Those of you who are just saying “Such and such movie was terrible…”-- can you elaborate? What assertations or premises were factually flawed or misleading?
I’d like to focus on those types of insults to one’s intelligence, rather than have another ‘movies I hated’ thread.
Simpsons episode…
“We haven’t had a case this solid since The Neverending Story”
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LoL.
It was actually that the movie had a ‘message’ (i.e. beauty is skin-deep) and then subverted that message by using Gwynnie looking skinny and hot to represent that inner beauty. I can’t help thinking that if they had used an obese actress throughout, and created the illusion of beauty through Jack Black’s acting, it would have been much more powerful. That, and it didn’t make me laugh once.
The Fast and the Furious
Also, audiences cannot tell that it is night unless crickets are chirping.
And they can’t tell that a car is going fast unless the tires squeal. Even on gravel!
All this and more I learned from
Jabootu
Omy GOSH you made me laugh with this one,
Yes, yes, I know…you are SOOOO right.
Actually our family (both mine ANd the bf’s) has a habit of finding it fun to pick out the idiotic things in movies.
There’s actually a website where they post “errors in production” of movies.
For instance, a guy in modern blue jeans and 1990s clothing appears in the “triangle” between a horses face and neck in the “gladiator”.
There is an airplane in the sky in one of the scenes from 10million bc. (not sure if I have the name on that one right).
And then there are the, what my bf calls “bullsh*t flags,” we have a lot of fun with them.
I mean, whoever it was (in this post) that said “most hollywood movies” was SO correct, so why not have fun with it??
I was just watching the old Stephen King movie “Carrie” this am on cable for a few minutes before running off to get coffee.
In one scene one of the main characters is at the beauty parlor getting her hair done for the prom that night. Then in the very next scene, there she is helping decorate the gym (which had been said to have been decorated for TWO WEEKS in a previous scene,lol) in PIGTAILS!!
Oh well, that was the 70s, editors were probably smokin’ and tokn’,lol
And, the Russian Army is terrorized by a bunch of teenage American rebels. “Wolverines!”
Gah!
The stupidest part of that scene, though, was the nice graphical interface that had a progress bar with “Uploading Virus” written on it. :rolleyes:
I thought they did sort of explain that. Maybe I was just assuming that the forcefield was against high velocity assault and that movement in and around it wouldn’t be stopped unless detected at a certain level (a “smart” force field"?).
Like corn starch after you mix it with water. You can sloooowly stir it and it remains liquid, but if you try to stir it violently it stiffens up.
But, maybe I imagined that that’s what the deal was with the force field. lol
There was a movie i rented a few weeks ago called BALLISTIC: ECKS VERSUS SEVER. I rented it in the good hopes that i would have a cheap plot with a lot of explosions and death and blood and sex…gotta have that somewhere now, come on!
Now, what surprised me, was that it had everything but the sex. I was seriously surprised that this movie insulted me. I watched it, waiting for some line to piece everything together, but it was an excuse to have Lucy Liu shoot high explosive weapons and kick DARTH MAUL’s ass, not that it needed any more kicking. But what made me drop my mouth a few yards was when
the bad guy dies by a device he seemingly never had: his little assasination bug thingamagiger…
Did anyone see this movie as well? I didn’t quite expect it to meet my low expectations, but hey…it can happen.
Oh yeah, maybe it was just me, but the sound was terrible. They would talk in whispers and shoot very loud weapons…very interesting to watch in the middle of the night, with family sleeping all around…
Almost everything with Steven Seagal in it.
Especially “On Deadly Ground” - the only movie I actively sought to fall asleep in.
… and then there was the movie version of “The Saint”.
Gave me a whole new appreciation for the entertainmant value of the darkened ceiling of a movie theatre.
Ohhh, I second this.
Whatever the crap he was in where he was a cop in a coma for what…8 years? and then POOOF!** he’s out of the coma and back on the case.
Ahhhhh, wouldn’t his muscles be atrophied just a little bit?
The opening scene in **Lethal Weapon ** where the hooker jumps out of the window and lands 25 plus floors down atop the roof of a car and her body is in *perfect shape * made me damn near walk out of the theater. Then I remembered I hadn’t seen **Mel ** yet, so I sat back down and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the flick. One of my favorite action films of all time. But that opening landing still rankles my dander.
Don’t forget (or don’t bother to remember) the made for TV movie Atomic Twister. Every tired old disaster movie cliché ever inflicted on an audience was plopped in to this movie. Here are some of my favorite “highlights”:
There are only two people on duty at the nuclear plant because everyone else has taken the day off. The two people that are there are of the caliber that you expect to see manning the late shift at a 7-11. There’s no processes or procedures for the staff to follow. Of course none of the backup systems work. No one can hear the tornado until they open a screen door and step out into the parking lot. And the tornado turns around and comes back again and again until the film has hit its allotted 90 minutes.
GOdamnit, 2 different people have already said this, and I was first anyway!!! :mad:
Langston Hughes knew why the caged bird sang, but apparently nobody can hear a goldfish in a bowl.
Silentgoldfish, we were just ignoring you because you left off the cornstarch analogy.
The world needs more cutting-edge cornstarch research scientists, in my opinion.
Yes, yes, I always forget to simplify for the plebs. Ok, angry smiley face withdrawn.
The problem is that Ash is practically worthless from a nutritional perspective. Most of its energy content has been burned off. Its HIGHLY unlikely to be usable, unless these dragons can digest raw carbon. There are something I simply am not going to accept. ANd animal that eats ash as aprimary foodstuff is one of them.
In what way? It doesn’t all make sense from a freshman westerner perspective, but I assure you, the movie is entire logicaly if you understand the underlying cultural ideas its based on. Could you give me something more to work with here?
SORRRRR EEEE!! LOL
I scrolled and scrolled and I’m sorry, but I missed them…
Which brings me to a question (and Yes! I checked the FAQs etc, but couldn’t find this).
Is there a way to “upthread” so that you can go to the post which answers another post? Sorry not making sense here…
In many of the other communities I go to, if you get to a post that has a reference to a previous post, there is an “upthread” type link which takes you directly to the previous post for that person.
In other words, say a person’s post says something like “well billy bob, you’re wrong about that”.
In many communities you can then go to "billy bob’s original post to see what he was talking about.
(I probably made that clear as mud).
In THIS case, I would have been able to “upthread” to whoever was talking to each other re: the force field incident".