I'm dutch and all I can think of are the Epic/Date/Disaster Movies. And all movies starring Paris Hilton.
Worst foreign film?
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Somebody should pitch that idea to Hollywood! I'm thinking either Darren Aronofsky or Quentin Tarantino should direct it. You have just thought up next year's blockbuster.gimmesometea said:
Since I'm a foreigner to who are the vast majority of this forum, I feel that I'm entitled to nominate Dungeons & Dragons. But if I look at it from your point of view, there's a few Chinese films I could mention. I just don't understand the point of films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, or The House of Flying Daggers -- while the setting, locations, costumes, and coreographies are sometimes be marvelous to look at, I find just about everything else generic and unappealing. Maybe it's the cultural differences, but I'm not able to take any of the drama, romance, or intrigue seriously. To me it's like there's a huge buildup in the beginning, then everyone's kung-fu fighting, and then everyone and their mother ends up miserable or dies. Aaand, that's it.
Dunno if it counts as a foreign film (since it's like 25 minutes long), but I once watched an Irish film called "Caca Milis" (Sweet Cake). It's about this blond man who sits down next to this woman on a train.
The blind man is really annoying, he's got terrible asthma, and won't shut the hell up. He proclaims to the woman that, even though he can't see, he could tell her what's out the window. He says it's a great big lake. She looks out the window. The lake is there. She tells him there's no lake, and they're passing through a town. He panics, and has an asthma attack. He leaves his inhalor on the table afterwards.
Later he takes out some cake, and spends about 3 minutes rumbling with the bag. He starts to eat the cake, while talking, so he's spitting all over the table. The woman's stop is coming up. She tells him there's half a worm in his cake. He asks, where's the other half? In your mouth, she says. He swallows, then starts to panic. He has another asthma attack. He reaches out for his inhaler, but she grabs it, and slowly pulls it away from his grasp. She throws it in the bin, and leaves the train.
It was pure awesome.
The blind man is really annoying, he's got terrible asthma, and won't shut the hell up. He proclaims to the woman that, even though he can't see, he could tell her what's out the window. He says it's a great big lake. She looks out the window. The lake is there. She tells him there's no lake, and they're passing through a town. He panics, and has an asthma attack. He leaves his inhalor on the table afterwards.
Later he takes out some cake, and spends about 3 minutes rumbling with the bag. He starts to eat the cake, while talking, so he's spitting all over the table. The woman's stop is coming up. She tells him there's half a worm in his cake. He asks, where's the other half? In your mouth, she says. He swallows, then starts to panic. He has another asthma attack. He reaches out for his inhaler, but she grabs it, and slowly pulls it away from his grasp. She throws it in the bin, and leaves the train.
It was pure awesome.
It depends what you mean by foreign. I'm from Britain so American films are technically foreign and there have been some really shite American films.
Verp said:
I loved the Curse of the Golden Flower. Sure, it was way too long, but the scenery and the fighting made up for that, for me. Though if you love the settings, costumes, and coreographies in those films, but want a great story, then I'd watch Memoirs of a Geisha, if you haven't already.
The books won't help you, the films take massive liberties, might as well be another work. I read the books inbetween the films, but they both still made sense. What got you confused?generic gamer said:
There are a couple of scenes when characters say something completely nonsensical (like in the second one, Anton is flattered that Gesar didn't want him to leave the room with the rest. This is one scene cribbed straight from the book, he's flattered because that means Gesar thinks he's strong enough to be the murderer. That's far faaaar too subtle for any reasonable person to spot) but the overall plot just about hangs together. Didn't see any problems with the basic premise, but maybe I'm blurring it with the book a bit.
I have yet to watch a foreign film I don't like (excluding American ones, since I don't think anything in a language I speak constitutes foreign).
Anyway, good to hear you got Gomorrah, the fuckin' Academy didn't even pick it for some reason. Old bastards...
Anyway, good to hear you got Gomorrah, the fuckin' Academy didn't even pick it for some reason. Old bastards...
i have a buttload of foreign films, mostly martial arts flicks. the worst that i've watched probably is "The Bride with White Hair" because even though critics loved it, i could not tell what was going on
Seven Swords - a cross between seven samaurai and crouching tiger but somehow manages to be a pile of shite.
Honestly, I could have been burnt out by then so I could have been just bitter and angry. That French teacher had us watch a ton of French movies and translate them. On the plus side I got to see and enjoy City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, and Amelie(sp?).LiquidGrape said:
sorry gotta rant don't know its name, was a russian movie in subtitles on sbs late at night, story of a young daughter of a whore, who is ostracised in the shit hole of high density housing project she was born in, when her mother kicks her out she takes to the streets, and working in night clubs, for a place to stay, she is then snatched by a russian prostitution cartel and pedalled about all over europe to wealthy pedophiles, finally whilst been held in Germany she breaks free, and just as the german authorities are coming to question her she throws herself off an overpass onto the auto barn. and there was some kind of weird fat kid dressed up like an angel with a basket ball, ok it was late at night, but since seeing that piece of shit i've sworn off russian, "entertainment".
That could be a cogent factor. But it could just as well be that wonderful little thing called taste, which is one of the true indicatives of our individuality.Sigel said:
I didn't mean to undermine your opinion, and I really hope that wasn't the impression I gave off. It's just that I had never heard that particular term applied to Kieslowski before!
Anyway, I agree on that Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro are fantastic filmmakers.
Three great ones you listed there.
It's all cool amigo. For all my study of the French language(4 yrs high school, and 2 semesters in college) I can only say 4 sentences in perfect french.LiquidGrape said:
1) Where is the bathroom?(Most important)
2) I love cheese.(the second most important one)
3) My name is ###
4) I studied french in school.(I'm not kidding)