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I didn’t vote for Hillary. I voted for the gay, rural lion sanctuary/zoo keeper in Colorado, along with about 250 other people.
I don’t view the election of a president the way a child would a game of four-square, but if you’re proud of “winning,” and you think Trump is doing a good job as president, then congratulations. 🎃🤡
That’s true, and I agree with you. I guess I was I coming at this from a documentary film perspective, where the bar is already set high (compared to factual TV), and even higher for an Errol Morris film. But, compared to what exists out there in the vast world of TV and movies, this is absolutely a top tier production. Smart and well made, as you said.
That’s an odd bunch of criticisms you’ve grouped together there. Most of it isn’t relevant to the film, including you’re “piggybacking” (ie not paying) to watch the movie.
All that aside however, this movie isn’t just a “good first effort,” it’s a good documentary, period. The only thing missing (as is common in many documentaries) is quality cinematography. But in terms of coverage, the camera was rolling at all the important times, which is no small feat at all.
I don’t think this documentary set out to be a complex analysis of social and cultural norms related to Indian marriage. In fact, it’s described as a comedy, which it did well achieving. I don’t get your “sufficient professionalism” critique at all, either. It sounds like you simply have personal issues with a few of the people behind the film, so you’ve tried to take it out on the film itself, and not with them.
Given how incredibly hard it is to make a documentary like this— especially one that’s funny— your petty criticisms are a bit tough to swallow.
That’s cool to hear about. 👍
Yeah, I guess I did. I forgot about that. Alicia is more my type, but I wouldn’t kick either out of bed I guess. 🤷♂️
I really liked Ex Machina and I love Shame.
I think he was referring to the late part of his career, after he’d quit the drugs and alcohol, etc. The footage shown while Berge said this certainly showed a sad, tired, older looking Mr. Laurent. I think his happiness started to escape him as he aged. Sadly. :/
When you have to bunch everyone into either group A or group B, sure, it’s going to look like all of one group is “cut from the same cloth.”
I don’t know why Americans continue to play the left/right game. We’re clearly more complicated than that and it inevitably leads to conflict.
As a nation, I think we need to turn the “news” off.
Having access to opportunity doesn’t mean you’ll succeed (or should). I watched 30-40 minutes of his new documentary and I had to turn it off. Whatever the “weasel” is, he seems to still be playing it.
The biggest way he’s not like a 12 year-old child is the fact that he almost never laughs. He’s either asking someone to tell him how great he is, or he’s telling people himself. Why not set yourself aside for one second and joke about life? There’s actually a couple terms that describe his obsessive preoccupation with his ego: Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Aspergers. Mix those two together, shake it up, and you have a joyless, totally unselfconscious, needy, thin-skinned, child-tyrant. But I could be wrong.
It is odd how well the most powerful players in politics have Americans who are the worst off believing that the Republican agenda is in their favor— and also that the democratic agenda is out to steal from them. Crazy.
I think politics is going through a cycle of change. What’ll come out the other side is anyone’s guess, but I don’t think a two party system fits this country anymore. Within the Republican Party alone there seem to be three or four very separate factions, and it wasn’t like this 20 years ago. Democrats, too, are split between extremes.
Each party has a minority segment that makes a ton of noise and pisses the other party. Under Trump I only see this getting worse. I wouldn’t mind 4, 5 or 10 parties. It’s impossible to split such a diverse country into just two parties.
Lobbiests and “news” media love the two party system. It lets them divide, conquer, distract and profit off it all. (Coincidently, I think lobbyists representing outsized corporate influence, and entertainment news/journalism that profits from division represent the two greatest dangers to this country.)
Trump wants people to believe that he’s against the above dangers, but he IS (and has embodied) precisely these corrupting forces his whole professional life.
I just watched the first 35 to 40 minutes and turned it off. I wouldn’t call it “bad,” especially since I didn’t finish it, but the acting and dialogue between almost everyone felt unnatural and scripted from the get go. When every actor has a witting/quirky thing to say to each other without any natural pause in between, it pulls me right out of the story and gives the film the feel of a sitcom.
The cinematography seemed to match the acting in its sense of realism. Every image I saw magically occurred during dawn or dusk. Inside and outside, a low-contrast, permanent sun kissed glow made its way to the actor’s faces, giving it a fresh out of film school feel. I’m sure things changed when the movie hit it climactic peak though.
I wanted to like this, actually (despite my whiny comments). Maybe the reviews and recommendations I read set the bar too high.
This looks like the equivalent of Christian rap music. Conspiracy theories... “for Christians.” It’s churned out because, for whatever sad reason, there are people ready to buy it.
That’s essentially what Tyler said, minus the insight.
That’s a proper answer linwes, thank you. I’ve been around drunk idiots trying to freebase their Coke, but I don’t think that’s a comparable experience.
I agree, who’s this Oscar Wilde weirdo? The name sounds like a dandy from another century. Alcohol is easier to budget for anyway...
Thanks guys, you made me question myself to the point that I needed to look him up via Google images.
I get where some people are coming from with the “plain” comments, but, I’d have to side with the “attractive” crowd, because his face is very symmetrical, he has a tiny little nose, and some other pretty boy features. I’d say he’s a a step or two above whatever “average” is, but not Calvin Klein model-hot, thankfully.
I think what gets him all the attention is his charisma. I randomly saw a “before they were stars” clip of him when he was a teen on some crap show, and he was borderline cocky with the host— at an age when most kids are just trying blend in. If Gosling were the nervous nerd type, and played that role in movies, girls wouldn’t be losing their minds over him.
Vincent Cassel might be a better example of this. I don’t know— because I’m a hetero American guy— but I think you’d get a “yes” from any French woman asked if she thought Vincent Cassel is attractive. Adrian Brody too. Why did I even reply to this? I looked up Ryan Gosling bc I couldn’t remember the name of his movie, Half Nelson. 🙄😂
My anti-Trump children aren’t allowed on the Internet yet, but if they were, I’m sure you’d LOL.
I would question any feminist that is unable to watch this movie without flying into a rage. It’s hardly a provocative documentary and it makes its case slowly and deliberately.
To hear that the director was trolled and harassed speaks poorly of the (probably small) radical faction that’s demanding extreme change. To be unable to examine or thoughtfully question what you’re asking for— when it requires so much from everyone else— speaks poorly to the foundation of the cause itself.