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[cardsfansince82]

Reading your comments ghost, I'm not sure that this will apply to you, but FWIW I thought the movie was just ok the first time I watched it in the theaters. I saw it again when it came out on dvd and appreciated it a lot more. The first time I saw it I expected it to be way different than it was. Once I knew what to expect I was able to appreciate the nuances to the point that it's one of my favorite movies of the last couple years.

[ghostrunner]

Reading your comments ghost, I'm not sure that this will apply to you, but FWIW I thought the movie was just ok the first time I watched it in the theaters. I saw it again when it came out on dvd and appreciated it a lot more. The first time I saw it I expected it to be way different than it was. Once I knew what to expect I was able to appreciate the nuances to the point that it's one of my favorite movies of the last couple years.

Fair point. Sometimes you just get sandbagged the first time. I've disliked a number of Coen brothers movies at first, and they're far and away my favorite filmmakers.

[The Third Man]

The Big Lebowski is the ultimate "hated it the first time, loved it the second" movie.

[heyzeus]

I think I side with ghostrunner's critique of Basterds. Just too much seemed belabored and out of place, or drawn out. However, third man's analysis makes sense too. I respect filmmakers who deliver something personal rather than what you already expected.

Although

[SHOW]

Some of it was just really, really far fetched. Nobody in the movie theatre recognized the Basterds? I'm pretty sure that if there was a group of American renegade soldiers so savage that Hitler himself knew of them, some of the survivors would be able to help a sketch artist make their appearances known. Furthermore, if every top member of the Third Reich, including Hitler, was in a movie theatre, I can't help but think the Nazis would have a little security there, beyond two guards outside of Hitler's suite. The lobby was empty during the movie. Each of the doors was unguarded. Nobody apparently checked the guests for weapons or TNT.

[Jocephus]

way to ruin the movies gaiz!

[cpebbles]

[SHOW]

Some of it was just really, really far fetched. Nobody in the movie theatre recognized the Basterds? I'm pretty sure that if there was a group of American renegade soldiers so savage that Hitler himself knew of them, some of the survivors would be able to help a sketch artist make their appearances known. Furthermore, if every top member of the Third Reich, including Hitler, was in a movie theatre, I can't help but think the Nazis would have a little security there, beyond two guards outside of Hitler's suite. The lobby was empty during the movie. Each of the doors was unguarded. Nobody apparently checked the guests for weapons or TNT.

[SHOW]

The guy in charge of security hatched a plot that, to some degree, his men were clearly in on. Not necessarily to the extent of knowing he intended to let them bomb the theater, but they knew that Landa was personally involved and not to do anything overt. Landa toyed with the Basterds at first, but had his men ready to seize them at his command. It's made to be a surprise to Aldo that Landa knows him by name, why should we expect the party hierarchy to know him?

[Richie Allen]

The Big Lebowski is the ultimate "hated it the first time, loved it the second" movie.

Just rented it to re-watch it for the first time since seeing it in the theater upon it's initial release. I remember liking the first half and then thinking it kind of fell apart. I was also in the middle of a weird relationship at that time that proved to be somewhat distracting. I'll give it another shot.

Also rented The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Criterion Collection with Robert Mitchum), The Heiress (Olivia DeHavilland & Montgomery Clift), Missing (Criterion Collection with Jack Lemmon & Sissy Spacek) and Emma . And a nice looking book, 501 Must-See Movies.

[The Third Man]

Olivia de Havilland was a babe.

[redbirdjazzz]

Olivia de Havilland was a babe.

++ By no means the only reason I wish I was Errol Flynn, but not a bad one at all.

[JS04]

the hurt locker = awesome

just finished it...terrific movie..