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Great idea for a list, this’ll be interesting to say the least.
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Is this an entry a day list or an entry a week?
All right, so far I love the premise of this new list. Pushing film discussion the hard way now, are we?
Silence of the Lambs honestly is a film I never spent too much time critically analyzing. I do not, however, agree that it is a bland film. The look and tone of the film fit the ugly, fetid, lurid tone of the material. While I find many of the aspects of the story to be a bit far-fetched, the film is delivered in a way that works to sell it well enough.
If anything I like living in a world where a horror film was best picture, for what thats worth.
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Personally I’ve always felt that Hopkins was almost…cartoonish, I guess, in the role compared to what Brian Cox gave us in Manhunter which I also consider to be a much more engrossing movie overall. Though that could just be my Michael Mann bias talking.
Gotta side with Jeremy. This is a perfectly-pitched piece of entertainment that knows exactly what it’s doing every step of the way. Just because some wrong-headed sorts decided that it’s higher-brow art than it really is doesn’t diminish its actual accomplishment. It’s one of the all-time great horror films, despite non-horror fans’ attempts to avoid classifying it as such. It isn’t ashamed of what it is. Nobody who enjoys it should be either.
I still love this film. It’s latched deep into my childhood. And I still think Hopkins gave a perfect performance. Some parts were indeed quite corny. Everything about the last 15 minutes were great, though.
DEEP INSIGHT!
Can’t wait for Fight Club. Maybe Sin City? Scarface? These are my only guesses I can gather from my own collection.
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I’m hoping for Equilibrium, personally.
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| Originally Posted by Greg David View Post Gotta side with Jeremy. This is a perfectly-pitched piece of entertainment that knows exactly what it’s doing every step of the way. Just because some wrong-headed sorts decided that it’s higher-brow art than it really is doesn’t diminish its actual accomplishment. It’s one of the all-time great horror films, despite non-horror fans’ attempts to avoid classifying it as such. It isn’t ashamed of what it is. Nobody who enjoys it should be either. |
This times 2.
Gotta side with Nick on this one.
taking into account the given Chud definition of “overblown”, i’ll go with this first pick. i saw Silence Of The Lambs last halloween for the first time in years and was kind of underwhelmed by what i had remembered as something that really rose above genre conventions into a bonafide classic by any standard. the psychological aspect wasn’t near as taut as i had recalled, and in the end, to use jeremy’s words, it really is a glorified B-movie. not that i’m complaining. between nick’s insistence that Silence has sort of become the one-stop-shopping pick for procedural/thriller/psychological madness, and jeremy’s statement regarding it as “expertly crafted Hollywood entertainment”, the movie is summed up. it’s a good flick, but it doesn’t deserve the status carelessly heaped on it.
i’m going to love seeing what comes up on this list for sure. kudos once again to all you guys for dreaming this thing up. even on a site like this, cinephiles need their knuckles rapped every once in a while.
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You’ve probably made several geeks cry, Nick. Hope you’re happy!
If anything, I give Nick credit for pointing out the uberhate some people throw at Hannibal and Red Dragon as the misguided thing it is. Ultimately, though, Jeremy wins this round.
There’s a lot of procedurals, thrillers, and brilliant madness in film history, yeah. It’s still one of the better ones, and a lot of that is due to Demme keeping his film on as taut a leash as he can, knowing when to and when not to go for broke with the more outrageous moments of the novel. And being able to rein Thomas Harris’ bullshit in at times is what raises it above, say, Manhunter.
I know for a fact Fight Club’s in here somewhere. I can’t fucking wait for that shitstorm.