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Originally Posted by ironpony
It's one of those movies that a lot of people like, and it's voted as the 27th best movie of all time, by the imdb. But I don't understand why.
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Do not take the IMDB ratings seriously. Fanboys, little kids, studio plants and troll farms have been gaming the voting system since the late 2000s. It was these people who got together and collectively down voted The Godfather to push The Dark Knight and later The Shawshank Redemption up the ranks.
To this day, you can see suspicious voting behavior on the site. For example, if you review certain movies that are decades old and pretty obscure, you'll see a rain of down votes almost immediately. But if you review more popular films (where you'd expect to see a larger number of up/down votes), the totals are normal. I don't know what's going on, but there are definitely people "monitoring" certain titles to make sure that whenever a review hits, they down or up vote immediately in droves.
As for my opinions about
The Professional, there's nothing special about it. I didn't see the movie
Gloria (I keep missing it when it comes on), but from what I heard, it's basically the exact same movie except the sexes are switched.
Also, I didn't like the coyness of the movie dancing around taboo subjects that it itself made a major point of shoving in the audience's face the entire time. Know what I mean? If you're going to have the cajones to bait audiences with a taboo theme, then go all the way with it--for example, Kickass. In that movie, we see a little girl getting trained to kill people and later doing it. There's no coyness about it. Keep in mind that I don't advocate movies showing kids killing. What I'm talking about is Kickass' gutsiness. It committed to a taboo subject and went all the way with it.
With The Professional, it was the opposite. It floated these taboo subjects about a little girl assassin who also happens to be too sexualized for her age and did nothing with it. It's not that I wanted to see her kill or see her have sex or be in sexual situations; I didn't appreciate the filmmaker being coy about these taboo subjects and at the same having this smug, self-satisfied attitude that it was being daring and edgy. (Like in that scene when Matilda tells the concierge, "We're lovers.") No,
Taxi Driver was edgy.
Kickass was edgy.
Lolita was edgy. Hinting at taboo subjects but not following through on them is not being edgy. It's being dishonest.
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