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drexl-8 — 18 years ago(March 19, 2008 03:03 AM)
Stanton, thank God someone else has mentioned this. I am a movie nut and love all genres.
However, as sad I as I am that a fellow Brit filmmaker has passed away, the irrefutable fact remains that I loathed and nearly passionately despised each and every one of his incalculable, insufferably tedious movies, one after another. He was my all-time least favourite director, and now I'm going to have to find a new one!
I don't take joy in someone dying, and afterall he was a craftsman just trying to make a differnce in the art world. But I do let out a slight sigh of relief that I won't be seeing anymore work from him.
It is a shame, and I do feel slightly bad about it. But the man's movies; his style, his decisions on story and his direction were very much not to my taste. -
techno2000 — 18 years ago(March 19, 2008 04:52 AM)
i think its just with some people they just dont like the types of films he made. but surely you can see his talent. he may have made two romantic epics which with most men just hate the genre and cant get over that which is just stupid. they where not chessy silly rom coms they where proper cinematic films.
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drexl-8 — 18 years ago(March 19, 2008 06:46 AM)
Well, just because I don't like any of the man's films doesn't mean I don't recognise his contribution to cinema. The Academy saw fit to award The English Patient - a terminable bore of a movie - its highest accolade.
And I don't have a problem at all witht he genres he was working with. Mr. Rpley was more a thriller than, say, Truly Madly Deeply's social love drama. I love ALL genres, personally but my problem was with the films themselve: the approach and overall enjoyability of the movies. I got them,c ertainly, but thought they weren't great. I guess Minghella was too soft, or not so disciplined, as a director when you look at his films closely. A sharper director may have toned up/down on the material and found a way to make them more interesting or entertaining.
Obviously the guy had talent, and more obviously I am squarely in the minority. I just didn't find the talent I was so striving to see. But now he's dead, I won't posthumously revisit his movies. Now that he's dead I won't jump on the bandwagon that always happens and marvel at how great he was. He may have been a fantastic person in reality, and a great family man. But his films really just didn't captivate me at all. -
WarmSemenCannon — 11 years ago(February 03, 2015 01:01 PM)
The English Patient was one of the worst Best Picture winners in my opinion - and the second most boring next to Out of Africa.
I liked The Talented Mr Ripley though, and haven't seen Cold Mountain yet.