'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Lemmy Caution]

Unfortunately, I think the riff on technical and legal writing was also rather flawed.

[Binker]

Definitely. While I can get behind the sentiment to a certain degree, that little rant is down-right senseless in parts.

[Kirkinson]

[swo17]

Tim Burton's best movie since James and the Giant Peach!

[Matt]

Poor Henry Selick.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Geez, is it that hard to put "Henry" in that little space occupied by "Tim"? Selick and Burton have the same number of letters.

[Zumpano]

Geez, is it that hard to put "Henry" in that little space occupied by "Tim"? Selick and Burton have the same number of letters.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rediculousness is that Tim Burton is in no way affiliated with Coraline.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

I thought it was rediculous because they obviously never looked at the credits for producers and director for the film.

[domino harvey]

From the DVDBeaver review of Gandhi

Gandhi had some incredible cinematography for its time - over 25-years ago.

[Kirkinson]

The community college I work at is screening Three Times next week and the student newspaper had this to say about it:

Maybe just one time

Hou Hsiao-Hsien has created some masterpieces in his career however, “Three Times” doesn’t make the cut. This movie has powerful and touching moments as well as times where the audience is just waiting for something to happen.

“Three Times” as the title implies is comprised of three different parts. Each part follows the lives of a couple that falls in love and deals with the problems of the era.

Each section incorporates the era and the overall feel of the period well.

The main problem was the length of some of the shots. It took a long time to complete simple shots of a person walking. This at times took me out of the movie experience and only annoyed me.

In movies as in all entertainment the audience sees only what the director wishes and at times the audience and the director may not see eye to eye which is what I believe happened here. Even though the onscreen action may be slow the music is top notch.

Overall, it’s touching story about love as it crosses into new eras. With a few changes it could have been better. But for what it is I give it a C.

Jonathan Rosenbaum is introducing the screening and leading a discussion afterwards. The head of our film department thinks this review is hilarious and can't wait to show it to him.

[MichaelB]

Jonathan Rosenbaum is introducing the screening and leading a discussion afterwards. The head of our film department thinks this review is hilarious and can't wait to show it to him.

That's given me flashbacks to a time when Lindsay Anderson took apart something I'd written during a live event. Fortunately, it was an unsigned programme note, so I wasn't actually named - and it wasn't anything like as bad as what you quoted! But I'd committed what Anderson considered was the crime of alleging that If... was inspired by Vigo's Zéro de Conduite, which he claimed was rubbish.

The fact that he was introducing a screening of the Vigo film and had accepted the invitation to introduce said film despite - apparently - having no connection with it was neither here nor there. But Anderson was a notorious contrarian, so in a way I feel weirdly flattered.

[Cinetwist]

If... was quite clearly inspired by Zero for Conduct, whether Anderson admits it or not. How many other anarchist boarding school films are there to be inspired by? Not to mention he listed it as his no. 1 on the S&S poll.

How strange. Did he think he was kidding anyone?

[MichaelB]

I don't imagine anyone in the audience believed him for a second - but Anderson isn't the kind of person you pick a public fight with, especially not over a subject like his own influences, where he's obviously the only person with ultimate authority. Out of all the British film celebs I had to deal with when hosting such events in the early 1990s, the only one who was as intimidating as Anderson was Leo Marks, screenwriter of Peeping Tom - though in both cases, I think it was very much part of a conscious public persona: I suspect they were probably quite shy behind the scenes.

But I absolutely agree with you - I don't think I wrote anything remotely inaccurate in that piece, and I doubt anyone else would have been minded to challenge it.

[Cinetwist]

I can imagine Leo Marks being intimidating! He was a spy during the war and wrote 3 screenplays, two of which were about seriously pscychotic young men.

[J Wilson]

This seems like the appropriate thread for Entertainment Weekly's recent list of the top 25 directors working today...

25. JON FAVREAU
24. PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
23. PAUL GREENGRASS
22. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
21. ANG LEE
20. RON HOWARD
19. CLINT EASTWOOD
18. DANNY BOYLE
17. DARREN ARONOFSKY
16. ZACK SNYDER
15. SAM RAIMI
14. JUDD APATOW
13. TIM BURTON
12. DAVID FINCHER
11. GUILLERMO DEL TORO
10. JOEL AND ETHAN COEN
09. JAMES CAMERON
08. MICHAEL MANN
07. QUENTIN TARANTINO
06. RIDLEY SCOTT
05. STEVEN SODERBERGH
04. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
03. MARTIN SCORSESE
02. PETER JACKSON
01. STEVEN SPIELBERG

[JonathanM]

Peter Jackson?

Sod director-as-auteur, we have now reached the age of director-as-guy-who-calls-up-the-SFX-people-and-asks-if-they-want-coffee.

[knives]

Huh? When did QT become respected for his directing, when did Howard become respected, How can you explain the exclusion of people like Bela Tarr, Eric Rohme, and Park since there is at least one other non english director on there?

[miless]

oh EW... how could they forget David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Béla Tarr (although this one is understandable), Wong Kar-Wai, Terrence Malick(!), David Cronenberg, Carlos Reygadas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Alain Resnais, Werner Herzog, Andrzej Wajda, Jim Jarmusch, etc... but wait, it's EW and they have no idea what art is.

It really ends up reading like a "top grossing living directors" list.

[Matt]

Is there a different James Cameron than the Discovery Channel director who hasn't released a feature film for a dozen years? But thumbs up on the Mexican and Chinese dudes; hooray for diversity.

[swo17]

To EW's credit, that list does convey rather eloquently the fact that nothing of any substance whatsoever can ever be gleaned from an issue of Entertainment Weekly.

[arsonfilms]

Is there a different James Cameron than the Discovery Channel director who hasn't released a feature film for a dozen years? But thumbs up on the Mexican and Chinese dudes; hooray for diversity.

Pedro Almodovar is Chinese?

[swo17]

I believe Matt was referring to Danny Boyle. (He's so ethnic!)

[dx23]

Zach Snyder #-o ](*,) . EW forgot to put Visionary Director Zach Snyder

[domino harvey]

Rape Auteur Zack Snyder

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Almodovar at #24 is a freaking insult. At least Mann made it to the top ten. What's it say that he's sandwiched between Cameron and QT though?