Overbearing

There was music in Bruce Almighty?

I'm not a Tim Burton fan. I don't consider him overbearing, just over the top and it's just not my thing. I'm also not a Tarantino fan...at all. He's overbearing.

And in the horror catagory, I'm going to say Rob Zombie. I don't know about overbearing but definitely out there.

I like Rob Zombie. I think Halloween is being released today. Must.rush.out.and.get.it.

I used to think Zombie was okay...then I watched House of 1000 Corpses. There's two hours of my life I'll never get back...not scary, just lame and confusing as hell. Hated. It. With. Passion. Now I can't bring myself to watch his stuff anymore.

M. Night Shyamalan is another one that tends to let the music overwhelm a scene. I can't watch an Oliver Stone movie without wondering when we're going to get that 360 degree pan around the character(s) during some dialog/sermon. Don't even get me started on Quentin "Let's all look at Uma Thurman's feet!" Tarantino.

I generally like M. Knight Shamaylan movies, but I know what you mean about him sometimes overdoing the music.

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In Signs, for example, when the alien is shown for the first time on TV in that 'home video' ... could the musical crescendo leading up to its appearance have been any longer?

I too am not much of a Quentin Tarentino fan. In fact, I'm not a much of a fan of any movie that tries too hard to present violence as cool and chic. I think he struck a pretty good balance with Pulp Fiction because there was a lot of other interesting stuff in that film, but he often goes way too far with 'stylistic violence.'

I don't often remain loyal to filmmakers...I just see a trailer and decide, 'Do I want to see this movie?' There are some filmmakers where the answer is almost always, 'YES!' (Anderson/Shamaylan come to mind) And then there are actors who seem to always play in movies that I know I will love; Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr...etc. But worrying about overbearing people and vision...no. I go case by case.

kristie911 said:

I used to think Zombie was okay...then I watched House of 1000 Corpses. There's two hours of my life I'll never get back...not scary, just lame and confusing as hell. Hated. It. With. Passion. Now I can't bring myself to watch his stuff anymore.

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That one was so gruesome I couldn't watch it all the way through except with the commentary on. It was a crude first effort to say the least.

Devil's Rejects, the sequel, was better and actually made the same characters almost likeable.

I'm hoping he applied lessons learned to the first two when he made Halloween.

Anyway, in keeping with the theme, I find Tim Burton overbearing in that he has to just be so strange about everything. Quenten Tarentino, as noted above, just tries too hard to make violence chic. Michael Moore needs to stop bashing us over the head with his views. I get it. You're unhappy with the world as it is. Let's move on.

DaddyCat said:

M. Night Shyamalan is another one that tends to let the music overwhelm a scene.

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Oh yeah. The heavy-handed musical cues in The Village made me so angry I left the theater, which I almost never do once I've paid my eight gajillion dollars to get in.

I find M. Knight's direction overbearing -- the look at me, Hitchhock-esque cleverness and the deliberate pace to make you think... Ugh. He's probably one of the most self-important filmmakers today (next to James Cameron).

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The whole movie: A Beautiful Mind is overbearing. I couldn't believe it won Best Picture. I mean, even the old-age made up was really bad, and it won Best Picture? It was one of the most manipulative Hollywood melodramas, slightly better than Crash.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Michael Moore needs to stop bashing us over the head with his views.

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I'd rather someone bash him over the head and be done with it.

How about those Nick at Night comedies with all the laugh tracks? Jeez louise, ya think directors and producers from the 50ies and 60ies believe that their audience is a bunch of sticks who don't get the joke, lame as it is.

maestrowork said:

The whole movie: A Beautiful Mind is overbearing. I couldn't believe it won Best Picture. I mean, even the old-age made up was really bad, and it won Best Picture? It was one of the most manipulative Hollywood melodramas, slightly better than Crash.

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Nothing is only slightly better than Crash. Titanic is slightly worse, however.

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Yes! But by far the most overbearing had to be the studio audience of Married With Children - a manditory 30 seconds of hooting and hollering after ever sentence. Everybody Loves Raymond is a close second. I swear that show has 4X as much audience laughter time as it does actual dialogue. It's just ponderous.

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I think Full House was worse than both. Especially considering nothing in it was funny...but that didn't stop the laugh track.

The only "film maker" I'm sort of loyal to is Jerry Bruckheimer. I can't remember him ever producing a bad movie, or one that I didn't at least enjoy.

And all the CSI's are his too, so I think he's just got the Golden Touch.

Really? I thought Armageddon was unbearably annoying.

Only Bruce Willis.

And the damn Aerosmith track. And Liv Tyler. Anyone who's - uh, y'know - with Wack is deserving of my ire. Oh, and the cheesy ending.

But apart from that, it was fine. *cough*

Yeah, but Steve Bushemi was awesome!

Steve Buchemi was awesome in The Island, too, but the second half of that movie sucked so bad. Yup, another one of Jerry Bruckheimer's.

I really didn't like Armageddon either. The whole premise was off to begin with. I mean, come on -- why on earth would they train oil rig workers to be astronauts? Dontcha think it would be easier to train an astronaut to drill a hole in a rock? And don't get me going on how blowing up an asteroid inside the moon's orbit would not change a thing unless you used enough nukes to completely vaporize it, and even then all that material would probably end up orbiting the earth and blocking out the sun for decades, basically causing every ecosystem on the planet to collapse....

And I can't take the CSI shows anymore. The original CSI was intriguing, but now it's one gross-out after another, and lab technicians leading SWAT teams on raids ... stupid stupid stupid. I thought Quincy was bad for putting a coroner in situations a real coroner would never be in, but CSI has taken ridiculous to new heights.

But Steve Buscemi is awesome, every time he's on screen.