will i get booted from this forum if i say...

[samnsara]

..i just watched The Postman Rings Twice...1946 with Lana Turner and John Garfield and it was the WORSE film ever! After the hype it got I really tried to like it but it was painful to sit through.

[hlthe2b]

1. The hype was from its time. I'd imagine it is looked at differently by many now...

I'm sure I've seen at least parts of it... My Mom was a big Lana Turner fan... But I am not competent to render a verdict.

[samnsara]

14. the hype was from the host of the channel....AMC..

..apparently when it finally hit the US screen ( it was too much for american psyches i guess) there were Harry Potteresque lines to see it as it was touted as a love story. HA!

[Ocelot II]

2. Some of those old movies seem kind of stilted and over-acted,

though they wouldn't have at the time. Maybe the modern trend toward greater realism makes them seem that way? I think acting in the early days of movies was treated more like stage acting, which is (or was) a rather different style.

[GreatGazoo]

3. That's the way I feel about Forrest Gump

>After the hype it got I really tried to like it but it was painful to sit through.<

I grew up on American New Wave films so many films from the 1940s feel very stiff to me. They feel like people delivering clever lines and therefore are not immersive for me.

What was wrong with Postman?

[3catwoman3]

6. Forest Gump, IMO, was one of the most preposterous, dumbest movies EVER!

A certain willing suspension of disbelief is required for many films, but too much was required for the premise of that movie.

[GreatGazoo]

7. Gump patronized, fetishized and exploited developmentally challenged people

It is a very polarizing movie -- people tend to either love or hate it.

[3catwoman3]

10. "...exploited developmentally challenged people."

I think this is what bothered me so much about this movie.

I spent 45+ years in pediatrics, and, for the most part, there is no way that someone with the degree of limitation that the character of Gump was portrayed as having would have had all those wonderful experiences, or made it thru Army basic training.

[3catwoman3]

12. I was in the Air Force, although as an officer.

[samnsara]

15. Thats an interesting question as im not really sure why i disliked this movie so much...

.. I think its because ( in my opinion) there was absolutely no depth in the characters. There was no redeeming qualities and at no time did I empathize with any of them as the problems they were facing was 100% their own making. And they kept making the same bad decisions every time. And there were some very bizarre twists and turns that added nothing...just more noise.


It like when hubby and I finally went to see The Blair Witch Project. remember the hype? when we went to see it the theater was empty (cept for us) and half way thru the thing we were yelling 'DIE HEATHER DIE'.

[GreatGazoo]

18. LOL!

"Die Heather die"

[anciano]

4. IMO all movies should be judged

within the context of the era they were made.

[samnsara]

16. I like the old movies and i plan to be watching more of them in the next 4 years......

I also like the NOIR genre a lot but his one was so one dimensional. I tried watching the later one with Jack Nicholson ages ago and quit part way thru with that one.
But... I dont want my uneducated film critiquing to discourage anyone from watching it.

Maybe I'll give it another chance and watch one of the later ones again.

[anciano]

19. Just to be clear, I love the older films myself,

especially from the film noir era. I was only trying to point out that movies are a product of the social, technological and sometimes political backdrop of the era they were made. I apologize for any misunderstanding.

[elleng]

5. No booting out, imo,

and I couldn't watch the whole thing either; I went to a West Wing rerun.

[samnsara]

17. y'know..ive never watched west wing...

...perhaps now is the time.

[elleng]

20. Sure s hell is the time;

it's the BEST.