbecile » Sat May 19, 2018 6:27 pm

So Book Club is even steamier than the trailers suggest?

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#3655 Post by Brian C » Sun May 20, 2018 5:07 pm

Verhoeven’s Elle? Seems like a description some internet creep would bestow on that film.

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#3656 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 20, 2018 11:20 pm

It's for Q (Not the winged serpent one)

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#3657 Post by John Shade » Tue May 22, 2018 8:01 pm

Boring---We went because we had free entry after visiting the Louvre. They claimed it was a15 minute walk away - it wasn't, it took a lot longer but as we enjoy walking we didn't mind. However, the visit was a waste of time and we would have demanded our money back if we'd paid.
This is a review of the Eugene Delacroix Museum near the Louvre.

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#3658 Post by Michael Kerpan » Tue May 22, 2018 9:34 pm

John Shade wrote:
Tue May 22, 2018 8:01 pm
This is a review of the Eugene Delacroix Museum near the Louvre.
:-(

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#3659 Post by Gregory » Tue May 29, 2018 2:15 pm

This, Silence and Cry, has got to be one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. I watched the whole thing asking myself, "So, what's the point? What's the point? Where is this movie going?" And at the end of the movie, I was still asking myself, "What was the point?"

Only after I read the editorial review on Amazon.com, which provided the necessary background to understand the movie, did it make sense. Unfortunately, the movie provided none of that background. A good movie would have.
The so-called editorial review that this person is complaining about not being somehow part of the film itself is in fact Second Run's brief description printed right on the back cover of the DVD that he's supposed to be reviewing.

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#3660 Post by soundchaser » Tue May 29, 2018 2:34 pm

One could easily level the same accusation at, say, Gone With the Wind, were one from a foreign country and not familiar with the US Civil War.

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#3661 Post by MichaelB » Tue May 29, 2018 3:09 pm

Exactly. Miklós Jancsó made films primarily for Hungarian audiences who could reasonably be expected to be familiar with the background history. Non-Hungarian viewers have to do a bit more work... but ample context is provided in Second Run’s typically comprehensive booklet, so it’s not as though this is an insuperable challenge.

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#3662 Post by All the Best People » Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:06 pm

soundchaser wrote:
Tue May 29, 2018 2:34 pm
One could easily level the same accusation at, say, Gone With the Wind, were one from a foreign country and not familiar with the US Civil War.
No, no, the opening text gives us plenty of context by mourning the glory of the fallen South!

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#3663 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:25 pm

The film was made for a certain demographic, the same fratty one that is now married with kids but still would prefer to see something like this than most films. I don't think he's far off here.

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#3664 Post by bottled spider » Wed Jun 27, 2018 1:14 pm

Vegan alert:
-In the beginning, a teenage boy is wearing a leather watch.
-Also, there is fresh fish being cut and prepared. Someone notes that "fish cheeks" taste good.
-There is also blood and a lot of violence toward humans.
Vegan alert:
-Someone asks Tye Sheridan to eat a burger to put “more meat” on his “bones”.
-A deer is hit by a car.
-Someone brings a family a tuna noodle casserole

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#3665 Post by Grand Wazoo » Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:41 pm

Uh oh, bottled spider found my favorite reviewer on letterboxd

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#3666 Post by goblinfootballs » Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:47 pm

These vegan alert reviews are hilariously awful - and I'm vegan. My favorite one is something like "a character walks by a hot dog stand." :roll:


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#3668 Post by KJones77 » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:51 pm

The vegan alert reviewer has a great one for Cinderella:
Vegan alert:
-The royals are trying to hunt a buck in the forest.
-The fairy godmother asks for a tub of milk.

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#3669 Post by Grand Wazoo » Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:10 am

The Out of Towners (1970)
Vegan alert:
Jack Lemmon orders chicken and cheese.
One of my favorites....The Other Woman (2018)
Vegan alert:
-I doubt the chocolate is vegan.

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#3670 Post by tenia » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:19 am

When you think about it, depending on your tastes on movies, I suppose you could have enough stuff through the studios, especially in the US with the WAC.
However, it seems crazy to think people interested in them would stay aside at least from Criterion, since that'd mean not seeing Kurosawa, Truffaut, Godard, Fellini etc classic movies.

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#3671 Post by DarkImbecile » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:49 am

Grand Wazoo wrote:
Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:10 am
The Out of Towners (1970)
Vegan alert:
Jack Lemmon orders chicken and cheese.
One of my favorites....The Other Woman (2018)
Vegan alert:
-I doubt the chocolate is vegan.
I’d like to see one of these for, like, Cannibal Holocaust.

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#3672 Post by Grand Wazoo » Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:11 pm

DarkImbecile wrote:
Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:49 am

I’d like to see one of these for, like, Cannibal Holocaust.
She has no review but did give it a half-star rating.

Ok last one: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Vegan alert:
-In the beginning, a teenage boy is wearing a leather watch.
-Also, there is fresh fish being cut and prepared. Someone notes that "fish cheeks" taste good.
-There is also blood and a lot of violence toward humans.

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#3673 Post by Feego » Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:25 pm

Wow, I just looked up the reviewer you guys have been quoting, and some of these are gold!

Mad Monster Party
Vegan alerts:
-Chopped liver and pickled salmon references
-A dish that is marinated in mice
-Octopus soup (the animal is shown coming out of the pot)
-There's a pig's head on a plate
-Hyena casserole
-Reference to a cheese sandwich
Belle de Jour
Vegan alert:
There is a song. In French, it refers to "ham" and "sausage". The English subtitles refer to "ham" and "eggs" (the translation differed in order to make the song rhyme).
Savage Streets
Vegan alerts:
-Linda Blair's character, Brenda, says she's going to slaughter a bad guy just like pigs are slaughtered. She takes into consideration how they feel.
-I just read on IMDB that Linda Blair is indeed vegan, so brownie points for that.
The Cat Returns
Vegan alerts:
-A girl tries to feed a cat fish
-A girl says “stupid cats”
-A mouse offers raw fish to eat

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#3674 Post by DarkImbecile » Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:49 pm

Feego wrote:
Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:25 pm
-A girl says “stupid cats”
Clearly I’ve been misunderstanding what Veganism entails for many years

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'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#3675 Post by Brian C » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:56 pm

DarkImbecile wrote:Clearly I’ve been misunderstanding what Veganism entails for many years
Vegan alert:
-Used a word with “tails” in it

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