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Originally Posted by Roughale  Let me think...
- Postal (by Uwe Boll) - plain out unfunny as hell and just over-provocative crap
- almost all by David Lynch, except Dune, which was Ok and that film road movie with the tractor, have not seen that yet...
- Shame (with Michael Fassbinder's swinging thing - disgusting!)
- The Master - killed by Jaoquim Phoenix's tedious overacting, add his fake documentary to it, full crap overload, thankfully I erased most memories of that, including the title...
- Black Swan - the shaky camera killed me with my headache, may have to give it another chance...
- The English Patient - why in anyone's name did they dump it with all these Oscars? In my opinion only the cinematography Oscar was acceptable, best acting fpor lying in a badly made mask all the time? f$%ยง off!
OK, I am getting too much into it, I better do some Yoga  |
Jesus, David Lynch is one of my all time favourite directors. As for "the road movie", you'd probably like it as it's very un-Lynchian, although still excellent (it's called 'The Straight Story' by the way.)
I also found
Shame an intense and heartfelt film, so disagree there.
However, I also detested
The Master, which has all the substance of drying paint, and as interviews proved, even the director doesn't seem to get it, which shows why it feels like it was made up on the spot and stretching time for the sheer hell of it. One of my excruciating cinematic experiences of recent years, next to Cronenberg's soporific and insufferable
Cosmopolis.
I also found
Black Swan incredibly overrated. Argento-like it is not, and a subsequent blu ray rewatched affirmed my initial opinion in that there's again very little substance, or indeed style, to it. It's by no means a terrible film though, just average (and for me, low on the Aronofsky register.)
And I'm compelled to defend
Postal. Considering Uwe Boll churns out some horrendous stuff, usually video game related, he has made some rather good films. Best of all,
Rampage, but I also liked
Seed a lot (both tough watches). I had every expectation for
Postal to be dreadful, but watching it one afternoon at the Frightfest premier (while my companion skipped it to spend time at the ice-cream stand) I found myself surprisingly tickled. I revisited it on DVD and enjoyed it just as much the second time round. It's quite crude in places, but has a raw energy and plenty of political and social jabs. He's also not afraid to poke fun at himself. Sure it's hit and miss on the gag front, but more hit than I expected.