Thats all i can say.
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Towelie_Towel — 16 years ago(October 09, 2009 09:54 AM)
Yeah "Fetus's", I guess that's what I am. Even though Metropolis is 20 years older than this and I don't find it boring, in fact, it's one of my favorite films. Same goes for Chaplin, or M, or It Happened One Night, or Mutiny on the Bounty, or any Hitchcock film like Rebecca and The Lady Vanishes or Lifeboat.
You're right, Brief Encounter is not just a bunch of two dimensional characters talking like they have no life, with pointless and corny dialogue.
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DreadedPestilence — 16 years ago(October 10, 2009 07:48 AM)
"Yeah "Fetus's", I guess that's what I am. Even though Metropolis blah blah."
to be fair mate you jumped in front of a bullet there. lol, metropolis was pretty cool. cheers, i was looking for something to download for this afternoon. nice and artsy. ARTsy, not to be confused witherm whatever this falls under. lighthearted romancertainment or some crap. anyway, i'm just sayin there's no comparison between the two. yeah, it was probly wrong to bring the age of the film into direct play. hell, nosferatu is a fave of mine, far superior to brief encounter, because it's a completely different style. generic romcoms and lighthearted dramas and the like are inherently rubbish next to epics and masterpieces by weirdy beardy's like lang or lynch, or hitcock apparently, coen, Mamoru Oshii, tarkovsky, blah bah but some are better than others. law of averages i guess. -
smith-684 — 16 years ago(October 26, 2009 02:50 AM)
I agreed with you until you trashed Transformers in such a silly way. What happened? You were going great guns and then you stooped to the silly children responses we are all getting so sick of and that make us wish we had a more mature, even paid, site to read about movies and comment.
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DreadedPestilence — 16 years ago(February 08, 2010 10:56 AM)
Smith 684 - fair point, i did kinda go off on a needless one with the whole michael bay thing, think i may have been drunk or something. i still believe it, but i didn't have to say it. so, apologies for rant. but honestly, can anyone name a decent bay film?? (lol, sorry. did it again!)
everyone - and what's so wrong with simplicity? there are enough explosions, deaths, ghosts, plot twists and just pure crazy in plenty other films out there, and i'm not saying these things are bad, but when you blow something up or kill someone every 5 minutes it soon loses it's charm. a nice easy film is a refreshing change. farenheit 451 for example. relatively simple/linear, but a good film all the same.
yes, there are thousands of films far superior to this, but who builds their opinions on other peoples? besides, most polls and what-have-you are predetermined anyway so i wouldn't take it too personally
i honestly think this film, for what it is and for the time it comes from, is far from "bad and boring".
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lewis-51 — 15 years ago(July 24, 2010 09:42 PM)
This is a superb film and as far from boring as any movie ever made. My wife and I were absolutely riveted while watching it.
May I hazard a guess that the people who find it boring are rather young? Maybe, female and under 30, male and under 40?
You'll grow up eventually.- henry
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Jewels200987 — 15 years ago(July 27, 2010 09:55 AM)
I LOVE this film and I'm a 22yr old female. I shouldn't love it though and I'm really surprised that I do because I generally have a really poor attention span and don't like these types of movies. I think if I hadn't watched it from start to finish then I would have come out with the impression of it being really boring. I rarely watch films from start to finish. I first saw parts of the film in film class a few years ago and bought it recently just because I wanted to see the "grit in the eye" bit again! I didn't know I was going to really enjoy the whole film.
I can't stop watching it (although that's usually what I do when I like a film-watch it everyday for about a week!). My mum on the other hand found it "ok" but doesn't get why I like it so much. I can't explain why I like it so much either, I just do! -
DreadedPestilence — 15 years ago(March 22, 2011 08:33 AM)
@ Lewis_51
a little stereotypical fella. i first saw this when i was about 15, really enjoyed it. (indeed, my favorite film was Alien then too, lol). my sister liked it too, she's only 3 years older than i.
i can understand why some people wouldn't rate it. it is quite linear, and there are no explosions. what i don't get is why these people can't just say "It's not really my bag" instead of "it's beep that's probably one of the most common symptoms of an inflated ego, one thinking something's not good, just because it's not to ones taste.
lets face it, you're not gonna be offended by this, it's the most inoffensive film i've ever seen. even with the male stereotype (cos us blokes can take a joke
((that was a joke, females 
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my point being, it's not a beep film, it's probly just not your bag.
another good one from the same period is 'the dark mirror'. the attitude of the detective is questionable, but it all makes for an entertaining sunday arvo watch.
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Tchoutoye — 13 years ago(March 05, 2013 10:38 AM)
This mundane, romantic drivel, depicting nothing more than schoolgirl escapism, has to be one of the most overrated films of all time. It has no redeeming elements whatsoever, not even Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto which was used more effectively in The Seven Year Itch. The redundant voice over narration merely tells what we already see; if it serves any purpose, it's to annoy audiences with the character's suburban shallowness.
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michael_wallace_ellwood — 12 years ago(August 24, 2013 04:07 PM)
If it is not to people's taste, then fair enough. We all have our own particular taste in films.
But to say it is actually bad means that you haven't watched it enough times.
To appreciate all the good points about it requires several viewings, with an open mind, and probably a gap in between.
There is a lot of symbolism, hidden or suggested meanings, and some quite clever film technique (especially for its time, and made under wartime conditions).
On the DVD version I have, there is a very interesting documentary about the film, including some of the people who helped to make it. Worth seeing.
The BFI Classic Films book by Richard Dyer is also worth reading, although I don't go along with all his comments.
Far from being a bad film, it is an almost perfect film.
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DaVooz — 12 years ago(November 04, 2013 07:37 AM)
Well, some of the acting was bad - why do actors in that time particulary and still insist on playing a simple minded character with a crazy and annoying voicevoice
But imo it's a good theme and a good story - in fact I think the characters behaved pretty decent. A David Lean picture is always worth watching.
BTW: where did all the smart people go on IMDb?? I mean smart and interesting, not 13-year old smart. I hardly read any interesting remarks anymore, just the basic stupid impulsive YouTube short remarks and "shocking" replies.
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