controversial movie/book/non-metal music opinions thread

[Death Aflame]

Forrest Gump is up there with V for Vendetta in the mindless, half-baked, who-cares-if-it-makes-sense-or-not-as-long-as-it-looks-flashy childrens movies department.

Comparing V for Vendetta with Forrest Gump? Can't say I have seen that before.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Forrest Gump was...flashy?!

Sure, for its time. Big production etc. The CGI stuff in it looks so unbelievably lame now though.

 

[The Butt]

Forrest Gump is a great movie; you guys need to shove sand down the eye of yer cocks.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

...the CGI...was...wait, what the fuck?

 

[Satanstoenail]

...the CGI...was...wait, what the fuck?

Yes the CGI. Y'know, the parts where they put Hanks in old news footage and television shows and tried to make it look like he was talking with Kennedy, Lennon etc.? That was early CGI. And it looks really shit.

 

[XSASweet]

Forrest Gump is up there with V for Vendetta in the mindless, half-baked, who-cares-if-it-makes-sense-or-not-as-long-as-it-looks-flashy childrens movies department.

V For Vendetta didn't make sense? What was so confusing about it?

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Classical music is overrated as hell, it's a very narrow style when it comes to which kind of feelings it can bring forth. Most people who listen to it come across as geeks with sticks in their asses you want to punch.

@ 'very narrow style when it comes to which kind of feelings it can bring forth'. Only someone who is themselves emotionally shallow would say something like that.

 

[Blind Guardian]

It can't bring forth the feeling of riding on the highway in the sunset with a cig in your mouth like a cool blues song can, by that i'm not slagging the entire thing off of course, but to me there's superior music. How many of you actually listen to classical music? It's something many like to say to seem sofisticated but very few actually do.

 

[DarkBliss]

The pomposity of fans doesn't bother me(it's prevalent in fanbases of any art), but yea, I also don't listen to any classical music. I'm just never in the mood for it.

 

[challenge_everything]

Classical music is far far more emotionally diverse and rich than blues (which I still love mind you). I wouldn't be as arrogant as to say it's the pinnacle of music, but I've heard very few works from any other genre that approach the sheer beauty and sadness of Gorecki or Chopin, the epicness of Mahler or Wagner, or the virtuosity of Rachmaninov or Paganini.

 

[Blind Guardian]

I understand how people find it beautiful and majestic and whatever, but there's no equivalence in classical music to the beauty of a down to earth stripped down Nick Drake song, simplistic and honest. The lack of down to earth-ness is what turns me off.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

btw i've decided i hate people who think 'there will be blood' is a better film than 'no country for old men'.

 

[challenge_everything]

I understand how people find it beautiful and majestic and whatever, but there's no equivalence in classical music to the beauty of a down to earth stripped down Nick Drake song, simplistic and honest. The lack of down to earth-ness is what turns me off.

Of course there is an equivalent. You haven't looked hard enough.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Equivalent in how beautiful someone would find it sure, but not equivalent in musical mentality, like a Shakespeare play compared to a Kubrick movie, where the first has a much more dramatic tone and the latter is more laid back.

 

[challenge_everything]

Why not? There are plenty of well-known classical pieces, leaving aside more obscure ones, which are a simple, beautiful piano or string melody. Not everything is symphonic and complex.

 

[Blind Guardian]

italian horror is the best

Lucio Fulci rapes, his zombie movies have always striked me as more dirty and disgusting than others.

 

[Zephyrus]

my opinion is that you should fuck off to the autism online boards and stop clogging up this one with your especially serious and pretentious brand of faggotry

Sorry, I didn't notice that the thread title included movies.

 

[challenge_everything]

Lucio Fulci rapes, his zombie movies have always striked me as more dirty and disgusting than others.

they're artless, tactless horror porn.

 

[Blind Guardian]

And that's what's great about them, mindless fun. A girl puking her inside out, what more can you ask for?

 

[challenge_everything]

You like art that is artless?