Something made the book seem good? I’ll add it my netflix list.
I hate The Matrix. I hate it so much. On the first viewing, I liked it. But then I actually thought about what I saw and figured “meh, I’ll never watch it again. At least I saw it for free!”
But then, one of the college writing 101 profs had his students watch the movie and write essays about it. All of these students were required to visit the writing center where I work. Reading 20 papers written by freshman on why Neo is Jesus Christ was enough to make hate the movie with every fiber of my being and swear off watching the other two. Which I heard suck anyway.
Citing the tastes of the masses hardly elevates this film, old bean. “So many people” hailed many of the films savaged in this thread. If you enjoyed it, great.
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THE HOURS was obviously made to exploit the American press’ aversion to being labelled “homophobic”. Any movie about STRAIGHT self-absorbed twits such as these would have been universally panned.
How does this Kidman woman keep getting work? Easily, easily the worst actress ever to have won an Oscar…
Actually, the writer IS a woman, and a formerly good friend of a currently good friend.
Nancy Pimental was the initial screenwriter who sold the script for a cool million. She writes (or wrote, I’ve lost track of her) for South Park and was briefly the quizmistress on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. What didn’t you like about it?
I watch a lot of movies, so there are a lot of stinkers.
The worst:
Mission Impossible - how can they ruin a beautiful tv series with that dreadful ending of betrayal? Bonfire of the Vanities - she bugs Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - pointless, and a waste of Benecio’s time Love Actually - I couldn’t get past the first scene where the has-been sings that dreadful song over and over and over … Magnolia - I walked out of this one when frogs started falling from the sky The English Patient - I agree with Elaine. I wanted to scream, “JUST DIE ALREADY!!!”
Any of the Earnest movies What Women Want - women want a movie that doesn’t portray women as stereotypes The Fifth Element - do I need to say anything here? Eyes Wide Shut - Kubrick must have been out of his mind Deathtrap - I walked out of this one, too Dreamcatcher - This movie was so awful that I felt sad for Stephen King and Johnny Depp The Hours - I wanted to kill myself Pearl Harbor - sorry, but pretty faces don’t make a 3 1/2-hour movie Tank Girl - wtf? Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - I couldn’t get past Cage’s horrible accent Ishtar - all copies should be destroyed and no one should ever speak of it again
Just the trailer for this POS almost made me fall into a diabetic coma. I can’t imagine actually sitting through the thing. That girl. And the dog, with its CGI smiles. Ugh!
What Women Want nearly put me off Mel Gibson, who is otherwise one of my heroes. When he did the dancing bit, I asked myself the same question I asked when watching Moulin Rouge - another pile of shite, incidentally. Why do actors insist on extending themselves, where extending themselves means doing things they’re no good at?
Some of them are attention-seekers and desperately insecure is the conclusion I came to.
Marge, we appear to be channelling one another. I thought Empire of the Sun was okay - the book gives a phenomenal insight into the differences between the Japanese and the Chinese. The Kindness of Women I like too, though a (female) friend absolutely hates it.
Sorry, I think I tricked you unintentionally. It’s another book by JG Ballard. I don’t think it’s been filmed.
Sinophiliac films that I definitely wouldn’t recommend include any adaptation of Amy Tan’s books (“me no speakie Englise, but make many money”). Avoid the books too. The propaganda films made in China pre-1980ish are well worth looking at, if you get the chance. Japanese rapo-sado-torturo-murderers being defeated by 6 feet tall model Mao soldiers (“model” as in Lei Feng ).
I once wandered into a cinema in China where they were playing one of these films to a packed house. Not so long ago either - maybe 1990.
The Joy Luck Club. Three generations of Chinese women shouting at each other in the kitchen for two and a half hours. What larks. Even worse, I saw it in Japan, so I couldn’t even read the bloody subtitles.
Anything by Peter Greenaway.
Very Bad Things made me want to scrub my eyeballs with steel wool and bleach: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie so repugnant. What made it even worse was that it was meant to be a comedy.
Pretty much any movie that glorifies serial killers, but especially Copycat.
The only time I’ve ever walked out of the cinema was over the X-Files Movie. Bear in mind I had to wait in the complex staring at the walls for the next hour or so until the movie finished and my friends came out, and I still thought that was a definite trade-up. That movie sucked beyond belief.
I’m a little more likely to wander off from a movie now we have a home theatre, since I don’t object to skipping something that sucks but only cost me $6. I’ve still only done it twice, though.
Spider-Man 2.
It was astoundingly bad. Since I didn’t mind the first one, I was really very disappointed. Could MJ be any more repellent? And when Doc Oc starts having a one-sided conversation with his arms, I kept wanting to add “Isn’t that right, Mr. Hat?” at the end of each sentence. And the plot. The first one was full of holes but entertaining enough (and I *do * cut slack for comic-book movies) but the second one… were they even trying? It was stupid, but not as stupid as…
Resident Evil.
I’ll admit to being biased as I don’t like gross-out/horror flicks, but what drove me away from this one wasn’t that it was scary - it was the absolute complete idiocy in every part of this movie. I wandered back in later to see if it was improving. Lo and behold someone’s trying to get to the main computer and is stuck in a corridor with a laser beam, which does a few trial passes along the corridor and then suddenly turns into a lattice so it can kill him. At that point, I said “FFS, they expect us to believe that a computer that can make a lattice of lasers to kill someone is going to dick around and do a single line at a time? This movie has passed stupid, and I’m not even sure there’s a word for where it’s at now”. I stand by that opinion. I’m still not sure there’s a word for that depth of stupidity… but if I ever work out what it is, I’ll know what word to apply to the folks in charge of Resident Evil 2 (which, admittedly, I’ve declined to even look at. The fact that they made it is enough to leave me stunned.).
Funnily enough, I really like most sci-fi, fantasy, futuristic or occult type movies. Those 3, though, are at the top of my ‘never watch again’ list.
Nothing in this movie made any sense at all! Everything was disjointed, out of sequence, and yes, I did fell the same way…just die NOW!
The weird thing was, a lot of peopleseemed to think this POS was high art or something close to it.
“So many people” hailed many of the films savaged in this thread. If you enjoyed it, great.