Horrible fucking movies
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Petrolhead
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I suggest "case 39"
TeeJay1952
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ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
In fairness, Adam Sandler has only made ONE movie... he just makes it over and over and over.
Watch “The Wedding Singer”, and you’ve seen everything he has to offer
I’m guessing QT is an acquired taste, and a lot of people never acquire it.
My first QT was Pulp Fiction, and it frankly took watching Kill Bill for me to really ‘get’ Pulp Fiction - who knows, I might not have caught on to Kill Bill had I seen *it* first....
At this point I think his biggest problem is that he OVERdoes everything - not necessarily a bad thing, but he seems to be intent on recapturing/recreating the experience of being swept up and carried along, and I think people forget the rollercoaster aspect, so his twists in plot and character are more jarring, his visuals more shocking...I frankly think some folks get hung up on one scene, one twist, one image - and find themselves pulled out of the movie.
For me, the key to watching him is his sense of humor arising out of the worst situations - if you don’t KNOW he’s going to do stuff like that, the impact gets magnified. A LOT.
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ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
Wilson has some o’ that in common with Matthew McConaughy, who was GREAT in True Detective, but not so much otherwise.... Wilson was terrific as Hans in Zoolander, a terrifically bad move (deliberately, hysterically so).
Baron23
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I have only walked out on two movies in my life:
Barry Lyndon - Kubrek makes two kinds of movies, great and abysmal. This was abysmal AND it was three hours and 23 minutes of abysmal.
The remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice with Nicholson and Lange. Hard to miss with those two, but the director managed it, IMO.
Barry Lyndon - Kubrek makes two kinds of movies, great and abysmal. This was abysmal AND it was three hours and 23 minutes of abysmal.
The remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice with Nicholson and Lange. Hard to miss with those two, but the director managed it, IMO.
Tranquility
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It is a beautiful movie that could have two hours cut from it and it would STILL be too long. Beautiful in that every scene is Kubrik at his visual best. The movie looks great. But, the "plot" is like a complex road movie where each stop is irrelevant and you hope the powerful ending ties it all together.
It doesn't.
I felt much the same in Eyes Wide Shut. Pretty, but you kept waiting....and waiting...and waiting...
If you read the plot summaries of both after watching them, most would be astonished. First, that there was an underlying story at all and; second, that it was so detailed.
I love Kubrik's films in general. However, when he goes wrong, he goes wrong. (That being said, Rotten Tomatoes rates the movie very high. Critics 93% and audiences 92% "fresh". I wonder if they're reporting what they like or what they're supposed to like.)
TheThriftDrifter
Land of the long vapor cloud
The Hobbit, I completely love and adore the books, but the movies were terrible for me.
I watched half the first one then walked out, didn't bother with the next. Even the great visual effects couldn't keep me engaged. What rubbish.
I watched half the first one then walked out, didn't bother with the next. Even the great visual effects couldn't keep me engaged. What rubbish.
ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
The full extreme...I've only walked out on two movies, too: Armageddon and Flesh for Frankenstein
Both very limited offerings: noise and space rock, vs nudity and intestines in 3-D - but hard to say which was more stupid, more offensive, more boring....
OTOH I loved the Jackson Hobbit films for all their flaws (still needs tighter editing, damn it), whereas I was bored spineless by the book...then again, i was 15, I’d already read LoTR and loved IT...and it is what it is: the Hobbit has nothing for me.
I only became interested again after years of wandering through the Middle-Earth related stuff, learning about *what else* was going on around the fringes of ‘The Hobbit’. Jackson’s vision of the story matches mine, at least in size and scope. I still love the whole thing
Both very limited offerings: noise and space rock, vs nudity and intestines in 3-D - but hard to say which was more stupid, more offensive, more boring....
OTOH I loved the Jackson Hobbit films for all their flaws (still needs tighter editing, damn it), whereas I was bored spineless by the book...then again, i was 15, I’d already read LoTR and loved IT...and it is what it is: the Hobbit has nothing for me.
I only became interested again after years of wandering through the Middle-Earth related stuff, learning about *what else* was going on around the fringes of ‘The Hobbit’. Jackson’s vision of the story matches mine, at least in size and scope. I still love the whole thing
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TheThriftDrifter
Land of the long vapor cloud
Yer, I read the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings as a kid, no doubt the movies are well made and in many ways amazing, just didn't align with the vision in my imagination.
I have such vivid, cool, deeply loved memories of books I read in childhood, that no movie based on one of them really stands a chance.
In general, i do like books that I have read as an adult, that are made into movies.
The Harry Potter and Hunger Games series springs to mind.
I have such vivid, cool, deeply loved memories of books I read in childhood, that no movie based on one of them really stands a chance.
In general, i do like books that I have read as an adult, that are made into movies.
The Harry Potter and Hunger Games series springs to mind.
Tranquility
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Maybe we should start a thread for most disappointing movie. For a number of reasons, I read "Ender's Game" most years around my birthday. Do you think I liked the movie? It was not my vision. Many who saw it liked it (A little. It was not a masterpiece even if you were not comparing it to the book.), but for me it was very disappointing. I knew it was going to be, so it might have been a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I think The Hobbit is like that too. When young, I found the book near impossible to put down where, with the LOTR, I had to struggle to get through it. The Hobbit movie was no match and my disappointment made me like the movie less where as with LOTR, the movies were fine. Long and needed to get rid of tons of boring battle footage, but fine.
Deleted Member 1643
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And Adrian Brody as, a tough guy..
How about Adrian Brody statutorily raping his mutant step-daughter in Splice?
A better man, for sure. And a movie so bad you'll stay just to watch the train wreck.
Funny, someone mentioned Idiocracy as a "bad" movie in 2015 - just before it came true!
Buzzbomb Almighty
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Disliked every Andy Warhol film; he was a brilliant industrial artist, great pop artist, but I didn't like any of his films.
basement farmer
My face is melting...
The Lobster
Because it had so many rave reviews and great actors, my girl and I sat through it's entirety patiently waiting for something to happen that would convince us that we were intellectually clever enough to appreciate the movie.
I normally really like offbeat and even 'weird' humor oriented entertainment. Sorry if I offend anyone but The Lobster came across as pretentious and not at all funny or clever. It just rambled on pointlessly for two hours and left us wondering WTF?
Because it had so many rave reviews and great actors, my girl and I sat through it's entirety patiently waiting for something to happen that would convince us that we were intellectually clever enough to appreciate the movie.
I normally really like offbeat and even 'weird' humor oriented entertainment. Sorry if I offend anyone but The Lobster came across as pretentious and not at all funny or clever. It just rambled on pointlessly for two hours and left us wondering WTF?
Deleted Member 1643
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Well - that's because you're clearly partnered. To someone who has lived life mainly alone and been made to feel suspicious for it, The Lobster had considerable relevance. One of those movies that comes to mind again and again.
Tranquility
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That is a very good point. Even though we're all different and prefer different things, even if we liked the same things in general does not mean we would like the same things when looked through the lens of current experience.
Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
Hmmm. I liked it. I found it mildly/darkly funny at surface, and touching on depression/loneliness and the interconnectedness that all has in association with cultural/societal/social expectations to be largely on-point.
I found it amusing