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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 6, 2013 17:03:46 GMT -5
I think I'll add Mysterious Skin to this list. Seriously. Don't watch it. Ever. Unless you want to know what it's like to have felt like you've been raped by the writer/director after you've watched it. I'm not even making light of that. I honestly felt like I was personally violated by Gregg Araki. I guess everyone is different and while I won't be watching it again anytime soon because it is a very uncomfortable film to watch.. But I don't see how it cna filed under a movie with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The film is uncomfortable but in a good way and should be given credit for being one the very few films to actually tackle pedophilia in a realistic and mature fashion and not gloss over how the effects of sexual abuse on a child can last them a life time. |
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Post by dlg3000 on May 6, 2013 17:19:54 GMT -5
Ace Ventura 2
Lethal Weapon 3
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Post by Joker on May 6, 2013 17:35:01 GMT -5
I liked that film, thought it was quite good. What's wrong with it? |
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Post by agent817 on May 6, 2013 17:45:19 GMT -5
Redline, and I mean the 2007 movie.
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Post by Blindkarevik on May 6, 2013 17:49:15 GMT -5
The next explanation I hear as to why "Catfish" was a good movie will be the first. It was definitely NOT a good "movie." The whole thing came off as forced and the film makers personalities are so annoying, it's hard to ever feel sympathy for them. However, having experienced situations similar to this in my own life, I found it a good watch at least once. |
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on May 6, 2013 18:08:04 GMT -5
The Brown Bunny
If you've ever driven for hours down a highway by yourself, watching bugs splatter on the windshield and wanted to see a movie about another lonely person doing the exact same thing, Vincent Gallo heard your prayers. The worst movie I've ever seen.
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Post by amaron on May 6, 2013 18:27:46 GMT -5
There was this movie that people were both grossed out by and hated pretty resoundingly. I think it was some Serbian film or something. Don't remember then title though. Can anyone help jog my memory? I think it was literally called A Serbian Film. It was. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 6, 2013 19:21:19 GMT -5
Personally I thought Red Zone Cuba was the worst of the Coleman Francis trilogy. Beast of Yucca Flats at least had the out there narration and Tor Johnson. Red Zone Cuba's awful too, but at least it is about an interesting historical event. Of course it being a Coleman Francis movie it is depicted as boringly and puzzling as possible, but about an interesting topic nonetheless. Likewise at least The Beast of Yucca Flats is short and has the aforementioned Tor Johnson. Skydivers on the other hand has NOTHING redeeming about it (pk, except the coffee guy and even then he's only funny because of the MST3K crew making it a joke). |
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Post by ookkie on May 6, 2013 19:40:57 GMT -5
OK, I don't know why the above post won't show what I type after fuzzywarble's quotation, but here's what I was trying to state: Fuzzywarble, while I love your Supernintendo Chalmers avatar, I'm afraid that your hatred of National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 means that we cannot be friends. Can you name ONE good part of that movie? I thought that even the Mr. Potato Head scene was lame and forced. And that's the one scene that most people like about the movie. And the final scene where they're parodying Wayne's World is just sad. "...Willllllllllllllllddddernnnessssss girrrrrrls!" "Life...is very hard...and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend." *looks in Bartlett's* "I'm sorry Mike, no good." "Have you ever worked for a General Motors?" "No, I drive a Buick." It's just so dumb but I love it regardless... |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 6, 2013 19:40:58 GMT -5
I liked that film, thought it was quite good. What's wrong with it? Mizerable will have to clarify, but the only way I could see his response being worthy of this topic is if he is referring to the Andy Warhol film, "Blow Job" which I've seen referred to as "Blow." Fore those unfamiliar with Warhol's films a lot of his movies are nearly impossible to view as traditional cinema is viewed. For instance, "Empire" is just a shot of the Empire State Building for over 8 hours. Likewise "Blow Job" despite it's title is just a black and white shot of a guy's face as he gets a blow job for about half an hour. It's even more boring than it sounds as there is no sound and the guy doesn't even really react to it. As a film fanatic I was kind of excited when I found out a film class I took in college would show it on a big screen. However, I did not even end up staying to watch it. Since a lot of Warhol's films are best viewed as pieces in an art gallery intended to be passed by rather than watched beginning to end, the professor said students could come and go as they pleased while the film played. I was interested in staying just because as mentioned I'm a film geek, but literally EVERYONE left. I ended up leaving just because I felt weird about being the only one there plus I had other work to do. While some may think it was just college students being college students I also took a related class in college and students actually stayed PAST the end of class when given the option to leave to watch things like Buster Keaton films (even the non film geeks). Again, Warhol's films aren't exactly bad, just not all are best viewed in the traditional cinematic way. However, I could get how someone would say Warhol's "Blow" has no redeeming qualities at least a lot more than I would get someone saying it about the Johnny Depp film. |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2013 19:43:55 GMT -5
Personally I thought Red Zone Cuba was the worst of the Coleman Francis trilogy. Beast of Yucca Flats at least had the out there narration and Tor Johnson. Red Zone Cuba's awful too, but at least it is about an interesting historical event. Of course it being a Coleman Francis movie it is depicted as boringly and puzzling as possible, but about an interesting topic nonetheless. Likewise at least The Beast of Yucca Flats is short and has the aforementioned Tor Johnson. Skydivers on the other hand has NOTHING redeeming about it (pk, except the coffee guy and even then he's only funny because of the MST3K crew making it a joke). All 3 films were featured on MST3K. Blam. There's your redemption. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 6, 2013 19:55:35 GMT -5
Red Zone Cuba's awful too, but at least it is about an interesting historical event. Of course it being a Coleman Francis movie it is depicted as boringly and puzzling as possible, but about an interesting topic nonetheless. Likewise at least The Beast of Yucca Flats is short and has the aforementioned Tor Johnson. Skydivers on the other hand has NOTHING redeeming about it (pk, except the coffee guy and even then he's only funny because of the MST3K crew making it a joke). All 3 films were featured on MST3K. Blam. There's your redemption. Yeah, but as mentioned even MST3K had a tough time making this funny. I'd go so far as to say if MST3K was still a popular thing, but the Skydivers episode was their only episode I wouldn't be an MST3K fan. That's saying something considering Skydivers wasn't one of their pre-Comedy Channel episodes and the series was arguably at it's peak when that episode was made. |
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Post by mizerable on May 6, 2013 20:19:54 GMT -5
I liked that film, thought it was quite good. What's wrong with it? It's a movie that tries basically painting someone in the wrong light, as if George Jung was this endearing person, he wasn't, everything that happens, they try to justify it (even at one point actually showing Pablo f***in' Escobar as reasonable as he's executing someone). Then the movie goes soft at the end, trying to paint Jung as a sympathetic guy all the sudden, that we should feel sorry he hasn't seen his daughter. There's a difference between making a movie where you falsify things in order to make a better movie. I would have accepted that here if the characters were written endearing, even if real life says otherwise. Instead, Jung is written as "cool" and "clever" and so forth. Drugs are cool, kids. Not even a talented actor in Depp can make me feel for anyone involved here. They're all f***ing losers. |
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Post by anticonscience on May 6, 2013 20:39:45 GMT -5
Cop Out
It was the closest I've EVER come to walking out on a movie but I was there with friends so I wasn't about to abandon them.
Every second of that movie was the longest hour of my life
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 6, 2013 20:46:07 GMT -5
Battlefield Earth immediately comes to mind.
so do most of the films Brad Jones reviews that don't fall into the "so bad it's good" or "legitimately good but fun to riff on" categories.
Ken Park has to be the high water mark for pointless mean-spirited whining about people the director personally has an axe to grind about.
Funny Games is a terrible whine-fest about a film genre the director clearly doesn't actually understand but obviously thinks he does.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 6, 2013 21:02:01 GMT -5
Ken Park has to be the high water mark for pointless mean-spirited whining about people the director personally has an axe to grind about. Funny Games is a terrible whine-fest about a film genre the director clearly doesn't actually understand but obviously thinks he does. Yeah Ken Park was terrible and it makes me wonder why Larry Clark just doesn't make barely legal porn instead and not to mention the only reason why I bothered to watch it was because it was banned in New Zealand. British film critic Mark Kermode said it best that Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer said everything funny games wanted say about violence but without being self important and indulgent lecture from some arsehole who thinks he is really clever and not mention it was actually a good film. Also I would add Gummo and Baise-moi. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 6, 2013 21:06:52 GMT -5
Ken Park has to be the high water mark for pointless mean-spirited whining about people the director personally has an axe to grind about. Funny Games is a terrible whine-fest about a film genre the director clearly doesn't actually understand but obviously thinks he does. Yeah Ken Park was terrible and it makes me wonder why Larry Clark just doesn't make barely legal porn instead and not to mention the only reason why I bothered to watch it was because it was banned in New Zealand. British film critic Mark Kermode said it best that Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer said everything funny games wanted say about violence but without being self important and indulgent lecture from some arsehole who thinks he is really clever and not mention it was actually a good film. Also I would add Gummo and Baise-moi. I'll also throw "Trash Humpers" onto that list. just Harmony Korine getting high on his rep and making a bunch of nonsensical crap because he knew a bunch of pothead armchair critics would just orgasm over it. |
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Post by CMWaters on May 6, 2013 21:22:38 GMT -5
Personally I thought Red Zone Cuba was the worst of the Coleman Francis trilogy. Beast of Yucca Flats at least had the out there narration and Tor Johnson. Red Zone Cuba's awful too, but at least it is about an interesting historical event. Of course it being a Coleman Francis movie it is depicted as boringly and puzzling as possible, but about an interesting topic nonetheless. Likewise at least The Beast of Yucca Flats is short and has the aforementioned Tor Johnson. Skydivers on the other hand has NOTHING redeeming about it (pk, except the coffee guy and even then he's only funny because of the MST3K crew making it a joke). They had a funny clip in the movie that the riffers could barely make fun of. When the band at the concert is playing, and they randomly play sterotypical oriental sounding music, and the purely white guy says "Ah so." Oh, and the random Scotsman. |
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Post by Savage Gambino on May 6, 2013 21:35:22 GMT -5
Cop Out It was the closest I've EVER come to walking out on a movie but I was there with friends so I wasn't about to abandon them. Every second of that movie was the longest hour of my life Oh God, how could I forget that one? Horrible, that movie. Just completely horrible. Still haven't finished it, and don't really plan on doing so. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 6, 2013 21:48:51 GMT -5
Ken Park has to be the high water mark for pointless mean-spirited whining about people the director personally has an axe to grind about. Funny Games is a terrible whine-fest about a film genre the director clearly doesn't actually understand but obviously thinks he does. Yeah Ken Park was terrible and it makes me wonder why Larry Clark just doesn't make barely legal porn instead and not to mention the only reason why I bothered to watch it was because it was banned in New Zealand. British film critic Mark Kermode said it best that Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer said everything funny games wanted say about violence but without being self important and indulgent lecture from some arsehole who thinks he is really clever and not mention it was actually a good film. Also I would add Gummo and Baise-moi. Oh yes Gummo is truly f***ing horrid. Despite liking Kids it really killed my interest in wanting to see anything Harmony Korine has done. I guess it is successful in creating a truly disgusting atmosphere at one point with that bathtub scene involving spaghetti. The one time I watched it I remember I couldn't bring myself to eat anything with spaghetti sauce on it for a while. And I have no weak stomach. I'm a heck of an eater and chowed down fine after watching things like A Serbian Film, Cannibal Holocaust, Irreversable, etc., but that scene was wicked gross. Unlike some posters who mention things like A Serbian Film and Human Centipede I think there is some skill involved in really showcasing something that can gross out people with hard stomachs (even if those two didn't gross me out) so I give the Gummo creators some props I guess for accomplishing that. The rest of the movie is just out and out garbage though. |
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