Reno said:
which is exactly what i've just tried to establish. You're an abrasive little fucker in the mornings, no?
Why Don't I Find Thrillers Thrilling?
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which is exactly what i've just tried to establish. You're an abrasive little fucker in the mornings, no?
Leica said:
people seem to be attributing to me points i haven't even made....
Reno said:Why am I being abrasive ?
all that "unless you're right and everyone is wrong" stuff. I'm not trying to set myself up as arbiter of anything, i just obviously had a different understanding of the word thriller to the one that seems to be common currency.
And appears to include (snigger) The Killing Fields, Pan's Labyrinth and Alien.
sleaterkinney
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I'd put the Bourne movie into action/adventure.
I think you have to practise switching your brain off before you sit down to this sort of thing dub, you have to be in the right mood for it.
Maybe it's one of those movies you have to see at a cinema as well.
I think you have to practise switching your brain off before you sit down to this sort of thing dub, you have to be in the right mood for it.
Maybe it's one of those movies you have to see at a cinema as well.
sleaterkinney said:
a) how does one 'turn one's brain off'? That's nonsense - and nonsense too often trotted out here.
b) i was actually looking forward to it, for god's sake.
there was a crucial "maybe" - i was thinking aloud, working to an understanding.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Dubversion said:
Meditation
Drugs
Booze
Hitting yourself on the head with a two-by-four
... are all established methods.
Or you just relax and enjoy the film. I do sometime go into a film in a frame of mind that won't give the film a real chance. Its not deliberate, just how the wind blows that day.
Leica said:
who did i attack?
Reno said:Calling people fuckers or to fuck off is not the way to influence people and make friends.
i told sam to fuck off cos I always tell sam to fuck off. it's a sex game.
i called you a fucker in a fairly light-hearted manner. I certainly didn't attack anyone.
On the subject of the Bourne films (I have only seen 1 and 2, and don't remember the second very well as I think I might have dosed off), to me they seem very slick but basically uninvolving. Rather like some of those glossy US dramas - The West Wing, House, er, Six Feet Under, Studio 60 thingammy - the makers are obviously very good at putting together a product that does all the things that it should do, but doesn't really move me in any way.
sleaterkinney
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Dubversion said:
a) You say it's nonsense but then you come out with the line "I think it's maybe because thrillers are a fairly concrete set of cliches arranged in a predictable order" which sounds to me like it's not intellectually stimulating for you, no?. It is what is it, big explosions, stunts etc.
Leica said:Alright, I'm just a little pissed off because of stuff you said about Elvis on another thread
you KNOW i love elvis, what have i said about him that's bad?
Leica said:Plus it seemed you upset Reno
a pebble could upset reno
sleaterkinney said:
well first as i already said, i was thinking aloud pretty much. Also, a predictable set of concrete cliches etc doesn't mean it has to be dumb, surely? cliches aren't just moronic..
Leica said:That whole business about Elvis being a helpless puppet again, and dissing his movies. I'm just not having it
bah! i don't think i QUITE said he was a helpless puppet...
group hug.
turns out, it's just Pie Eye's taste in films I hate.
turns out, it's just Pie Eye's taste in films I hate.
Dubversion said:
There are some excellent films in that list. Many of them I would not have thought of as thrillers as such, others I would have. In fact so broad a spectrum of films does the list cover it is meaningless as a genre.
Whereas this thread is about Action movies?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Well they are. What, aside from the Bourne movies, do you consider to be thrillers?Dubversion said:
Johnny Canuck3
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Dubversion said:
Action movies, Da Vinci not so much.
You can also include the Mission Impossible movies.
Orang Utan said:
you honestly consider The Killing Fields to be a thriller?
anyway, fuck it, we've been over this..
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