[quote=“cyber-lili”]I can’t even figure out how comes you don’t like those movies except if you’re a rebellion mood that consists in hating every classics. Cause of course we shouldn’t love those movies cause they’re considered as masterpieces, but if they are, it’s cause it’s true and not cause someone first said so and everybody loved it cause it’s a movie everybody is supposed to love.
Anyway, it’s kinda sad to hear people loving movies saying they don’t care about film education. I’m not even talking about dark obscure cult movies but pure classics. And how comes you love The Goodfellas and Casino and not Mean Streets or Taxi Driver ? Mean Streets was in the source of every Scorsese gangster flicks. And Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which is a very good movie) and not Apocalypse Now or Taxi Driver ? 70s flicks, all obsessed by the Vietnam war, more or less horror movies, great atmosphere.[/quote]
You see, in your second paragraph you’ve proven that “a rebellion mood that consists of hating every classic” certainly isn’t true. Believe me when I watched them I wanted to love them. That’s why I gave examples of movies I like and don’t that were quite similar. I’ve only seen Mean Streets once, and I know it paved the way for Goodfellas but I just didn’t like it. Goodfellas kicks its ass all over the street. I watch Goodfellas non-stop, sometimes a few times a week whenever i put it in, but I guess I just have no interest in things I ‘don’t really like’ or get into…so I don’t waste my time with them and just gorge on things I do like…doesn’t mean I don’t expect to not like certain things…it’s just that I didn’t. Texas Chainsaw sure did come out of the Vietnam war, and things like Last House on the Left, which I love too. Apocalypse Now is boring to me, nothing happens that excites me.
[quote=“Sgt. Geoi Donowitz”]Meh. I really can’t pin down Kinick on what sort of movie he’ll like, or dislike. He seems pretty random, and rather stubborn in his picks.
Kinick, you ever go into a film with an OPEN mind?[/quote]
I can’t pin it down myself, Geo. I can NEVER know which movie I’ll like or dislike…despite how similar (genre, style) or connected they are (writer, directors). I definitely don’t have a general taste in film, it’s very specific and limited, that’s all I can say.
And I’ve went in to those older movies with an open mind. However, there’s barely any film released today that I have an interest in, cos I think they’re all crap. All my favourite movies come from the 70s, 80’s and 90’s.