edit: YES YOU SHOULD GIVE IT A TRY
lol I will
Rashomon is so amazing. It's in my top 10.
**** right <3 it blew me away. I never imagined it would be that good.
People like that just don't take movies seriously. I had a big conversation with a friend of mine about this same exact thing and that's what it came down to. He just wanted to escape and be entertained by a movie. The second something deep or thought provoking etc happened he switched off.
I consider Miami Vice an interesting failure. Makes me angry how good it could have been, though.
Yeah, I keep forgetting that most people don't view films like you and I do. Since I'm an aspiring filmmaker, I'm constantly looking at ALL the elements in a film. I'm even looking at technique and how the movie was shot while I'm watching it. I couldn't STAND how Miami Vice or Quantum of Solace was filmed. Shaky cam really annoys me. Only some films have done it right.
Interesting failure lol. Miami Vice was the greatest film disappointment of my young life (at the time). I'd like to shake the hand of the man that made the trailer to the movie because he did the impossible, he made Miami Vice look amazing (watch the trailer again, it's a fantastic trailer). He must have been like, "oh god this movie is terrible. How the hell am I gonna make this **** look entertaining" and took the best two minutes of the film and threw some Linkin Park Jay Z music in there to make it bearable. ****ing genius. Since my friend and I had recently seen Heat and loved it, we were thrilled to see how amazing Michael Mann's next film would be. Couldn't have been more shocked at the awfulness of everything in Vice. I really wish I could have understood half of what Gong Li was saying.
And incidentally, Miami Vice is the first of three films (all coming out one year after the other) that taught me to NEVER expect greatness from a film when I go see it, to keep my expectations minimal as to not be heartbroken by the terrible outcome. It's also why I'm not keeping my hopes up for Mann's next film, Public Enemies, which could be just as disastrous. I love the Christian Bale, Johnny Deep, Michael Mann combo, but if it's a let down I think I'll burn Mann alive.
Everything in that movie just felt very weird to me. I didn't like how most of the scenes were set up or executed. Not to mention I HATED almost everyone in that movie. I didn't like how certain characters opinions were stated. I disliked everything that happened when they went to Vietnam. I also found when one of the guys died near the end and the camera zoomed forward really quick and hard on the sniper right when he got shot VERY strange and it kind of ruined his death for me. Oh, and the scene at the end I hated more than anything is when he shoots that Vietnamese girl who had the machine gun and she's on the ground writing in pain speaking Vietnamese non-stop and NOT DYING FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES. HOOOORRIBLE scene. I was definitely yelling for it to end.
I don't think I could properly order them but it would look something like this:
1. Braveheart
the rest: LOTR, Pulp Fiction, City of God, Saving Private Ryan, Rashomon, The Dark Knight, Hot Fuzz, and from there it's a lot of movies I loved but don't know whether they belong on my top 10 like Sideways, No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Pan's Labyrinth, The Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Sin City, Goodfellas, Heat, The Departed, The Godfather, Memento, Match Point, Alien, Singin' in the Rain, Shaun of the Dead, Batman Begins, Spider-man 2, and the list goes on and on and on.
edit- I just listed way more than I thought I would LOL
