Films you will never watch, even if someone paid you
101After seeing Children of Men, I'd say Clive Owen. He was OK in Inside Man, but man I hate looking at him and that godawful nose of his. Arggh.
Ace wrote:SecondEdition wrote:Ace wrote:SecondEdition wrote:You couldn't pay me to watch Salo. Call me a pussy, but an hour and a half or so of intensely simulated torture, coprophagia, sexual violation and death is NOT my idea of time well spent.
FYP (it is one of my greatest nightmares. i would rather die - seriously, i would rather die - than be into coprophagia)
I'm with you here. I absolutely love Pasolini, but I can't imagine myself sitting through this.
Thanks for the correction. I've never watched a Pasolini film precisely because of Salo's hideous reputation, but I think I'm probably being close-minded and that his other films aren't like this. Where's a good place to start?
Also, just to totally gross everyone out, from Wikipedia: Apparently the shit was made from marmalade and chocolate syrup. Reading about the plot alone is enough to freak the living shit out of me. I mean, I'm a huge early Swans fan and I can't take this.
Ha! Well, the film did get him killed, or at least that's the rumor.
My favorite Pasolini films are his whacked out, psychedelic poetic literary movies. My favorite is 'Oedipus Rex,' and 'Medea' is pretty good too (Maria Callas = one of the most beautiful, talented women ever. Bitchiest too). His early communist and neo-realist films are pretty good, if not pretentiously dense ("The Hawks and the Sparrows"); "Accatone" is the best of these. 'The Gospel According to Saint Matthew' is okay if you feel like sitting through it.
Call me archaic, but I believe in sociopathic ("evil") people, and Pasolini was one of them - he was a nasty pervert, that one. Talented and fascinating, though.
mattw wrote:After seeing Children of Men, I'd say Clive Owen. He was OK in Inside Man, but man I hate looking at him and that godawful nose of his. Arggh.
that damned fly wrote:Ekkssvvppllott wrote:Dr. O' Nothing wrote:Aren't they making a "Sex in the City" full-length feature? If so, yeah, that would qualify.
Yeah. That show is fucking horrid.
agreed. i can imagine the movie being about as wretched to watch as any internet gross out flick.
Kyle Motor wrote:coach wrote:This movie was being played on a TV on a crappy ferry while crossing the Sea of Cortez during rough weather back in early '99, as the boat pitched from stormy weather. It was surreal (and morbidly hilarious) to watch the drawn-out sinking of the Titanic under these circumstances. Watching it helped stave off nausea from the motion.
Who would ever have thought that watching Titanic would stave off nausea?
That trumps the time that I saw Speed on a bus (I'm not kidding).
Ace wrote:SecondEdition wrote:Ace wrote:SecondEdition wrote:You couldn't pay me to watch Salo. Call me a pussy, but an hour and a half or so of intensely simulated torture, coprophagia, sexual violation and death is NOT my idea of time well spent.
FYP (it is one of my greatest nightmares. i would rather die - seriously, i would rather die - than be into coprophagia)
I'm with you here. I absolutely love Pasolini, but I can't imagine myself sitting through this.
Thanks for the correction. I've never watched a Pasolini film precisely because of Salo's hideous reputation, but I think I'm probably being close-minded and that his other films aren't like this. Where's a good place to start?
Also, just to totally gross everyone out, from Wikipedia: Apparently the shit was made from marmalade and chocolate syrup. Reading about the plot alone is enough to freak the living shit out of me. I mean, I'm a huge early Swans fan and I can't take this.
Ha! Well, the film did get him killed, or at least that's the rumor.
My favorite Pasolini films are his whacked out, psychedelic poetic literary movies. My favorite is 'Oedipus Rex,' and 'Medea' is pretty good too (Maria Callas = one of the most beautiful, talented women ever. Bitchiest too).
Ace wrote: His early communist and neo-realist films are pretty good, if not pretentiously dense ("The Hawks and the Sparrows"); "Accatone" is the best of these. 'The Gospel According to Saint Matthew' is okay if you feel like sitting through it.
Call me archaic, but I believe in sociopathic ("evil") people, and Pasolini was one of them - he was a nasty pervert, that one. Talented and fascinating, though.
Steve V. wrote:
Mamma Roma is quite excellent too.
And Salo is a great film in my opinion.
Groucho Marx wrote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
SecondEdition wrote:Funny, I thought "The Gospel According To Saint Matthew" was supposed to be one of Pasolini's finest works. Is it overrated?
mr.arrison wrote:pirates of the caribbean
titanic
lord of the rings
harry potter
any modern disney movie (except I can handle the PIXAR stuff alright)
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