I think it was around the time when they started using painfully long scenes in order to generate laughs. The sore knee thing was funny at first, but when they aired 2-3 minutes of that singer for no apparent reason, I lost the faith. The peter/chicken fight scenes started to grate around that time as well if I remember correctly.
Definitely. All the fight scenes and fucking musical numbers are so shit and drawn out, I have to turn over. That Mr Booze number just went on for fucking ages. Or Brian being sick for about a solid 60 seconds. Its not funny, it is just really lazy. I wonder how much time they waste a season showing old 80's music videos, country and western music videos or time just spent using 1 second of animation over and over again.
American Dad has been consistently funnier for ages now. Much more interesting characters.
Ted looks shit. I know a cinema guy who goes about 6/7 times a week on an unlimited card. He is the sort of guy that LOVES everything American, if he isn't in the cinema he is watching some gash Yank series. Even he said Ted was shit. He said the bear even referenced how much he sounds like Peter Griffin. Really?!
Seth MacFarlane is embarrassingly shit. Managed to make a few funny episodes of the most shameless Simpsons rip-off imaginable, then rapidly ran out of ideas and tried to get laughs from over-offensive jokes. Some of the shit he writes are like South Park levels of racism/sexism but without any of the irony or satire. Really really bad.
The Beach was alright. Couldn't imagine getting very precious about it tbh
Seth MacFarlane is one of the most unspeakably talentless twats on the face of the earth. Nothin he has done is worthy of note. Early Family Guy is so badly spoilt by later family guy its basically nullified, and all the other series' are just shit rehashes/slightly more ludicrous versions of Family Guy.
I never understood why the film had to stray from the book so much. If they'd done the book exactly it could of been one of the best films of the decade imo.
Man, the amount of people going on about how hilarious Ted is infuriates me.
Fucking dimwits.
The amount of contrived laughter when I went to the cinema was the most hilarious thing imo. They basically forced themselves to laugh so the £7+ entrance fee didn't feel like a rip off. People were laughing at straight up sentences ffs.
The Beach film was pretty poor. It was good up until the computer game sequence scene and they messed around with the plot too much, they pussied out on the ending as well. Agree the book reads like a film, i really liked the book when it first came out. I've not read it since then though.
The computer game bit of the beach is cheese on toast bullshit i thought. Its the moment the film dropped the ball. In the book its a proper Viet Nam apocalypse now melt down, its subtle and he takes a while to realise he's gone mad, in the film its just some silly platform game little montage. Just didn't work.
pretty obscure and pretentious, as you might expect
i counted 5 films post-1980...but then again, most people voting are probably over 65
I'm sorry, but Tokyo Story is really fucking boring. I don't care how "classic" it is.
I think Tokyo Story is a film that highlights how differently we watch films nowadays. That film, if viewed in a cinema without any distractions, was really immersive I thought. It dragged me in despite consisting of a load of lengthy conversations.. and I found the ending really heartbreaking.
If you watch it on your laptop, or in your living room with mates eating popcorn or whatever, it's gona lose its intended effect. Saying that, I can completely understand why anyone would find it boring even at the cinema.
pretty obscure and pretentious, as you might expect
i counted 5 films post-1980...but then again, most people voting are probably over 65
I'm sorry, but Tokyo Story is really fucking boring. I don't care how "classic" it is.
I think Tokyo Story is a film that highlights how differently we watch films nowadays. That film, if viewed in a cinema without any distractions, was really immersive I thought. It dragged me in despite consisting of a load of lengthy conversations.. and I found the ending really heartbreaking.
If you watch it on your laptop, or in your living room with mates eating popcorn or whatever, it's gona lose its intended effect. Saying that, I can completely understand why anyone would find it boring even at the cinema.
Call me obscure and pretentious but thats a great top 50 list. Lots i've not seen though, going to check them out.
pretty obscure and pretentious, as you might expect
i counted 5 films post-1980...but then again, most people voting are probably over 65
I'm sorry, but Tokyo Story is really fucking boring. I don't care how "classic" it is.
I think Tokyo Story is a film that highlights how differently we watch films nowadays. That film, if viewed in a cinema without any distractions, was really immersive I thought. It dragged me in despite consisting of a load of lengthy conversations.. and I found the ending really heartbreaking.
If you watch it on your laptop, or in your living room with mates eating popcorn or whatever, it's gona lose its intended effect. Saying that, I can completely understand why anyone would find it boring even at the cinema.
Call me obscure and pretentious but thats a great top 50 list. Lots i've not seen though, going to check them out.
I agree.. I've seen plenty of them. Am trying to work my way through them. Watched The Passion of Joan of Arc yesterday. Absolutely incredible. Despite being a silent film, it actually still feels really contemporary. Seriously dark as well. Would love to see that in the cinema.
The computer game bit of the beach is cheese on toast bullshit i thought. Its the moment the film dropped the ball. In the book its a proper Viet Nam apocalypse now melt down, its subtle and he takes a while to realise he's gone mad, in the film its just some silly platform game little montage. Just didn't work.
completely agree, that was the moment that the film totally lost me
shame, because the first 90 minutes or so are pretty good
The computer game bit of the beach is cheese on toast bullshit i thought. Its the moment the film dropped the ball. In the book its a proper Viet Nam apocalypse now melt down, its subtle and he takes a while to realise he's gone mad, in the film its just some silly platform game little montage. Just didn't work.
completely agree, that was the moment that the film totally lost me
shame, because the first 90 minutes or so are pretty good
Yeah, was really disappointing after such a strong start. It was that moment when you just think "shit they had it, but they've blown it" and you can't take the film seriously from there.
The ending was really shit as well. They completely pussied out of the cannibalistic horror of the book which would have been amazing on film but obviously would have pushed it away from a mainstream audience.
The computer game bit of the beach is cheese on toast bullshit i thought. Its the moment the film dropped the ball. In the book its a proper Viet Nam apocalypse now melt down, its subtle and he takes a while to realise he's gone mad, in the film its just some silly platform game little montage. Just didn't work.
completely agree, that was the moment that the film totally lost me
shame, because the first 90 minutes or so are pretty good
Yeah, was really disappointing after such a strong start. It was that moment when you just think "shit they had it, but they've blown it" and you can't take the film seriously from there.
The ending was really shit as well. They completely pussied out of the cannibalistic horror of the book which would have been amazing on film but obviously would have pushed it away from a mainstream audience.
yes i agree
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN:
Documentary about a guy called Rodriguez who recorded two albums in the early seventies with top producers but enver got recognised, probably because he's mexican. He got absolutely huge in South Africa, bigger than elvis, but he never knew because a lot of his albums were bootlegged and the proceeds of the rest were going back to defunct labels. It's about the journey of a few south africans in the nineties who went looking for him admist rumours that he had self-immolated on stage and other stuff. It's pretty interesting and well shot, a few scenes in particular, but I don't think it necessarily needs to be seen on the big screen. Watching it on TV wouldn't detract too much from the story. He's definitely a musician worth checking out though and it's quite surprising that he hasn't gotten more recognition (one of his former producers claimed that they sold 6 albums, whereas it had sold closer to 600,000 in south africa)
pretty obscure and pretentious, as you might expect
i counted 5 films post-1980...but then again, most people voting are probably over 65
It's not really obscure; they are really obvious film buff choices. Pretentious certainly. Some amazing films on that list and i'd rather a critics' list to a people's choice list (where the latest Transformers or what not would be number 1) but film lists of this type do bug me. Vertigo and Citizen Kane are extremely good films but there's almost a reverence with these old films that nothing new is allowed to beat them. Because they pioneered all the modern techniques they somehow must be better than those produced later, that's bullshit. That's like saying The Model by Kraftwerk is the greatest dance record of all time.
pretty obscure and pretentious, as you might expect
i counted 5 films post-1980...but then again, most people voting are probably over 65
It's not really obscure; they are really obvious film buff choices. Pretentious certainly. Some amazing films on that list and i'd rather a critics' list to a people's choice list (where the latest Transformers or what not would be number 1) but film lists of this type do bug me. Vertigo and Citizen Kane are extremely good films but there's almost a reverence with these old films that nothing new is allowed to beat them. Because they pioneered all the modern techniques they somehow must be better than those produced later, that's bullshit. That's like saying The Model by Kraftwerk is the greatest dance record of all time.
I always wonder whether the French have a different list or whether they regard Citizen Kane as no.1 as well. Obviously the French have Renoir and Truffaut to boast, so I wonder if they would put their films at no.1. Would they still recognise that Citizen Kane is so innovative that it beats their homegrown films? I think we like to put Citizen Kane and Vertigo at the top to prove that English-speaking classics are actually slightly better than the others. For example I'm sure a Japanese equivalent list would have Tokyo Story at the top every year.
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