Long, boring, slow, pretentious, with terrible stiff performances by Nicholson and Shneider. The way they deliver their lines is laughably bad, like a rehearsal.
This is a bad boring movie whether you like arthouse films or not. See Fellini or Pasolini instead, Antonioni is highly overrated.
pretentious
with terrible stiff performances by Nicholson and Shneider. The way they deliver their lines is laughably bad, like a rehearsal.
This is a bad boring movie whether you like arthouse films or not. See Fellini or Pasolini instead, Antonioni is highly overrated.
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Agree. One of the most subtle, least-ostentatious movies ever. Hate it if you want, but saying it is pretentious just makes obvious troll look obvious.
to each his own, one mans boring slow etc is another mans genius, it just depends on where your head's at. your not wrong, I"m not wrong, it's just a different interpretation. I can see how you could call shneider's performance as somewhat wooden or bad etc but I can't see how you could criticize nicholson's performance as being so bad. it' just a laid back style.
you know I think that watching a movie like this, one needs to have it be late late late at night, when all is completely quiet, totally dark and you are completely relaxed with your favorite beverage, say, scotch. or dare I say, a joint(not for me but it would work here) be laid back like the movie, relax with some single malt scotch, and chill and just feel the coolness down to your vertebrae. (sorry that's a quote from a mel brooks movie)
Yes, I really enjoyed it. Schneider didn't deliver a strong performance, true, but Nicholson and the cinematography were the main actors here anyway. Whenever anyone calls something "pretentious" I instantly distrust their opinion. Usually it's code for "this takes too much work to discuss intelligently."
shareDefinitely not boring. Great movie and great performance from Jack.
Here's Johnny!
Hmm. Had sufficient posts in here saying it is a masterpiece, and it is! Though, a masterpiece of Antonioni. And quite some others.
While Jack is usually an exceptional actor, sorry, here he's not more than good average. I can imagine a good handful of others to bring life into the reporter, despite him not being overactive from his role. The way he 'treats' the car stuck in the desert is more unconvincing than anything.
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Pretty much anyone using the word 'pretentious' these days is in fact, that. Heh. Pick up a dictionary now and then chum.
shareWhat a pretentious post.
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OUTSTANDING work. Up there in the league of Clockwork, 2001, Apocalypse Now and so on. I am glad not everyone got it, that makes me feel privileged :D
The most obvious symptom of not being able to understand what's going on (And therefore, unable to enjoy) is posts like these. BUT, to each his own.
I LOVED the movie! Watched it like 4 times with numerous playbacks of the concluding scenes.
I thought BlowUp was a class act too. So basically, Antonioni can't be "terrible". He seemed to have done a fantastic job (especially on the technical fronts) in both these movies.
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PS: I have a feeling the OP is happy he's got all the attention he wanted with his "pretentious" phrase use. That's so annoying to hear. Anything "I don't get" is pretentious. but we all know WHO is pretentious here!
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Blah, blah, blah. Just watched this for the first time and was mesmerized by the performances of both leads and by Antonioni's genius camera. Gorgeous film. Now I have to watch it again and try to fit all the pieces together.
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