Late night TV tonight features The Million Dollar Hotel directed by Wim Wenders, written by Bono, starring Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Bud Cort and Amanda Plummer.
Never bloody heard of it.
Never heard of it.
D’ya ever see that movie with Sylvester Stallone, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan, Burn Hollywood Burn?
Never bloody heard of it!
It’s All About Love. Someone mentioned this in another thread a few weeks ago, and I was amazed that I’d not even heard of it. Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn, clones, flying Ugandans…and it was a total cypher to me.
I have now watched a little of The Million Dollar Hotel and it is so bad that it taints everything else these people have ever been associated with. How is it possible that seemingly sensible people work on such utter crap. It’s like the Beatles writing a whole albums worth of crap, and they don’t realise that it’s crap, no one who hears it realises that it is crap, George Martin fails to recognise its crappiness, the record company mistakenly think it is not crappy and it gets released.
If you are looking for an easy answer to, “what is the worst movie you have ever seen?” The Million Dollar Hotel may provide a solution.
There’s a reason nobody hears of these films, apparently, they’re terrible!
I was going to give It’s All About Love a try, but maybe I’ll pass…
I haven’t seen The Million Dollar Hotel but I do know Mel Gibson got into a little bit of trouble when he said the film was “as boring as a dog’s ass.”
Hey, I liked it, but as I said in the pit thread, it took me three sittings to slog through it.
On the other hand, The I Inside is a fun thriller I’d never heard of. I think it went straight to video. Not huge stars, but featuring Ryan Phillipe, Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea. I found this notable because I’m a huge Sarah Polley fan.
The I Inside is a worthy addition to the genre that includes The Butterfly Effect, The Jacket, Jacob’s Ladder, and Memento. It is by the same guy who made Identity.
If you saw and liked some of the movies in the preceding paragraph, I recommend all the others mentioned.
Picking up the Pieces: Starring Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Kiefer Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Fran Drescher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Dick, and Cheech Marin, with appearances by Lily Tomlin, Kathy Kinney, and Hector Elizondo. The film was not really released, though it’s a hilarious comedy.
If I’d have seen this thread earlier, I would have warned you about it. There’s only one good line in the film, “Some times you just have to quietly accept the fact that you’re fucked.” Which, in a way, is an apt description of how you feel while watching the film.
this is the reaction I get constantly when mentioning True Romance.
(for those who don’t know: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson for about two seconds, Brad Pitt, and the dude who played Balki on Perfect Strangers)
Great movie…one of my faves. Screenplay by Tarantino, on top of the actors, you mentioned. Plus Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn.
And along with The Bourne Identity, best fight scene ever.