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#3501 Post by Lemmy Caution » Thu May 11, 2017 4:04 am

I would guess that should be: he often slept after taking cold showers. But it's hard to be certain what they were getting at. Cold showers are/were suggestive of trying to tamp down sexual urges. If the guy just preferred his shower water cold, it wouldn't seem worth mentioning on wiki.

I'm often surprised how poor the writing on wikipedia is.
A lot of people have trouble making coherent sentences.
Others display awkward styles.
I realize that some of the authors aren't native English speakers, but wiki-writing tends to be in a category of its own.

Science related articles can be frustratingly jargon-filled, to the point of incoherence.

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#3502 Post by tenia » Thu May 11, 2017 5:50 am

They don’t even have to be science-related. I’ve seen simple movie plots being absolute gibberish. Even simple sentences lack the proper syntax and punctuation.

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#3503 Post by Lemmy Caution » Thu May 11, 2017 10:34 am

And poor writing is only part of the problem. I've seen numerous times where the basic details of a film are wrong concerning the plot, character relationships, etc. You'd think that if someone was summarizing a film for all the world to see, that they'd be pretty familiar with the film and try to make sure basic information is correct.

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#3504 Post by Banasa » Thu May 11, 2017 10:55 am

If I recall, I know some members of criterionforum had their hands in editing Wikipedia. A lot of it is pretty bad, especiall when it comes to pop culture, but there are some that are fairly cohesive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... drama#Film

The majority of Branded to Kill article was written by old forum member Doctor Sunshine, who seems to have vanished from the face of the earth.

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#3505 Post by tenia » Thu May 11, 2017 11:21 am

That list of good articles on 1910s movies is impressively long. :shock:


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#3507 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon May 15, 2017 1:30 pm

Another Dr.! The combined qualifications of the reviewers to do everything other than review movies continue to snowball.

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#3508 Post by matrixschmatrix » Mon May 15, 2017 1:47 pm

Paul Verhoeven's eponymous film went on to become one of the biggest hits of 1987
Ah yes, I loved Paul Verhoeven

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#3509 Post by Cash Flagg » Mon May 15, 2017 4:24 pm

Apparently Paul Verhoeven 2 is even better!

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#3510 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:05 pm

Searchers is one of those films I've watched expressly for scholar purposes. I knew this critic who'd tell you it was a masterpiece and, of course, I couldn't argue because I hadn't seen it.

I was expecting yet another overrated western (my least fave genre) but I wasn't prepared for such a terrible film. Carboard acting all around, bad writing and, generally, not even impressive visually speaking. There were a lot of movies I'd like as a child that now I don't have the stomach to revisit but I don't go around insisting they're masterpieces.

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#3511 Post by Michael Kerpan » Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:36 pm

And that was posted by a "Senior Member". ;-)

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#3512 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:42 pm

i proudly from now on lost respect and will treat critis like the ancestral scum they are, scum even if they love or hate great films, and this goes to legends like Pauline Kael, who i think it`s a hamburger halfmade of shit and half made of raw meat. I mean, imbecils like this moron here are dangerous in galactic proportions, guys like this are the stuff of spoiled kids who grown up with dilemmas and traumas and can`t accept or resolve his inner worlds, remember why he didn`t like Clockwork Orange? he had a trauma with a kid who looked and behaved like Alex Delarge, but hey i gonna say: "i can`t stand the morals of the films and bla bla bla insert your methodical academic bullshit pseudo-analysis text" Roger Ebert, im glad you are dead i really do, even if heroes of mine like Herzog admire you, i despise your kind, and i hope every film critic will be thrown in a hole and buried by 20 pints of Mother Earth`s dirt since you can`t and will never experience the Taste of Cherry...

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#3513 Post by Michael Kerpan » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:01 pm

Sheesh!

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#3514 Post by Big Ben » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:24 pm

I see the Kubrick bots are out in full force. Sadly for him Pauline Kael also hated A Clockwork Orange.

No really!

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#3515 Post by matrixschmatrix » Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:06 pm

I think this dude also hates Kael? The hamburger remark appears to be addressing her, and her line about Kubrick as a 'clean-minded pornographer' is one of her more classic slams.

I'm fascinated trying to parse his thesis here- that critics carry emotional baggage, which they bring with them to their critiques, which is... bad? Ebert was always happy to get into his own experience when reviewing things, which I've always admired about him- even when I think he's way off, there's usually a fairly clear sense of personality behind his reviews, which is often all I really ask for.

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#3516 Post by Big Ben » Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:16 pm

My mistake then. Amidst the shitpost I mistook it for praise.

I confess Kubrick was entry point for me and I was quite a big fan of his early on. And then you see more films and it becomes apparent he wasn't the greatest thing since indoor plumbing. That being said I'm more than willing to say I think A Clockwork Orange is his worst film. I dislike it even more than Fear and Desire.

I'm going to beg domino for the source now. I want to read his other opinions.

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#3517 Post by matrixschmatrix » Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:18 pm

I like Kubrick very much, but if it weren't for the Wendy Carlos score I don't know that I'd ever bother watching Clockwork again

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#3518 Post by Michael Kerpan » Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:33 pm

When Clockwork was new, I went to see it twice. Not because I liked it, but because I couldn't believe it was as horrible as it seemed on first viewing. I liked Kubrick so much I felt it deserved a second chance. The second viewing just made me dislike it even more.

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#3519 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:41 pm

Big Ben wrote:I'm going to beg domino for the source now. I want to read his other opinions.
It's from the comments section for Ebert's review of A Taste of Cherry. You're in luck, because someone replied to the above with a sarcastic "Tell us how you really feel" and the dude proceeded to write a novella in response

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#3520 Post by Big Ben » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:45 am

A gem of a post he made!
Many artist suffered and died unknowingly to the public because these pieces of shit, remember The Impressionists? Kubrick Movies? Blue Velvet? First Led Zeppelin album? I can go on. I want to slaughter this holy cows.
On bad films made by great directors:
IM FUCKING SORRY, but i THINK "DEATH PROOF" is A LEGEND OF A MOVIE, AND THAT IF YOU THINK IT´S BAD Michael James Edwards I DARE YOU I FUCKING DARE YOU to MAKE A SIMILAR AWESOME FILM!
On David Lean:
oh come on what is this wall of crap, i mean intellectual people have gone down the toilet? have you seen Lawrence of Arabia? The Bridge of River Kuwai? this man was revered by Kubrick, i guess ignorance is bliss these days.

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#3521 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:25 pm

matrixschmatrix wrote:I'm fascinated trying to parse his thesis here- that critics carry emotional baggage, which they bring with them to their critiques, which is... bad? Ebert was always happy to get into his own experience when reviewing things, which I've always admired about him- even when I think he's way off, there's usually a fairly clear sense of personality behind his reviews, which is often all I really ask for.
Plus the best critics even if they don't like a film can at least describe what they didn't like in a way that lets the audience know if they might like it! That's also why its great to have an actual continuing relationship through the writing of a favourite critic, so that you learn more about their tastes (and potential blind spots) and can factor that in to their responses a bit.
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#3522 Post by MichaelB » Fri Jun 30, 2017 4:21 pm

Pauline Kael being a classic example. I disagree with her take more often than not, but at least she knew how to convey what it was like watching the film.

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#3523 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:21 pm

"nice to watch"? Give me strength. I suggest people who don't get Malik should wake up - preferably before they die. Those who like their blocks of reality served well done, with lots of comfortable dialogue, nothing too challenging metaphorically - will never get Malik. Life's logicians. Where would we be without you? Otherwise, I'm sure Malik doesn't give a toss about "falls from grace" or anything else connected to man's shoddy little reflections. Ironically, the worst thing about Film Art, is having to share it ..

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#3524 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:43 pm

Frankly never read a better scouting report.

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#3525 Post by Big Ben » Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:55 pm

Mali(c)k sure looks good for a guy in his seventies!

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