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Schindler's List is anyone else NOT buying?
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I'll get it at Best Buy the 1st week cause the price will be good, and I'll watch it once. Then, it'll collect dust on my shelf for a long time.
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Originally posted by Hammer99
I'll get it at Best Buy the 1st week cause the price will be good, and I'll watch it once. Then, it'll collect dust on my shelf for a long time.
I'll get it at Best Buy the 1st week cause the price will be good, and I'll watch it once. Then, it'll collect dust on my shelf for a long time.
Same thing happened when I bought the Pianist. Bought it, watched it once, enjoyed it, saw for 10 dollars used and mint at BBV a couple months later, and currently sitting lonely on my shelf.
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I won't be getting this because I only like to get movies that I enjoy watching. I just can't forsee a situation where I'll say to myself, "Woohoo, I'm in the mood for Schindler's List!!" Unless maybe my collection is stolen and I feel like sticking my head in the... yikes I better not go there. Oh man that's terrible, I feel like I should shower or something.. DOH! Ok I'm leaving.
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I won't be buying it.
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the film is not depressing - the subject matter is but the overall message is one of faith and hope in the human spirit. the film is without question a masterpiece of cinema and from a pure technical outlook the film is amazing - the cinematoraphy, editing, lighting, set design, music and authenticity of the period is unmatched.
buy it keep it show it to everybody you know.
buy it keep it show it to everybody you know.
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Originally posted by bboisvert
... Schindler's List is a very good (but not "great" or "masterpiece") film about an important subject.
... Schindler's List is a very good (but not "great" or "masterpiece") film about an important subject.
An important film, good film, BUT not the cinematic masterpiece many claim it to be. Just because the film deals with the Holocaust and its aftermath does not make it a masterpiece.
I can not understand how someone could enjoy this film (as it has been indicated already)...maybe moved, sure, I would agree with that. Furthermore I have been increasingly disappointed with the fact that every film that looks into the horror of the Holocaust has been tagged as a masterpiece (at least this seems to be and it has been the trend with the Academy...they pay a significant amount of attention to those sort of films...often neglecting other). It is a good film...that's all!!
With this said, I thought that Liam Neeson gave a pretty good performance.
I am not buying it!
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Just finished watching "The Grey Zone". Talk about a one time viewing. Wow!!! Difficult to watch and very moving.
I may in fact only watch it a few times but it is an important film to me so I will be purchasing SL.
I may in fact only watch it a few times but it is an important film to me so I will be purchasing SL.
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Sticking to the subject of 'holocaust dramas' I would easily recommend The Pianist over this...and I am Jewish. Polanski's treatment of the subject feels much more truthful, objective and emotionally affecting to me, though I do admire Spielberg's film for the most part.
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I already have it..
I bought the bootleg more than a year ago. No need to buy the official version, as they have the same features: The movie, DD 5.1 and a DTS track.
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I bought the bootleg more than a year ago. No need to buy the official version, as they have the same features: The movie, DD 5.1 and a DTS track.
I bought the bootleg more than a year ago. No need to buy the official version, as they have the same features: The movie, DD 5.1 and a DTS track.
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I agree that it's very overrated. I mean 9th on the AFI Top 100 list? But you can't call it crap either, and I would be interested to hear Canadian Bacon expand upon his statement too, rather than face a ban.
And I won't be buying, just not a lot of rewatchability. But if there are some compelling suppliments and it retails on the cheap(which rumor has it will since Speilberg doesn't want to appear to be lining his pockets on the Holocaust), I'll definately be willing to consider.
And I won't be buying, just not a lot of rewatchability. But if there are some compelling suppliments and it retails on the cheap(which rumor has it will since Speilberg doesn't want to appear to be lining his pockets on the Holocaust), I'll definately be willing to consider.
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Originally posted by Ephemeral_Life
BTW, are there any good movies about the German anti-Nazi resistance movement during the 3rd Reich era?
BTW, are there any good movies about the German anti-Nazi resistance movement during the 3rd Reich era?
Anyway, I have no plans to buy it. The rewatchability factor again. Too depressing.
But yes CB, explain how it's 'crap'.
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But if there are some compelling suppliments and it retails on the cheap(which rumor has it will since Speilberg doesn't want to appear to be lining his pockets on the Holocaust), I'll definately be willing to consider.
But if there are some compelling suppliments and it retails on the cheap(which rumor has it will since Speilberg doesn't want to appear to be lining his pockets on the Holocaust), I'll definately be willing to consider.
From the beginning Spielberg did not keep any of the money he made from "Schindler's List." He used his profits to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
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Originally posted by Hammer99
I'll get it at Best Buy the 1st week cause the price will be good, and I'll watch it once. Then, it'll collect dust on my shelf for a long time.
I'll get it at Best Buy the 1st week cause the price will be good, and I'll watch it once. Then, it'll collect dust on my shelf for a long time.
-AC
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There was plenty of resistance, that's why they established Dachau. Resistance soon became very dangerous...so anti-Nazis kept their mouths shut. The concentration camps were initially set up for anti-Nazis, and became extermination camps later. In 1944 a group of Army officers tried to kill Hitler with a bomb, remember?
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I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was well done.
I don't know if I'll buy the DVD because of the same reason stated by a few others. I've seen the movie once and don't know if I'll ever be in the mood to watch it again.
This movie reminds me of the book "All Quite On the Western Front." I had to read it for school years ago and I remember really liking it. But I've never been able to re-read it as it was depressing as all hell.
I don't know if I'll buy the DVD because of the same reason stated by a few others. I've seen the movie once and don't know if I'll ever be in the mood to watch it again.
This movie reminds me of the book "All Quite On the Western Front." I had to read it for school years ago and I remember really liking it. But I've never been able to re-read it as it was depressing as all hell.
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Schindler's List is big on realism but highly melodramatic. As long as the people are aware that the film is historical fiction (among other things, the movie created a lot of composite character) of one of the worst tragedies, I would recommed as a rental.
The best Holocaust movie that I've seen is definitely the Pianist. That should be a blind buy.
The best Holocaust movie that I've seen is definitely the Pianist. That should be a blind buy.
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It's juvenile posts like this from people like Candian Bacon who give you guys in Canada a bad name!
This is a obviously 3-year-old's attempt at trolling... or another show of anti-semetic ignorance that is pervacive on the Internet!
This is a obviously 3-year-old's attempt at trolling... or another show of anti-semetic ignorance that is pervacive on the Internet!