At least their judgment of the film is based on watching part of it. You are passing judgment on people with no evidence at all.
Just checking the video I have, and I’d say the film doesn’t even start to begin to get going until 30 minutes in. But whatever.
I don’t have a problem that you didn’t watch it. I have a problem with you not watching it and then proudly telling us you didn’t like what you didn’t see.
I’ve got absolutely no problem with people not liking this movie. Martial arts movies will always have their niches, and people won’t like it. Shit, I can easily see people not liking it because it was confusing, and perhaps went a bit fast for them (it is worthy of several rewatches to catch things). It’s almost like the old “I’ve never seen an episode of game of thrones” threads.
Hmm - not sure I was aware of “pride” making up a significant part of what I felt when typing my posts.
I GREATLY disliked Banshees. Or Licorice Pizza last year. Watched all of those. My personal impression of my emotions is bemusement, wondering, “What am I missing?”
I did not like the 1st half hour. Then JLC went all hulk, and the husband went all superhero Jackie Chan - did not bode well for something I would enjoy another couple of hours of. In your opinion, how much more time should I have given it before my personal opinion becomes valid?
Maybe some time for the actual plotline to start. Just a thought. Perhaps milestone on the entry of the protaganist. Or perhaps when Jamie Lee Curtis becomes a Sumo Wrestler or perhaps the dildo fight, I’d consider you’d have roughly watched enough when you understood why the hot dog fingers were in there or the rock sequence ,with some fun moments in irony of the premiere and it getting all those oscars and Racoonatooie
You didn’t watch the movie. It seems like pride to me that you didn’t. I, personally, don’t like to talk about movies I didn’t watch. Maybe that’s just me. But I doubly don’t argue about a movie I did not watch too.
So glad Naatu Naatu won for best song. It was a good performance, but in the movie it was even greater.
This seems like a strange objection - so people should suffer through an additional 2 hours of a film they didn’t like to have an opinion on it?
FTR, I did like EEAAO (and watched the entire thing), but I think it’s incredibly overhyped. I have no issue with someone watching, deciding they don’t like it, and having an opinion on the matter (esp on a message board, where, opinions are what we do).
Still oblivious to the irony that you are criticizing people with no knowledge of their state of mind.
As a viewer, how do I know when the actual plot line starts? I certainly got to the point where I understood a lot of crazy time/space/dimensional travel was going to happen. Is that the actual plot line - or 1/2 hour further on would that turn out to be a little child’s dream? And then something different 1/2 hour later?
None of the blurred stuff you suggest impresses me as anything that would have caused me to keep watching - or to view my time from where I turned it off to what you describe as well spent. I’m glad you think “hot dog fingers” significant or entertaining. Me? I could do without it.
Seems curious that you do not seem able to understand that people just have different reactions to the same work of art. I regularly encounter things that seem to be VERY popular, that simply do not appeal to me. Why is that of concern to you? Maybe I could list some of my favorite movies, books, music… How much time would you need to spend on them before forming a personal opinion that my tastes were not the same as yours?
Bail early if you want, fine. But don’t act like you know what you’re taking about when offering commentary on the film.
This.
I was fine with the first half hour, I don’t see how anyone could say the plot hadn’t started. I thought it was a fun imaginative premise and the acting was excellent. I had a problem when the next 90 minutes was one stupid chaotic comedy-kung-fu fight after another. Some of them were funny, but it was just way too much.
I saw the whole film but I’m not sure I understand that, other than it was weird. Would you care to say more?
Has anyone offered commentary on a part of the film that they haven’t seen?
If somebody watched for only 10 minutes, you’d have a point, but it seems like a perfectly valid criticism for someone to say why the first half hour of the film wasn’t good enough to keep them watching. Nobody owes two hours of their time to any film maker.
I think this is a very good point.
Serious question - how many movies have you watched in which you derived no enjoyment from the first 1/2 hour, but stuck with it and ended up saying it was an excellent film?
I’m not readily coming up with any examples myself.
Another question - have you ever turned off a film at any point? Do you refrain from expressing any opinion about that film - or at least the portion you watched?
Short Round has an Oscar!
I also watched about half of EEAAO and stopped watching because my wife was bored out of her skull and I wasn’t interested enough to continue watching it alone.
The concept alone was pretty meh, I didn’t care about the characters and the plot didn’t caught me.
Definitely a case of overhyping IMHO.
One for me. Fight Club.
I don’t know about other people, but certainty a few in my case.
Mostly from friends or co-workers giving such glowing reviews that I felt I should give them another chance.
Granted, most often, I usually don’t get a lot more from the rest of a movie if I did not enjoy the first half hour, but it does happen.
As for turning off a film, I usually don’t say much about them other than the fact that I couldn’t get into it and stopped watching - the same is true for some books. But I usually limit it to just that and readily admit (whether movie or book) it may just be me and other people may get a lot more out of it than I do. How is my opinion supposed to be worth much if I didn’t even watch the whole thing? And, like movies, there are some books I’ve come back to that were worth the read.
I loved it, but I can see where opinions may vary.
I was shocked it was even nominated. It’s the kind of film I wouldn’t recommend to most people because I know my tastes tend to run in a different direction from theirs.
I have a friend whose tastes are similar to mine and he said the same thing. He liked the movie a lot but most of his family (parents, in-laws, etc) didn’t really get it. Reactions to it clearly vary a great deal.
It’s been a while, but I as I recall the first half hour of The Deer Hunter was an unremarkable portrayal of people who like, well, hunting deer.
I stepped away for a bit so I may have missed something, but it seemed weird that Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford were so prominent during the broadcast but there was no apparent acknowledgment of their connection to Ke Huy Quan; just to Brenden Fraser and Encino Man. I mean, how could they not turn the camera on Spielberg for even a second during that emotional acceptance speech?