Well, okay, everybody I know personally, most of the people on this board, and the few internet movie critics I follow didn’t like it.
You think the protag was Andy, don’t you.
My entries - I loved Equilibrium, and hated Gone With the Wind.
OK somehow equilibrium got a 7.6 on IMDB. I guess I have the wrong idea of what people thought about it.
We’ve got a couple people willing to admit to liking Batman & Robin… time to up the ante. Anyone willing to cop to liking…
Cool As Ice?
Weekend at Bernie’s 2?
Manos: Hands of Fate?
I’ll volunteer my husband, who thinks the Super Mario Bros. live action movie was great. (And not in an ironic way.) I liked The Beach and Three Musketeers with Leonardo DiCaprio. I also liked the Count of Monte Cristo (starring James Caveziel). I loved Firestarter with Drew Barrymore, also.
I am in the minority that completely loathes E.T., but my dislike comes completely from what a nasty, mean, mean-spirited movie it is. The people who talk about it being heart-warming, a wonderful kid flick… or saccharine… must be seeing a different film.
And I have tried, twice, to watch it with a clear mind after gaps of many years. The same sh*t leaped right out at me each time.
Movies like Evil Dead tend to appeal to the younger online crowd that haunts IMDb. Not surprising at all to see such cult films rated highly there.
I personally loved it for what it was: a B movie Matrix knock-off with surprisingly effective pacing and cinematography and a role made for Christian Bale.
To be fair, IMDB rating aren’t always the best indicator of popular opinion (that rating used to be even higher, and was before the whole Brony phenomenon. It was a raid from 4chan to give the movie 10 stars and satirically amazing reviews)
I have no idea where any entertainment was to be found in Napoleon Dynamite.
I’ll second Equilibrium. I also really like White Noise and its sequel.
On the other hand, I didn’t like Drumline and am completely baffled by the praise The Descendants received.
Forrest Gump.
I have nothing against Tom Hanks but I found that movie insulting on a personal level. From the glurge premise (we have much to learn from idiot man-children!) to the trite way the timeline was presented (now it’s the 1970s, as evidenced by the Lynyrd Skynyrd song! And to make sure you know Jenny’s in a bad place, we’ll make it “That Smell” and show a guy shooting up!) to the payoff (obsess over a girl you can’t have, and when she’s done having a life of fun without you, she’ll show up just in time to die!)
If I want to relearn that lesson I’ll reread The Giving Tree.
Most of your attempts at humor are misfires, IMO, but when you connect you bat them clean the fuck out of the park, you do.
I found The Dark Knight to be awful: a failure on every level. A bad Batman movie, a bad thiller, a bad blockbuster. The action was clunky, the writing uninteresting, the story clumsy, and the morality dull. Heath Ledger’s performance was the sole bright spot, but didn’t come close to redeeming it for me. My wife, my best friend, and the critic on Fresh Air agreed. They seem to be nearly the only ones.
Yeah, I love Equilibrium. It’s like somebody sat down with a DVD of The Matrix and a copy of Farenheit 451 and said, “let’s reconcile these.”
OK, Metacritic. Evil Dead isn’t on there but the other two are. Not as high scores as IMDB, but both above 50. And this is “garbage”?
Evil Dead 2 - 69
Army of Darkness - 57
This thread gives me exactly the same vibe as discussing politics with my Parents. They really quite often say “everyone thinks” when what they really mean is “Me, my Partner and the newspaper I read thinks”.
Those reviews are awesome. I particularly like this one:
[QUOTE=Keith]
There’s a certain measure of beauty striven for by artists in this world, a dream of absolute aesthetic perfection heretofore thought unreachable by the flawed hand of humanity. This dream has just become reality. My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade has opened a doorway to a realm of staggering beauty, one that can’t be explained away with simple words. To watch this film is an experience like no other. To quaff the heady brew of its majesty is to wrap yourself in a blanket of enlightenment. You don’t just see its purity, you taste it. It fills you. I am not a religious man, but this film is as close to God as one can come in this wretched world of ours.
Any attempt at analysis of how the film achieves what it does is meaningless. One can certainly break it down into its component parts, though this yields more questions than answers. (1) A narrative of staggering force and clarity. (2) Simple yet elegant camera-work, comparable to the masterworks of Ozu, yet leagues beyond even his understated beauty. (3) A swirling palette of colors, always moving yet never extravagant. (4) A troupe of actors who will accept nothing less than to become these noble beasts, to cast off the shackles of their own human identities and, through their words, conjure a kind of concentrated beauty from the very aether around them. Yet this is nothing more than a simplification–a reduction of what is by definition vast and unknowable to a straightforward list of observable attributes. MLP:TPP is so much more than the sum of its parts, and must be felt to be believed.
That this film hasn’t received more critical attention is a monumental tragedy. Though perhaps… perhaps the real tragedy is within ourselves. It may be that we are simply not ready to open our hearts, let the scales fall from our eyes, and embrace the only true beauty that really exists in this world: My Little Pony.
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I’ve posted these before but I still despise them:
Sideways
Animal House (FOUR FUNNY SCENES! THAT’S IT!)
Napolean Dynamite
Silence of the Lambs (NOT SCARY AT ALL)
Some Like It Hot (NOT FUNNY AT ALL)
Most anything from Kevin Smith, especially Dogma and Clerks.
Avatar
The Hangover
The Shining (Nicholson simply plays Nicholson in any movie he is in)
Movies I liked that others hated?
The Horn Blows At Midnight (not a great film but not as bad as everyone says it is)
Bonfire of the Vanities (I actually thought it had a very accurate message; I think audiences found the truth difficult to take)
Plan 9 From Outer Space & Bride of the Monster (okay so Ed Wood was not trying to make comedies, but at least I could enjoy them on that level)
Without A Clue (not so much a hated film but definitely underrated; it never got the publicity that it deserved)
I don’t think people objected to the message. I think the main problem is that it butchered the novel. It was a terrible adaptation of a great novel. In fact I think the film failed in part because it was so watered down. The novel is far more brutal with its honesty.
Casting Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy is like casting Gweneth Paltrow as Nurse Ratched.
I’ve never read the novel so I don’t doubt what you say. However I thought the movie itself stood well enough on its own. That being said, I have to ask, does the novel have the same basic “message” as the movie does?
Hard to say. I’d say the main message of the book is that every person in the city, especially the rich, powerful, and influential, is completely selfish, hypocritical, and opportunistic. In spite of differences in race, culture, background etc, underneath every persons exterior is animal nature willing to tear other people to shreds in order to gain advantages in status and wealth.
Though the book does make it clear that people will turn against the “other” before their own, ultimately of is a dog eat dog world to say the least. There are no sympathetic characters in the book.