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he deserves this thread and has for a while

I've never really gotten or cared to get Woody Allen's appeal.  But any man who seduces his stepdaughter is scum in my book.

Woody Allen is a whiney little f**k-much like me-but I dont f**k or marry my kids.

And he aint funny-bottom line. Old school hippies like him.
f**k hippies.
I got hair down to the middle of my back now.
Call me a hippy motherf**ker-I WILL get p**sed.
I'm a slippy.


And I quoted my self. Groovy. Dam Groovy.

wait...what???  :question:

He adopted a girl when he was with Mia Farrow-and ended up f**king her and marrying her. Sick sorry basterd.

I like neurotic humor but Woody's flicks are very hit-and-miss with me.  As far as Woody the person, yeah, what he did was pretty messed up - I guess he figured after Polanski, his transgressions wouldn't be a big deal  :lookingup:

None of this characterization is accurate.  It's old and lame.  :thumbdown:

Count me as a hippie.  Your opinion is based upon limited insight of his few early (and popular) films. You know when I wrote to you in another thread I had no idea this thread was here...   WOODY ALLEN got really good with ANNIE HALL, and better and better.  I have no hair but I must be that old-school-hippy, because several of WOODY ALLEN's films are brilliant.  
So many wonderful films that dimwits think are political, or New York "jewish"... You got a problem with Jews?  Or is it artsy fartsy FAGs?  C'mon you wig-wearin'-witch.  C'mon.   :thumbup: :teddyr: :thumbdown:
Y'see I take the hits.  Bewigged witch.   :wink:

OK. Number one-
.I ain't anti Jew. I hate Nazi's-the Jews are one of the most persecuted people on this planet. I feel for them. But Woody gives Jews a bad name.
2.Artsy Fartsy Fags? C,mon-I aint that shallow.
3.I don't wear a wig-my hair is f**kin real.
4. I just don't think he's funny. I'm more of a Harold Llyod,3 Stooges-Laurel and Hardy guy myself.

Well, my friend, you do go there about the "gay bands" or the "gay scenes".  But please don't mind me too much.  I own Elephant's memory.

then might I direct you to something the exact opposite of this thread

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,136047.0.html

Hey-thats cool. Everyone likes what they like. Dang-I think the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER is one of the best B-Movies ever made-so whatta I know?  :wink:

:teddyr:  Not gonna git rid o' me that eezee.

Wouldn't try to,buddy! I like a good debate!  :thumbup:

Thanks for keeping me on both lists.  Sheet, I can afford it.   :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_bX5lJ2Sg

I'm not an old hippie (since I'm only 19), and I love his early stuff (though I don't care for most of his films post-Manhattan. Rather than invent, he just seems to remake). You guys are all crazy.

You just noticed that?  :wink:

WOODY's slapstick movies have their appeal, but not much to me.  I like his later films much better and I'm not a fan of ANNIE HALL or MANHATTAN particularly, transitional films, however STARDUST MEMORIES is very interesting and perplexing and deep and incidentally, funny!  Then there are so many good films leading up to CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.  

Oh!  Has this become a hijacked WOODY appreciation thread? I'm not sorry.   :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtgw38Yq2Qs

I have so much more WOODY to share!!! 

I love you all.  Sincerely. 

that is quite possibly the most disgusting and repulsing thing ever

Nor is it accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHOgkDbVqc

Personally, I like much of his work. As a human being, he has unfortunately lived too much of his shtick, growing more neurotic and nutso over time, but he is an outstanding writer and director. I am more a fan of his earlier works, mostly because I love a good one-liner and he was a master of that art form. I get that he isn't for everyone, but I don't understand the hatred of his work based on his bad choices as a person; a lot of brilliant writers/artists lived despicable lives and yet are revered for their work. If you don't find him funny, fine, don't watch his movies. But don't hate his movies ONLY because you think he's an incestuous windbag.

I have never actually 'gotten' what Woody Allen's films are about anyway. The only film that he had anything to do with that I enjoyed was What's New Kitty Cat.

* I had to change the title as the word p***y is not allowed here.  :wink:

At the risk of coming off as a heathen around here: I will admit I never 'got' the appeal of his work, either.  I'm afraid he just creeps me out - and I am not referring to his personal life; the whole 'nebbish-who-gets-the-girl' schtick does not work for me the way he presents it.


Edited to substitute 'heathen' for 'lower life form'

Probably not really important, but Farrow had her before she and Allen were together, and they ended up getting together when Soon-Yi Previn was 21.  I gather they didn't have a father-daughter relationship, so it's only creepy in the "35 year age difference/daughter of an ex-lover" kind of way.  Yeah, only that way.   :tongueout:

On another note, my mom saw Mia Farrow speak last year.  Said she was a great speaker.  Someone did ask about Woody Allen.

Paraphrasing here, but she said something like, "I feel a bit better about him now than I used to.  If I saw him get run over in front of me, I'd actually think about calling 911 these days.  Maybe."

As far as Allen's films...  I think Annie Hall is a very good film, and I do think his films can be pretty funny.  But sometimes his attitude kinda bugs me. 

I was a huge Woody Allen fan back in the 1970s and 80s.  I haven't kept up with most of his more recent stuff, but I still watch his older movies from time to time.  BROADWAY DANNY ROSE is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.  Please don't hate on the Wood Man!

Ronnie,

It's posts like this that make me REALLY wish I could still give you karma.   :bouncegiggle:

As for Woody Allan...I could take or leave him.  Only seen a few, and they fall into the "I remember seeing them, but little else" category.  I think one cannot argue that from a film history point of view, he's made his mark.

Uh, no double entendre remarks necessary....

Good morning.  Your commentary is ignorant.  Meaning "without knowledge".  It hasn't been "nebbish gets the girl" in at least 30 years... :lookingup:   The best parts of WOODY's films are typically not him.  He doesn't appear in many of his films (like PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO or BULLETS OVER BROADWAY.)  However, as a central character he can work too (DECONSTRUCTING HARRY).  I love you Newt, but STFU.  :wink:

I'll never forget watching Manhattan....

I had to take 10 breaks before giving up on Manhattan wth about 20-30 minutes left in the film

I was just incredibly bored by it

I don't really like MANHATTAN much.  

I love STARDUST MEMORIES though.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytVNFNc-H4

I guess it's not enough to simply not like an artist's work.

I like Woody Allen films. Whatever his creep factor may be for some, and I have to say I think there are creepy aspects about him, I think that tends to permeate people's opinions of his work. They are inextricably linked. I've seen some posts here that indicate that some simply don't like his work and it has nothing to do with his life or not liking him specifically. If that is indeed the case, then I respect that. However, I have a hard time believing that very many people's dislike of his work can be extricated from their issues with him personally. It's just a part of the Woody Allen phenomenon, for good or ill.

I have no doubt that he is an unsavory person on one or multiple levels to a great number of people. I still like much of his work and acknowledge that not all of it is good. He admits this openly. His attitude is basically to make as many films as he possibly can and some will stick and some won't. When he sticks, I like the results a great deal. His latest film, Midnight In Paris, was one of his best in my book. Matchpoint wasn't too shabby either.

To each their own. Forgive me if I have a hard time believing most of the posts that they don't like his work and it has nothing to do with him. I just have a hard time buying it.

I love CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXqwL3akhw

There you go, Flick James: I have been disliking WA intensely for at over 30 years.  That is long before his personal life became such rich tabloid fodder (and before the young lady in question was even born).

AHD I disliked WA from the start for the reason I gave, and since there seemed to be a common thread in his performances that I objected to, I suppose I expected it to colour his off-screen efforts as well.  The films he makes generally are not really of a type I would be all that motivated to see in any case: but with his name attached, they appeal even less to me.

My loss.

And I'll shut up when you do.   :tongueout:

Fair enough.  I knew I could count on your sense of humor.  However, you are deprived.  WOODY ALLEN's better films are lyric, and atmospheric.  
Please watch this whole scene.  Once you've seen it, you may understand WOODY better, and despite negative assertions, how he's a gentle, thoughtful, romantic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoFkuu_aNM

Hannah and Her Sisters is one of my favorites. Good ensemble performances.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

It is my favorite. 

Annie Hall.......the first Woody Allen movie I ever saw

unlike Manhattan I did finish Annie Hall, but I needed a lot and I mean A LOT of breaks to finish it

but I really really disliked it

I don't care much about WA but I do like Purple Rose of Cairo, enjoyed Husbands & Wives very much and Manhattan Murder Mystery was one of my most watched movies in the 90s.

That said, I always read the thread title as Woody Allen decapitation thread  :bluesad:

snicker 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwXOol3hRUg

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I was going to give you karma for that but I can't.

Woody Allen is a genius.
Narrow minds jump on a bandwagon of tabloid moral outrage unquestioningly. It is the effect of the mob in action. Disconcerting.
Allen isn't creepier than Sonny Bono was, or Groucho Marx, or Jerry Seinfeld, or any of a thousand celebrities who married young women -- even underage women. Love is where one finds it. I don't judge people for their romantic choices.
And for your concern, nothing is taboo. It is the society (you & me) which made it taboo. Fear is a bad attitude even you are sick of it. We are intelligent humans. Arent we? Or perhaps you'd prefer to go back in the dark ages.

Well I can't say whether or not I like him cuz I haven't seen a movie by him. And judging by you folks, it seems to be either you like him or you hate him. I ain't taking sides! :tongueout:

Same here...

I've never even seen a Woody Allen film to be honest.

I saw a high school play of one of his TV movies. Other than that I've never seen Allen's material.

God, his movies are difficult to sit through.  Then again, anything involving him is difficult to sit through.  He's the a real life Jar Jar Binks.

Jar Jar Binks never bonked his adopted daughter!

(http://www.bizarrebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jar-jar.jpeg)

Please note* I do not advocate Jar Jar. It's just - the photo was fitting lol.

I was shocked to learn Woody and Soon-yi have been married for 15 years now.

Wow...really? It's been that long.....geez,I'm getting old! :teddyr:

Jar Jar looks kinda high and or drunk in that picture.  :bouncegiggle:

She wasn't his daughter, adopted or otherwise.  :thumbdown:  :lookingup:  

Yeh, you already went there quite some time ago, and, you knocked me for responding to this thread.  

Hijacking:   :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZVGhG59l3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtgw38Yq2Qs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXqwL3akhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQshyrB_sD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytVNFNc-H4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwXOol3hRUg

I like Woody Allen alot, but the relationship with Soon yi is not something I would defend.

I think mia farrow aged pretty well under the circumstances , but woody ditches her for his adopted korean daughter who aged like a leather work boot

and with the exception of EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX most of his movies are terrible


.....but we probably should expect horrible and sick things from a man named woody



in case you didn;t know "woody" is slang meaning penis

I'm sorry, but your remarks are ignorant.  SOON-YI PREVIN is not his daughter, adopted or otherwise, and he never lived with her adopted mother MIA (crazy) FARROW.  He may not be likeable, and perhaps his personal actions nonetheless reprehensible or distasteful.  I don't care about his personal life, because it has nothing to do with whether he makes worthwhile movies.  His films obviously are not to everyone's taste, but, everyone's taste is not exclusively in their mouths... with their feet.   :thumbdown: :smile:

LOL...I remember the first time I caught "What's Up,Tiger Lily?" on the afternoon movie....talk about crazy! Woody takes an old Japanese spy film and adds his own dialog....hilarious!  :teddyr:


Sorry....that wasn't deprecation but it just popped into my head.