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I'm the only thinking the whole movie was a huge allegory about incest?
Charles Green
I could destroy the entirety of old /lbg/ in the palm of my hand.
Daniel Campbell
just make a dog damn letterboxd account already
Charles Rodriguez
>nu-Katy Perry >1985
Jose Campbell
lol
Jeremiah Wilson
Imagine actually listening to what Amaranth thinks
Brody Lopez
Imagine following someone and posting their rating filenamed "cunt", and caring this much about your hate towards a random name and avatar in the Internet who hasn't been in these threads in 5 years.
Connor Jones
>hasn't been in these threads in 5 years. good
Austin Young
Clara Bow is frisky!
Parker Gonzalez
>griffith sup, pops
Anthony Cox
if you could you would, but you can't, so you won't
Justin Cox
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Chase Bailey
I love films
Kevin Gomez
patreon/10
Chase Rogers
how do i get a girl to like me?
Carter Taylor
stalk her social media for months and never say anything to her
Zachary Harris
i already do that though
Nicholas Lopez
go to parties that you know she'll attend, then dance with her, it's basically the least difficult version of flirting, if it goes well then there's a 90% chance you can move things further
Benjamin Harris
i'll try that thanks
Adam Evans
what's your favorite recent movie? I'll watch it
Owen Thomas
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Julian Harris
battle of the sexes
Samuel Thomas
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Henry Barnes
Literally just a remake of La Dolce Vita. Terrible taste.
Oliver Anderson
Nothing. They're all awful. Go back to the 1910's
Adam Cook
agree.
Bentley Smith
La Dolce Vita is a remake too and it's awful. Terrible taste.
>By no means is this the travesty you've heard from verified Twitter critics who spout off on Rotten Tomatoes, nor the snore-fest audience members with a chip on their shoulder describe, but there's nothing really here besides some charismatic actors, bright colours and a sexual gaze. They're all ripped and tight in the str8 and homoerotic sense, but excuses to check my phone and follow the news, /hr/ Emma Stone threads, and trailers for other movies did arise. That's not exactly good.
Angel Powell
This is a fantastic piece of kino. John Travolta and Lawrence Fishburne are incredible in this movie. THE BIG KAHUNA SCENE IS SOO AMAZING I QUOTE IT TO MYSELF ALL THE TIME GREATEST SCENE IN FILM HISTORY.
which is a disastrously bad review. But back to the subject at hand. I've been getting into Bordwell/Thompson recently; I put them off when I was younger because I thought their writing was "boring" but they're pretty decent
Zachary Perez
I tried watching Birth of a Nation and outside of the combat scenes, it was the most boring fucking thing I've ever seen in my life. And I love slow cinema. Benning, Sokurov, and Costa are my favorites. You're not special for watching slow boring outdated silent films, contrarian.
Dominic Perry
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Aiden Bailey
yeah, i know what you mean. i felt similar to them when i was younger. i appreciate them a lot more now.
Daniel Edwards
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Dominic Diaz
Tell this faggot 82939 why Griffith is outdated boring shit
Elijah Lee
Don't forget Flaherty
Henry Walker
>Bordwell/Thompson The McDonald's of film theory
Hudson Adams
you'd get sick of filet mignon every night real fast
Jayden Green
This is why all the other boards conisder Sup Forums a laughing stock, myself included.
William Ross
I don't eat out of dumpsters. *sneers
Ryder Sanchez
Tell this faggot why Griffith is shit
Lucas Smith
I know I'm supposed to be turned off by his film's racism and pretty poor politics, and I am, but it's such a small part of a larger and greater film that still packs a punch almost 100 years later that I find myself being able to reconcile with it all at the end of the day.
D.W. Griffith had a vision of cinema as a popular art, and Birth of a Nation is a fully realized version of that vision. It's never not compelling even when it's on the edge of inhumane and outdated ideals, and it's a film that seeks to entertain among its desires to preach for a better and more unified human race. In spite of some of the ugliness, it's actually refreshing to see a film take a side instead of straddling the line.
Nathaniel James
If I'm deriving value from Bordwell's work, then I think that's a net positive for me. Perhaps it isn't up to your standards, but thank goodness I don't live my life trying to measure up to whatever yardstick you've arbitrarily held up.
Grayson Brooks
If you want to remain a simpleton, remain one. Just know your place on the collective ladder.
Hunter Bell
>seeks to entertain among its desires to preach for a better and more unified human race Life is entertainment for those doomed for failure.
Yes, I think I will give your hypothetical ladder precisely the amount of respect and consideration it deserves. Feel free to reply once you've written something with one-tenth the substance of one of his lesser blog posts!
