Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
One of mine has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can appreciate that it has visually interesting moments, I am a science fiction fan and I like 'artsy' films (I am a bit world cinema fan) but I just don't get why people love it so much. To me, it just goes on and on.
What films do you not 'get' that most other people appear to love?
|
2001: The Space Odyssey was exactly the first movie that immediately came to my mind
I saw that first and I felt totally lobotomized after, like from the very first minute to the very last - extremely disturbing
Quite possibly, I'd never ever get any sort of meaning, hadn't I re-watch that recently with a very good friend of mine, who read the original and we simply stopped the movie every 5 minutes or so, and he always gave me the "description" of what's going on.
Movies I never got but found rather entertaning - that could be Italian directors Marco Ferreri or Pier Paolo Passolini
Never had luck with Bergmann either, the only aspect of his personality that's left to like for me is his endless sexual private life potential
Jean Luc Godard - I still have to watch his first movie with Jean Paul Belmondo, that could be a good one, other than that I tried to watch "Week End" and "Sympathy for the devil" and had to stop after like 10 minutes, I just was not in the mood for "perverse symbolism".
Michealangelo Antonioni - although I seriously dig his early works, including his "international" works such as "Blowup" "Zabriskie Point" or "Profession Reporter" I just recently bought me the "Identification of a woman" ("L'Iddentificatione una Donna" ) from 1982 and seriously, I just couldn't get it, the music, visuals were really exciting, yet the plot basically consisted of the main hero fucking various girls and women left and right, and dialogues consisted from quotes I couldn't put into any context at all.
Although one quote I found extremely interesting, memorized it, and use to use when I talk with women where I have a "romantic" interest