Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 9-13 May 2011 (1921-1925)
Carl-E:
There is a difference between the "everybody" must-see list and my (or your) must see list.
Mine includes things like Buclkaroo Bonzai and The Wizard of Speed and Time.
But films like Casablanca (the most quoted film of all time) are cutural touchstones, and really should be part of everyone's experience, just so you can get the damn references when they inevitably come up!
Method of Madness:
I don't know Rustler's Rhapsody, but I have absolutely no issue with Office Space being on the must see list. At all. It's that good.
Emperor Norton:
I think sometimes older films get built up to more than they are.
Don't get me wrong. There are some amazing classic films that I love, such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Seven Samurai, but we get this kind of build up where people act like "NOTHING CAN EVER BE THIS GOOD AGAIN."
I'll be honest, some of the big classics, such as Citizen Kane, are probably really interesting if you are studying film, due to all the things it pioneered, but honestly it bored me half to death.
On the other hand, movies like Dark City and Moon which are more recent (1998 and 2009 respectively) are in my opinion amazing films that shouldn't be overlooked just because they happened to not come out in the 40s.
Skewbrow:
Movies? For the most part I plead ignorance, but when Casablanca was shown on our national tv, the movie critic of the local newspaper gave it a rating of 6 stars (on a scale from zero to five). I agree. So did my Slovenian housemate in the 80s.
Rio Bravo is the western that would be on my list. Hell, if I can stomach and even enjoy John Wayne's mannerism, then the movie has to be pretty darn good. Some Hitchcock films would also make it to my list.
It does sound like my taste is close to that of the Emperor. Glad you brought up Kurosawa. The movie fanatics in my high school class would have probably given the nod to Dersu Uzala instead of Seven Samurai, though. And when watching Citizen Kane I was expecting a larger than life experience, and can't help saying that I was a bit disappointed.
Also it is kinda pointless to compare movies produced in different eras. The changes in technology act as divides. The first movie ever was mostly a feat of engineering. Similarly, when sound, color, <missing steps here>, computer animation,... were added to the technical repertoire, it took (will take) a while before the great artists master them. Same thing happens in the history of music. We shall never know what kind of pieces Bach or Mozart would have composed for piano, or ... electric guitar.
akronnick:
Mozart did lots of stuff for piano, but his piano probably didn't sound like ours.
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