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candrew said:
I was in a test audience for Pulp Fiction - I got to see it a few months before it premiered. So obviously I had a lot to do with the finished product.

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Did you have any idea what you were about to see? I knew, or thought I knew, what I was seeing on opening night 1994 and it shocked me in a good way. My wife had a completely opposite shock. To this day, she refuses to give it a second chance. I can't imagine seeing it "cold".
 
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sirkickyass said:
My opinion of [Schindler's List] goes down seemingly every year.
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squareinthecircle said:
Why is that?
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A number of reasons. I think it basically invented the genre of holocaust pornography. I think the ending scene where everyone walks past the grave of Oskar Schindler feels cheap and contrived. I read an interview with Terry Gilliam a few years ago where he had a pretty searing critique of the "happy ending" nature of a film about the holocaust where we focus on all the people that were saved that rings sort of true with me. Imre Kertesz (Nobel prize winner in Literature and concentration camp survivor) wrote a pretty searing critique of the movie and its treatment of inhumanity as an aberration that I thought had particular legitimacy given his particular standpoint; he dismissed the entire film as "kitsch."

Every time I see the movie or clips of the film these perspectives become more apparent to me. At some point in time I will probably believe it's one of the most overrated films of all time.
 
YB85 said:
Did you have any idea what you were about to see? I knew, or thought I knew, what I was seeing on opening night 1994 and it shocked me in a good way. My wife had a completely opposite shock. To this day, she refuses to give it a second chance. I can't imagine seeing it "cold".
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I watched it at my friend's house a couple years ago and had no idea what it was about. I remember at first thinking "why the hell is this weird *** movie so popular", but after I got into it and the story got going I didn't even think twice about what I was watching...I simply enjoyed the ride. I think having no expectations for a movie is the best way to go about watching films. If a movie is hyped up or you have preconceived notions of it you are bound to be disappoint in some way. S of my favorite movies I had no idea what I was about to watch when I saw them...Requiem for a Dream and Dumb and Dumber.
 
YB85 said:
Did you have any idea what you were about to see? I knew, or thought I knew, what I was seeing on opening night 1994 and it shocked me in a good way. My wife had a completely opposite shock. To this day, she refuses to give it a second chance. I can't imagine seeing it "cold".
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My girlfriend at the time and I were chosen at random while walking through a mall so I really did not know anything until 15 minutes before they showed us the film.

As you can imagine they forewarned us about the non-stop cursing, violence and the rape scene (although they didn't say it would be all male rape). We could walk out at any time; but if we stayed through the whole movie we had to agree to fill out a questionaire..
 
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honz said:
I watched it at my friend's house a couple years ago and had no idea what it was about. I remember at first thinking "why the hell is this weird *** movie so popular", but after I got into it and the story got going I didn't even think twice about what I was watching...I simply enjoyed the ride. I think having no expectations for a movie is the best way to go about watching films. If a movie is hyped up or you have preconceived notions of it you are bound to be disappoint in some way. S of my favorite movies I had no idea what I was about to watch when I saw them...Requiem for a Dream and Dumb and Dumber.
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Gordon Hayward's dumb and plays like he's on heroin.
 
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