A fish 'called' wanda

I haven't seen it, but it seems decent enough.

Lol--I liked it.

People who know nothing about film often think that. To each their own. I really enjoyed it, but it was more from a technical standpoint. I can see how a casual viewer would find it off-putting. 

Pulp Fiction was well made but derivative as all hell. I honestly think Tarantino is the reincarnation of the guy that invented calculus. 

I'm like starkers...haven't been to the movies in years. Last flick I saw was with my two younger sisters. It was The Exorcist. I fell asleep and my baby sister thought it was hilarious. She laughed through the whole movie.

I just watched hellraiser yesterday on bluray, and if this was in a movie i would of walked out. I cant believe people told me this was good. beurk...

And i loved signs too

The GF walked out on the Star Trek Blu-Ray last night.

It's ok though, I've got lots of insurance on her...

I like both films for fun and films for art, but there are much different thresholds of enjoyment that moviegoers experience based on their expectations, and transcend how they respond to a film.  The Thin Red Line was a technical masterpiece, as well as a tour de force of acting in certain roles. The cinematography in TTRL is stunning, as is the acting, although the character study by Sean Penn pales in comparison to Adrian Brody, and even the guy who played Private Witt.  This is not your typical popcorn movie, and a lot of audiences were blindsided at the theater expecting a hero story instead of an esoteric treatment of the destructive nature in man.

TTRL was nominated for seven (7) Oscars along with Best Picture, and it came out the same year (1998) Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which was also nominated for Best Picture).  Neither won Best Picture, but TTRL became known as "the other war movie" of 1998.  The big difference was SPR was intended as a realistic gritty portrayal of war, where TTRL was much more philosophical in its approach to revealing the human condition.  SPR was an artfully done war hero-movie, where TTRL was an extremely artistic anti-war art film.

Again, expectations are like the uncertainty principle as to how they effect your movie experience.  I personally revel in the cinematics of sweeping landscapes and turbulent emotional themes.  Dramatic efforts are all about impact and emotional bearing.  As an art form, cinema is one of the most dynamic, but some films disappoint on many levels.  I try to always glean some redeeming aspects in a film because it *is* such a rich medium.

That said, if I pay the prices seats go for nowadays, I am going to pay the price of paying the price and bear it till the lights come up.

God I hate that movie.  Clearly not made for me.  I was an 18 year old literature major when I watch it, and found it pompous, confusing, and pretentious.  Rambling and boring... I can't think of a movie I enjoyed less.  As an 18 year old Freshman English Lit major, I often found myself desperately deluding myself into liking anything the plebeians would find too arty and high brow.  I couldn't do it with this movie.  But, to be fair, I laugh at dick and fart jokes a lot, so I really doubt I was this movie's target audience.

Quite a good film, objectively speaking, as a matter of writing, pacing, acting, and no-nonsense directing.  Something of a mix of modern comedy and classic Ealing Studios farce from the 1940s and 1950s.  But a person can dislike a movie for any number of good, subjective reasons, and these include anything from a personal dislike of a given performer to not enjoying a film genre.

I like that this comes from the guy with an 'Eraserhead' avatar. I still don't know what to make of that movie. David Lynch is either some sort of artistic genius or crazed sociopath. Maybe a bit of both. I can say that it was enjoyable, if nothing else for the shock and 'What the...?' factor.

Also, A Fish Called Wanda is a great movie. 

I've only walked out on Pineapple Express. It was at a drive-in movie theater with the kids... we were supposed to see a double feature of Wall-E and Kung-Fu Panda. Wall-E was great, but the geniuses in the projector room I guess thought that Seth Rogan = Jack Black and instead of Kung Fu Panda we got Pineapple Express. The kids weren't finding "cross joints" and dick jokes any more enjoyable than I was, so we left 15 minutes into the movie.

I had a date once to a movie. As it turned out, both were forgettable. I walked out on both of them. I hope ol' what's her name enjoyed whatever movie it was. I went home and got drunk and left her there and never saw her again. Now that is a happy ending.

Hehe, 'The Exorcist' was the 4th last movie I ever saw in a cinema.  Hmmm, back in the early 70's.

From around 14 'til 16 I went to the movies [we called 'em 'flicks' back in them days] dozens upon dozens of times.  It was a weekly thing, me and the mates, but since moving to Oz in 1969, I've been in a cinema just 5 times.  First to see The Exorcist; second to see The Good the Bad and the Ugly; third to see Hang 'Em High; fourth to see Flesh Gordon... my soon to be missus at the time thought is was a sci-fi.   Well it was... sort of!  Don't remember what was even showing the 5th time... had a big blue [argument] with my then g/f and walked out and went home just after we bought the tickets.  Can't say it was something I really wanted to see, then.

So was your fiance during the 4th movie the same gf that you walked out on during the 5th movie?

and were the circumstances around the 5th movie part of the reason you don't bother going to the movie theatre any more?

Nope, there was quite a few years between them... by the 5th I'd had 2 kids, divorced and was a single [custodial] parent for a couple of years.

The circumstances with the 5th had no bearing on my decision to give cinemas a miss.  No, that was more to do with arthritic and spinal issues, the damned uncomfortable and cramped seating with eff all leg room if you're 6' plus.

As for the argument, it was over cinema snacks... and the damned exorbitant prices for what is essentially junk.  We had just been to dinner and had already spent enough on food, so I saw no rhyme or reason to spending another 30 bucks on crap.  Shoot, a 200ml paper cup of coke was $5.50, and there was no way I was coughing up twice that and more for chockies or popcorn, etc, so I walked out and went home to my kids.  Hehe, she somehow got a refund on the tickets and turned up at home half an hour later.

Did I get any that night?  Nope!    But it couldn't have been too serious... we lasted 8 years after that.

Rocky Horror Picture Show, audience participation is annoying. I went to watch Heavy Metal instead.