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Films you can't bear - Terry Willacker - 07-14-2006
Jay #1 Wrote:you actually watched it? I couldn't even finish watching any preview of the Grudge. Either on tv or the internet
I had to give it a chance. It WAS Sarah Michelle Gellar. But, I still walked out.
Films you can't bear - GeraldRice - 07-14-2006
Jay #1 Wrote:oddly enough, I liked Blankman.
Someone somewhere likes them enough that they keep coming back.
Uhhh, did you really like Blankman? I mean, really? Because... Marlon and Shawn Wayans weren't in it. That's Damon Wayans with In Living Color alum David Alan Grier.
Just come out and say it, already. All comedians look alike to you, don't they?
Films you can't bear - GeraldRice - 07-14-2006
Terry Willacker Wrote:I had to give it a chance. It WAS Sarah Michelle Gellar. But, I still walked out.
I loved The Grudge. I wasn't expecting a Meryl Streep performance, it was exactly what I was expecting it to be. I even bought it.
Films you can't bear - Amon - 07-14-2006
Terry Willacker Wrote:The Grudge. I left the theater in the middle. Of course, it may have had something to do with the group of 14 year old girls who screamed through all of the dialogue.
That's because you watched the crap American remake. The original Japanese one is so much better, I can't even begin to tell you.
Films you can't bear - GeraldRice - 07-14-2006
Amon Wrote:That's because you watched the crap American remake. The original Japanese one is so much better, I can't even begin to tell you.
I own them both. I like them both.
Films you can't bear - Ken Valentine - 07-14-2006
Lisa Wrote:1. THE MATRIX. That's right, I said THE MATRIX. A movie that managed to be boring, confusing, pretentious, corny, embarrassing, and highly fucking unlikely--all at the same time.
A friend recommended it to me and I thought it was stupid and pointless . . . and it also must have been highly un-memorable, because a year later another friend recommended it to me and I rented it again having forgotten that I had already seen it.
Quote:2. THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I was actually angry that I sat through the whole thing. Dull and duller.
Never saw it. (I gather that this is a good thing.)
Quote:3. AFFLICTION. Nothing "wrong" with this one. Acting, writing, directing are all excellent. But it is deliberate, disturbing, and harrowlingly realistic. So much so that it ceases to be entertainment and becomes difficult or impossible to watch more than once.
I've never even heard of this one.
Quote:4. TITANIC. "Rose!" "Jack!" "Rose!" "Jack!"
"John!" "Marsha! "John! ... John!" "Marsha! ... Marsha!"
I'm glad I missed that one too.
Quote:5. MOULIN ROUGE. This film gave me motion sickness. I'm not kidding.
An undisgiused rip-off of the operas LA BOHEME and LA TRAVIATA, it did justice to neither.
I thought it was stupid and inane.
Quote:6. MEET JOE BLACK. I almost killed myself after I watched this, just so I wouldn't have to "meet Joe Black" before I die. Most boring romance EVER.
7. FALLEN. Way overrated. All the plot elements were done before and better. And the ending is dumb.
8. DANGEROUS LIAISONS. I just can't get into John Malkovich and Glenn Close as desirable lovers. Sorry.
9. STEPMOM. Why does anyone like this movie? I don't understaaaaaaaaaand. (That was in my best "stepwhine" voice.)
10. THE PILLOW BOOK. Huh? Wha?? Ummmm. Peter Greenaway is a weirdo.
Never saw any of these . . . only heard of Dangerous Liasons and it didn't sound interesting.
I'll very likely get some flack for this, but two other movies which I absolutely detested were:
1. Kill Bill. A bunch of morons prancing around with swords . . . pointless!
2. Starship Troopers. Archie and Veronica in space . . . BLECH!
Ken V.
Films you can't bear - neotank - 07-15-2006
Ok........ ahem..... let me clear my throat here.
I'm sure that by looking at my name you all know where this is going.
How in the F***ING hell can you people DIS the original MATRIX!!!!!!!??
It's one the top ten best movies ever! It's been copied more then any movie over the last decade as far as action scenes and the bullet time etc...
I know the third movie was absolute garbage, but come on...I think you guys are jumping on the 'I hate the Matrix' bandwagon. It's an absolute masterpiece of the highest order. The ending scene where Keanu and Trinity walk into that building and just UNLOAD on those sons a bitches could be one of the best action scenes ever.
LOL. Ok I'm done with my Matrix rant.
I also loved Temple of doom and Close Encounters and Highlander 2.
But as far as unbearable movies..... Hard to say, there's a lot of well received movies I don't like, but as far as being so bad that I can't even stomach it... I can't think of anything off hand. Most shitty movies are just that, shitty movies, and pretty much everyone hates em. I agree with some people about Crash and Dances with Wolves but I won't say that they were THAT bad. Most movies I hate are usually bad comedies, or crappy horror movies like Austin Powers or Dark Water.
Although I will say King Kong was way overrated. But It was still decent. if this thread was about overrated movies then I could give out a bunch.
Films you can't bear - Ken Valentine - 07-16-2006
neotank Wrote:Ok........ ahem..... let me clear my throat here.
I'm sure that by looking at my name you all know where this is going.
It took a while, but now I think I know what you're talking about. "Neo," I remember that "name," but Tank eludes me.
Quote:How in the F***ING hell can you people DIS the original MATRIX!!!!!!!??
Well, switch it around. From my perspective, I can't understand how anybody can actually like that POS!
Just because I don't like it doesn't mean that you can't like it!
Quote:It's one the top ten best movies ever! It's been copied more then any movie over the last decade as far as action scenes and the bullet time etc...
"Monkey-see, monkey-do?"
Quote:I know the third movie was absolute garbage, but come on...I think you guys are jumping on the 'I hate the Matrix' bandwagon. It's an absolute masterpiece of the highest order. The ending scene where Keanu and Trinity walk into that building and just UNLOAD on those sons a bitches could be one of the best action scenes ever.
If you were to get to know me, you would realize that I don't jump onto ANY kind of bandwagon.
But this is a matter of taste, it's not a matter of right and wrong.
Quote: Most shitty movies are just that, shitty movies, and pretty much everyone hates em.
Well, that doesn't seem to be the case here . . . does it?
Quote:I agree with some people about Crash and Dances with Wolves but I won't say that they were THAT bad.
I never saw Crash, and I really liked Dances With Wolves.
Quote:Although I will say King Kong was way overrated. But It was still decent.
See! We agree on something!
Ken V.
Films you can't bear - Blake - 07-16-2006
neotank Wrote:How in the F***ING hell can you people DIS the original MATRIX!!!!!!!??
Easy! My opinion of that film continues to go down. My original opinion: I thought it had a largely original plot and was entertaining overall, but I also thought it was horribly overrated and had a stupid ending. (I still think the wake-up kiss thing is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in a movie. Did they mix up pages with the script for "Sleeping Beauty"?) For me, the movie was 2.5 stars, max. But on that first viewing I thought I'd want to at least own the DVD; it seemed good enough for that and had some cool effects. But I've caught it a few more times since then in various venues, and it just doesn't hold up for me. I never did buy it and probably never will now. There are some movies that you just stop and watch when channel surfing just because it's on and it happens to entertain you. "The Matrix", on the other hand, is a movie I now tend to surf by so fast that I'm in danger of accidentally causing a time vortex with my remote and sending my TV back to the Oligocene.
Understand that it's not that I hate the movie, despite the title of this thread. I don't. It's more like I just find it rather... blah. There are a few interesting concepts and scenes, but the whole just doesn't hold together well, IMO.
neotank Wrote:The ending scene where Keanu and Trinity walk into that building and just UNLOAD on those sons a bitches could be one of the best action scenes ever.
I actually didn't care for that scene, with one exception: The bit where Trinity kicked the shotgun out of that guy's hands, over his shoulder, and blew him away was pretty cool (though it would've been cooler if it had been filmed as one shot). Otherwise, I kept getting sick of the constant slow motion, which I found boring and cliché.
Strangely, my favorite part of "The Matrix" was probably the Oracle. I thought having the wise Yoda-like character shown as an old woman baking cookies in this high-tech movie was a nifty reversal. It made the ordinary environment of a kitchen seem somewhat surreal given the context.
I think the main scenes I actually kind of liked in all three of those movies were not action scenes, interestingly enough. Take that however you want.
neotank Wrote:I also loved Temple of doom
With you there...
neotank Wrote:and Close Encounters
... with you there ...
neotank Wrote:and Highlander 2.
... and now you've lost me. And we were so close to a solution to the world's problems.
neotank Wrote:Although I will say King Kong was way overrated.
The new one or the original?
Blake
Films you can't bear - Blake - 07-16-2006
Ken Valentine Wrote:If you were to get to know me, you would realize that I don't jump onto ANY kind of bandwagon.
I don't think there's much of a "Matrix-hating bandwagon" anyway. I honestly think it has more to do with the movie just not holding up well to time's scrutiny (IMO). "Hate" is such a strong word, anyway. I don't hate it. I just don't find it particularly interesting, particularly on repeat viewings, and I think that's how a lot of people feel (not that that makes them right, of course).
I think I almost disclaimered myself into a coma.
Ken Valentine Wrote:But this is a matter of taste, it's not a matter of right and wrong.
Well said! I wonder how some movies I think are quite good ended up on some people's lists here, but hey, not every movie is for everybody, or you can't fool all the people all the time, or something like that.
Blake