The movie, "Roma"

[ckissick]

Nominated for 10 Oscars. Won Golden Globe for best pic. (I think). The wife and I tried to watch it. Nothing happened. We gave it an hour then switched to something else. The most suspenseful part of the movie was wondering when the maid would clean up all the dog poo. It was so boring!

So why all the accolades? What am I missing?

[Sarc]

Originally Posted by ckissick

So why all the accolades? What am I missing?

Refer to this thread.

Thanks for the heads up. My instincts were telling me it would be of similar ilk to Manchester by the Sea.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Nominated for 10 Oscars. Won Golden Globe for best pic. (I think). The wife and I tried to watch it. Nothing happened. We gave it an hour then switched to something else. The most suspenseful part of the movie was wondering when the maid would clean up all the dog poo. It was so boring!

So why all the accolades? What am I missing?

LOL Not nearly enough CGI action scenes for you?

I thought the movie was very touching, with great character development and an insight into the social-economic class separation. Both the maid and la padrona had a life crisis happening, and both crisis were very specific to their class. How they worked it out together was the touching part. Then, with crisis resolved, it was get back to work maid girl.

...And I also thought Manchester By the Seas was boring crapp.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Nominated for 10 Oscars. Won Golden Globe for best pic. (I think). The wife and I tried to watch it. Nothing happened. We gave it an hour then switched to something else. The most suspenseful part of the movie was wondering when the maid would clean up all the dog poo. It was so boring!

So why all the accolades? What am I missing?

It did take over an hour for something to happen, even then whatever happened was also boring. So it pretty much doesn’t stand up to, say Close Encounters or Schindler’s list.

But that’s not the kind of movie it is, either. A B&W photo of a mountain is pretty boring compared to a color photo of, well, just about anything. That’s not the point of the B&W photo.

Roma is an expression of a time the writer or director or whatever personally experienced against a backdrop of far greater things happening in the world.

I found allota love, anger, sadness, frailty and other things not easily expressed in a slow-moving, almost motionless B&W, boring as hell movie not in English.

As a piece of cinematic art it’s great, hardly any explosions, no colorful eviscerations and pretty normal-looking everyday people living their lives.

[AG81]

Crap.....

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Sarc

Refer to this thread.

Thanks for the heads up. My instincts were telling me it would be of similar ilk to Manchester by the Sea.

Yep, like the VAST majority of "modern art" it is what the snobs say is good, so it has to be good because they say so and they know good because they are in the know and we are just ignorant.

[yellowperil]

The only reason I watched this movie was because I have a sister named Roma. The movie was dull and uninteresting, not at all like my sister. I like her much better than this movie.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

It did take over an hour for something to happen, even then whatever happened was also boring. So it pretty much doesn’t stand up to, say Close Encounters or Schindler’s list.

But that’s not the kind of movie it is, either. A B&W photo of a mountain is pretty boring compared to a color photo of, well, just about anything. That’s not the point of the B&W photo.

Roma is an expression of a time the writer or director or whatever personally experienced against a backdrop of far greater things happening in the world.

I found allota love, anger, sadness, frailty and other things not easily expressed in a slow-moving, almost motionless B&W, boring as hell movie not in English.

As a piece of cinematic art it’s great, hardly any explosions, no colorful eviscerations and pretty normal-looking everyday people living their lives.

So, yer sayin it's really not for an insensitive bastage like me who likes watching jeeps blow up as they go over a ramp and flip?

Preciate the heads-up.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by Craig T

LOL Not nearly enough CGI action scenes for you?

I thought the movie was very touching, with great character development and an insight into the social-economic class separation. Both the maid and la padrona had a life crisis happening, and both crisis were very specific to their class. How they worked it out together was the touching part. Then, with crisis resolved, it was get back to work maid girl.

...And I also thought Manchester By the Seas was boring crapp.

We went to the Guggenheim this past spring, there was a display from Japan called, one hand clapping.

I was curious what it was about, my wife my 15 y/o and I went into the room and wandered, then watched the movie that was associated with the display.

One hand clapping is the sound a man makes when he is masturbating.

About 5 minutes into this presentation I looked over at another dude and we both about busted out laughing. My 15 y/o was right there with us an proclaims, I am out of here and exits. The story was about an old Japanese man addicted to his VCR porn collection who like to masturbate while fantasizing about his sons girlfriend. That was when I said, yeah, and left.

I left with my son trying to hold in my laughter.

What was making me laugh, all the pretentious people in the room trying to be stone faced and act like they were being culturally enlightened... while watching a cartoon about a legless Japanese man who masturbates 24 hours a day.

We recently watched the Shape of Water, it won many awards too, I have come to the conclusion Hollywood is a very strange place. I thought that movie was horrible too. Well, unless you get off on bestiality then I guess it is great.

[Chocaholic]

Sure it wasn’t called “one hand fapping”?

Shape of water was very good...probably better than the one hand movie.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

We recently watched the Shape of Water, it won many awards too, I have come to the conclusion Hollywood is a very strange place. I thought that movie was horrible too. Well, unless you get off on bestiality then I guess it is great.

I paused my channel surfing a couple times when I landed on that movie and tried to watch it.
Never made it past 10 minutes tops before proclaiming it a pretentious POS movie made by a sicko pervert.

I'll be pissed if I ever find out they blew up lots of jeeps in the parts I didn't see.

[Crowbob]

I’ve never been to the Guggenheim but I did go to the Chicago Musem of Modern Art once. If I go again it’ll be by mistake.

There was this giant womb-like looking thing made out of steel or alubamum cables or whatever that the sucker patron like myself who paid to get into the museum is supposed to climb into to feel the greatness of life before birth or the warmth of amniotic fluid or some other stoopid experience I’m too neanderthalish to comprehend.

Some old-ish lady with a weird hat was climbing into it as I walked by admiring the oddly-shaped French-fry squished on the floor next to the placard thing explaining the meaning and depth of the installation and the name of whomever scammed somebody out of the money it cost to build the thing.

Anyway, on the way out the weird hat lady was climbing out of the thing and was glowing and smiling and just like a recently hatched puppy all enthusiastic and stuff.

I did manage to not laugh out loud until I got out of the place.

[Craig T]

What a bunch of closed-minded meat heads. Go open a beer and a bag of fired pork rinds and rewatch Terminator 2 (my favorite action movie) for the 15th time.

[sammyg2]

Some of my favorite places on earth are museums. Museums of science.
I ain't never been so-fist-a-cated enough to be a snob.










And ....
Roadhouse.

[Sarc]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

We recently watched the Shape of Water, it won many awards too I thought that movie was horrible too.

This was the first movie that popped in my head before thinking of Manchester.

Originally Posted by Craig T

What a bunch of closed-minded meat heads.

I tend to like a lot of obscure stuff, but SOW is sooo bad.

Speaking of laughable....

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by Craig T

LOL Not nearly enough CGI action scenes for you?

...And I also thought Manchester By the Sea was boring crapp.

That's the thing. I don't require explosions to be entertained. And I (Gasp!) liked Manchester by the Sea. Artistically, Roma was great. But I like a plot, too.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by Chocaholic

Sure it wasn’t called “one hand fapping”?

Shape of water was very good...probably better than the one hand movie.

I put both under the same category. WTF did I just watch.

[GH85Carrera]

I have large hands. I can easily close my fingers against my palm and make a clapping sound. So it is easy to “clap with one hand”. I was dating a chick and she was in her Eastern religion mode and asked the age old question, what is the sound of one hand clapping? I showed her by clapping my on hand. She was not pleased to find the answer so easily.