What's a good website for movie analysis/interpretation/discussion?

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I saw a movie last night and I want to read others' interpretations and observations, etc. Where do I go?

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You could do worse than:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=35

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, my title was wrong. Not so much discussion. More analysis.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You can get started by looking at what's written about the film in question at Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/). After that, I'm not sure; I suppose it depends of what level of discourse you're after. I like Film Comment, but there's not much on its Web site proper (http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/fcm.htm).

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm. I find it rather surprising that there isn't a site for this. Film reviews aren't supposed to give away the plot, and thus cannot go into much detail regarding interpretation.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

A favorite of mine is www.filmfreakcentral.net. It's a review site, though there's some really smart writing there.

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

May we ask what the movie in question is, King?

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring"

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to see that!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

www.imdb.com

lots of stuff, and if thats not enough, its got mad links

― chrisco (chrisco), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Though the IMDB is useful for a lot of stuff, I wouldn't wipe my arse with its "criticism". But the links to external reviews might be what KK wants:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/externalreviews

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Though I'd also recommend the first suggestion: the people at I Love Film can analyse as well as discuss (well, some of them).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to see I Love Film get some of the traction that I Love Music -- or even I Love Books -- enjoys (though admittedly I haven't really pulled my weight on that). But I am kind of surprised that there really isn't much online in the way of thoughtful commentary on film online. There are critics I like (Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader, Edelstein in Slate, Hoberman in the Voice), but not a lot of really engaged, intelligent free-for-alls.

Maybe it's that, more than other styles of art, film's divisive. There's a huge chasm between the bag-o'-popcorn I-like-big-'splosions set and the Ozu-lovin' cinephile, with not a whole lot of middle ground. I hear a lot of talk about how Netflix is going to change this, but I'm not sure I buy it.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

that's interesting--but how exactly would netflix change it? (sounds suspiciously like the bogus idea that if art films were showing in the malls across american then people would love them)

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Avoid IMDB, Amazon, and most of the shit on Rotten Tomatoes. Most film reviews really tend to crush my hope for human intelligence - it's like a point-missing convention. I think it's because regular subhumans see the blurby stuff in print and then they adopt that really irritating epigrammatical writing style because they think they can write just as well - if it's in a newspaper, it must be the real shit.

― LC, Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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