And, of course, tell us why.
What movie do you hate that most persons you know love?
And, of course, tell us why.
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." (Chesterton)
Any of the psuedo-historical romance movies that my fiancee loves dearly. The Other Boleyn Girl and the like. I hate phony history where everyone is all clean and has teeth and has bathed in the last year. They're boring, predictable, a total disservice to actual historical fact and really just an excuse for someone to make elaborate costumes. And there are never any goddamned swordfights. We watch one of these at least once a month. They're all the same damned movie to me.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
Oh, how I loathe RETURN OF THE KING. It's all the more painful because I love its predecessors so. But RotK is so bad it reached back in time with its terrible barbed tongue and pierced both FELLOWSHIP and TOWERS through the nasal cavity, churned around in the braincase for a while until their cerebrums were only mush, and then, after withdrawing, cast flecks of brainjuice on their corpses.
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." (Chesterton)
Well I actually hated 300 and The ending (last 30 minutes)of the Dark Knight Returns. Also the first Matrix movie. I would mention the other Matrix movies but I don't know many that liked them.
We can argue discuss each other's choices, right?
To Kill a Mockingbird is completely overrated and Gregory Peck is not that good in it. I have seen him in a few other things and am slowly attempting to build some respect for him in deference to the love he gets here on Mello.
Singin' in the Rain ........ ok, so the title song / dance numbers is one of the best musical moments in film history, full stop. As for the rest of it? The bare bones of the story is interesting but the script is fucking childish, the acting is not that great, and it's the type of musical I really dislike. The "now let's stop and sing!" type instead of "now here is a song with relevent lyrics / staging that will help forward the plot" type. Everyone lists this as like, the best musical ever and I'm always like, really?
Grease. Christ what an annoying movie.
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Myrna I think you posted to the wrong movie thread. Did you mean your own: What movie have you seen the most often?
Eh?Originally posted by What Exit?
everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
The Boondock Saints - A bunch of ludicrous set pieces strung together by a ludicrous plot and absurdly hammy acting. If it had had the good sense to laugh at itself it would have been at least a fun popcorn movie, but instead it played it pretty straight, complete with the worst pseudo-Christian catch phrase since Jules Winfield mauled Ezekiel 25:17. It fractures me that some of my favorite people in the world consider this a top ten all-time film.
Donnie Darko - OK maybe not HATE, but I think it's waaaaaay overrated and gets a lot of Emperor's new clothes-type love. It's like the Radiohead of movies: if you don't like it, it's obviously because you don't understand it.
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We can do whatever you want, Moonie. It's actually your thread, and we're just posting in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird is completely overrated and Gregory Peck is not that good in it. I have seen him in a few other things and am slowly attempting to build some respect for him in deference to the love he gets here on Mello.
MADWOMAN! This comment makes me respect you 10% less.
Wait...Singing in the Rain has a plot? Since when?
Singin' in the Rain ........ ok, so the title song / dance numbers is one of the best musical moments in film history, full stop. As for the rest of it? The bare bones of the story is interesting but the script is fucking childish, the acting is not that great, and it's the type of musical I really dislike. The "now let's stop and sing!" type instead of "now here is a song with relevent lyrics / staging that will help forward the plot" type. Everyone lists this as like, the best musical ever and I'm always like, really?
This comment restores my respect for you to its previous levels and adds on 15% besides.Grease. Christ what an annoying movie.
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." (Chesterton)
We can argue discuss each other's choices, right?
To Kill a Mockingbird is completely overrated and Gregory Peck is not that good in it. I have seen him in a few other things and am slowly attempting to build some respect for him in deference to the love he gets here on Mello.
Singin' in the Rain ........ ok, so the title song / dance numbers is one of the best musical moments in film history, full stop. As for the rest of it? The bare bones of the story is interesting but the script is fucking childish, the acting is not that great, and it's the type of musical I really dislike. The "now let's stop and sing!" type instead of "now here is a song with relevent lyrics / staging that will help forward the plot" type. Everyone lists this as like, the best musical ever and I'm always like, really?
Grease. Christ what an annoying movie.Sorry, it looked like you were responding to people's choices in the other thread, not listing movies you hated.
Grease I cannot stand. Singin' in the Rain is not about a plot and it has perhaps the second greatest musical number in the same movie as the #1. Donald O'Conner's ""Make 'Em Laugh". "Moses" is a brilliant piece of musical wordplay and "Good Morning" is a good reuse of a good solid song.
As to To Kill a Mockingbird I cannot understand your complaint at all. It is a pitch perfect movie and amazingly true to the book. The acting is great and the scene when the Reverend says, "Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing." brings tears to my eyes I am willing to admit.
I like this movie, it was quirky and I am a big fan of Harvey and that added to it. I saw it when it was fairly new and was unaware of its rep. I thought it was an obscure movie that failed. But talking to others about it I really understand your point of view on it. I still like it but I am well aware it is not for everyone.
Well now you've done it, you made me cry. Peck is perfect in this movie, perfect.
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I HATE 2001: A Space Odyssey
Wankery at its finest.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Top ten? No. Top 20? You bet. Yes, it's ham handed and about as intellectual as NASCAR racing but there is some gold buried in all that b-movie schlock and pure nonsense. Rocco's rant where he accidentally shoots the cat and then his girlfriend comes home and he loses his shit at her? One of the funniest moments in film history. Willem Dafoe, Billy Connolly, Ron Jeremy, and the old dude from Fraggle Rock? Bonus awesome.
Now the sequel, that's perhaps the worst movie ever made. Seriously.
I too hate Grease by the way.
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No movie in the history of the universe has ever made me so violently angry as 300.
I do like Boondock Saints, but I don't think it's a great movie by any stretch. If it's not laughing at itself, my friends and I are certainly laughing our asses off at it.
Agreed. Kubrick in general is overrated.
I've probably mentioned it before, but I absolutely loathe Saving Private Ryan. Take away the Normandy scene and all you have is schmaltzy, self-indulgent Spielberg pap without any dinosaurs to make it watchable.
Every one of my friends loves A Knight's Tale. I found it to be incredibly tedious, and I usually really like Heath Ledger.
I think a lot of people like this movie just for the line, "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
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everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
"Why don't you make like a tree, and get the fook outta here?"
I know so many that love it, what I think also hurt is I foolishly thought 300 was based on well the legendary account, I had no idea it was based on a Graphic novel.
As to Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket was the movie he did I like the best. I think 2001 means more to those that saw it before Star Wars and Close Encounters ever came out. It was really beath-taking when new but I guess my attention span has shortened as I cannot really sit through it anymore. I still like Dr. Strangelove but it is aging and not as good as it was. Clockwork Orange is another like this. The first time I saw it, it blew me away, but later viewings only reduce my impression of its greatness. I think the Shining and Spartacus have held up well overall. Not the greatest movie but good movies with some great scenes.
I really liked Saving Private Ryan. Though I have only seen it the once. But I am also one of the Gump lovers on the board with many Gump haters.
I cannot sit through A Knight's Tale. I can't stand it. This movie blows.
I can think of many reasons this might be true, but I'd like to hear yours.
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." (Chesterton)
CONFESSION TIEM: I have not seen 2001.
I think Kubrick is one of our best directors, though. He has one of the most recognizable and compelling visual styles of any famous director, and the films of his that I have seen have a dark with and are uniformly engrossing. I even liked Eyes Wide Shut in spite of the disastrous casting of the two leads.
I guess? I think part of this is that I don't like singing / dancing for no reason. I talk about that a little here.
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I'm not a Sarah Silverman fan in general, but I thought it was pretty funny when she said that the movie got its name based on how gay it was on a scale from 1 to 10.
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The macro reason for my loathing of 300 boils down to one thing: the battle of Thermopylae is a badass, awesome story, and it offends me deeply to see it turned into repulsive, racist beat-off material for closeted homosexuals. (Not that I have anything against beat-off material for homosexuals.)
And then there's all this shit:
- Having war elephants at the battle of Thermopylae is like having Predator drones at the battle of Gettysberg. Rhinos are useless as war animals at any time, because they die if you make them run for any kind of distance.
- Xerxes was not a 9-foot-tall drag queen with a piercing fetish; his Immortals were not orcs.
- Spartans were dedicated to making themselves the best fighting force in the known world. That is why they wore armor.
- Other city-states had troops at Thermopylae. The whole point of the 300 was to allow those troops time to retreat. Without those other troops there, the battle becomes FUCKING RETARDED.
- Speaking of fucking retarded: I know that the hoplite phalanx is not a particularly cinematic fighting style. It's a rugby scrum with occasional pointy bits. But when you have Leonidas GIVE A SPEECH about how important the phalanx is, and how one's shield is there to protect the man beside you, and then proceed to have your Spartans nance around in an idiotic fashion that would GET THEM KILLED IMMEDIATELY, because NOBODY IS USING THEIR SHIELD and they are THROWING AWAY THEIR PRIMARY WEAPONS ... it fills me with a KILLING RAGE.
::cough::
... anyway.
I couldn't finish it. I have better things to do with my time that watch 15 minutes of an EMPTY ROOM.
I really like Dr. Strangelove, and The Shining has it's moments ... other than that, I give Kubrick a 'meh'. I thought EWS was god-awful.
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Orual, have you watched Full Metal Jacket? As mentioned I think this is actually his best movie. Overall 2001's time has passed which makes me a little sad. I did not actually like EWS either but I really don't like Tom Cruise, so a movie needs to be really good to overcome him being in it. EWS was not really good, A Few Good Men was.
I have pretty much the same list of hate for 300. :Shake: Pukingly bad movie.
Oh sweet merciful lord, this. I hate that movie so fucking much. The only bright spot is that at the end the little whiny son of a bitch gets crushed by the satellite. But really, that should have happened to start with so I'd saved those two hours of my life.
Haven't seen most of the films mentioned here bu did see 2001 when it was first released and thought it was monumental - have always been an Arthur C. Clarke fan anyway.
Despise any and all musicals, they make me cringe. ((((((((((shudder))))))))):shock:
Not that I have seen many people speak up in favor of it, but I think the movie Pearl Harbor was a bunch of concentrated suck, which failed at the one thing I went into it looking to see: GOOD models of WWII era ships. The writers not only failed any possible historical test you could apply to the movie, they also failed at demonstrating anything resembling logic. Fucking ASROCs on goddamned Spruance-class ships....
I agree with those who have expressed hatred for Grease.
I don't quite hate Star Wars, but I do think it is a bad movie, now. Visually stunning, but that's about it. The Empire Strikes Back is a bit better, and that's the high point of the whole mess. From there it all goes into that trash compactor in the Death Star.
I did see some of ID4 on TV, having avoided it in the theatres, because I was sure that the stupid would be too powerful. I was wrong. It was worse than I expected. And I expected nonsensical schmaltz.
I hate Jurassic Park and walked out of it in the theatres. When a college drop-out remembers parthenogenesis and their genetic engineers couldn't consider that to be a potential problem for their containment scheme, I had to bail.
I also bailed on American Beauty. By the time the film was 20 minutes in, I hated everyone and wanted them all to die.
Oh, and most people I know seem to like Juno. She had a cute name, and I like Michael Cera and Jason Bateman, but every time she opened her mouth to deliver a line, all I could hear was a 36-year old male screenwriter hitting the backspace button on his Mac and retyping the line to try and sound more like a teenage girl. Maddening.
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I don't hate them, and I don't know how most people I know feel about them, but my two brothers who my tastes overlap with quite a bit have a deep and abiding fascination with the first two Godfather movies that I don't share.
While I appreciate they are well made I don't like the main characters in the story so I don't care what happens to them.
Replace "the first two Godfather movies" with "There Will Be Blood" and I'm all over this.
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Of course it is. The dialogue is terrible, and the acting not any better. But that's what gives it it's charm, IMO. And hell, if you're judging by today's standards it's not even visually stunning. (the stupid added in CGI irritates the hell out of me. the DVD re-releases that had the bonus disks with the original theatrical versions were a godsend to me. I don't even watch the newer versions). But if you can look past all that, and enjoy it for what it is, a campy little space opera, then it's pretty enjoyable.
Of course, it helps if your first 50 viewings are before you turn 10.
Taumpy: Oh noes, you aren't a super powerful wave of destruction.
Panther Squad: It's true! My scythe does not shorn the biomonsters in great swaths like it ought!
Not that it really matters, but the script was written by a woman, Diablo Cody. I know this only because she used to post on another message board that I frequented.
everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
Thank you! I stand corrected, but I maintain my primary point: that Juno's lines were so bad that they constantly shocked me out of my suspension of disbelief.
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I haven't seen it, since it's a combination of two things I don't particularly like: Kubrick and Vietnam War movies. The only enjoyment I got out of Platoon was taking a drink every time incredibly-young Dr. Cox said 'Bob' and laughing at Charlie Sheen's "I am serious and introspective" face.
So I don't think I would really appreciate Full Metal Jacket.
Truth.Of course, it helps if your first 50 viewings are before you turn 10.
Her real name isn't Diablo, is it?
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Well for what it is worth Platoon was a pretty bad movie though somewhat fun to watch. FMJ is much better done, more intense and better acted by far. It is worth watching at least the boot camp portion of the movie. Platoon is a bad example overall of a war movie.
The Godfather.
I don't hate it per se, but I don't go out of my way to watch it. Brando couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag and is highly overrated.
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I think The Godfather is really the beginning of the end for Brando, and definitely the beginning of Brando as a one-note, overrated actor. But in On The Waterfront he was pretty damn good, I thought.
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