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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10541 Posts
February 09 2005 17:03 GMT
#21
Its an absolute utter crap as a movie...

but very entretaining and a must see only because there isnt a movie as violent as Battle royale....


It would be cool a hollywood produced one
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BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
February 09 2005 17:14 GMT
#22
Are you guys comparing it to LOTF simply because it's about kids on an island? There's so little else similar about the two that I don't even know why it's being brought up. BR is a stylish bloodsploitation film. While it's fun to watch, it's a VERY superficial movie. The film has a very good premise, but doesn't know how to adequately handle what it's stumbled upon. It never really says anything important about our primal nature. I know a few people who purport it to be a deep tale about love, human nature and the fight for survival. It's true that all these thematic elements exist in the movie, but they never go anywhere substantial.

Half way through this movie, you know exactly what's going to happen. Sure, it's cool to actually watch it unfold with Fukasaku's (RIP) cool visuals, but afterwards it just felt entirely too predictable.
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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10541 Posts
February 09 2005 17:21 GMT
#23
i wonder how the guy who chose the bag with the tea pot felt :p
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Resonate
Profile Joined October 2002
United Kingdom8402 Posts
February 09 2005 17:21 GMT
#24
i love that film =]
Memory lane in nice
gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
February 09 2005 17:29 GMT
#25
Brood. If it's superficial, it's only because you're use to swimming in the shallow end. The depth of this movie are many fathoms beyond what the average film buff can comprehend. It's a tale of love and compassion-locked up in a not so implausible premise. If the philosophical meanderings escape you then you can blame that on the pretentious Hollywood drivel that abjectly fail to honestly portray the dark side of human behaviour.

I like BR because it's engagingly self-opposed-it doesn't let you take it too seriously but it never lets you forget the brutal honesty of the needs that take root in our primeval desires.
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
February 09 2005 17:49 GMT
#26
On February 10 2005 02:29 gg_hertzz wrote:
Brood. If it's superficial, it's only because you're use to swimming in the shallow end. The depth of this movie are many fathoms beyond what the average film buff can comprehend. It's a tale of love and compassion-locked up in a not so implausible premise. If the philosophical meanderings escape you then you can blame that on the pretentious Hollywood drivel that abjectly fail to honestly portray the dark side of human behaviour.

I like BR because it's engagingly self-opposed-it doesn't let you take it too seriously but it never lets you forget the brutal honesty of the needs that take root in our primeval desires.


Hahahahaha. Good lord, don't quit your day job, Ebert. Do you really think sticking kids on an island with weapons and forcing them to kill each other has anything to do with depth and "philosophical meanderings"? This wasn't a bold statement about human nature, or the will to survive, it was typical, spoonfed, bullshit posturing that people like you eat up in fistfulls. Love and compassion? The brutal honesty of the needs that take root in our primeval desires? Sure thing, and Dude, Where's My Car? is about a teenager's eternal, futile struggle for universal approval.

You don't know me, or what I watch, so save the half-witted jabs for your fellow mathletes. If you honestly found "depths" of meaning in this film, it's only because you're the one who has absolutely no conception of how a great film can convey emotion. I don't blame you for being ignorant, but I do when you go out of your way to be a dick about something you obviously have no frame of reference for.
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gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-02-09 18:27:24
February 09 2005 18:24 GMT
#27
What's your idea of a good movie? Excellent lighting and a script rife with obscure witticism?
I don't know what you watch, but from what you've written, you sound like an uppity pup waiting for a citizen kane prequal. And since when did emotion, or the provocation of it, become the yardstick for good cinema? BR portrays a raw microcosm of society. Plain and simple. If anything, it's an ATYPICAL movie-and that's what people appreciate about it.

Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28728 Posts
February 09 2005 18:31 GMT
#28
haha

it's entertaining but not good
I watched it with my class in school
:D
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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10541 Posts
February 09 2005 18:31 GMT
#29
I think the movie could be very very deep with good acting and reactions of the teenagers, ofcourse the fact of putting teenagers in an island with random weapons will totally make it loose any depth because there isnt any realistic reason for that to happen.
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Muhweli
Profile Joined September 2002
Finland5328 Posts
February 09 2005 18:33 GMT
#30
I heard there's also been a release of a book from Lord of the Rings!!! Anyone read it yet?
River me timbers.
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
February 09 2005 18:47 GMT
#31
Ordinarily, I'd let a snotty little bitch like you wallow in his ignorance, but you're a real dick, so I'll break it down for you.

On February 10 2005 03:24 gg_hertzz wrote:
What's your idea of a good movie? Excellent lighting and a script rife with obscure witticism?
Mindless stab in the dark #1. If you're going to be condescending, it usually helps to have some basis for your idiotic claims.
I don't know what you watch, but from what you've written, you sound like an uppity pup waiting for a citizine kane prequal.
Mindless stab #2. An uppity pup? Nice slam, gramps. That said, any shred of credibilty flies out the window when you take jabs at Citizen Kane. I know you'd love to believe you're the only person who understands the poor, tortured foreign directors whose lofty ideas fly over us silly roundeye Americans, and we all fawn over American cinema needlessly, but you really just look like an arrogant cocksucker.
And since when did emotion, or the provocation of it, become the yardstick for good cinema?
Only since the beginning of narrative film, as anyone with any basis in film study would tell you.
BR portrays a raw microcosm of society. Plain and simple.
So do countless other films. I guess Mean Girls rocketed to the top of your list too, huh?
If anything, it's an ATYPICAL movie-and that's what people appreciate about it.
Oh, well there's a reason to give give it a A++ if I've ever heard one! Hurray for something being marginally different!

The only depths I can't fathom here are the ones you'll go to to prove you're smart. Pity all you're doing is spouting shit you can't back up because you don't understand it.
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Luhh
Profile Joined October 2003
Sweden2974 Posts
February 09 2005 18:57 GMT
#32
Let's send Brood and GG_Hertzz to a small deserted island with a bag each!!!

ahahahaha...
I wouldn´t call him stupid, but let´s just say he´s unlucky when thinking...
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
February 09 2005 18:59 GMT
#33
Haha, I could beat him with the pot lid =]
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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10541 Posts
February 09 2005 19:00 GMT
#34
On February 10 2005 03:59 BroOd wrote:
Haha, I could beat him with the pot lid =]


lol
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Luhh
Profile Joined October 2003
Sweden2974 Posts
February 09 2005 19:03 GMT
#35
On February 10 2005 03:59 BroOd wrote:
Haha, I could beat him with the pot lid =]


Would you cheese rush him with some replay of earl grey you saw or will you go bamboo green teah fast push?

Perhaps hop in the pot and wall yourself in is the safest opening.. I dunno.
I wouldn´t call him stupid, but let´s just say he´s unlucky when thinking...
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
February 09 2005 19:05 GMT
#36
I think I'd just use mind control. Doesn't look like it would be too hard.
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gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
February 09 2005 19:36 GMT
#37
I can't form a basis if you're going to keep on pussy-footing around a progressive argument. All you're doing is telling me how I'm making untenable claims and then calling me these cleverly termed insults like 'cocksucker' and punctuating every sentence with gratuitous buzzwords like 'slam' and 'gramps'.

If you're going to be condescending, it usually helps to have some basis for your idiotic claims.


Yeah, that's powerfully put. It's funny that you should mention condescension but then go on to discredit my taste in movies.

Haha, I could beat him with the pot lid


Just make sure you don't swing too hard-you might hit the kettle on the back burner.

An uppity pup? Nice slam, gramps. That said, any shred of credibilty flies out the window when you take jabs at Citizen Kane


And all my doubts of you being a film student, formal or not, has completed dissipated. I don't care if you think you know more about the ligaments of a movie more intimately than the rest of us, you still don't have a right to tell me what I can and can't interpret from a movie. You can tell me if a movie had good lighting, appropriate seques and casting-but only when hell becomes the frozen tundra will you have the right to tell me what I'm suppose to feel and what message I'm suppose to get from a movie.

I know you'd love to believe you're the only person who understands the poor, tortured foreign directors whose lofty ideas fly over us silly roundeye Americans, and we all fawn over American cinema needlessly, but you really just look like an arrogant cocksucker



Insinuations and inferences. Believe it if you think it makes your argument stronger.

So do countless other films. I guess Mean Girls rocketed to the top of your list too, huh?


Clever. Well, not really-since it's just a rehash of every other joke you've managed to churn out in this pitiful rant. Tell me, during film study, did they ever cover the units that dealt with the positive qualities of originality or were those lecture notes lost and buried?

The only depths I can't fathom here are the ones you'll go to to prove you're smart


Do you even read the things that you write? You sound like stringent snob with a penchant for mindless frenzies.

CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
February 09 2005 19:55 GMT
#38
i liked battle royale, i thought it was pretty funny.
if you ask me, it was all that fat kid with crossbow's fault.
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11586 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-02-09 20:01:30
February 09 2005 20:01 GMT
#39

Battle Royale is a cheesy have fun movie, if it has any depth or whatever, i missed it but anyone who can't enjoy a cheesy have fun movie needs to get their shit loosened up.

And this is coming from a film study geek... cept I haven't really had time to keep up with cinema as of late.
POWER OVERWHELMING ! ! ! KRUU~ KRUU~
kandyman
Profile Joined December 2004
Swaziland665 Posts
February 09 2005 20:17 GMT
#40
let people make their own decision about if they see any depht in this movie or just watched it totally stoned and just for fun...sometimes im in the mood to watch a real good movie with a story which forms the framework, but sometimes im not...so live in PEACE & HARMONY!!!!!
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