Why are Turkish films so terrible?

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Have you seen the direct rip offs they do of Star Wars, Star Trek and a few others? Steal direct film footage and splice in shit from NASA as well. Anything to make a great film, I suppose. They really go the distance! There's also a line of action figures for turkish star wars with little men standing in orange sherbet on the packaging.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Star Wars has robots in. But no dinosaurs. With that vital missing ingredient the Turkish film industry could be a worldbeater.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes yes but did you know there is no word for "stegosaurus" in Turkish? (If we can't laugh at the French for totally illicit reasons who is left...?)

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I've seen a few decent Turkish films recently. They seemed, as a whole, to be a cross between magical realism and early Truffaut. Go figure.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Hi there,

If you want to see some really good (and I mean it) check out the 3rd Annual NY Turkish Film Festival in New York City. I highly recommend "Run For Money" on Oct. 27, 2001. (www.moonandstarsproject.org)

Additionally I heard that there is an upcoming party organized by the same people in NYC: Turkish Star Wars party. I don't know the date but they will show the film and have fun at the same time. Sounds good?

Murat

― Murat, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

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― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked Uzak (Distant), although it was one of the most relentlessly depressing films I've ever seen.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

It was good... I want to see the new one nuri bilge ceylan did

― xave (xave), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

(Spoiler, I guess, but I'm not sure it'll detract from the film.) Bus-leaving scenes are to movies what waiting-by-the-phone songs are to pop music: Hud, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Clockers, Midnight Cowboy, they're never less than great. So the last few minutes of Mustang is the best thing I've seen in a few months, helped along by a really beautiful score. The rest is fine. I Googled "mustang virgin suicides" to see if Coppola's film was getting mentioned in reviews--it wasn't in the two I skimmed earlier--and a few did turn up. I think The Virgin Suicides is the better film.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 02:51 (nine years ago)

I made the same comparison in my notes without (yet) reading any reviews.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 03:31 (nine years ago)

Seemed hard to miss at times. In Mustang, drab brown dresses = getting your Kiss albums taken away.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 03:48 (nine years ago)

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