... but I couldn't make it more than forty minutes into Fellini Satyricon last night. I am a straight-up flop. Never listen to my opinion again! Never more! I am critically bankrupt. Intellectually void. A flop!
But my god what an annoying movie! I got on some level the exercise that Fellini was crafting here - and I understand even better after reading Roger Ebert's rave review - but that doesn't make the process of sitting through the screeching thing any easier. Even the abundance of attractive men in tiny skirts (especially Jimmy Marsden doppelganger Hiram Keller, seen in the background below) couldn't make it any more palatable. And you know me! Attractive men in tiny skirts is my bread n' butter!
Do y'all have any classic movies that've had this sort of effect on you? That you just couldn't force yourself through? And I'm going to go and flagellate myself for this cinematic misdeed. The shame. Should I try the film again? And get stoned first? I think I should be high. Very very very very high.
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For me, it's A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.
I also had a difficult time getting through Satyricon, but I don't get high...I just drank two pitchers of Kool-Aid as I watched it...Kool-Aid is my pot. Also, went through the Kool-Aid as I wathced Fellini's Roma, it's too bad cause I really LOVE his other films.
That's the thing, Nicholas, I still have a lot of Fellini's films to see but the several I have seen I have all loved, so I felt guilty with this one, like I oughta just take one for the team. But I couldn't do it. It was also a case of picking the wrong movie for my mood - if I'd been less exhausted last night I might've been more willing to slog through. But I just was not in that place. Oh well.
I've never even tried to watch ASIB, Rick, and I can't imagine I'd feel differently than you do if I tried.
I actually found Fellini Satyricon to be much easier to get through than something like Roma simply because of the constant homoerotic over and undertones. The film probably didn't make much sense but there was just so much nice male flesh on display (And I totally thought the one guy looked like James Marsden! Imagine him in a more coherent remake...Yum)
There have been plenty of so-called classics and masterpieces that I have loathed or found incredibly hard to get through my with eyelids open. Too many to list, probably.
you should skip to the end. the end is great, not just because it's the end either
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