DDD's Favourite Films - Updates/New Lists due May 31st

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:42 am

i can only heavily support altman love. you got around to California Split yet?

Deany · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:22 am

Not yet, but I will. I'm really busy right now though, so it might be a while.

Paulie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:52 pm

I would like to add Steel Magnolias and Surviving the Game to my liszt please

monga18 · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:05 am **Posts:** 5723

Sodacake wrote:

I think mainly I like that the Nazi's are portrayed in a more sympathetic light than in Schindler's List.

Wait what the fuck is this shit

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14690

monga18 wrote:

Sodacake wrote:

I think mainly I like that the Nazi's are portrayed in a more sympathetic light than in Schindler's List.

Wait what the fuck is this shit

Meaning they aren't cartoon villains. The cartoon villainous portrayal of the Nazis in Schindler's List (and also relatedly in Saving Private Ryan) is one of the things that makes it nauseatingly maudlin and the most overrated great film of all time.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 12:45 pm

^ What he said.

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 1:19 pm

An overstatement, but I agree that it is overrated. There are more overrated greats than that one. Gone With the Wind comes to mind...

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4165

for Led, and anyone else who has seen the movie "12"... proof that dancing with weapons is very much a real tradition among chechens and other north caucasian cultures...

hint: there are not guys you'd want to mess with... :lol:

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5805

pave · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:49 pm

PBR Streetgang wrote:

In no way is The Pianist a better film, though.

The Pianist imo is a much more personal, less manipulative, and more aesthetically beautiful movie in terms of pacing, narrative and cinematography. when he sits down at that piano, the next few minutes have more emotional weight for me than all of Schindler's List.

boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 10814

monga18 wrote:

Sodacake wrote:

I think mainly I like that the Nazi's are portrayed in a more sympathetic light than in Schindler's List.

Wait what the fuck is this shit

He's not the only person here who who complains about that. :lol:

I came down hard on DDD over this a while back. I pretty much straight up called everyone who made that criticism a Nazi sympathizer, and wouldn't let it go for quite some time.

pave · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:04 pm

its not about having sympathy for anyone. its about not painting anyone with broad strokes. all people have motives. doesn't make them right (relative to our own personal moral systems), and it doesn't mean we have to agree with them. but painting anybody in a real world situation as if they are a cartoon is ridiculously manipulative.

boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 10814

Still, George is soft for Nazis. Monga, please attack him on a personal level.

boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 10814

pave wrote:

its not about having sympathy for anyone. its about not painting anyone with broad strokes. all people have motives. doesn't make them right (relative to our own personal moral systems), and it doesn't mean we have to agree with them. but painting anybody in a real world situation as if they are a cartoon is ridiculously manipulative.

Here's something else about the real world you should know.

Some people deserve to be depicted that way.

Anyone who watches a movie about the fucking Holocaust and is seriously bugged about the fact that they didn't throw in some nicer Nazis can get fucked. Plain and simple.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4165

why does everyone continues to have a hardon for demonizing nazis? germany is an amazing and unique nation for the way it showed remorse and apology after the war. we should never forget what happened, but it's important to move on and get over it. continuing to feitishize and demonize them is moronic and only prolongs everyone's misery.

how about someone with real balls takes on the ottoman genocides of the early 20th century? millions of people perished, the turkish government continues to deny any wrongdoing to this day, and in fact claims that they're the victims. that is the very definition of "absurdity".
or relevant genocides that are going on today in africa and southeast asia?

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