myriam [email] said at 1:53 PM 12-06-2005: Bitch is made for patient (slow?) people ;) You are too speedy for le parrain. He is an old man! Wisdom does not run, my friend.
josh [email] said at 2:51 PM 12-06-2005: it's not a great example, since you like unforgiven even though it is slow because you are obsessed with the old west and outlaws.
meredith [email] said at 4:30 PM 12-06-2005: Does Dances with Wolves count? I can't think of any slow-paced movies that are not westerns. Perhaps there's a REASON for this trend.
meredith [email] said at 3:21 PM 12-07-2005: I don't think he commented on it anywhere. I found out because I IMed him awhile ago and asked if he had seen it yet.
ed [email] said at 3:42 PM 12-07-2005: Hrm. I guess not. I did mention that it was next in my Netflix queue here, but I didn't review it afterward. Must've done that on my site.
But my search did lead to this kuh-lassic post, which includes a GWH reference by Woody. I had forgotten how much Sesur (and his clones) used to annoy me.
ed [email] said at 4:26 PM 12-07-2005: Hmm. I've Netflicked 54 movies since then. It's not fresh enough in my mind to do a full-on review, but I will say that I absolutely loved it. I rated it five stars on Netflix.
And I remembering laughing through the tears and saying "Damn you, Woody"! But in a good way.
It just dawned on me. I have gotten 58 movies in the last 6 months... and still have 113 in my queue! (Although American Gothic does take up 6 slots - will be my first non-movie rental...)
ed [email] said at 6:42 AM 12-08-2005: Oh, I'm not mad about that old stuff, Sesur. I actually laughed as I reread that post and the responses. I'm pretty good at not holding grudges for very long. They get heavy, and tend to shed a lot.
woody [email] said at 3:21 PM 12-07-2005: Two of my all-time favorite movies. I guess Shawshank has a few slow scenes, but I think of it like this: How much total time could you cut from the movie without really changing the movie?
When I look at many delete scenes from movies, I understand that they would have slowed the movie down. You can tell the movie without those scenes.
Pride and Prejudice? Slow damn movie. So much dialogue and scenes where nothing really changes the story or characters. You could tell that story in 1 hour and have pretty much the same experience.
woody [email] said at 3:25 PM 12-07-2005: And I don't mean it to sound negative. I like a few movies that I would call "slow". I think they are meant to approximate the experience of reading a novel. You are meant to get a very rich, deep understanding of the characters and see them in lots of seemingly irrelevant situations.
Or something like About Schmidt, a slow movie, but it's not about a story that happens, it's just a study of the guy. So nothing really has to happen or get resolved.
myriam [email] said at 12:35 AM 12-08-2005: Yeah, actually neither Shawshank *nor* GWH would I characterize as "slow". They are both long, but the pace is kept up enough in each so that it doesn't really drag.
About Schmidt is a perfect example of a slow movie, as is P&P. I wholeheartedly agree on both counts. Another, for me personally, was Howard's End.
amy [email] said at 1:54 AM 12-08-2005: Two of my favorite movies are unbearably slow-to everyone else but me-The English Patient and Until the End of the World.
meredith [email] said at 10:25 AM 12-08-2005: Oh! I saw About Schmidt! I thought it was a good movie. Even though it was really depressed. I liked the part at the end where he got the drawings from Mbatu.
amanda [email] said at 4:37 PM 12-06-2005: I've never been able to make it through "The Godfather" either. I still think that "The English Patient" is the worst offender of slow-pacedness, at least as far as popular movies which I have seen go.
meredith [email] said at 4:45 PM 12-06-2005: See, I've never seen that. And I wasn't able to make it through Last of the Mohican's either, but that's mainly because the disk was scratched and I moved on rather than order a replacement.
amanda [email] said at 5:16 PM 12-06-2005: I used to have a skating program with music from the "The Last of the Mohicans" soundtrack, though I can't remember whether or not the movie was worth trying to see.
Before that long-program, it was "The Last Emperor." I must have been stuck on big dramatic movie soundtracks starting with "The Last..." when I was a teenager.
myriam [email] said at 5:39 PM 12-06-2005: Oh my goodness, the English Patient is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The fact that it won an oscar is a reflection of how pointless oscars are. Yikes.
meredith [email] said at 6:03 PM 12-06-2005: Do you remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine was ostracised when people discovered that she didn't like the English patient?
amanda [email] said at 6:25 PM 12-06-2005: Aunt Cheryl, Emily and I went to see it in the budget theatre. At the end, Aunt Cheryl asked us whether the movie was terrible/lacked continuity or if that was just her memory loss from the aneurysm.
reggie [email] said at 10:39 PM 12-07-2005: I thought, and still think, that The English Patient was an excellent movie and it's really gotten a bad rap over the years.
reggie [email] said at 12:25 AM 12-08-2005: It was excluded from the AFI's Top 100 Movies list yet Fargo (a movie I have MUCH love for) which came out that same year was included on the list.
Trust me, there are a lot of people in the film criticism bidness that hate on The English Patient to this day.
amy [email] said at 1:57 AM 12-08-2005: I didn't read before posting above...
The English Patient is absolutely unbelievably moving and incredible. I can't sit thru a movie more than once without many moons in between but I forced everyone I knew to see TEP with me. Must have seen it 6 times in the theater. Did you read the book?
