Post by Toasted Cheese on Feb 21, 2020 1:29:18 GMT
How does one define boring though? It is all subjective. A film can have plenty of visuals and pyrotechnic action and be as boring as f<>k like I found Transformers: The Last Knight - 17' and more recently Avengers: Endgame - 19' to be. Many people thought these films cool and non-boring.
It is about what one relates too. I can love a great period film like Howard's End - 92' and Remains Of The Day - 93' . I find nothing boring about these films, they just unfolds at a leisurely pace. Many people WOULD find these films boring, because they won't connect with them and are slow. I do find Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence - 93' a bit boring, although there is much to admire, because I don't find the characters as appealing or interesting as the Merchant Ivory films I mentioned. It doesn't grab me in the same way.
Messages also depend on the delivery and what one connects with as well. I enjoyed 12 Strong - 18' because it was well made. It was biased in the extreme and with archetypal representation of the Taliban without any depth, but this was Hollyweird's pandering to right wing militant mentalities for box office dollars. The US are hero's because they all survived, at the expense of a massive Afghani slaughter that they left in their wake and it was RaRa nationalistic, imperialistic pride, flag waving stuff. It was like a conjoined reboot of Rambo 2 & 3, centered around a true story this time.
It is about what one relates too. I can love a great period film like Howard's End - 92' and Remains Of The Day - 93' . I find nothing boring about these films, they just unfolds at a leisurely pace. Many people WOULD find these films boring, because they won't connect with them and are slow. I do find Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence - 93' a bit boring, although there is much to admire, because I don't find the characters as appealing or interesting as the Merchant Ivory films I mentioned. It doesn't grab me in the same way.
Messages also depend on the delivery and what one connects with as well. I enjoyed 12 Strong - 18' because it was well made. It was biased in the extreme and with archetypal representation of the Taliban without any depth, but this was Hollyweird's pandering to right wing militant mentalities for box office dollars. The US are hero's because they all survived, at the expense of a massive Afghani slaughter that they left in their wake and it was RaRa nationalistic, imperialistic pride, flag waving stuff. It was like a conjoined reboot of Rambo 2 & 3, centered around a true story this time.