Should people who like mainstream cinema be ignored

[Iguana]

It had better be good - just cost me £4.99

Amelie is ok, it's sweet, but it wouldn't be for everyone and I don't think that it would be the movie to change your mind on foreign films. I recommend Goodbye Lenin, it is by far and away my all time favourite film. I absolutely love and adore it, and I think my life would have been poorer if I hadn't seen it.

If you haven't heard of it, it is the story of Alex, a young man in East Germany whose party member mother has a heart attack on seeing her son arrested at a protest. She goes into an 8 month coma and while she is unconscious the wall comes down. When she wakes up Alex is told any big shock will kill her so they decides to pretend the wall never came down, despite the changes happening in society including the fact that his sister now works for Burger King. It is a comedy and in parts very funny, but the heart of the story lies in the Alex's relationship with his mother. It's funny and clever and uplifting.

 

[ajk]

I think it was a joke.

I am pretty rubbish at spotting those. As you were, nothing to see here.

Oh, and Amelie's ace. A sentimental cheesepunch straight to the joy glands, but in a good way.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yes yes yes. I used to go and see most of the more 'popular' foreign films that get shown at the Curzon and so on. I've become more selective now because many of them were just as rubbish as hollywood films. Worse sometimes. Zany euro-'comedies'...
*shudders*

Yeah - and Korean films. People love the Sympathy films... and other quality films like Memories of Murder. But people ought to be made aware that there is some utter utter gash that comes out of Korea, that makes your average Hollywood rom-com look like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

What is this Foreign film that you speak of?

Is hollywood not foreign? Just being pedantic...

And Queen Latifah SUCKED in taxi...

for a decent French comedy, IMHO, check out "Le Diner de Cons".

IMO Hollywood is more international than purely 'American' these days. Look at the new Batman film, directed by a Briton, Batman played by a Briton, the joker by an aussie, for instance...

 

[Hoss]

IMO Hollywood is more international than purely 'American' these days. Look at the new Batman film, directed by a Briton, Batman played by a Briton, the joker by an aussie, for instance...

Aye, fair enough but I was just making a minor point about the catch-all term "foreign" films/cinema.

Incidentally, I'm looking forward to the new Batman movie, although I've heard nothing about it.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I mainly look towards foreign cinema for my fix. I know this sounds snobby but most peoples taste in film seems to be pure pop. The equivalent of chart music. Ignore them I say and make up your own mind and look outside of Hollywood.

hollywood, california is foreign to you though aint it?...

 

[kyser_soze]

hollywood, california is foreign to you though aint it?...

Given his penchant for posting here, and being Northern, sunshine is foreign to firky...

 

[_angel_]

I have no interest in foreign or clever films tbh. I just want to go and be entertained for a couple of hours and not have to think too hard about what I'm watching. Something that makes me smile or a few clever stunts and I'm happy.

Sorry.

You've never watched an American film?

 

[Orang Utan]

Amelie is ok, it's sweet, but it wouldn't be for everyone and I don't think that it would be the movie to change your mind on foreign films.

There's lots of films that may be better than Amelie to choose from, but I recommended based on what moomoo has said about what she expects from and likes about films and from what I know about her from her posts. It was a bespoke recommendation, not a general one.

 

[kyser_soze]

Betty Blue - lots of sex, male nudity (with Jean 'I've an enourmous cock' Hughes-Anglade), and a great, if slightly dark, story...

 

[Reno]

It's probably understood that "foreign films" is short for "foreign language films". I think that comes from the Academy Awards category.

 

[Badgers]

Can somebody let me know if I will be ignored if I watch Ghostbusters over the weekend?

I like posting in threads that have little or no merit.
It is great

 

[kained&able]

what a fucking poncey arsed thread.

There are some great films that get maianstream release. The last bourne film being well the last one i watched.

and there is nothing wrong with being entertained rather then pushing cinematic bounderies.

Do you lort decide bands aren't cool when they chart or get inb the nme as well?


dave

 

[Badgers]

The last bourne film being well the last one i watched.

/ adds to ignore list

 

[g force]

Half Nelson was good.

Superbad made me chuckle in a few places.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

It's probably understood that "foreign films" is short for "foreign language films". I think that comes from the Academy Awards category.

yeah i know, i wasnt being at all serious about it being foreign...lifes too short to really give a shit about what dvd i may watch tonight, im just hangin out til this rubbish cold passes man...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

what a fucking poncey arsed thread.

There are some great films that get maianstream release. The last bourne film being well the last one i watched.

and there is nothing wrong with being entertained rather then pushing cinematic bounderies.

Do you lort decide bands aren't cool when they chart or get inb the nme as well?

dave

But most of the thread has been people disagreeing with the original post...

 

[kained&able]

Those people don't have a poncey arse.


dave

 

[mhwfc]

As Hefner wisely said, "How can she love me if she doesn't even love the cinema that I love"

 

[mhendo]

You're American therefore you're dismissed as most Americans are inherently nationlist

(joke)

Will reply in more detail when I am not quite as drunk on European beer

Are you still drunk, 12 days later?

What the matter, firky? Do you start threads like this just to parade your superiority and to get attention, and then abandon them when someone takes the time to actually respond in detail to your argument?

 

[lobster]

While this thread is still going, those french films you mentioned in many post before were actually on mainstream british tv before you were born.

Its so easy to choose something thats not on at the moment and ignore the fact that onces it was as mainstream as hollywood.

 

[Lea]

I watch both mainstream cinema and non mainstream/arthouse films. Just because you like one doesn't mean you have to ignore the other. You get good films in both categories. And likewise crap films in both as well.