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Post by Neurochick on May 2, 2012 10:51:38 GMT -4
The best thing about the 80's "Scarface" is that line Michelle Pfieffer says, "I like kids, as long as there's a nurse." That cracked me up for some reason.
I've only met one person who actually liked "Crash." To me it was an overrated TV movie of the week.
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Post by Ginger on May 2, 2012 15:01:14 GMT -4
Anything by David Lynch. I've tried so many times, most recently with Mulholland Drive, and I just don't get it.
I like movies that are strange or surreal as long as there is some kind of internal logic and meaning to it, like a Charlie Kauffman movie. But I don't like weirdness that just seems to be for the sake of being weird.
It always reminds me of Living in Oblivion, where the director is filming a dream sequence with a smoke machine and a midget, and finally the midget quits and tells off the director for making such a crappy movie. And David Lynch is all about dream sequences and midgets. "No hay banda!" Stupid!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2012 18:44:03 GMT -4
The Star Wars movies. I've seen them all, and I love the parodies done by Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and everyone else, but those movies are boring as fuck.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2012 20:48:47 GMT -4
The Star Wars movies. I've seen them all, and I love the parodies done by Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and everyone else, but those movies are boring as fuck. Yes! I love the Star Wars concept, parts of the movies, and references and humour related to them, but I cannot sit through more than a few minutes. Probably because when I was a very small child, I was put in front of one of the movies (on betamax), told it was the "best movie ever made" by a friend's scary dad, and I proceeded to be bored out of my skull afraid to leave and afraid to dislike it. Same thing happened with the Sting. |
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Post by sjankis630 on Jul 13, 2012 0:23:46 GMT -4
I think I like reading about what all the experts thought that movie was about much more than enduring the film. I wish I had seen it in a theater though as I would have paid better attention. From what I read it was originally supposed to be a series, was canceled and then a French (or European ) film company picked the treatment up for cheap and asked him to make his "series" into a single, drawn out, tacky, and boring movie.
On a higher note watching movies like that made me better appreciate the smarter movies that I felt were worth the effort. Movies like Memento for instance.
Ahhh the cruelty of time.
I still remember sitting back in the theater back in 1977 and watching my first real non Disney movie experience as Princess Leah's ship tried to outrun the Star Destroyer..... thrilling. At the time....
And then later that year there was the exciting 2nd non Disney movie I got to go see on my first real trip to see close friends in Philadelphia. This one was a neat tale of regular people meeting extra-terrestrials and Richard Dreyfuss going nuts and uncovering a massive government coverup of spacecraft. And the soundtrack was stellar ....... and ...... well
Now, not so much.
But time has a funny way of doing that to films for some people.
Remember Jaws? People were afraid to go to the beach! of course by the time I was allowed to see it, on VHS in a friend's basement eating a bunch of nachos without surround sound it was more like, "this is what everyone was crowing about?"
"Did that rubber shark just wink at me?" Can I get another shout out to Mr Dreyfuss here?
Oh yeah to all of my new young friends who just howled over most of the American Pie movies? I liked those movies only slightly less when they came out in the 80s and were called Porkys.
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Post by Neurochick on Jul 16, 2012 13:36:11 GMT -4
And the Porkys movies were a LOT cruder than anything American Pie did. I feel that I should like K"The Artist" but I thought it sucked.  |
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Post by sumire on Jul 21, 2012 15:43:47 GMT -4
I wouldn't go so far as to say it sucked [barf icon], but I was just meh on The Artist. It's a cute little novelty, but yeah, no way in hell was that the "Best Picture" of the year.  |
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Post by kateln on Jul 21, 2012 16:38:44 GMT -4
I wouldn't go so far as to say it sucked [barf icon], but I was just meh on The Artist. It's a cute little novelty, but yeah, no way in hell was that the "Best Picture" of the year. I liked it, thought it was cute and somewhat sweet. I really wanted to like Young Adult. Objectively I can say that it was smart, well written, and Charlize Theron played the part perfectly. However, it wasn't at all funny, and it was a painful movie to watch. Not in a cathartic way, but in a "Oh for fuck's sake just get it over with..." way. BTW, sumire off topic, but I'm just going to sit and stare at your lovely, lovely avatar for a while. He was seriously the best part of "House of Flying Daggers", and when you're up against Andy Lau that's saying a lot. |
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Post by Hamatron on Jul 21, 2012 17:06:09 GMT -4
kateln, I had the same experience with Young Adult. I wanted to like it so bad, but for me it just dragged and was painful to watch. Any twists in the plot I saw coming from miles away. I was bummed because I thought I was going to really like that movie. At least my Mom and I had fun talking about it later... and my Dad was totally confused by it (as usual, poor guy can't follow a plot unless it's an action flick, hah).
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Post by chonies on Jul 21, 2012 20:26:46 GMT -4
I really liked Young Adult, but I have to say that I think it's because I went into it knowing what to expect, thanks to people discussing it here before I saw it. I rented it because I wanted to see how awkward and painful it was, and it paid off. However, had I seen it in the theater while it was still a new release, I wonder if my reaction would have been more WTF.
I said it elsewhere, but I loved The Artist (cried in the theatre, even), although I could see how it might seem gimmicky or trite. I didn't see any of the other Best Picture nominees this year, so I have nothing to compare it to.
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