Attention VOTE: Battle of the Films

[captainofbeef]

Round 2
Battle 88
Northeast region (Bracket 2)
3 seed
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)

An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes. The woman and the trapped man begin a strange and erotic relationship that stretches over years, as the man's hope for escape dims.

vs.
6 seed
Offret (Tarkovsky)

Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happened at all.

[captainofbeef]

Can't vote....

[dontdigonswine]

Close, but I'm goin with Sacrifice.

[dontdigonswine]

Dec 12, 2008 2:53:32 GMT -5 ie said:

Dec 12, 2008 0:29:45 GMT -5 dontdigonswine said:

City of God is simply an exercise in style. Nothing about it interested me.

I haven't done this in a while: Let's go, son.


Ran isn't an exercise in style? What do you call the millions of dollars spent on the movie? The excessive shots of color, whose only purpose is to give you and other half-assed critics something to masturbate about?

Really now, even if you did like Ran, how much do you remember about it? Could you actually keep every character's name straight?

The answers you'd give still wouldn't interest me, because really, all you would give me is the answers to your Filmy Film 101 class about how "important" the movie is in a historical context and how much other people like it.

Besides, I doubt you've actually "received" anything from Ran. What did you learn from the movie? Did it make you a better person?

I really doubt you have, so it's no better than watching a three hour music video, if you completely ignore the substance of a movie. The only difference is, you can hide behind its reputation.

You can say you've seen it, you could even have watched it, saw all the pretty colors, and read up about it later, but I doubt Ran actually made any bit of impact on you. And just supporting the movie is enough: no one would double check you. They'd just congratulate you for liking the movie.

This is the last time I'm going to be tempted into responding to you again in any form of human communication, so I'll gladly counter.

Firstly, I'm glad you mentioned the excessive use of color. I masturbate often to these images, and always look for an excuse to bring them up in conversation. Really, colors are all I need in a movie. From Kieslowski to Kurosawa, if you put beautiful colors on anything in a movie, I'm sold. Of course, critics would agree with me, because critics and I are the same breed. We are people too stupid to understand movies the way ie does.

I honestly don't remember anything about Ran. I'm sure there were actors, characters, some dialogue in there somewhere. But who cares? If you like these things, you watch movies for the wrong reasons. I don't expect to ever be a better person than what I am, so watching movies to improve myself is a futile exercise. I am already the perfect form of myself.

Wow, you completely predicted me correctly. Everything I mentioned here was exactly what Professor Hitchcock told me. I no longer have taste anyway. I'm one human-sized conditioned response twitching in a theater seat.

I see you put a lot of effort into trying to convince me of the impossible, so I'm sorry to disappoint you. I know you get a lot of satisfaction in confronting people you will never meet, you will never know. Labeling people as presumed idiots has always brought you great pleasure. If there's anything I can do to help you with this in the future, let me know ;D

[ie]

I never called you an idiot, love, thus negating your entire argument.

[drone]

Dec 12, 2008 2:53:32 GMT -5 ie said:

I really doubt you have, so it's no better than watching a three hour music video, if you completely ignore the substance of a movie. The only difference is, you can hide behind its reputation.

You can say you've seen it, you could even have watched it, saw all the pretty colors, and read up about it later, but I doubt Ran actually made any bit of impact on you. And just supporting the movie is enough: no one would double check you. They'd just congratulate you for liking the movie.

I actually agree with this. Not particularly against swiney, but in general.

The Sacrifice

And swineys sarcasm was noted.

[ie]

Thanks.

I noticed it too, but Double D's sarcasm was very forced, so it was not that effective.

[criterionmaster]

woman in the dunes.... let's get this going again!

[blackmoses]

Yes get this back up! asap!!

[captainofbeef]

Jesus, I don't even know if I have these brackets anymore. I'll recreate them and get this going soon.

[blackmoses]

Good!!

[captainofbeef]

Well, Sacrifice wins 2-1. Next one up in a bit, fuck the pictures and descriptions though, I'm just gonna put seed and movie name.

[captainofbeef]

Round 2
Battle 89
Southeast region
3 seed
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)

vs.

14 seed
Akira (Otomo)

[captainofbeef]

Passion of Joan of Arc...

[PTAhole]

Passion of Joan of Arc

[criterionmaster]

passion of joan of arc, definitely.

[captainofbeef]

Passion of Joan of Arc wins 3-0.

[captainofbeef]

Round 2
Battle 90
Northwest region (Bracket 1)
4 seed
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)

vs.

5 seed
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)

[captainofbeef]

Princess Mononoke...

[ie]

Princess Mononoke

[PTAhole]

Princess Mononoke

[captainofbeef]

Mononoke wins 3-0. Next one up soon...

[captainofbeef]

Round 2
Battle 91
Southwest region (Bracket 1)
4 seed
Fallen Angels (Kar Wai)

vs.
5 seed
The Grand Illusion (Renoir)

[captainofbeef]

Grand Illusion, though I haven't seen Fallen Angels.

[PTAhole]

I haven't seen Grand Illusion still, but Fallen Angels is fantastic. I won't vote, though.

[criterionmaster]

Fallen Angels. Grand Illusion was a technically good movie, but I would never watch it again. There are much better prison escape movies.

[blackmoses]

Can't vote

[captainofbeef]

Fallen Angels wins 2-1, then I guess.

[blackmoses]

Where's the fucking next battle!!

[captainofbeef]

Round 2
Battle 92
Northwest region (Bracket 2)
5 seed
Stalker (Tarkovsky)

vs.
4 seed
Jules and Jim (Truffaut)