Tried Mike Epps. Gave it a solid 8 minutes and i quit which is pretty rare for me.
It was like a parody of a typical comic view comedian except that was really his material.

watched the new Mozart thing for 10 min and quit. Jesus Christ!

Yeah I was really disappointed with it. Made it about 10 minutes. Same with the Chris Tucker special. Do not recommend.

Amadeus? The one that won 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture? Maybe you should give it a little more of a chance...

Amazon just came out with a new season of Mozart In the Jungle. Although that's a bit weird for the Netflix thread...

I haven't seen amadeus so not commenting on that, but the "u should give it another chance cuz it won a bunch of oscars is nonsense. crash won best picture...."

Amadeus will rock you if you let it.

Yeah, you didn't like one particular oscar winner, therefore all oscars are meaningless, and absolutely no Best Picture winner gets better after 10 minutes. Nice logic!

Don't get this started again,it doesn't go anywhere.

That song was awesome.

Youtube? That's where I watched it after watching the other 6 episodes on Netflix.

lol u have some serious flaws in ur comprehension so rather than engage with u how about I make it as simple as I can:

how about just disregarding awards altogether and judging a film on its own merits?

how on earth u managed to interpret my post in the way u did is beyond me, but based on ur response I doubt there is any shot me and u are gonna have a productive conversation.

but ya, all oscars (awards in general) are totally meaningless, and the academy are a bunch of morons with very poor taste.

I'd say critical acclaim and awards/nominations are both factors to consider in deciding which movies to view. Obviously not only those, but yeah in general they have some significance.

I looked back and I think Crash was the only best picture winner that I saw and thought was bad.

A lot were just ok, and I didn't agree with the winner pretty often, but watching something because it won best picture would be a reasonable strategy for picking a movie to see.

That be nice and dandy if we all had infinite time to devote to doing random selection of movies. Until then I will let reviews from critics and audiences pre screen a vast majority of the movies I want to watch.

Also with movies and shows, as I have mentioned earlier, some of the best works are ones that build and are slow burners. So the amount of time you should give these shows/movies prior to passing judgement should be higher than if you are watching Baby Geniuses or the most recent Adam Sandler.

Also any non comedy should be given more than 10 minutes to catch your interest.

ya I agree (tho I would suggest using nominations rather than winners) however that wasn't the conversation.

I think u may have missed the original exchange and have a mistaken understanding of what I was saying.

someone picked a film, started watching the film, didn't like the film, so stopped watching the film, and the guy basically laughed at him and told him he should keep watching BECAUSE it won an oscar.

I don't have any issue using critical acclaim to pick a film to watch, I was taking issue with someone who was saying u should continue to watch a film u don't like just because it won an award.

pretty hilarious how on the one hand ur saying "hey time is scarce and valuable" but on other hand are taking issue with me saying it's not unreasonable to stop watching a film ur not enjoying even tho it won an oscar.

if time is so valuable and we have a limited # of films we can watch why on earth would u waste it watching a film lots of other people liked even if u don't?

and don't bother answering that it was rhetorical, I'm not really interested in anything you have to say.

All of these theoretical arguments aside, Amadeus is a really good film and everyone should watch it at least once. And then watch the Mr. Show parody sketch that it inspired.

rbk,

I'm sure we're on the same page. I do think giving Amadeus more than 10 minutes would be a reasonable idea, but as far as this convo went, I'm not even sure they were even talking about the 1985 movie.

(It's theatrical release was the first movie date I ever went on.)

I've never even started it and was only 5 when it was released, however in your honor I will fire it up and will give it at least 20 mins

@Amadeus wins

DAFUQ?!!!

Ok, I will give definitely a 2nd chance. Maybe I am just a totally movie noob

Rbk,

1. Disregard awards when picking movies to see

2. Use nominations to pick movies to see

Pick one.


A vast majority of movies have nothing truly eventful happen in the first 10 minutes. 10 minutes isn't enough time to give a movie a chance. It's a massively -ev move.

I remember seeing Speed in theaters with my Dad. Before going he said he red it is literally nonstop action and he guaranteed it'd have more action that some other action movie out. About 10 minutes in a turned to him and whispered literally nothing had happened. The rest of the movie was literally nonstop action.

/csb

Swordfish is pretty awesome. At the very least, I remember being a teenager and seeing Berry's tits before Monster's Ball became a total yearly beatdown .

Amadeus won Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Best actor. You should look up how many times that has happened(with or without original screenplay), and then look at user rankings. Not at all surprising, it's also top 100 on IMDB(viewer rankings). Even "bad" best picture winners(Crash) are likely "good" by any scientific approach to ratings. You may not like a movie that got 7.5% on RT(critics) and 7.9 on IMDB(users), but it doesn't fit any definition of bad.

lololololol oh man if only you had made that post with the irony in mind, but alas u actually doubled down on the stupid and responded to a post about ur lack of reading comprehension with a long post that had nothing to do with my point.

congrats.

if only I had said something in my original post about how I hadn't seen amadeus and wasn't commenting on how good it was.....I'm sure had I included that u wouldn't have made such a totally irrelevant post trying to convince me that it was a great film even tho how good it is in reality has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the topic.

good lord.