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Thor - it dont bother me mate but when you insist that a very very silly film is excellent ...you are only assassinating your own rep and judgment on here.
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Of course - but liking something that deep down you know is fairly silly is one thing - but claiming that its excellent is different.
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May 15, 2019 - 3:07 AM
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Thor
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No, I don't "know" that it's silly. I genuinely think it's a good film, as I do most of his output. His pace, staging of setpieces, lush cinematography are second to none, even if the story is clichéed. There are several fine, visionary 'action auteurs' who are able to transcend seeming B material by twisting and turning and adding their sense of energy and discrete, visual details to the proceedings; something that lifts it above your run-of-the-mill B movie. Paul W.S. Anderson is one such director. Other directors in the same category include Roland Emmerich, Neil Marshall, Michael Bay, Doug Liman, Jaume Collet Serra and so on. Several in the horror genre too.
Just because I see value in something that you don't, doesn't make my opinion 'silly' or deserving of ridicule.
Here's a review I wrote of POMPEII back in 2014 (it's in Norwegian, so you'll have to run it through Google Translate if interested): https://montages.no/2014/05/drivende-fortellerkunst-blaser-liv-i-pompeii/
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Yeah ok, ok its excellent. I dont know what i was thinking.
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Ive been to sweden and denmark. But not Norway.
Funnily enough, we had Pompeii on the coach dvd and as we started to drive thru denmark...the film began to get better. Once we were on the ferry to sweden i thought it was excellent. Possibly even made by an underrated and misunderstood but genius auteur director.
How odd! 
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6/10
PMS Anderson's second best movie. I really like how bonkers it is, and that the ending went THERE. You're alright, movie. 
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Fourth best, IMO, after EVENT HORIZON, SOLDIER and the great debut film SHOPPING (gritty British working class hoodlums years before LOCK, STOCK....).
Here's my complete ranked list of his work, with grades:
https://mubi.com/lists/paul-ws-anderson-ranked
Dang, forgot about Soldier. Okay, third best after Soldier. Haven't seen Shopping, but yeah, Event Horizon is tops.
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Ha, ha...no, didn't see that.
Statham has done some good movies -- most recently MEG.
What????!!!!
Somebody post the Its a madhouse photo!
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