Are You Talking To Me?

[shemthepenman]

The poll was clear and fine.
Did you go? What did you see? How was it?

no, the films are on tuesday. the poll will be open till then. i'll let you alls know.

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. it was, out of the two showing at my local cinema [taxi driver and pulp fiction] which one should i go see? in fact, it isn't really about which is the better film , but rather which one would be the best to watch on a big screen, or even just to say "i've seen that at the cinema"?

But your poll unfairly sought to coerce us into providing an answer to a false dichotomy;
it lacked the answer: "Neither".  So you brought this on yourself, dude.

I could suggest any number of movies whose experience -- when watched in a large, dark
room filled with strangers -- would transcend the hell out of those two. But, at your
insistence, I'll refrain.

But REALLY, why watch those again? They've been seen to death. Watch something new.
Or stay at home and create something of your own.
 (Or venture outside and walk the mean streets.)

theoretically, yes, this is a false dichotomy. but practically, not. i am going to the cinema and i will be watching one of these two films. 'neither' really isn't an option for my own selfish purposes. [also, talking about films that have been seen to death, you mentioned blow-up and bullitt, and i was at two film festivals in poland about a month apart and they both showed those films, and i don't watch films at the cinema twice, so i feel like i have seen those to death--oh i did watch the history boys about three times at the cinema but that was by accident.]
but having said that, i'll take all the suggestions for films to watch. i'm always interesd in new films. but just note that my cinema isn't going to be playing anything obscure anytime soon. i mean, also on the bill this week is the exorcist [which i have seen at the cinema], casablanca [again, seen it at the cinema], and labyrinth [which i haven't seen at the cinema, but, well it's on a different day so maybe i will]. it's a big mutiplex, and in fact, you give a nod to meanstreets [again, another festival favourite] but i reckon even that would not be mainstream enough for my cinema. shame, but what can you do. i live in a capitalist hell hole in the arse end of the planet.