What's wrong with this scene?

[blackbeltninja]

I recall rather enjoying the chase scenes in Ronin and the 3rd Bourne film.

-d-

 

[bankside]

But those 80s overproduced sci-fi movies, like Terminator & Aliens, are worthless Hollywood garbage.

Bleh...

Funny how wrong you are....

the only problem I had with Fifth Element is how they could never quite take their tongue out of their cheek.

I go to a movie for the escapism, not for the "hey we europeans are making a clever space movie which is also slightly a parody of hollywood scifi." Pfff. They could never quite get over being French long enough to make the movie, and this is the opinion of someone who has enjoyed French cinema for a long time. They screwed it up because they weren't willing to commit to the sci fi reality; it was just another pretext to trot out more "ennui." I enjoyed it anyway, but they showed the limitations of their repertoire and were not willing to move beyond it.

blackbelt, talk some sense into the boy...

 

[belamyi]

Funny how wrong you are....

the only problem I had with Fifth Element is how they could never quite take their tongue out of their cheek.

I go to a movie for the escapism, not for the "hey we europeans are making a clever space movie which is also slightly a parody of hollywood scifi." Pfff. They could never quite get over being French long enough to make the movie, and this is the opinion of someone who has enjoyed French cinema for a long time. They screwed it up because they weren't willing to commit to the sci fi reality; it was just another pretext to trot out more "ennui." I enjoyed it anyway, but they showed the limitations of their repertoire and were not willing to move beyond it.

blackbelt, talk some sense into the boy...

Substitute "American" for "French", "entertainment" for "ennui" and "take their cock out of their eye" for "take their tongue out of their cheek" and you are giving a pithy accurate description of any American movie.
Great movies are scarce, and their number keeps dwindling even more as you grow older. I grow too old for cinema as we know it today in my very early twenties.

 

[brandhay]

Minor point of contention: Star Wars is not sci-fi. It's fantasy.

My favorite car chase, believe it or not, comes from the Barbra Streisand movie What's Up, Doc?

 

[belamyi]

Substitute "American" for "French", "entertainment" for "ennui" and "take their cock out of their eye" for "take their tongue out of their cheek" and you are giving a pithy accurate description of any American movie.
Great movies are scarce, and their number keeps dwindling even more as you grow older. I grow too old for cinema as we know it today in my very early twenties.

Grew... damn it

 

[blackbeltninja]

Funny how wrong you are....

blackbelt, talk some sense into the boy...

I tried, but it seems he's run off and left us to argue amongst ourselves in this thread. Youth, eh?

Shame, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. No taste in The Arts, mind, but otherwise not a complete write-off as a human.

-d-

 

[bankside]

Substitute "American" for "French", "entertainment" for "ennui" and "take their cock out of their eye" for "take their tongue out of their cheek" and you are giving a pithy accurate description of any American movie.
Great movies are scarce, and their number keeps dwindling even more as you grow older. I grow too old for cinema as we know it today in my very early twenties.

Grew... damn it

Substitute "grew" for "grow?" Then I agree with you about American film as well. But whether it is Tongue in Cheek™ à la française or some Down Home U S of A Cock in Eye™ it does intrude on the film, doesn't it? As surely as when a boom microphone dips down into the frame or casts a shadow against the set, and it is annoying. Or for that matter when a car passes through a puddle with a dusty window that magically cleans itself.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

Substitute "grew" for "grow?" Then I agree with you about American film as well. But whether it is Tongue in Cheek™ à la française or some Down Home U S of [STRIKE]A Cock in Eye[/STRIKE]™

Cockeyed.....