Ever Been the A$$hole Who Didn't Like the Movie..
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The Avengers movies
Star Wars Saga is more exciting.
Star Wars Saga is more exciting.
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I watched ET growing up and really liked it, but mostly because it was a phenomenon.
I watched it again as a freshman in college and balled my eyes out. I was old enough to realize what it was really about.
I watched it again as a freshman in college and balled my eyes out. I was old enough to realize what it was really about.
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I had a similar reaction. E.T. Is one of those Moscow’s I saw a lot as a kid and I never really cared for it. Years passed and I finally rewatched it around the time the original DVD was released. It was so much more moving watching it as an adult than it was as a kid.
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Brazil. I like most of the other Terry Gilliam movies I've seen, but not this one. I first watched it 15 years ago. I've never revisited it.
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I have not seen it but A Star is Born (2018) looks like a movie the masses like but I might find boring.
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I actually kind of agree with you on this one. It has some visually interesting ideas, but I was never hooked by the story. Just felt like a bunch of weird scenes pasted together. I remember purchasing the Criterion DVD 3-Disc Boxset when it first came out, as it was hyped as being maybe the best DVD package at the time...It was nice to see the different cuts and compare them, but overall I wasn't that impressed. The bonus documentary and commentaries were more interesting than the movie, I thought. That said, I love a lot of other Gilliam movies, especially 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Time Bandits, to an extent...
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I find it's actually pretty difficult to find a movie that just about everyone can like and appreciate. I thought Rear Window was one of those few and suggested it to my cousin. He didn't like it at all thought it was too boring. So he's that asshole.

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Your cousin is just an idiot. There are plenty of movies that people of every age (who aren’t idiots) can agree on. Everybody loves Singin’ In the Rain, Jaws, Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
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And Freddie Mercury.
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The Big Lebowski
Reservoir Dogs
GoodFellas
Lost in Translation
Any Wes Anderson movie
Any movie with Wallace & Gromit-style animation. The aesthetic creeps me out.
Reservoir Dogs
GoodFellas
Lost in Translation
Any Wes Anderson movie
Any movie with Wallace & Gromit-style animation. The aesthetic creeps me out.
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First off, wow congratulations! Most of us can even reach our mouths...not that any of us have tried.
Secondly, OUCH!
Secondly, OUCH!
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I agree with you, however, as much as I am a Star Wars fan I totally get that it's not for everyone. There are some people that just don't get/like science fiction/fantasy. Same with LotR, I'm a huge fan but a lot of people just don't get it. Even though I listed some, there are people who are dismissive of cartoons as well. So I think there is a big difference between a great classic movie and one that has nearly universal appeal and those are truly few and far between.
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For me that happened with Mary Poppins. As a kid it was all the music and spectacle and them doing silly things. But as an adult and father I finally realized (with the help of Saving Mr. Banks) that the true core of the movie was all about Mr. Bank's relationship with his children. How it's so easy to get wrapped up in career and other things and how short childhood really is. It definitely makes me tear up now.
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ET is actually about the children of a family, especially the middle son, coping with divorce. Spielberg’s parents divorced when he was a kid. The alien, and the scientist hunting him (played by Peter Coyote) are surrogate father figures that help the boy reconcile his feelings, find inner strength, rebel, do the right thing, and sacrifice for others.
I always remind people that the last shot of the film is not a shot of ET “going home”. It’s a shot of the boy. And Henry Thomas has a look on his face that tells us all that he is going to be okay.
I always remind people that the last shot of the film is not a shot of ET “going home”. It’s a shot of the boy. And Henry Thomas has a look on his face that tells us all that he is going to be okay.