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Film Snobs!!!

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  • #32
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Links234 wrote: »
    In all seriousness, I don't know which way to vote in the poll, I don't dislike blockbusters or whatever just for being popular, I've seen nearly all the Marvel universe movies in the cinema, adored the hell out of Pacific Rim and I've always got time for the latest Mission Impossible, but on the other hand I do love a lot of foreign movies too! And you know, a load of foreign language movies aren't snorefests either, The Raid 1 & 2 are better action movies than anything America has done in years.

    You can like a cheesy popcorn movie, AND enjoy foreign or arthouse cinema too.

    The fight in the kitchen at the end of Raid 2 (I think) is brilliant. Real Kitchen Hero stuff!


  • #33
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    MadDog76 wrote: »
    You're not a Movie Snob so ......... you can enjoy Citizen Kane and the Fast and Furious movies, they are not mutually exclusive.

    The snob would say he appreciates Citizen Kane even if he didn't actually like it and would automatically dismiss the Fast and Furious movies without even watching them.

    I've... I've never seen Citizen Kane or any of the Fast & Furious movies, neither interest me really. :o


  • #34
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    "If you say shawshank redemption is your favourite film you obviously know nothing about movies".
    Quote = Some Ballbag with a scarf and probably a goatie


  • #35
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    You're not a Movie Snob so ......... you can enjoy Citizen Kane and the Fast and Furious movies, they are not mutually exclusive.

    The snob would say he appreciates Citizen Kane even if he didn't actually like it and would automatically dismiss the Fast and Furious movies without even watching them.

    You wouldn't say that the trailers for Fast and Furious tell you everything you need to know to avoid them?


  • #36
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Links234 wrote: »
    I've... I've never seen Citizen Kane or any of the Fast & Furious movies, neither interest me really. :o

    But you did like Pacific Rim and The Raid ........ so you're ok. :)


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  • #37
    newacc2015
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    I adore foreign films as they are realistic. Literally every Hollywood "romantic" movie pretty much has same story line. Someone meets someone else. They hate each other but by the end of the 90 mins they have fallen deeply in love. You watch a European love Film and it might 3 hours long. Yet at the end of it you dont know whether he/she was "the one".

    I personally cant sit through a standard generic American love movie.


  • #38
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    MadDog76 wrote: »
    I think you should vote Yes in the poll ............

    I already did. Lol. Though I'm more of a film "snob" as in I'm picky about which films I like. I leave the dross like magic mike, homeland, 24 and 50 shades of sh&te to my girlfriend.


  • #39
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    MadsL wrote: »
    You wouldn't say that the trailers for Fast and Furious tell you everything you need to know to avoid them?

    The real question is what's your opinion of those people who did enjoy the Fast and Furious movies?


  • #40
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    The hangover. 40 year old virgin. Etc etc are surely children's films?
    My favourite film is le haine. (The hate) I wouldn't call myself a snob. I just have refined taste. I watch things like the fast and the furious but they are far from 'good' movies. Just mass appeal drivel.


  • #41
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    FortySeven wrote: »
    The hangover. 40 year old virgin. Etc etc are surely children's films?
    My favourite film is le haine. (The hate) I wouldn't call myself a snob. I just have refined taste. I watch things like the fast and the furious but they are far from 'good' movies. Just mass appeal drivel.

    Shots fired!

    I've been waiting an age to use that. :(


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  • #42
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    FortySeven wrote: »
    The hangover. 40 year old virgin. Etc etc are surely children's films?

    You'd show those to your children? :eek:


  • #43
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    FortySeven wrote: »
    The hangover. 40 year old virgin. Etc etc are surely children's films?
    My favourite film is le haine. (The hate) I wouldn't call myself a snob. I just have refined taste. I watch things like the fast and the furious but they are far from 'good' movies. Just mass appeal drivel.

    Please do not show your children The Hangover or The 40 Year Old Virgin .......... you would know that yourself if you watched them ......... you can also knock Ted off the kid's list.


  • #44
    Daisy03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Daisy03


    I hate film snobs and will judge a film based on the plot and quality of the acting.

    I have a friend that is reverse snob but is snobby about it, if you get me. She only likes romantic comedies and that is it. Anything else that is vaguely different is a no no. She doesn't like actions or dramas and heaven forbid it be a foreign film. If something isn't mainstream she won't even consider it. Once another friend and me convinced her to go see Inception and she still brings it up to this day.

    She is the exact same about music. In her opinion if it isnt in the top 20 or if a band aren't playing the O2 they can't be any good.


  • #45
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    MadDog76 wrote: »
    The real question is what's your opinion of those people who did enjoy the Fast and Furious movies?

    Sun reading, man u fan. Thinks violence is an answer to problems. Drinks too much. Probably misogynistic and racist tendencies. Low income, salt of the earf...Am I doing it right?


  • #46
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    The real question is what's your opinion of those people who did enjoy the Fast and Furious movies?

    I don't have one.

    People enjoy other types of art, music, food, places, sex, drugs, cars, and internet sites than me or you. Try not to let it spoil your day.


  • #47
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I will probably fall into this category as I dismiss movies without having seen them. Not so much 'that's obviously a load of crap' as 'I am sure I would not like it.'

    I like films that make me think. That's pretty much what I look for when choosing films.


    What is annoying also is the 'if you don't like Transformers you must be a snob' attitude.


  • #48
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Reverse snobbery is almost as bad tbh. If it's foreign/has subtitles/not lead by a famous actor some people wouldn't even consider it.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #49
    Figbiscuithead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭Figbiscuithead


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    The real question is what's your opinion of those people who did enjoy the Fast and Furious movies?

    This probably contradicts what I said previously but I think it's one thing to have an opinion on someone who likes what we consider to be crap films/music/tv but it's another thing completely to voice that opinion. We all judge but most of us manage to keep that judgement under wraps. Discounting people or labelling them arseholes for having different tastes to you is pretty unacceptable as well and is probably what you're trying to get at here. If a grown man of 40 told me his favourite band were Boyzone then by jiminey, I'd judge the hell out of him in my head but I'd be as nice as pie in person and we might even become friends. I wouldn't discount him as a person but I'd certainly label his taste in music as a heap of bollocks.


  • #50
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    There is one type of film goer I dispise though, a flatmate of mine once went to see Jagged Edge before me, came back and told me the ending. Stupid bitch.


  • #51
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    One thing you don't know is if would you enjoy the last Transformers movie or not ......... because you haven't seen it. :)

    I saw consistently in the reviews that the new woman was worse than Megan Fox and took the chance.


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  • #52
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    FortySeven wrote: »
    The hangover. 40 year old virgin. Etc etc are surely children's films?
    My favourite film is le haine. (The hate) I wouldn't call myself a snob. I just have refined taste. I watch things like the fast and the furious but they are far from 'good' movies. Just mass appeal drivel.

    The hangover caters for the age group that liked American pie and are now in their mid 30s. That and that 40 yr old Virgin are pure unadulterated crap. That's not me being a film snob. That's just reality.


  • #53
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Please do not show your children The Hangover or The 40 Year Old Virgin .......... you would know that yourself if you watched them ......... you can also knock Ted off the kid's list.

    I have seen them. With a horror in me I sat through them all. Not suitable for kids sure. Comedy though? It's a step removed from toilet humour. Give me a Coen brothers film any day.


  • #54
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    MadsL wrote: »
    There is one type of film goer I dispise though, a flatmate of mine once went to see Jagged Edge before me, came back and told me the ending. Stupid bitch.

    She was a spoiler. :pac:


  • #55
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    FortySeven wrote: »
    Sun reading, man u fan. Thinks violence is an answer to problems. Drinks too much. Probably misogynistic and racist tendencies. Low income, salt of the earf...Am I doing it right?

    Vote Yes please ........ :rolleyes:


  • #56
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Shots fired!

    I've been waiting an age to use that. :(

    Just one across the bow captain!


  • #57
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    MadsL wrote: »
    I don't have one.

    People enjoy other types of art, music, food, places, sex, drugs, cars, and internet sites than me or you. Try not to let it spoil your day.

    Couldn't agree more. :)


  • #58
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Daisy03 wrote: »
    I hate film snobs and will judge a film based on the plot and quality of the acting.

    I have a friend that is reverse snob but is snobby about it, if you get me. She only likes romantic comedies and that is it. Anything else that is vaguely different is a no no. She doesn't like actions or dramas and heaven forbid it be a foreign film. If something isn't mainstream she won't even consider it. Once another friend and me convinced her to go see Inception and she still brings it up to this day.

    She is the exact same about music. In her opinion if it isnt in the top 20 or if a band aren't playing the O2 they can't be any good.


    You have befriended Satan. Not that I'm judging.


  • #59
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Nodin wrote: »
    I saw consistently in the reviews that the new woman was worse than Megan Fox and took the chance.

    There's only one review I'll ever consider relevant to me .......... my own. :)


  • #60
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    FortySeven wrote: »
    I have seen them. With a horror in me I sat through them all. Not suitable for kids sure. Comedy though? It's a step removed from toilet humour. Give me a Coen brothers film any day.

    The Hangover made me laugh ......... I'm also a big fan of the Coen Brother's work .......... how is that even possible!??!!?!!! :confused:


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  • #61
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    No, I'll give any movie a chance ........ I actually like The Hangover movies!!!"
    It's worth pointing out that other countries are more than capable of making blockbusters and big, action-packed 'spectacle' movies also.

    This is the movie I said I had lined up to watch soon:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyfBfY_lLo


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