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Post by H-Fist on Jan 7, 2007 14:02:58 GMT -5
Boondock Saints (really. what the f***? bad accents, bad acting, ridiculous script...why?) Scarface (draaaaaaaags) 2001: a space odyssey (needs to be pacaged with hallucinogenic drugs) American Beauty (pretentiousness at its worst. screw you, sam mendes) Love, Actually (maniulative. effectively so. but the 37,000 endings in the 3rd act piss me the hell off) Goodfellas (good, but doesn't live up to the hype) Shawshank Redemption (same as above) Memento (meh) The Matrix (if it had just been a throwaway action/suspense film, fine. but the pretentiousness of the wachowskis and the cultish following...it isn't THAT great. and it feels a bit dated already.)
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Post by The Wraith on Jan 7, 2007 14:10:31 GMT -5
oh yeah I forgot to mention that one! Don't you just want to kick people who imitate him right in the face? It totally ruined my life. I did the gosh thing LONG before that stupid movie came out, and now when I do it, people are like "oh, its like from that movie!". ha-ha!
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Post by amsiraK on Jan 7, 2007 14:12:20 GMT -5
The fact that Gump won best picture over Pulp Fiction to this day makes me mad. I'll keep this one going by saying that Pulp Fiction is one of my WTF movies. I don't get why that's such a great movie. I can sit and type pages of swearwords, too.
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Post by eeriebagel on Jan 7, 2007 14:12:55 GMT -5
gump. there was something about that movie that i just didn't quite get.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 7, 2007 15:36:36 GMT -5
that movie with jake gyllenhall and the rabbit. donnie darko or whatever. ditto, fast and the furious 1, 2, 3. yeah i get it car chases. XXX, i think it could do with less explosions. lord of the rings trilogy, see randle's interpritation of it (clerks 2) juon aka the grudge, ghost story and a boring one at that. battle royale 1 & 2, yeah so the kids kill each other in 1, and in 2 they become terrorists? how? why?
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TsfNugeFan
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Post by TsfNugeFan on Jan 7, 2007 15:42:12 GMT -5
E.T., Titanic, Napolean Dynamite, Charlotte's Web (both of them).
Or anything by Tim Burton that isn't Pee Wee Herman.
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Post by Garee on Jan 7, 2007 17:21:05 GMT -5
Pretty much anything by David Lynch
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Boku AKA Da Green Guy
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Post by Boku AKA Da Green Guy on Jan 7, 2007 17:59:04 GMT -5
The Matrix (if it had just been a throwaway action/suspense film, fine. but the pretentiousness of the wachowskis and the cultish following...it isn't THAT great. and it feels a bit dated already.) My same thoughts after the first. Didn't watch any of the others. fast and the furious 1, 2, 3. yeah i get it car chases. I was once told by a room full of my peers that number one was the greatest movie ever made. Half of them were girls. No joke. I was sad for my generation that day. For my own thoughts now: Napolean Dynamite: I would have liked it, possibly, if for not every moron quoting every single line. Snakes on a Plane: I didn't get the internet hype around it and I have no urge to watch such a pointless film. Borat: Didn't like the previews, didn't like the fans that said I didn't get the JOKE (when Andy Kaufman was doing this joke better and long before Sasha was born), don't want to see it, and it's just candid camera/a madtv sketch for an hour or so.
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Post by Alucard on Jan 7, 2007 18:01:08 GMT -5
that movie with jake gyllenhall and the rabbit. donnie darko or whatever. battle royale 1 & 2, yeah so the kids kill each other in 1, and in 2 they become terrorists? how? why? OOH OOH! I KNOW THIS ONE. Because Shuya and Noriko didn't kill eachother (there must only be ONE winner) and were involved in a plot against the government (not to mention all the govt. officials they had to kill to escape the island, you REALLLYYY need to have read the novel to get certain parts of the movie, otherwise it's just kids killing eachother for an hour, the movie didn't translate from the novel well enough IMO, as is the case with most things). I've never seen two, but I know that in it Shuya is being hunted by the govt. right? Yeah, and it's more of a militant theme thing? Either way BR 2 for all intents and purposes from what I understand should be ignored.
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Post by A on Jan 7, 2007 18:02:46 GMT -5
The Fast & The Furious. All of 'em sucked.
Truthfully, though, it was only about the cars and the women to most.
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 7, 2007 18:05:52 GMT -5
oh, add clerks to my list.
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Post by REDUNBECK~! on Jan 7, 2007 19:45:04 GMT -5
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: not to pick on Bill Murray, but him and Owen Wilson should have been a hilarious pairing...instead we get whatever the hell this was. If you go into a Wes Anderson movie expecting laugh-out-loud wackiness, you've got the wrong mindset. His movies are always very, very, very dry humor. Desert-like dry. And Life Aquatic is more about depression and listlessness and malaise than humorous adventure, anyway. I can easily see how that could not be someone's sort of flick. (I adore TLA, personally. Anderson's sense of humor matches mine pretty well). Anywho, a few of my WTF movies: 2001: a Space Odyssey: Pretty visuals and half-assed philosophy do not a good movie make. For all the beauty of it's imagery, this film killed me with the crushing tedium of it's story. Oh wait...there is no story. Silly me. It's JUST PICTURES. World Trade Center: I guess I missed something, because I don't remember 9/11 being a cheap rip-off of a Douglas Sirk melodrama like this movie is, right down to the swelling strings and soft-focus close-ups. Napoleon Dynamite: IDIOT! GOSH! This is supposed to be funny? It's the most hateful, saddening, insulting movie made in recent years. Forrest Gump: OK, I like Tom Hanks most of the time, and I love the work of Robert Zemeckis (the director), but this movie is the two of them just screaming "HEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY! I WANNA OSCAR!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!" right at the huging camera for four hours, or however long it is. It feels like four hours. The Incredibles: a string of played-out family sitcom jokes mixed with a string of played-out superhero jokes. Woopty crap. I still want my money back. Steven Spielberg: OK, Duel and The Color Purple were great, but the rest of this guy's films are so awful. They're dull, uninspired, uninspiring, and sometimes even insultingly exploitative (War of the Worlds and its 9/11 and Asian Tsunami references made me sick). Spielberg is the epitome of the stereotype filmmaker making any stupid movie he's asked to just to make a buck. Artistic integrity be damned! EDITED: Just noticed the filters went down. Oopsie!
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 7, 2007 19:53:50 GMT -5
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: not to pick on Bill Murray, but him and Owen Wilson should have been a hilarious pairing...instead we get whatever the hell this was. If you go into a Wes Anderson movie expecting laugh-out-loud wackiness, you've got the wrong mindset. His movies are always very, very, very dry humor. Desert-like dry. And Life Aquatic is more about depression and listlessness and malaise than humorous adventure, anyway. I can easily see how that could not be someone's sort of flick. (I adore TLA, personally. Anderson's sense of humor matches mine pretty well). Anywho, a few of my WTF movies: 2001: a Space Odyssey: Pretty visuals and half-assed philosophy do not a good movie make. For all the beauty of it's imagery, this film killed me with the crushing tedium of it's story. Oh wait...there is no story. Silly me. It's JUST PICTURES. World Trade Center: I guess I missed something, because I don't remember 9/11 being a cheap rip-off of a Douglas Sirk melodrama like this movie is, right down to the swelling strings and soft-focus close-ups. Napoleon Dynamite: IDIOT! GOSH! This is supposed to be funny? It's the most hateful, saddening, insulting movie made in recent years. Forrest Gump: OK, I like Tom Hanks most of the time, and I love the work of Robert Zemeckis (the director), but this movie is the two of them just screaming "HEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY! I WANNA OSCAR!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!" right at the huging camera for four hours, or however long it is. It feels like four hours. The Incredibles: a string of played-out family sitcom jokes mixed with a string of played-out superhero jokes. Woopty crap. I still want my money back. Steven Spielberg: OK, Duel and The Color Purple were great, but the rest of this guy's films are so awful. They're dull, uninspired, uninspiring, and sometimes even insultingly exploitative (War of the Worlds and its 9/11 and Asian Tsunami references made me sick). Spielberg is the epitome of the stereotype filmmaker making any stupid movie he's asked to just to make a buck. Artistic integrity be damned! EDITED: Just noticed the filters went down. Oopsie! I can see your point about Spielberg for the most part, but what about Raiders, man?
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Jan 7, 2007 20:39:28 GMT -5
oh, add clerks to my list. I actually agree with this, although I "get" it and love it. It's such a generational piece and stuff that make it hard to "get" for people who can't relate. For me... Forrest Gump Clockwork Orange American Beauty Top Gun Any Tom Cruise movie.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Jan 7, 2007 21:00:04 GMT -5
Wedding Crashers - it was hailed as the funniest movie ever and it barely got a chuckle out of me. I want my two hours back dammit!!!!!!!
Elf - will ferrel is dressed like an idiot and acting like one.........so what else is new?
I never got the hoopla about the matrix trilogy I never even saw the 2nd and 3rd ones
Lord of the rings trilogy was too damn long and I fell asleep during the first two and didnt bother with the finale. Bored with the Rings is more like it.
Austin Powers 1: Sorry I didnt find it funny. I liked the 2nd and 3rd ones though.
Master of Disguise: I worked at the movie theater when this came out and the previews alone insulted my intelligence.
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 7, 2007 21:01:53 GMT -5
I agree with you here, but I didn't think it was THAT bad. I do however, scratch my head everytime someone calls it one of the funniest movies of all time.
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Post by Well, Youre Wrong on Jan 7, 2007 21:34:30 GMT -5
Fast and The Furious(all of them) and Napoleon Dynamite, I never found the appeal to those films.
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Post by Alucard on Jan 7, 2007 21:40:41 GMT -5
The Fast and the Furious trilogy are all actually favorites of mine, they're not amazing deep pieces of cinema, BUT they are great films to just turn your brain off and watch for the pretty colors, explosions, and action. They're not oscar worthy movies deserving of praise for the marvelous acting seen in them, they're just, fun popcorn flicks. Nothing wrong with those IMO.
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TsfNugeFan
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Post by TsfNugeFan on Jan 7, 2007 21:44:18 GMT -5
Wedding Crashers - it was hailed as the funniest movie ever and it barely got a chuckle out of me. I want my two hours back dammit!!!!!!! Elf - will ferrel is dressed like an idiot and acting like one.........so what else is new? I never got the hoopla about the matrix trilogy I never even saw the 2nd and 3rd ones Lord of the rings trilogy was too damn long and I fell asleep during the first two and didnt bother with the finale. Bored with the Rings is more like it. Austin Powers 1: Sorry I didnt find it funny. I liked the 2nd and 3rd ones though. Master of Disguise: I worked at the movie theater when this came out and the previews alone insulted my intelligence. I agree with most of those, except for Austin Powers and Lord of the Rings. Also, I don't think anyone liked Master of Disguise.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Jan 7, 2007 22:49:44 GMT -5
Wedding Crashers - it was hailed as the funniest movie ever and it barely got a chuckle out of me. I want my two hours back dammit!!!!!!! Elf - will ferrel is dressed like an idiot and acting like one.........so what else is new? I never got the hoopla about the matrix trilogy I never even saw the 2nd and 3rd ones Lord of the rings trilogy was too damn long and I fell asleep during the first two and didnt bother with the finale. Bored with the Rings is more like it. Austin Powers 1: Sorry I didnt find it funny. I liked the 2nd and 3rd ones though. Master of Disguise: I worked at the movie theater when this came out and the previews alone insulted my intelligence. I agree with most of those, except for Austin Powers and Lord of the Rings. Also, I don't think anyone liked Master of Disguise. On the contrary, my good man. I worked with a guy a few years ago who would not shut up about how funny that movie was. I never even saw the appeal myself, but wrote it off as a "different strokes, different folks" type of thing. Later, I fired that guy.
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