Free Film Four proves crap already!

[geminisnake]

Lost In Translation's alright, art-house film that's mildly ok , a bit like the Crouching Tiger scenario

And in that one sentence I know it is not my kinda thing. I did remember imdb, so looked it up and that confirmed there is no way I would watch this, unless I was suffering from extreme insomnia.

 

[pogofish]

I don't think I've seen Zoolander

Aspects of Zoolander might be right up your street!

 

[pogofish]

nope - first day was last sunday.

Oh, seem to have missed a week!

 

[Dubversion]

Blimey, I thought 'Lost in Translation' was an extrodianry film, really thought provoking and quite beautiful. I'm quite keen to see it again.

exactly - beautiful, reflective, odd, moving.

 

[Dubversion]

And in that one sentence I know it is not my kinda thing. I did remember imdb, so looked it up and that confirmed there is no way I would watch this, unless I was suffering from extreme insomnia.

Don't believe the old curmudgeon, it's a great film and it's entirely un-arthouse.

 

[Orang Utan]

If a touch overrated....

 

[geminisnake]

Don't believe the old curmudgeon, it's a great film and it's entirely un-arthouse.

But crouching tiger truly did bore me. I could see that it was good/arty, etc but I would never suffer it again I'm afraid, so if it's even similar I'm not sure. I could watch the first few minutes and see I suppose.

I have a very low attention span when it comes to films.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have a very low attention span when it comes to films.

Film Four's not for you then

 

[butterfly child]

LiT is no way art-house.

Art-house!

*snorts*

I did find the ending sad though, I do like a happy ending [/lightweight]

 

[spanglechick]

But crouching tiger truly did bore me. I could see that it was good/arty, etc but I would never suffer it again I'm afraid, so if it's even similar I'm not sure. I could watch the first few minutes and see I suppose.

I have a very low attention span when it comes to films.

it's nothing like crouching tiger - nothing at all. the only comparison is how unexpectedly popular they were.

i hated crouching tiger too - but LiT is really good, imo.

 

[Orang Utan]

Crouchin Tiger isn't an art house film either - it's a Hollywood blockbuster

 

[Orang Utan]

How can you hate such a gorgeous film?

 

[spanglechick]

Crouchin Tiger isn't an art house film either - it's a Hollywood blockbuster

mmm - with subtitles. not common in hollywood blockbusters, i'd have said...

 

[spanglechick]

How can you hate such a gorgeous film?

boring. i fell asleep the first two times i saw it.

you've seen one magical-realism ariel swordfight, you've seen them all...

 

[Orang Utan]

mmm - with subtitles. not common in hollywood blockbusters, i'd have said...

Not common, but it's still a blockbuster - it's not hard to follow is it? It has a very simple story

 

[Orang Utan]

you've seen one magical-realism ariel swordfight, you've seen them all...

Yeah, they all look the same don't they?

 

[spanglechick]

Yeah, they all look the same don't they?

i don't like choreographed-looking fight sequences. They irritate me.

 

[spanglechick]

Not common, but it's still a blockbuster - it's not hard to follow is it? It has a very simple story

hardly the definition of arthouse / blockbuster, is it?

 

[geminisnake]

i don't like choreographed-looking fight sequences. They irritate me.

The ending was definetly shite too imo.

 

[Orang Utan]

hardly the definition of arthouse / blockbuster, is it?

A blockbuster is by definition a hugely successful film - CTHD was certainly that and it was financed/produced by Hollywood.
An arthouse film is something that gets shown in small independent cinemas (ie arthouses) and doesn't make much money.

 

[spanglechick]

A blockbuster is by definition a hugely successful film - CTHD was certainly that and it was financed/produced by Hollywood.
An arthouse film is something that gets shown in small independent cinemas (ie arthouses) and doesn't make much money.

hmm - i'd say that arthouse / blockbuster depends on intention rather than reception, but whatever - we can agree to differ.

 

[Orang Utan]

I would say the opposite is true (that it all depends on how successful a film is) which is why the term arthouse is rubbish as it has the tendency to ghettoise great films that would be blockbusters if only Hollywood and distributors credited its audiences with some intelligence and marketed/promoted the films accordingly.

 

[Neva]

Blimey, I thought 'Lost in Translation' was an extrodianry film, really thought provoking and quite beautiful. I'm quite keen to see it again.
Tonights film 'Zoolander' is meant to be good as well, really funny.
I'm really enjoying film 4.

Please tell me what thoughts it provoked in you because I just can't see it.

Lost In Translation is exactly the sort of film I want to like but can't. It's fairly original, goes against the Hollywood norm, is nicely shot and has got Bill 'King of Cool' Murray in it. But for some reason the whole thing just seems empty to me. I want to say I love the film like everyone else does but it's just so hollow and empty. Like beautiful for beauties sake rather than because it actually means something. I don't know, maybe I'm missing something. Please enlighten me on how you found it thought provoking so I know what I'm missing.

 

[aurora green]

Oh I dunno....I think it captures quite well for me that feeling of alienation you feel when abroad, or even in your own home town, when you're absorbed in your own little world, or trapped in it...on the out side looking in...
and how when you find a special friend in life, the whole world lights up and becomes fun again...I really hugged my bloke as he said goodbye that night after watching it, and had a tear in my eye and didn't even know why exactly. The film moved me.I guess it made me think about experiences in my own life.
Relationships I'd had that were more complex than the norm (what ever that maybe)...

 

[mhwfc]

Sky Movies repeats some of it's films every 3 days

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It's funny, the idea that channels shouldn't show repeats seems like a thing from the past now. Do they still bother to mark them on TV listings?

 

[Maltin]

It's funny, the idea that channels shouldn't show repeats seems like a thing from the past now. Do they still bother to mark them on TV listings?

Yes, although they don't generally for films.

 

[mhwfc]

AFAIK they don't identify repeats for films on BBC1/2, ITV, C4 and five, and any programme on multichannels (Freeview, satellite and cable only channels)

 

[bonjour]

It's a FREE SERVICE, how on earth can you complain when you're getting something for nothing???

 

[Mrs Miggins]

OK, OK I think I should re-write my OP to say something more like:

"Oh bloody hell - I wanted to watch something on Film Four on Friday night (because yes - you are all right - it is good and it is free so I should stop moaning) but they are showing that bloody film that I find a bit boring again. Pants."





Can I take my dunces cap off now?