Is it possible for this to not be overrated?

Love Story 1970

there's nothing here and it's just a bunch of tropes

i did enjoy the hockey scenes because the entire time i couldn't figure out if lack of padding was due to poor production values or they didn't wear shoulder pads then

You never have to say you're sorry.

Young Ali MacGraw was so incredibly beautiful, too bad she couldn't act a lick. I still wince thinking about the stilted way she'd call Ryan O'Neal "Preppie".

Ryan O'Neal was pretty good-looking too, I guess. He had some good roles over the years.

wow i touched a nerve, I take it you guys really liked it? maybe film didn't age well?

agreed, the preppie thing was overblown, she did it so awkwardly and it was repeated so much that it was really cringey

it was like she was half between the 40s speed talking comedy banter and real life and couldn't quite figure it out

Nobody is defending Love Story I don't think. You might like the sequel better, Oliver's Story. Haha no jk.

Love Story was a huge bestselling book first, the book and the movie were huge cultural events at the time.

Finally!





Looks great for a period movie of its vintage...

Two down eleven to go.

And they both sucked. The only redeeming feature was that the girl came from Cranston, RI, where I once lived.

Everyone that had any association with Love Story or Jonathan Livingston Seagull should be hung and their bodies burned in a trash bin. (Book or movie)

If I remember interviews from the time, the guy who wrote Love Story was a classics professor who tried to include every romantic and dramatic cliche in the story. He succeeded wildly and retired off the proceeds.

this makes perfect sense

at first i was actually thinking "maybe all those tropes and cliches are originally from here" but then I started thinking back further and could immediately think of dozens of examples of each one predating it by quite a bit - then i remembered the title... the original algorithm generated storyline - but i guess nobody has to say they are sorry

been meaning to read jonathan livingston seagull since high school but never started

i have a feeling it'll be much like zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance or anything by carlos castaneda in the sense that more people read it to say they've read it than because they actually enjoyed it

i had to read either bridge across forever or one by bach in high school english class - wasn't impressed enough to recall anything about it or even which novel it was - the name of the novel of one sounds more plausible but i distinctly remember a ring on the cover so want to say it was the bridge one - i actually thought the name was "a perfect ring" or something like that but apparently he never wrote a book by that name

This looks almost too good to be true.

Regarding Malick, I didn’t see The Thin Red Line but I really liked The Tree of Life. It stayed with me for a while.

The Thin Red Line is great, especially if you're a sucker for war films like me.

Also has the most insane cast I can think of, although I'm no film buff.
From wiki:
Sean Penn
Adrien Brody
Jim Caviezel
Ben Chaplin
George Clooney
John Cusack
Woody Harrelson
Elias Koteas
Nick Nolte
John C. Reilly
John Travolta

He was at Yale, a big runner I remember, from that early 70s running craze. ABC used him as color for their Olympic marathon coverage alongside Jim McKay. He seemed eager to distance himself from his Love Story past, wanted to be a witty cool Renaissance Man type I think.

Tree of Life nails some specific ‘time and a place’ feelings. It stuck w/ me too. I should rewatch.

Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is quality, whatever the reason you read it.

Thin Red Line is a must watch, especially if you like his other stuff, it's the closest thing he has to a film with an actual plot

I still absolutely love it but I've seen it so many times that most of it is no longer stuff filled unknown depth and meaning but rather just a time filler to cover the fact he chose not to have any sort of cohesive storyline

it's a beautiful, absolutely beautiful film and to this day is the best "inner thoughts voiceover dialogue" I've ever seen pulled off - it's normally crass but here done to perfection - it's a very brief scene but it's stayed with me forever

like i said, it was my favorite film for well over a decade until I saw it enough times for it to lose it's luster - still speaks volumes about it

P.S. That copperfield movie looks legit, i loved death of stalin and in the thick of it too

Yeh I'll watch anything Armando Iannucci has his name on.

Sold... any appeal to a middle-aged woman or am I best to watch this on my own?

I’ve been meaning to rewatch it as well.

Off-topic, I have never seen Annie Hall, it’s next in the queue.

not much appeal, the little plot there is is men duking it out in ego contests or in physically blowing each other up - i've attempted watching it with a female present twice and failed as they both lost interest pretty quickly

but they were both more fast and furious kind or downton abbey kind of crowd so i wouldn't rule out women by default but this is a film that is full of violence yet still very slow paced and has long periods without any dialogue, much of the dialogue is a read between the lines kind of dialogue as well

There is no battle sequence in movies better than the grassy hill attack in The Thin Red Line.

(x-post from SMP LC)