department store basement Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 WTF. No movie has brainwashed anyone into liking it. (There have been movies that brainwash people into mindless condemnation though. Manos: The Hands of Fate is at the top of that list.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Which page has The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption. Seriously, both are good/very good. But the shrines built in their holy names is too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 4 hours ago, a2knet said: Which page has The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption. Seriously, both are good/very good. But the shrines built in their holy names is too much. Godfather is one of the first ones I listed. So try around page 6 or so 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 7 hours ago, department store basement said: WTF. No movie has brainwashed anyone into liking it. (There have been movies that brainwash people into mindless condemnation though. Manos: The Hands of Fate is at the top of that list.) You are obviously brainwashed so you would have no idea that you are....it's why you like some of the movies you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 On 1/10/2015 at 8:45 PM, Baumer said: #25) The Godfather 1 and 2: Yes, I said it. Look. I like the Godfather films. But the way they are revered not just here but pretty much in every cinephile's mind, I was expecting something more. The Godfather's both won best picture and remain the only first two films in a series to win best picture. These films are quoted in magazines, books, other movies and they have even become part of our every day vernacular. For a humourous take on the love for the films, watch the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film You've Got Mail. Look, it's not that the Godfather 1 and 2 aren't good. It's just that they have, for 40 years, been considered two of the very best films in the history of film. And Francis Ford Coppola did one fantastic film after those two and the rest of his filmography ranges from ho hum to some absolute shit. The films are ranked number 2 and 3 on imdb's top 250. They won 9 Oscars between them including a best supporting actor win for Robert DeNiro, who did his role entirely in Italian. The Godfather adjusts to 638 million dollars in today's box office and WW, the three films would probably adjust to more than 1.5 billion. Again, good films the first two are, but they are, imo, not the be all end all that so many brainwashed people make them out to be. Sure, we were all made an offer we couldn't refuse and we didn't get to sleep with the fishes. And in this case, it's always good to keep your friends close but your enemies closer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 7 hours ago, Baumer said: You are obviously brainwashed so you would have no idea that you are....it's why you like some of the movies you do. You know, you never got round to doing your list of Great films the world was brainwashed into disliking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 On 1/13/2015 at 11:13 AM, baumer said: The Artist is a gimmick. It's the pet rock of cinema. You remember the pet rock? It was a rock, dressed up with googly eyes and sold in the 80's. People bought fucking rocks and the inventor of it became an overnight millionaire. These techniques went the way of the do do bird and they did so for a reason. Technology moves forward, meaning it advances. You don't need silence anymore in film, we have sound. We've had it for about 100 years. You don't need to make a film in black and white without sound because we have colour now too and the budget on this wasn't a problem. They could afford to pay the extra couple of thousand dollars to buy colour film. The only reason this film became a sensation is because the Weinsteins have pictures of half the academy having sex with donkeys, or their sisters or they have pictures of the men with male appendages in parts of their bodies that would embarrassing for them if these pictures surfaced. There really is no other explanation. It's a dead breed of film for a reason. No one cares anymore about this. But when it came out, you were told to like it and then like sheep, you all flocked to see it. Then, the academy members told you it was the best film of the year and then you made it a home video hit. My guess is this film serves as a beer coaster now. Either that or it is collecting dust in someone's garage. About a month after people bought this on HV, they actually began to wonder why they bought it. I haven't watched The Artist. But it doesn't matter, this was absolutely hilarious, I actually burst out laughing. Baumer saved his best for last. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Could have saved everybody the trouble of lists and just posted this: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 On 1/22/2015 at 6:22 PM, Telemachos said: 12. All Disney animated movies 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 You have to realize, I even like some of the films I speak of....I like lots of Disney films. But the unequivocal love they get, even before anyone even sees them, is a clear sign of brainwashing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Brainwashing is just another word for 'culture'. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 19 minutes ago, Jason said: I stand by my comment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 11 minutes ago, Telemachos said: I stand by my comment. Now we know the REAL reason Lab Rats was cancelled. The Mouse found out, Tele, the Mouse found out. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 you should make a list with hyperlinks to the page as you're going along, would help a lot in the future! 1. link to page 2. link to page 3. link to page ... .. something like this, just to drop at the end or sticky on the first post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Manchester By The Sea La La Land Moonlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 How the hell did I miss this last year? I was new around here 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Yea it was a fun thread. Some people took it far too seriously but mostly it was fun. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 On 2016/5/19 at 10:50 AM, department store basement said: WTF. No movie has brainwashed anyone into liking it. (There have been movies that brainwash people into mindless condemnation though. Manos: The Hands of Fate is at the top of that list.) Baumerpheus "Take this red pill, and I will show you how you got brainwashed into thinking no movie has brainwashed anyone into liking it." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 Fucking classic @vc2002 lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...