The Movie Perfume

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I'm touched.

The lead male, Ben Whishaw, is going to star in some sort of new adaption of Brideshead Revisited--probably a working-class version of Brideshead Revisited.

It fits in with your taxidermy and fetish for really creepy chairs and stools made out of body parts.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Stazy

The last 20 minutes become too "artsy" for my taste.
I found it laughably over-the-top.

Or maybe I just didn't "get" it.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

It fits in with your taxidermy and fetish for really creepy chairs and stools made out of body parts.

Fetish is such a strong word.

 

[EL72]

Originally Posted by whodini

I found it laughably over-the-top.

Or maybe I just didn't "get" it.

+1. The movie was not bad until then but it descended into confused mediocrity at the end.

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by EL72

+1. The movie was not bad until then but it descended into confused mediocrity at the end.

I was also disappointed that movie lacked a positive moral lesson a-la Steven Spielberg.


Book is a masterpiece.
Movie is a must see.

 

[EL72]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

I was also disappointed that movie lacked a positive moral lesson a-la Steven Spielberg.


Book is a masterpiece.
Movie is a must see.

Sorry but unpredictability is not a virtue in and of itself for a movie ending. I don't need a happy Spielberg ending but absent any redeeming artistic qualities, a bad ending is just that irrespective of how predictable the outcome was.

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by EL72

Sorry but unpredictability is not a virtue in and of itself for a movie ending. I don't need a happy Spielberg ending but absent any redeeming artistic qualities, a bad ending is just that irrespective of how predictable the outcome was.

I also think that the ending is awful that saves both of us the trouble of reading a book.

 

[EL72]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

I also think that the ending is awful that saves both of us the trouble of reading a book.

I thought you had read it and it's a masterpiece

 

[Steve B.]

Seems like almost every movie follows this formula:

B Bad
G Guy
G Good
G Guy
G Gets
G Girl
Z
Z
Z Snore

BGGGGGZZZ= BIG SNORE

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Steve B.

Seems like almost every movie follows this formula:

B Bad
G Guy
G Good
G Guy
G Gets
G Girl
Z
Z
Z Snore

BGGGGGZZZ= BIG SNORE
I suppose, but just because an ending or a plot twist is bizarre doesn't make it good; look at "π" and to a lesser extent "Old Boy" (which I know I'll get flammed for saying). I've definitely seen more films of widely-varying genres than the average person so I feel pretty confident when I believe something to be laughably bad. It's not like I'm here saying, "Yeah, that ending wasn't nearly as good as my favorite movie, 'Gigli'."

 

[caelte]

When I was watching Perfume, there were times when I wanted to get up and leave. I was getting bored. It wasn't until after the movie, when I started to think about it, that it became more interesting. Maybe it was the score.

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by whodini

I suppose, but just because an ending or a plot twist is bizarre doesn't make it good; look at "π" and to a lesser extent "Old Boy" (which I know I'll get flammed for saying). I've definitely seen more films of widely-varying genres than the average person so I feel pretty confident when I believe something to be laughably bad. It's not like I'm here saying, "Yeah, that ending wasn't nearly as good as my favorite movie, 'Gigli'."

You think Parfume was laughably bad?
You might not like it or don't appreciate the story or uncomfortable with some scenes ,but laughably bad, really?

 

[whodini]

Perfume's ending, as I said before, was laughably bad. I appreciated the concept of the story throughout the entire film and the score futher engrossed me in its atmosphere. The scene of "arousal" by the people at the end of the film was awful and felt about as authentic as any part of "Caligula." Instead of the more concrete ending I was expecting, I felt like I'd be dragged through the film just to witness a cheap trick of slight-of-hand. I wasn't the only one in the theater that laughed aloud, too. The orgy also made the final scene that much more meaningless while I'm sure it was probably tighter in the novel. The final scene could have been Geoffrey the Giraffe from Toys'R'Us having tea with Winston Churchill and I would have been less disappointed.

 

[Chadley]

Originally Posted by whodini

The final scene could have been Geoffrey the Giraffe from Toys'R'Us having tea with Winston Churchill and I would have been less disappointed.
Geoffrey would whine that not only are his arms too short for him to raise the tea cup to his mouth but that he can't even grasp the handle with his hoof. Churchill would stand up, pound the table, and look up with passion exclaiming, "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. You are a giraffe that sells toys."

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Chadley

Geoffrey would whine that not only are his arms too short for him to raise the tea cup to his mouth but that he can't even grasp the handle with his hoof. Churchill would stand up, pound the table, and look up with passion exclaiming, "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. You are a giraffe that sells toys."
Is that when the orgy would begin?