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oman
05 Apr 2007, 10:09 AM
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GringoTex
06 Apr 2007, 08:45 AM
It's a testament to Renoir's genius that a great filmmaker like Altman with 60 year of lessons learned and technological advancement on his side could make but a pale immitation.
NoodlesMacintosh
06 Apr 2007, 10:06 AM
Gosford Park better? No, no it's not.

But at least you typed up a deliberate, informative, and elucidating post to back up your opinion.
Claymore
06 Apr 2007, 02:08 PM
I'll take Gosford Park, if only because of the presence of Kelly MacDonald. OK, she looks like shit in this movie, but she's supposed to.
oman
09 Apr 2007, 11:31 AM
It's a testament to Renoir's genius that a great filmmaker like Altman with 60 year of lessons learned and technological advancement on his side could make but a pale immitation.

Yet I am kind of amazed I don't have more to say about it. Probably had hopes to high, and the disengagment from the characters ended up being very distancing. I know why that was, but in the end, I have enjoyed all his other movies (I have not finished The Sountherner) because I was instantly able to relate to them. Even Le Bete Humaine, I was able to somehow relate to the darker side of the main character. The only non-offputting character in ROTG was Renoir, and in the end, he was weak.

The brilliance of the movie is that he did not require an "Everyman" to be in the middle of the plot dispensing wisdom or viewing things with a just eye. But that brilliance makes it disengaging to a degree, a degree that kept me from truly escaping into it.

I would have liked the chicks to have been hotter as well.
oman
09 Apr 2007, 11:33 AM
I'll take Gosford Park, if only because of the presence of Kelly MacDonald. OK, she looks like shit in this movie, but she's supposed to.

I have a sick little Kristin Scott Thomas thing going myself.
Stogey23
09 Apr 2007, 12:23 PM
Which "Rules of the Game" are you guys talking about?
oman
09 Apr 2007, 04:32 PM
Which "Rules of the Game" are you guys talking about?


The one where no animals were harmed.
GringoTex
09 Apr 2007, 04:36 PM
The one where no animals were harmed.

Renoir trained those rabbits to roll in the dirt and spasm like that. His ability to coax animals into dying for the camera is only matched by Bunuel's.