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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Nov 26, 2017 16:12:50 GMT
Inspired by seeing a picture of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Post by stephen on Nov 26, 2017 16:15:25 GMT
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Post by notacrook on Nov 26, 2017 16:17:23 GMT
It's not really a single 'awful flaw', but I don't really like the William H. Macy subplot in Magnolia, and that's my second favourite movie of all time.
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Post by stephen on Nov 26, 2017 16:19:17 GMT
It's not really a single 'awful flaw', but I don't really like the William H. Macy subplot in Magnolia, and that's my second favourite movie of all time. 1. I love that the first two responses are Magnolia-centric. 2. Yeah, as much as I adore Magnolia aside from Moore, Macy's subplot could've been axed as well and lose almost nothing. PTA has even said if he were to make it today, he'd have cut a full hour of material and streamlined it to focus on the Cruise/Reilly/Walters/Hall/Robards stories.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 16:31:38 GMT
Could've done without some of the terrible dialogue in Interstellar, but I do love that movie overall and still think it is easily Nolan's best.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 26, 2017 16:34:18 GMT
The final twenty minutes of Clouds of Sils Maria.
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Post by Sharbs on Nov 26, 2017 16:38:11 GMT
The back in time logic just at the end of About Time. It's in my top 5 of all time
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 26, 2017 16:58:44 GMT
The kid in Shane. Seriously, the worst.
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Post by Miles Morales on Nov 26, 2017 17:01:14 GMT
The product placements in Piku
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Post by stephen on Nov 26, 2017 17:02:26 GMT
The kid in Shane. Seriously, the worst. Your De Wilde hate is legendary, but I can't recall if we ever talked about his performance in Hud. Where did you fall on him?
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 26, 2017 17:12:10 GMT
The kid in Shane. Seriously, the worst. Your De Wilde hate is legendary, but I can't recall if we ever talked about his performance in Hud. Where did you fall on him? He's actually quite good in Hud, doing the whole teenage naivete that by the end finally sees the way things actually are rather than what everyone else tells him it's like. But sadly, he's also toe-to-toe with two all-timer performances in Neal and Newman.
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Post by Pavan on Nov 26, 2017 17:24:07 GMT
The bomb plot is lame but apart from that I loved The Dark Knight Rises.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Nov 26, 2017 18:24:28 GMT
Sonny's embarrassing fight scene in The Godfather.
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Post by no on Nov 26, 2017 18:33:17 GMT
Triumph of the Will was a tad too long.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 26, 2017 18:37:18 GMT
A whole lot of my favorites that fall into this category, actually. If a story moves me, it can be full of problems and I won't care. Whereas a movie could be pretty flawless and fail to connect.
The finale of The Village. I understand why it was done, but don't understand why no one stepped in and said "this is a bad idea."
Tarkovsky's Solaris could have done without a lot of the highway stuff or other needlessly long scenes. Would have been one of my top ten or so if not for that.
The obvious rewrites of The Fox and the Hound damage it; why would Copper be so hellbent on revenge if Chief is still alive? I just pretend that Chief is dead, now. Gives the movie the power it had when I was a kid.
I saw it just a couple days ago, but a few scenes in A Ghost Story were unnecessary. The party scene talks down to the audience, the pie scene could have been, oh, 2 minutes shorter. And I don't care in the slightest.
In Madoka Magica: Rebellion, Bebe is a useless character (every role she performs in the plot could have been fulfilled by Sayaka), the opening stretches of the film are trying too hard to push the "sweet 'n cheery" team dynamic, and throwing in the Sayaka/Kyoko romance angle was poorly done. But none of that hampers my enjoyment of the film as a whole.
It isn't a movie, but my favorite novel is The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. For a book that does such an amazing job deconstructing stereotypes, I have to wonder what Raskin was smoking when she created Madam Hoo. Her stereotype of "foreigner no speakee English" is deconstructed, showing her desires and her thoughts (she wants to go back to China, back to home, where she knows the language and the people and isn't always so alone), but then.... we see her methods that she hopes will achieve that goal. I've seen smarter five year olds.
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Post by ibbi on Nov 26, 2017 18:50:23 GMT
-- Penultimate scene in Psycho. It's a shame that last bit with Norman is so good, or I'd just turn off the movie before the exposition so clunky it makes Chris Nolan cringe begins. -- Veronica Cartwright in Alien. Allo, Stephen -- On a similar note, Naomie Harris in Moonlight. -- As someone who thinks his first three movies make as good a use of voiceover narration as the movies ever have... Hate the narration in New World and Tree of Life. -- That horse in Andrei Rublev.
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Post by stephen on Nov 26, 2017 18:55:21 GMT
-- Veronica Cartwright in Alien. Allo, Stephen Agree with the rest of what you said, though. I honestly don't know if I can even give Psycho Best Picture anymore in good conscience with that fucking scene in it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 19:20:59 GMT
It's not really a flaw, but the fact that Landau's storyline is a great deal more interesting than Woody's in Crimes and Misdemeanors is a bit of a shame.
The Holy Mountain drags a bit during the character introductions.
The climax of It Follows was a bit of a let down.
Martyrs has a ton of flaws... the entire reveal is completely ridiculous.
I can pretty easily look past all of these flaws though.
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Post by Feesy on Nov 26, 2017 20:52:32 GMT
Yeah, Moore in Magnolia is a big one. Although, the last time I watched Magnolia, I didn't hate her performance nearly as much as I used to but I still think it's a terrible performance.
I've gotten a lot of hate for this previously, but I think the end to No Country for Old Men brings down the movie a whole point for me. I get what it was saying, but it's just so unsatisfying.
The Dark Knight Rises and it's multiple plot holes.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 26, 2017 21:00:19 GMT
Karen Gillan in Guardians Vol. 1. At least Vol. 2 redeemed her.
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Post by stephen on Nov 26, 2017 21:00:57 GMT
The climax of It Follows was a bit of a let down. Speaking of It Follows, the character of Yara serves absolutely no purpose and it frustrates me. Also, why did It not kill her when she crashed the car? You don't have to be conscious to be pursued.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Nov 26, 2017 21:16:16 GMT
-- Veronica Cartwright in Alien. Allo, Stephen You can't be serious, Ibbi. I thought she had the most realistic reaction to the alien coming out of the chest! She was ME in that moment! Oh and mine is Naomi Watts in Birdman. A sore thumb in an otherwise spot-on cast.
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Post by ibbi on Nov 26, 2017 21:22:53 GMT
-- Veronica Cartwright in Alien. Allo, Stephen You can't be serious, Ibbi. I thought she had the most realistic reaction to the alien coming out of the chest! She was ME in that moment! Oh and mine is Naomi Watts in Birdman. A sore thumb in an otherwise spot-on cast. What was wrong with Naomi Watts??! Okay, she got the stupidest line in the whole movie, but nobody that has been born could have made that line work.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Nov 26, 2017 21:26:44 GMT
You can't be serious, Ibbi. I thought she had the most realistic reaction to the alien coming out of the chest! She was ME in that moment! Oh and mine is Naomi Watts in Birdman. A sore thumb in an otherwise spot-on cast. What was wrong with Naomi Watts??! Okay, she got the stupidest line in the whole movie, but nobody that has been born could have made that line work. I beg to differ! My Gena Rowlands would have made that line work back in the day! But putting that line aside, her acting rang so false, it took me out of it every time she opened her mouth. Thankfully, the greatness of Michael Keaton brought me back in every time.
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Post by Film Socialism on Nov 26, 2017 22:31:57 GMT
the entire last like 45 minutes of The Tree of Life is pretty eh to me compared to the rest of the movie, although it's still great stuff overall
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