The Artist...last year, horrible, everyone was so smug with "culture" because it was a silent film. I thought The Descendants deserved to win.
The Artist...last year, horrible, everyone was so smug with "culture" because it was a silent film. I thought The Descendants deserved to win.
Mr. Nanny
WAY overrated
davisbrothers wrote:
The Artist...last year, horrible, everyone was so smug with "culture" because it was a silent film. I thought The Descendants deserved to win.
Why did you think Descendants deserved to win?
davisbrothers wrote:
I thought The Descendants deserved to win.
Agreed. The Descendants was a fantastic and unique.
dsfadfsfds wrote:
Why do people use words like "dreck" when they are critiquing films, as if that is a comment you'd actually say in every day speaking? People need to quit reading film reviews and trying to copy the condescending terminology they read in the reviews. Just say, "The film f'ing sucked." Be a human being.
+1
The very next commenter after this used the phrases "utter garbage" and "rubbish," the other two most overused critical phrases on this board. Please, LetsRun message board: no more. These are not definitive evaluative pronouncements; the word "utter" doesn't meaningfully amplify whatever comes next, and it sure doesn't make you sound any smarter. And "rubbish" is a prissy word, a tough-sounding, but ultimately flaccid, way to say, well, "garbage." If you go around using these words, you'll sound like a pretentious adolescent your whole life.
+1
The very next commenter after this used the phrases "utter garbage" and "rubbish," the other two most overused critical phrases on this board. Please, LetsRun message board: no more. These are not definitive evaluative pronouncements; the word "utter" doesn't meaningfully amplify whatever comes next, and it sure doesn't make you sound any smarter. And "rubbish" is a prissy word, a tough-sounding, but ultimately flaccid, way to say, well, "garbage." If you go around using these words, you'll sound like a pretentious adolescent your whole life.
+1000
If it's good, say "it's good" or "it's awesome", if it sucks just say "it sucks".
When you use fancier words it only makes you sound like an elitist libtard.
#1. American Beauty
#2. Crash
Titanic.
The Deer Hunter. The culmination of pretentiousness. Way too long, way too much "character building. "
I can't speak for the movie but the book Starship Troopers is not satire.
American Beauty was terrible. If Forrest Gump won I'd say that was another terrible one.
Oh please wrote:
The Deer Hunter. The culmination of pretentiousness. Way too long, way too much "character building. "
lol gotta love that wonderful "wedding scene" from Deer Hunter
This list seems to agree with Crash. I thought it was a horrible movie.
I agree with the poster who said Chariots of Fire. One of those movies that won for being artsy and not for being good.
Surprised people on this board didn't like American Beauty which IMO was a great movie.
To poster who asked about Forrest Gump - yes it did win. Not a horrible movie but clearly Pulp Fiction (greatest movie ever) should have won that year.
brodown wrote:
When you use fancier words it only makes you sound like an elitist libtard.
And when you use words like "libtard" what does it make you sound like?
The English Patient. AHHHhhhhhhhhHHHHHhhhhh........
TKTKTK wrote:
dsfadfsfds wrote:Why do people use words like "dreck" when they are critiquing films, as if that is a comment you'd actually say in every day speaking? People need to quit reading film reviews and trying to copy the condescending terminology they read in the reviews. Just say, "The film f'ing sucked." Be a human being.
+1
The very next commenter after this used the phrases "utter garbage" and "rubbish," the other two most overused critical phrases on this board. Please, LetsRun message board: no more. These are not definitive evaluative pronouncements; the word "utter" doesn't meaningfully amplify whatever comes next, and it sure doesn't make you sound any smarter. And "rubbish" is a prissy word, a tough-sounding, but ultimately flaccid, way to say, well, "garbage." If you go around using these words, you'll sound like a pretentious adolescent your whole life.
amplify and flaccid might also be considered pretentious...just saying...
This entire thread is rubbish, and drecky, and sucky.
The pretentiousness of this thread is enough to make one choke on one's porridge.
Frightfully disagreeable. I am now unable to finish my Pimm's Cup.
sterling rathsack wrote:
TKTKTK wrote:+1
The very next commenter after this used the phrases "utter garbage" and "rubbish," the other two most overused critical phrases on this board. Please, LetsRun message board: no more. These are not definitive evaluative pronouncements; the word "utter" doesn't meaningfully amplify whatever comes next, and it sure doesn't make you sound any smarter. And "rubbish" is a prissy word, a tough-sounding, but ultimately flaccid, way to say, well, "garbage." If you go around using these words, you'll sound like a pretentious adolescent your whole life.
amplify and flaccid might also be considered pretentious...just saying...
Huh. Sterling, there's a difference between using vapid words that sound meaningful and correctly using meaningful words with rich connotations. "Rubbish" and "utter" are vacant - there's no there there - but they sound muscular or definitive. That's the very essence of pretension. But "amplify" is exactly the right word - to make more powerful. And "flaccid," connoting impotence and sterility, is also perfect. So please: don't contribute to the dumbing-down of our culture by mischaracterizing vivid rhetoric as pretentious. Big words (which "amplify" and "flaccid" are not) or unusual words (ditto) are not, by definition, pretentious. But any word or phrase, no matter its length or obscurity, used incorrectly or speciously, can be pretentious.