Or the further it is out date the less people have seen it recently and are less inclined to rate/rank it?
Or some function of both.
Perhaps we could come up with a way to make older films more accessible to modern audiences – maybe we add color to old black-and-white films, or put in a dance soundtrack!
(It’s probably pretty pretentious to bandy this about sarcastically.)
BTW, ever listen to the tune, The Wind That Shakes the Barley? It is in every compilation of Irish tunes, but I think the Chieftain’s 8 version is best.
That Paddy Maloney. If you hooked up his pipes with a few distortion pedals and painted some black eyeliner on his face he’d be more metal than Mastadon.
Too damned cheery. Try this one instead:
Liam O’Flyn (of the Bothy Band) disagrees.
Oohoohooh! Can we have a Celtic-trad game!?
Bridge on the River Kwai with a solid 93% performance right out of the gate! Surprisingly, more pretentious than Lawrence of Arabia, which I’m not sure I agree with.
But nobody asked me.
Shaun of the Dead also smacks down right in the middle at 0%, which amuses me for some reason.
Ugh… So after searching for more versions of the tune I came across the most pretentious version of them all, the Solas version. I love that group, but when they want to navel gaze they do it better than anyone.
To a person, they are all prodigies that also studied and practiced theirs rears off. But sometimes I still want to Jason Siegel slap them in their stupid faces.
Tommy Boy: 93% mass market, rated as average.
Scary Movie 3: rated as rubbish ( but honestly quite funny)
The Ring: 68% pretentious. Riiight…
Jiro dreams of Sushi: 68% mass market. Riiiight…
Orgazmo: rubbish film. Riiight… (I am Sancho!)
Dr. Strangelove: 68% pretentious. Okay, nailed that one.
And lastly… (Deep breath)… I present to you the artistry and emotional candor of sly stone.
I think the algorithm is well and truly broken.
I am having a little fun finding the zeros and hundreds. But u think the first bug I would file is, “it trends to 68% in a predictable fashion”
I must be a born Kubrick fan, I can’t figure out what’s supposed to be pretentious about Dr. Strangelove other than the anti-global-thermonuclear-war thing. Wait…checking WarGames:
Oh, so am I. And it is a masterwork of comedy. But the fact that is caused Ronald Reagan, right after being elected, to ask, “where is the war room?” seals that debate for me.
(Stop thinking about it… Nah, I’m going there)
Did you know I have friends that don’t get the joke, “no fighting in the war room!!”? I had to… Explain it to them?
(Just breath)
It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
That was one of the funniest lines in the whole movie! These…friends…of yours…oh, my.
With friends like these, right? Oh, and (I can never remember his name) the general, who played his part as a spaz because Kubrick said to ‘lighten up and explore the character’ and he wouldn’t include it in the theatrical cut but he did… And George was Sooo pissed… I still have tears in my eyes.
Edit: George c. Scott.
Second edit, reference: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/26rzjo/til_that_while_filming_dr_strangelove_stanley/
Know what movie I haaaaaated when it came out, but now love?
Its your avatar.
(Shut the fuck up Donny!)
Can you believe I’ve only seen it once?
I’ll have to talk the wife into trying it.
She’s very suspicious of movies I suggest. My track-record includes watching “A Simple Plan” at Thanksgiving (with my parents), “The Grifters” at New Year’s (with my parents), Attack the Gas Station on the night we got engaged (with my parents), and Brazil (with my parents). Hrm. Maybe if I point out that she only hates films that I have her watch with my parents this might work.
Besides, she is the one that had me watch Twixt and Beneath the Darkness. And she watched Dagmar’s HotPants, Inc. all by herself with no cause to blame me at all. No rational cause, at any rate.
That’s the one movie that I love but very rarely recommend to friends. Cause yeah.
They’re not into Bibliophileophagia?
