Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bruce from DC (i) on December 20, 2000 at 09:15:41:

In Reply to: Movies I've Walked Out On -- A Questionnaire posted by clarkjohnsen on December 19, 2000 at 12:41:05:

Obviously needed a bigger dose of meds to appreciate the concluding sequence.

Seriously, I'm too picky about movies I go see to ever have been at one so bad that I walked out.

I have bailed out of some movies that I have rented though -- "Reds" comes to mind.

Some movies have to be appreciated on their own terms. "Titanic" is one. Visually, a treat -- a movie that succeeds in spite of itself. It could have been so much better -- if some of the hackneyed elements of the plot were eliminated, some of the characters were less two dimensional, some of the dialog was less ridiculous and Leonardo Di Caprio had "missed the boat."

Lawrence of Arabia and Zhivago also fit into that category, too. Lawrence conforms to the film making traditions of another era -- of the spectacle. On second viewing, however, Zhivago seemed overwhelmingly silly -- not romantic.

Oh, well.
RBB --
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