Thank you for your honesty. I thought Waltz with Bashir the best animation I had seen. Blind spot directors, many. Sorry to all you who will be named - Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Danny Boyle, Del Toro, Wes Anderson. Most of their films I have avoided. Why? Don't know. Couldn't finish Isle of Dogs but liked Grand Budapest Hotel. As for Fellini - is it the Italian in your face theatricality and indulgence that puts me off? Yes, but of two I've seen, Amarcord and 8 1/2, I accept the second for its 'otherness'. Godard? Breathless, saw recently 2nd viewing, and thought it delightful character study. For lasting comedy I go back to It Happened One Night, Airplane!, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lady Eve, Ninotchka and Buster Keaton
@@willhemmings some interesting choices there! Especially Gilliam and Boyle. Waltz with Bashir is an excellent film I can't argue there, even if I haven't seen it pretty much since release. Older comedy is much preferable to me also, it's far more sophisticated on the whole.
Great discussion. Don’t worry about not liking Godard; no-one likes Godard 😂. He’s done a lot of different stuff, so everyone will find 1 or 2 that they like. Mine are the obvious ones… Contempt and Breathless. I can’t bear Weekend. Looking forward to seeing your favourite comedies list 😀
You need to watch Napoleon Dynamite, mate. The other comedies you mentioned are pretty naff & forgettable. Napoleon Dynamite is just awesome. By the way, I went to see The Substance after watching your video. I've not had a WTF moment at the cinema for a long time, loved it, cheers.
I'll have to watch it at some point granted, maybe I'll bump it up the list! Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it Stripey! It certainly is an experience, I look forward to revisiting it at home too.
I’d highly recommend Perfect Blue or Akira as animation starting points; complex stories for mature audiences. Agree on Wes Anderson. Watched his last two films and just find them to be an annoying slog where every character sounds the same.
As i get older, i am enjoying animation more and more than modern live action films. I saw a lovely Japanse anime at BFI festival, "The Colors Within", loved it. May be it's just not your thing? In terms Wes Anderson, i adore Fantastic Fox which is animated Stop motion , however the only other film of his i would rewatch is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I love stop motion, from Wallace and Gromit to Jan savakmajer! Total agree about Goddard, for me his films are intellectual examinations. Re Fellini, i would start with La Strada, not fan of 8 1/2). have you seen da sica’s "The Bicycle Theives."
I need to watch more Ghibli to see if I can get back into some of it perhaps. The two Anderson's you mentioned are perhaps my favourite of his also. Your two stop motion picks are terrific shouts as I really like both! Godard is challenging for sure, don't mind it being intellectual, but for me it's how he engages with his film-as criticism approach that leaves me cold. Fellini I just can't justify why I haven't seen any, major blind spot! Ah well.. Bicycle Thieves is just wonderful, in fact Italian neo-realism is what breaks my indifference to Italian cinema!
@@reel_reflections if you like Ghibli, definitely watch, Miyazaki's Laputa, Nausicaa, my neighbour totoro, princess mononoke, spirited away and porco rosso (an underrated favourite of mine), his later two films, the wind rises and the boy and the heron are more grown up subjects. Then move onto Isao Takahata's Ghibli films, Graves of the fireflies, Princess Kaguya, only yesterday and also my neighbours the yamadas is delightful too. Pom Poko is okay too. I first watched all of these 20 years ago at cinema or dvd/blu ray, before the Netflix anime explosion, and then watched them multiple times with both my daughters as they grew up, The eldest is 17 and they both still love these films.
@@heartofcinema3454 I've seen Spirited, Totoro, Mononoke and Fireflies. I liked all of them actually.. or admired them but I've never returned to them. I'll need to and watch more at some point, particularly need to watch the later Miyazaki's I feel. That's really cool bringing your children up on them! Great parenting if you ask me haha.
I had to watch Jean Luc Godard's "Weekend" for a film studies A-level in the 90's.....the most pretentious nonsense I've ever had to sit through...ever. God knows what you get out of it. All the comedies you mentioned are worth watching ..except The Hangover....pants.
@@dirkbogarde44 I studied it too but for my degree, and while I agree it's an esoteric film (Godard is never 'easy') I found it perhaps his most complex and rewarding (and funny) film. I thought it was a pretty bold attempt at exploring an anti-realist film aesthetics.
Thank you.
@@cheekster777 pleasure as always Cheekster!
You've gotta get round to Jackie Chan's first Western breakthrough, Rumble in the Bronx!
Thank you for your honesty. I thought Waltz with Bashir the best animation I had seen. Blind spot directors, many. Sorry to all you who will be named - Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Danny Boyle, Del Toro, Wes Anderson. Most of their films I have avoided. Why? Don't know. Couldn't finish Isle of Dogs but liked Grand Budapest Hotel. As for Fellini - is it the Italian in your face theatricality and indulgence that puts me off? Yes, but of two I've seen, Amarcord and 8 1/2, I accept the second for its 'otherness'. Godard? Breathless, saw recently 2nd viewing, and thought it delightful character study. For lasting comedy I go back to It Happened One Night, Airplane!, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lady Eve, Ninotchka and Buster Keaton
@@willhemmings some interesting choices there! Especially Gilliam and Boyle. Waltz with Bashir is an excellent film I can't argue there, even if I haven't seen it pretty much since release. Older comedy is much preferable to me also, it's far more sophisticated on the whole.
Great discussion. Don’t worry about not liking Godard; no-one likes Godard 😂. He’s done a lot of different stuff, so everyone will find 1 or 2 that they like. Mine are the obvious ones… Contempt and Breathless. I can’t bear Weekend. Looking forward to seeing your favourite comedies list 😀
Wait until see you Week End make my favourite comedies list 😉
You need to watch Napoleon Dynamite, mate. The other comedies you mentioned are pretty naff & forgettable. Napoleon Dynamite is just awesome.
By the way, I went to see The Substance after watching your video. I've not had a WTF moment at the cinema for a long time, loved it, cheers.
I'll have to watch it at some point granted, maybe I'll bump it up the list!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it Stripey! It certainly is an experience, I look forward to revisiting it at home too.
I’d highly recommend Perfect Blue or Akira as animation starting points; complex stories for mature audiences. Agree on Wes Anderson. Watched his last two films and just find them to be an annoying slog where every character sounds the same.
@@jim3329 you know.. I can't believe I forgot Satoshi Kon's anime films! I was a fan of his work.
As i get older, i am enjoying animation more and more than modern live action films. I saw a lovely Japanse anime at BFI festival, "The Colors Within", loved it. May be it's just not your thing? In terms Wes Anderson, i adore Fantastic Fox which is animated Stop motion , however the only other film of his i would rewatch is The Grand Budapest Hotel. I love stop motion, from Wallace and Gromit to Jan savakmajer! Total agree about Goddard, for me his films are intellectual examinations. Re Fellini, i would start with La Strada, not fan of 8 1/2). have you seen da sica’s "The Bicycle Theives."
I need to watch more Ghibli to see if I can get back into some of it perhaps. The two Anderson's you mentioned are perhaps my favourite of his also. Your two stop motion picks are terrific shouts as I really like both!
Godard is challenging for sure, don't mind it being intellectual, but for me it's how he engages with his film-as criticism approach that leaves me cold. Fellini I just can't justify why I haven't seen any, major blind spot! Ah well.. Bicycle Thieves is just wonderful, in fact Italian neo-realism is what breaks my indifference to Italian cinema!
@@reel_reflections if you like Ghibli, definitely watch, Miyazaki's Laputa, Nausicaa, my neighbour totoro, princess mononoke, spirited away and porco rosso (an underrated favourite of mine), his later two films, the wind rises and the boy and the heron are more grown up subjects.
Then move onto Isao Takahata's Ghibli films, Graves of the fireflies, Princess Kaguya, only yesterday and also my neighbours the yamadas is delightful too. Pom Poko is okay too.
I first watched all of these 20 years ago at cinema or dvd/blu ray, before the Netflix anime explosion, and then watched them multiple times with both my daughters as they grew up, The eldest is 17 and they both still love these films.
@@heartofcinema3454 I've seen Spirited, Totoro, Mononoke and Fireflies. I liked all of them actually.. or admired them but I've never returned to them. I'll need to and watch more at some point, particularly need to watch the later Miyazaki's I feel.
That's really cool bringing your children up on them! Great parenting if you ask me haha.
I had to watch Jean Luc Godard's "Weekend" for a film studies A-level in the 90's.....the most pretentious nonsense I've ever had to sit through...ever. God knows what you get out of it. All the comedies you mentioned are worth watching ..except The Hangover....pants.
@@dirkbogarde44 I studied it too but for my degree, and while I agree it's an esoteric film (Godard is never 'easy') I found it perhaps his most complex and rewarding (and funny) film. I thought it was a pretty bold attempt at exploring an anti-realist film aesthetics.