Yes, I know what your opinion about it is. You've been very vocal about it everytime it's been mentioned. I wanted to give him a different opinion and point of view for him to be able to make up his mind about it.
The Artist (new silent film)
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Yes, I know what your opinion about it is. You've been very vocal about it everytime it's been mentioned. I wanted to give him a different opinion and point of view for him to be able to make up his mind about it.
Congrats to The Artist and all involved. It's very encouraging to see this win. 
Well The Artist is coming to DVD and Blue Ray next week and while I'll be picking it up, it'll be weird to see it on a small screen after seeing it so many times on the big screen. Still, I'm excited and hope they don't screw us DVD buyers with a bare bones release. Looking forward to next tuesday. Anyone else gonna pick it up?
Picked it up on sale at Best Buy about a month ago and enjoyed it. However I'm probably opposite most people as the most interesting parts for me was seeing Harold Lloyd in the clip from "Safety Last", the library history lesson (since I've seen or own most of the movies in the montage) and the flash backs to Melies making his movies.
I liked the Melies bit so much that I'd rather the movie been a biopic about him, rather than a story about Hugo. That era and Melies studio were awesome....Melies style is simply brilliant.
All in all, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
Picked it up on sale at Best Buy about a month ago and enjoyed it. However I'm probably opposite most people as the most interesting parts for me was seeing Harold Lloyd in the clip from "Safety Last", the library history lesson (since I've seen or own most of the movies in the montage) and the flash backs to Melies making his movies.
I liked the Melies bit so much that I'd rather the movie been a biopic about him, rather than a story about Hugo. That era and Melies studio were awesome....Melies style is simply brilliant.
All in all, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
That's where Movies Unlimited comes in. They have pretty much all commercially available oficial US releases in all genres, including several hundred or more silents. GREED and NAPOLEON are still not on DVD at this time, though most of the other surviving major silents seem to be currently in their catalog. I bought a VHS ''Napoleon'' from them over 20 years ago and still have it.
When I got SILENT SHAKESPEARE recently from MU, it was an excerpt compilation of eight to ten short silents----several dating back to the 19th century. Before that, my oldest silent filmSs were THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and RICHARD III, both pre-1915.
I found Hugo dull. I wasn't engaged by it, and I felt that it couldn't make up its mind what it was about. The "funny" bits mostly weren't, and there were plot points that were set up only to be forgotten (e.g. Hugo's notebook, which he must have back, until the movie forgets it). There's also some laughably inconsistent CGI with regards to the height of the train station and its view of the Eiffel Tower.
OTOH I loved The Artist. It was fun and energetic and confident in exactly what it was and what it was doing. If it has one serious narrative flaw it's that at the top of the film we see...
OTOH I loved The Artist. It was fun and energetic and confident in exactly what it was and what it was doing. If it has one serious narrative flaw it's that at the top of the film we see...
George Valentin having mics shoved in his face and talking, which means the radio listeners out there know what his voice sounds like, so no one should be surprised that he won't successfully make the transition to sound. Oops.
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