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Officially, yes, he is considered a brilliant filmmaker and is one of the most famous directors on the planet. But whatever you do, don't rent Repulsion or Chinatown. The former is 80 minutes of wasted potential - bizzarely acted, directed, and edited to remove any impact it should rightly have had given its subject matter. And the latter is just a bore, an homage to classic film noir that doesn't add up to anything and features one of the most insipid closing lines of any movie, ever. I have yet to be convinced of the man's genius.
Subhuman wrote:Officially, yes, he is considered a brilliant filmmaker and is one of the most famous directors on the planet.
Well, kinda yeah. Perhaps I was avoiding treating Polanski as 'officially one of the best' for fear I'd be doing it just because we're both Polish.
Subhuman wrote:But whatever you do, don't rent Repulsion or Chinatown. The former is 80 minutes of wasted potential - bizzarely acted, directed, and edited to remove any impact it should rightly have had given its subject matter. And the latter is just a bore, an homage to classic film noir that doesn't add up to anything and features one of the most insipid closing lines of any movie, ever. I have yet to be convinced of the man's genius.
Subhuman wrote:Officially, yes, he is considered a brilliant filmmaker and is one of the most famous directors on the planet. But whatever you do, don't rent Repulsion or Chinatown. The former is 80 minutes of wasted potential - bizzarely acted, directed, and edited to remove any impact it should rightly have had given its subject matter. And the latter is just a bore, an homage to classic film noir that doesn't add up to anything and features one of the most insipid closing lines of any movie, ever. I have yet to be convinced of the man's genius.
Reading Revolutionary Road and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - about halfway through RR and just started HWSG - we'll see, seem good so far