'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews
- criterionsnob
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Vegan alert:
-Daniel Day Lewis goes to a restaurant and orders a heart attack for breakfast: Welsh rarebit (a dish loaded with melted cheese) with poached egg (not too runny) with bacon AND sausage and cream with a whole lot of other things vegan and otherwise.
-There is lots of butter in this movie among other non-vegan foods.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Are you a PETA agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?
- lzx
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She's getting better at this, the following serves as vegan alert, plot hole critique, AND educational gardening advice!
-Father & daughter also eat a ton of eggs. BTW, where do they get these eggs? Did they steal them?
-They use the egg shells to outline their compost area. Eggs/meats are not recommended for creating a compost as it will attract animals.
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This is a gag right?
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- Cash Flagg
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Not a 'rediculous review' per se, but I did laugh at the synopsis (I have no doubt it is accurate, it's just that I wasn't previously familiar with the film at all and had only added it to my queue as a Gene Hackman movie I hadn't seen prior) from Netflix for Loose Cannons:
A Washington D.C. cop (Gene Hackman) teams up with a man afflicted with a multiple personality disorder (Dan Aykroyd) who speaks in the voices of Tweety Bird, Captain Kirk, Pee-Wee Herman, Ricky Ricardo and the Wicked Witch of the West. Together, they trail a gang of neo-Nazis in an attempt to capture a porno film featuring Adolph Hitler in bed with a man who's about to be elected chancellor of West Germany.
- DarkImbecile
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I remember this movie only because this was the first film I ever saw featuring female nudity; I would have been eight or so when this hit home video, and I distinctly remember thinking during a topless (at least) scene in a club - not for the last time - that my local video store's willingness to rent any movie to someone with their parent's membership card was going to work out well for me.Cash Flagg wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:40 pmNot a 'rediculous review' per se, but I did laugh at the synopsis (I have no doubt it is accurate, it's just that I wasn't previously familiar with the film at all and had only added it to my queue as a Gene Hackman movie I hadn't seen prior) from Netflix for Loose Cannons:
A Washington D.C. cop (Gene Hackman) teams up with a man afflicted with a multiple personality disorder (Dan Aykroyd) who speaks in the voices of Tweety Bird, Captain Kirk, Pee-Wee Herman, Ricky Ricardo and the Wicked Witch of the West. Together, they trail a gang of neo-Nazis in an attempt to capture a porno film featuring Adolph Hitler in bed with a man who's about to be elected chancellor of West Germany.
- hearthesilence
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There's an amusing footnote to this otherwise forgettable movie:
wikipedia wrote:In May 2013, Calgary Police investigated after footage from the film was found in a landfill by a worker, who mistook it for evidence of an actual murder. It was later noticed that Aykroyd was in the frame, and the police contacted his agent who, after some searching, stated that it was a section from this movie. TMZ reported that after the incident Aykroyd said, "The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs."
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Richard Brody on Twitter:
The Astaire/Rogers movies are textbook examples of how to film dance sequences so that audiences can follow and see the entire body in movement. This is one of the stupidest things a reputable critic has ever said, and based on it I'm guessing Brody knows nothing about musicals or dance(stage whisper: the Astaire-Rogers films are insipid in their comedy, their romance, and the filming of the dance; I'd rather watch Busby Berkeley anytime).
- knives
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On the Almodovar film
I thought Julieta needed to get a hobby and quit grieving over her daughter that abandoned her. Not sure what her problem was and didn’t care.
- tojoed
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Here's James Jackson, TV critic in today's Times on "Secrets Of Cinema" - Film critics are not like you and me. They have keener insights and are blessed with ineffably better taste than is known to the common multiplex-goer. We know this because, traditionally, in greatest film lists they effuse over Antonioni's L'Aventura or austere silent films such as The Passion of Joan of Arc, or 1950s Japanese films that only avid cineastes have seen (and are probably lying). Those who browsed Halliwell's guides will have watched The Magnificent Ambersons, admired its mise-en-scene and probably been a bit bored."
So there you have it, we're all pseuds and liars.
So there you have it, we're all pseuds and liars.
- Never Cursed
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Sounds like your average Shmight & Shmound voter
- domino harvey
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I remember reading an interesting argument against TV critics a few years back, since unlike movie critics, there's no expectation of familiarity with past forms of the medium, so they by nature are not beholden to any kind of foundational groundwork for their opinions and takes. Considering the massive leap dramatic TV has taken in the last 10-15 years, I get that a new kind of approach may be needed, but how about not employing someone who thinks those who like art house movies are in some way faking it to make those who don't get it feel bad
- mfunk9786
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Intended as an aside since I'm going too far off topic:
After watching the second season of The Handmaid's Tale recently, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that TV hasn't necessarily taken a massive dramatic leap and that it's a bit of a placebo effect since it's being watched in one's own home in a bit more of a DIY, watch as much or as little as you want on your own terms way. There is a lot of it, budgets are higher, therefore it's good.
Also says a lot that most of the best stuff on TV over this period has been made by feature filmmakers (Soderbergh, Lynch) and not TV showrunners.
After watching the second season of The Handmaid's Tale recently, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that TV hasn't necessarily taken a massive dramatic leap and that it's a bit of a placebo effect since it's being watched in one's own home in a bit more of a DIY, watch as much or as little as you want on your own terms way. There is a lot of it, budgets are higher, therefore it's good.
Also says a lot that most of the best stuff on TV over this period has been made by feature filmmakers (Soderbergh, Lynch) and not TV showrunners.
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TV critics have a really weird job anyway, as they're required to assess the merits of something that they may not have watched in full or anywhere close. A famous example of British TV critics getting it wrong was when they greeted the much-loved The Fast Show with a resounding thumbs down - and many recanted later because they didn't realise (and, to be fair, how could they have known?) that The Fast Show's comic brilliance massively relied on context and repetition. For instance, if you're watching your first ever episode, when Swiss Toni compares something to "making love to a beautiful woman" it's just a bit eccentric - but once you've seen several, you'll know that much of the comedy mileage comes from the certainty that he'll draw such a comparison at some point but you never know precisely when this is.domino harvey wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:51 pmI remember reading an interesting argument against TV critics a few years back, since unlike movie critics, there's no expectation of familiarity with past forms of the medium, so they by nature are not beholden to any kind of foundational groundwork for their opinions and takes. Considering the massive leap dramatic TV has taken in the last 10-15 years, I get that a new kind of approach may be needed, but how about not employing someone who thinks those who like art house movies are in some way faking it to make those who don't get it feel bad
And of course it's even worse with drama, where you're doing the equivalent of reviewing a film's first reel. Another problem in the past was that even reviews of complete dramas were published after their broadcast, so were only useful to people who'd already watched it - although clearly that's no longer an issue in the VCR/PVR/TiVo era.
Possibly as a result of it being a pretty thankless profession, British TV critics are mostly pretty dreadful, with occasional dazzling exceptions like Clive James and Nancy Banks-Smith (not coincidentally, both are brilliant prose stylists). The fact that Banks-Smith's successor is the drearily navel-gazing Sam Wollaston shows how far we've fallen - I forget who described Wollaston's work as "like reading a yawn", but it's a damn sight funnier and more astute than anything Wollaston himself has ever written.
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- Dot Com Dom
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Really tired of the foreign stuff in my netflix feed, there seems to be a lot of it. I've lived overseas in EU for two years and I had about as much as that culture as I care for.
- tenia
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"Foreign stuff", always the same foreign-y culture.
- mfunk9786
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"Shit, I knew we should have asked that guy before we launched our streaming service." - Netflix execs
- Altair
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America is not sending us its best people.
Sorry, too easy I know.
Sorry, too easy I know.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Is it me or did Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman work on Autumn Sonata just because their names are similar? Did that get tossed around as a joke? Just curious
- Feego
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I mean, they were kind of the Dylan McDermott/Dermot Mulroney of Swedish cinema.domino harvey wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:27 amIs it me or did Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman work on Autumn Sonata just because their names are similar? Did that get tossed around as a joke? Just curious
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- Feego
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Proceed through this person's Letterboxd entries at your own peril.Perhaps the worst reviewer of all time wrote:Perhaps the worst director of all time. I wish I could go back to a few decades when no one knew who he was, because cinephilia is past the point of no-return. There is nothing more frustrating than when young, ignorant, impressionable fucks give into revisionism and pretend he was "great". Insults don't phase me, the only times I get mad is when somebody is unconscious of why they like something. Because the solution to their problems are right in their fucking face, and I have to baby them, I have to pamper them (me, the sole GOD that they lack).
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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I wrote out a whole thing but erased it after digging around some more because this is just a troll
- DarkImbecile
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Feego wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:21 pmProceed through this person's Letterboxd entries at your own peril.Perhaps the worst reviewer of all time wrote:Perhaps the worst director of all time. I wish I could go back to a few decades when no one knew who he was, because cinephilia is past the point of no-return. There is nothing more frustrating than when young, ignorant, impressionable fucks give into revisionism and pretend he was "great". Insults don't phase me, the only times I get mad is when somebody is unconscious of why they like something. Because the solution to their problems are right in their fucking face, and I have to baby them, I have to pamper them (me, the sole GOD that they lack).
Projecting much?"LET'S MAKE EVERYBODY A CIPHER FOR MY IMPOTENT AND FACILE PERSONALITY. YES THIS IS LIFE THIS IS REALITY.”
Who?I'd dare say the praise is a psy-op as well. Sneaky marxists and their subversive tactics. Putting out Criterions promoting this trash as if it's the highest of art, scrounging up scrap metal to salvage themselves while doing everything in their power to ignore Griffith.