OT: Let's talk about movies (and TV shows)... Part XV

[Redux91]

I prefer The Kings Speech to Saving Private Ryan. I actually liked Shakespeare in Love better than Saving Private Ryan as well though.

Ok , now we KNOW you have a concussion.

 

[FerrisRox]

Ok , now we KNOW you have a concussion.

Saving Private Ryan has a spectacular opening when they storm the beach. The rest of the film is pretty cliched and color by numbers World War II melodrama.

I don't see what's so outrageous about preferring other films, but to each their own.

 

[Runner77]

I took up an offer from my cable provider to get Super Channel for free, for a month.

They have Homeland 6 in progress and Black Sails 3.

And, as I'm surfing the 4 channels from the package, I was drawn in by the series titled "The Girlfriend Experience".

Here's the description that appears prior to every episode, so it's not a spoiler: it's about a law student who is an intern with a prestigious law firm and who is working hard to establish herself when a classmate introduces her to the world of "transactional relationships". This is what they call escorting these days?

Lots of tangled webs and strange bedfellows ensue, it's rated 18A, but the lead actress is absolutely perfect for the part and the acting overall is superb. Nothing ditzy about her -- this is through and through a very smartly written show.

There is only one season, 13 episodes, each of which is 30 minutes. It's great binge-watching if you're looking for a fix -- this will reel you right in.

 

[mitchmagic]

Saving Private Ryan has a spectacular opening when they storm the beach. The rest of the film is pretty cliched and color by numbers World War II melodrama.

I don't see what's so outrageous about preferring other films, but to each their own.

Because I'm right and you're wrong.

It's not really a melodrama though.

 

[FerrisRox]

Because I'm right and you're wrong.

It's not really a melodrama though.

We can certainly agree to disagree, but I find the notion of the brothers dying and the mission being to go find this guy so the mother doesn't get another notice of the death of one of her sons a very melodramatic set up and the whole thing gets cranked up to ten on the melodrama metre when Ryan says he won't go and to tell his mother he is going to "stay and fight with the brothers I have left."

I found it very melodramatic and it cheapened things for me.

I love Spielberg, and I think he's an exceptionally talented filmmaker, as the opening of this film surely illustrates, but his weakness as a story teller is a tendency to be sappy and overly sentimental and, frankly, melodramatic.

 

[DAChampion]

We can certainly agree to disagree, but I find the notion of the brothers dying and the mission being to go find this guy so the mother doesn't get another notice of the death of one of her sons a very melodramatic set up and the whole thing gets cranked up to ten on the melodrama metre when Ryan says he won't go and to tell his mother he is going to "stay and fight with the brothers I have left."

I found it very melodramatic and it cheapened things for me.

I love Spielberg, and I think he's an exceptionally talented filmmaker, as the opening of this film surely illustrates, but his weakness as a story teller is a tendency to be sappy and overly sentimental and, frankly, melodramatic.

I think it's widely agreed that Spielberg indulges in excessive sentimentality.