Originally Posted by
pablo
Annie Hall is light years better than Star Wars and Woody Allen is one of the funniest people ever. Empirical fact.
I'd be able to take your posts more seriously if you provided logic instead of just a list of awards from Wiki or opinions presented as facts, like this one above.
Just sayin!
Originally Posted by
Tommy
Originally Posted by
Ben Staad
It is interesting how people can have such differing viewpoints. I have never been a fan and have always wondered why Woody has so many fans of his work. I always thought my viewpoint was due to my inability to wrap my mind around the New York City (locale) way of life.
Is it Woody himself you do not like, which considering his private life it is understandable how someone would be turned off by him or his films, the ones he stars in I mean? I know a few people who LOVE his films, that is the ones he is not a star in. A close friend owns Midnight in Paris and says it is one of his favorite films ever but when I show him Woody's films where he is the star, he doesn't like them because of Woody.
I think this might be it for me. Like I mentioned earlier on here, I really liked the films he only directed, and not starred in.
My main problem with
Annie Hall was Allen himself. The situations he and Diane Keaton found themselves in were ripe for comedy, but everything from his character just came across as pompous and annoying and the film reeked of thinly veiled self glorification.
It was an unremitting barrage of Allen complaining about night life, and complaining about love life, and complaining about crowds in theaters, and complaining about know it alls (ironic), and complaining about people that do drugs, and complaining about parties, and complaining about people's driving skills, and complain complain complain. It just got to be too much. And
of course every character in the film is an idiot and not up to his intellectual standards. Then you have grandiose dialogue like "having sex with you is Kafkaesque". Ugh, gimme a break.
I don't want to say that I'll never enjoy a film starring Allen, but at this point I'm leaning toward seeking out films he directed, and not starred in.