'Raging Bull'? 'Raging Bollocks', more like
Real life trolling. In the company of men, I once dared to suggest that Raging Bull is not a great film. My point was that in terms of direction and performance, it's technically brilliant - two of the twentieth century's greatest cinema artists at the peak of their powers. However, it's also Scorcese and De Niro wallowing in misery, self-hatred and guilt, ploughing all their energy in to a biopic of an awful man, and making a film that ultimately has nothing to offer. I think that they could, and should, have done better.

Just my opinion of course, but men seem to get massively upset, not just annoyed, at this. I still troll my friends with this on occasion, especially when they are drunk, and even though they know I'm winding them up they go in to dismayed "But how can you say that!" diatribes. Interesting that people get so passionately defensive of a film about a wifebeating thug. I don't do it often though because they usually end up tearfully threatening to punch me.
( The Vomiting Hitchhiker Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Fri 20 May 2011, 15:38, 11 replies)

Damn you
*sob* *punch* *sob* *punch*
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 15:45, closed)

... dammit, can't help but bite... but... but... but...
you're supposed to relate to that wifebeating thug! did you get to the end of citizen kane and think "what's all the fuss about? some megalomaniac narcisstic prick?"
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 15:53, closed)

tl;dw

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 15:53, closed)

kane or raging bull?

(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 15:55, closed)

Yeah.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:05, closed)

Citizen Kane?
I haven't seen most of the old black and white ones*.


*apart from Raging Bull
( The Vomiting Hitchhiker Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:07, closed)

You should watch it
it's like, the Citizen Kane of movies.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:09, closed)

You mean, like
The Watchmen of Comics?
( The Vomiting Hitchhiker Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:24, closed)

Another good one to upset people with is 'Eraserhead'.
If that wasn't David Lynch trolling wanky film buff types by trying to see just how unwatchable film could be that pricks would still praise to the high heavens I'll go to the foot of our stairs.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:05, closed)

man i love that film
and hate you
and teh internet
and troll week on qotw
and, evidently, being so ridiculously touchy on a number of subjects.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:11, closed)

Eraserhead I do like
Although the bit when his head pops off gives me the terrible giggles
( The Vomiting Hitchhiker Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:27, closed)