overrated

>>212948030 (OP)
How did someone who looks like this ever become famous? I thought only good looking people made it Hollywood. Also his movies fucking sucked and were boring as fuck, could never make it through a single Woody Allen movie anytime I’ve ever tried to watch one.

>>212948030 (OP)
A reminder Woody Allen wrote and directed a movie where he cast himself in the lead role of a 42-year-old man who has a "romantic relationship" with a 17-year-old girl. It was a huge critical and commercial success at the time of its release. How the mighty have fallen.

>>212948087
>How did someone who looks like this ever become famous?

>>212948030 (OP)
he has good ideas and is a good director, but he ruins most of his movies with his nebbish twat act.

>>212948030 (OP)
you're overrated

Allen is a Jew, but he isn't and never was "their" Jew. That's why they struck him down so hard when Mia's nonsensical allegations hit. Most likely deep inside he's exactly like he looks onscreen, neurotic, cowardly, not shy of edgy jokes, but ultimately moral and kind person. I choose to believe he never hurt a fly in his life.

>>212948199
i watched that movie and remember thinking about how people today would have an absolute fucking conniption over it

now if an age gap exceeds two years (even that is pushing it) everybody involved becomes persona non grata

>>212948030 (OP)
He may be an acclaimed director, and certainly there is some merit to that acclaim; some people appreciate his ability to capture the complexities of human relationships and the absurdities of everyday life, while others admire his distinctive filmmaking style, which is a love letter to literature and New York City culture, but I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.

He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

>>212949493
Welles was exactly the same kind of person. He's actually talking about himself here, and is angry because he recognises Allen as man of equal if not higher intelligence that see through him and knows his essence. There's nothing narcissists find more intimidating than people in the know who are immune to their charms. That /tv/ isn't immune says everything.

>>212948199
If you could do that today maybe we would have good directors again

>>212948030 (OP)
>overrated
Indeed, but not bad. I have a problem on how repetitve his works get after a point and not everything is good, but what is good is pretty solid but never genius like some people love to proclaim. I think he has his merits and flaws and deserves a spotlight, but like many directors that are more loved by critics than the audience he got high on his own stash too soon and too easy to hate.

>>212948030 (OP)
is that Adam Friedland's dad?

>>212949413
The other Jews probably don't like him because he's very open about how neurotic and generally insane Jewish culture is, and he shows Jews as objects of ridicule instead of badass Mossad agents elbow dropping Arab children for daring to not accept armed squatters in their lands.

>>212950573
Well put

>>212950573
>and he shows Jews as objects of ridicule
He's a walking neurotic jew already and clearly made this an act, exaggerating his own manners on the screen to the point that you can use him as a parody in the same way as the happy merchant. I see a lot of young jews embracing this on social media nowadays but I guess that in the 70/80's it was akin to "Bruce Lee showing the secrets of martial arts to westeners" levels of seething.

>>212950573
That and the fact that he grew up a poor nobody and rose to the top on sheer talent. He's an outsider that sees the cespool from the inside.

>>212948087
>How did someone who looks like this ever become famous?
You know why

>>212948030 (OP)
I watched Annie Hall in high school and thought it was boring shit. I liked Banana Republic a lot though.

>>212948239
This was the bit in Annie Hall that made me laugh the hardest

anyone else think this is his best?

>>212949486
>now if an age gap exceeds two years (even that is pushing it) everybody involved becomes persona non grata
do americans really

>>212954427
no, it's one of the weakest of his 80s movies

>>212955219
they consider that pedophilia

>>212949413

>>212948087
>How did someone who looks like this ever become famous?
he fought with a kangaroo on tv

>>212948199
based on his relationship with 17-year old Stacey Nelkin