For those that have seen't it...... What do you think?
Loove The Bottle like Tyson loves Cus D'Amatoooo"
http://youtu.be/XUGm0owk9ec
Wondering the same.
If you put the federal government in charge of the desert, in 5 yrs there'd be a shortage of sand.
Wow, people like you are the worst.
Why cant you just enjoy what you like and let others enjoy what they like?
Whoa... People like me are the worst? LOL... WTF did I ever do to you?
I didn't mean to offend I'm just asking an honest question... I can enjoy an arthouse flick..............
I just don't want to sit through another Only God Forgives type of pretentiousness again.. movie is one of the worst things I've ever seen with my eyes.
Loove The Bottle like Tyson loves Cus D'Amatoooo"
http://youtu.be/XUGm0owk9ec
Then yes, I guess. If you can enjoy an arthouse flick and are not a person who thinks only pretentious hipster types could ever enjoy a black and white "foreign" movie, I think you might enjoy this. It's a pretty enjoyable film IMO.
Fortunately I haven't seen OGF, so I can't compare. (But it honestly sounded like the worst thing ever)
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Sad sad people who class everything they don't get as "pretentious".
shareName some other horror films that only "pretentious hipsters" like.
shareif you're wondering, why not watch it for yourself? instead of deciding your judgement based on others' opinions, maybe.
and don't watch it with preconceptions, maybe you'll enjoy it.
Depends . . do you mean "Will people who are not pretentious hipsters enjoy this movie?" or ""Will hipsters who are not pretentious enjoy this movie?"
My answer for the first version is "no."
My answer for the second version is "I haven't seen it yet; let me get back to you."
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
I felt like this was more "arthouse" than "hipster" if that makes sense. I gave the movie a 7/10 for originality. The slow pace was not to my liking though.
sharei don't think so. pretentious people who do not understand how ineptly the director has assembled her influences will pretend to enjoy this movie... people who thrill at novelty without reflection... people desperate to thoughtlessly attach the washed out americana of hipsterism to Iranian ethnicity via this very American film... people who believe intellect is the act of mastering boredom... otherwise, no.
shareWell, that's a pretty thorough thrashing. Sounds like there literally is no legitimate way a reasonable, grounded person could enjoy this film.
Color me curious . . how did you acquire the wisdom to transcend pretentiousness and become something more? Kind of a "I'm so pretentious I've come full-circle and am now so modest and unpretentious that you'll sh|+ yourself" kind of vibe?
Kind of a nascent mini-Armond White? Am I on the right track?
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
i was trying for more of a "what if ebert [my hero] was an *beep* [like me]" thing tbh. sorry to offend you, if you enjoyed the movie, but i had just watched it and was really put off by it. yes, you might be a reasonable human being and still enjoy this movie, however i struggle to understand how, as i find its hype baffling and a bit cynical.
shareI actually haven't seen it yet. I saw the overwhelming percentage of glowing reviews and got interested. Even if I happen to like/love it, I wouldn't necessarily object to a fair, well-written negative review. It's just that yours, brief as it was, drips of smugness and presents you as someone who sees himself as hovering above the shiftless rabble.
I'm an Ebert guy, too, and I can't imagine him ever writing anything in that tone. Sure, he shredded many movies, but he seemed to always do it with humor or a sometimes self-deprecating sense of exasperation. This entire thread, and your response, is focused less on the movie than sneering at people who may have liked it . . wait; I mean "pretended" to like it. Again, not Ebertesque.
Essentially, you've written a more polished version of the typical Amazon customer review . . "Critics are stupid and anyone who likes this movie is an fool." No-one reading your comment could possibly come away with any useful information.
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
i registered an account to vent about a movie that particularly rubbed me the wrong way, and this is why i posted my comment as a comment, not as a review. you on the other hand appear to have registered your account chiefly to pretend to be in a position to lecture strangers, and have taken the opportunity of responding to my extremely smug but also very brief little condemnation with a multiparagraph diabtribe of smugness. truly, the internet fulfills a variety of emotional outlets in all of us. cheers! enjoy the film.
shareCynical lol... Really?
sharewhat confuses you about the word?
shareYep, the fact that this movie got strong reviews is proof of the rampant cynicism inherent in film critic circles. Because . . well, because it sounds real smart to say such things.
How appreciation for a little indie vampire romance reflects film critics' belief that people tend to be "motivated by self-interest and are distrustful of human sincerity or integrity" is anyone's guess. I'll leave it to higher minds to grapple with.
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
I find much of the promotion and reviewing cynical because most of the reviews I have read gushingly parrot the phrase "the world's first feminist iranian vampire spaghetti western", cynically counting on their audience to be bowled over by the pseudo-novelty of the phrase without subjecting any element of it to scrutiny, or else because they have themselves been taken by the cynical promotion engine of Vice Media at an earlier point in the chain of cynicism. Many commenters here condescendingly coo about how amazing it is to see a veiled woman carry out violence against men as a symbol of female power or rejection of Islamic restriction, or whatever it is they think that they think. I think this also is cynical, for reasons that I hope are obvious without elaboration, though I can attempt to explain if you wish. I really am sorry that you found my reaction to the film so profoundly irritating. I think it is not an awful film, rather it is just a mostly average film (with an annoying way of making me feel like I'm in the middle of throwing up at 6 AM on a stranger's apartment building's rooftop for almost two hours), and if I did not think that its excessive praise was the result of a histrionic propaganda mill (vice vice vice vice) eager to prop up Amirpour as the moment's pseudo-Native voice to the bobo class in favor of *beep*ing with Iran, I doubt I would care very much about it.
shareWell, I finally saw the movie. Just to show that I can play fair, I will admit that I was a little disappointed. There's not a whole lot there. It was a pretty little diversion, and that's about it. I didn't have anywhere near the visceral reaction to it that you did. Many, many cases of overblown hype far exceeding the reality of a film have induced a permanent state of skepticism when it comes to approaching "new classics".
However, I don't penalize it for being overly-praised, either, which it seems you have, at least judging by your initial post. It's faux "exotic" origin and unspoken promises of the act of viewing being an equally exotic experience don't bother me, and I suppose it's better to have a young female Iranian-ish director working in the business than to not. I don't accept that Amirpour is "inept," as you stated, and I look forward to her next film.
But, you've softened your stance a bit ("a mostly average film" is a prosaic yet probably accurate way of putting it), so I suppose I should, too. Your buttons are apparently pushed by perceived cynicism and emperor's-new-clothes style adulation for novelty acts. Mine are pushed by perceived absurd overreactions, to which I tend to respond to more than comments I agree with.
As you say, the internet fills a need.
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
I don't think I stated that Amirpour was in and of herself inept as a director, just that she had assembled her inspirations ineptly, which mattered to me because the kitchen sink of genres and styles was so extensively promoted... I was thinking of films like Near Dark (a campy vampire drama with some problems of its own, but which is much more a Vampire Western than Girl Walks Home could ever hope to be) and Tampopo (a film that called itself a "noodle western" and much more successfully employed the conventions of the western in service of a culture outside the typical range of the western form). I found her attempts at genre blending jarring, clumsy, and especially disappointing because I really like both vampire movies and westerns, and this film didn't seem to capture the best elements of either genre. I think she could have made a better movie if she had not strained herself to reproduce in a single film elements of so many other films, and also if she had just written it in English, which I understand to be her native language.
Like I said, I didn't write my post as a review, it was just a spur-of-the-moment reaction to blow off steam, and it was addressed more directly to the hype and the people adding to its chain than to the film itself (which, again, I found average or, less charitably, "mediocre"). I don't think I usually get so worked up by disappointment in the face of excessive praise, but this one really got to me, for a variety of reasons. I stand by my original post, though; imdb wouldn't be imdb without heaps of inflammatory exaggerations.
"The world's first female Iranian vampire spaghetti western."
That right there, means I will never give this movie a shot. That sounds absolutely retarded.
"We stayed up all night dry humping, it was awful, I think she gave me poison ivy."
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I hate prententious movies, but this is not one, good indie movie
alright, alright, alright
To get one thing clear: A hipster ONLY, I repeat, ONLY enjoys a movie that is approved by the hipster community.
They can't enjoy a movie on their own. I once took a couple to watch a movie. I enjoyed it while the pretentious hipster girlfriend of my buddy hated it....UNTIL she found out that the movie was a hit among the pretentious hipster crowd who gave her the thumbs up to like it.
After that I hated the movie though.
What movie was it?
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