jrod
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Post by jrod on Jan 31, 2006 7:05:51 GMT
The Wizard of Oz (needs rewatch) Gone with the Wind
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Post by Driver on Feb 3, 2006 17:07:27 GMT
The Wizard of Oz Gone With The Wind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Post by Michael on Feb 3, 2006 17:15:35 GMT
1. Gone With the Wind (1939)
Overlong, insignificant, too passionate, and plagued with pointless and redundant scenes.
I hate it.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Feb 3, 2006 23:47:46 GMT
Gone With the Wind 4/10 Overlong, insignificant, too passionate, and plagued with pointless and redundant scenes. I hate it. I understand what you mean and where you are coming from, and yet it is the passion tat resonates throughout the film which really gives it its power. It is a story of passion and people diriven by them and their destruction. It's also a story about a dame who goes broke but is determined torise above it all, really loosing the one thing that could have kept her rich. It's the greatest American epic.
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RNL
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Post by RNL on Feb 4, 2006 0:17:03 GMT
It's criminal that Fleming's Jekyll and Hyde is more celebrated than Rouben Mamoulian's version from ten years before, which is a technical and dramatic masterpiece. Fleming's is pedestrian and repressed by comparison.
Have you seen Mamoulian's, Driver?
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Post by Driver on Feb 5, 2006 22:40:07 GMT
No, I haven't. I've been after it since I watched a documentary about the old Universal pictures, and it showed the transformation scene, which is pretty amazing.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 17, 2006 17:47:20 GMT
1. Gone With the Wind (1939) Overlong, insignificant, too passionate, and plagued with pointless and redundant scenes. I hate it. That's exactly why I feel like I'll probably never see this movie. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 17, 2006 17:49:00 GMT
Can a film ever be "too passionate"?
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 17, 2006 17:52:13 GMT
Yes.
Over-dramatic perhaps. Expressing unrealistic emotions. Sentimental overkill. Hallmark channel shit.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 17, 2006 18:10:55 GMT
Melodramatic? I'd agree; but I don't think I would ever criticise a filmmaker for being "too passionate" about what he or she was making.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 17, 2006 18:12:14 GMT
Well, there's a difference between the filmmaker being too passionate and the film being too passionate.
I'm pretty sure Don Lope was criticizing the film itself, not Fleming.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 17, 2006 18:20:25 GMT
Probably, yes; but "too passionate" evokes an entirely different implication than "melodramatic".
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Post by Anasazie on Dec 2, 2008 2:39:34 GMT
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5/10
Someone's going to have to tie me down and force me to watch Gone With the Wind!
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Post by svsg on Dec 2, 2008 2:55:57 GMT
I have heard a lot of great things about GWTW. Surprised to see the opinion pretty divided here. I am not too eager to explore it for some reason.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Dec 9, 2008 18:55:42 GMT
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) ***** 2. Gone With the Wind (1939) *****
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Post by theundergroundman on Jun 4, 2009 15:42:48 GMT
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - [blue]8/10[/blue] 2. Gone With the Wind (1939) - [blue]6/10[/blue]
Haven't seen Gone With the Wind in years and probably won't anytime soon.
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