Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead. I think it’s the only time I’ve fallen asleep in the theater. I love the play, but the only thing I remember is Richard Dreyfus overacting his heart out in a void. The other characters were vacuums and there was nothing escaping - emotion, interest, empathy, humor. It was awful.
I loved that movie though not everyone does.
And you’re right–that part is great.
Now I’m giggling.
Blade Runner. I’d heard so much about it I finally decided to buy it in HD on the cable box. It was so slow paced I ended up taking a four hour nap - after dozing through the ending.
He killed Starscream, but weren’t the others heavily damaged by the Autobots, and then jettisoned by the other Decepticons? I didn’t think Megatron/Galvatron was responsible for any other Decepticon casualties.
Have you ever seen the animated movies? Those defined Tolkien and The Lords for me, books unseen, the Jackson soliloqy repentant… totally wrong vibe. If I had never seen the Jacksonian Demention, I would be finer.
Magnolia
I kept hearing about coincidences that rule our lives but there was nary a coincidence in the whole movie and most of it was just overacting. You want a ball-twister of a movie like Magnolia wanted to be, rent Grand Canyon.
Galvatron was the one who ordered them jettisoned - he’s the one who killed them.
They didn’t die because the Autobots injured them, they died because Galvatron would rather save weight than loyal soldiers.
Ridley Scott is severely over-rated. Which is not to say he’s a bad filmmaker, but his stories are incredibly shallow and simple, but hidden in amongst great production values and cinematography. For some reason this puts him near the top of many people’s lists, whereas I think he barely deserves top 100 status.
It was Astrotrain who gave the order, so that they’d get back to Cybertron at all. Megatron/Galvatron was one of the ones jettisoned.
OK, I guess you remember the scene more clearly than I do - since I hated the movie, I’ve never bothered rewatching it.
The twin points of ‘the Autobots never scored a kill, despite being thoroughly decimated’ - every kill was a Decepticon kill, even the 'Cons - and ‘killing them, then immediately using their bodies to create completely different characters was silly, when Galvatron was nearly identical to Megatron’ remain however.
And the whole scene is full of problems endemic to G1 - the weight thing can be forgiven, but the complete and utter inconsistency of the characters’ scale is ridiculous - Astrotrain shouldn’t be able to hold one other Decepticon (aside from the Cassettes) in Bot mode - and Megatron and Soundwave are the only ones whose alt-modes shrink enough to fit (well, if we assume his alt-modes are hollow shells, one Insecticon could probably fit, or one of the spindlier Constructicons).
The Patriot. I expected some over-the-top “ain’t America great ?!” in it… but not *that *much. That movie was so bad, it made me dislike Braveheart in retrospect, when I had loved it at first and watched it god knows how many times.
I didn’t really like Slumdog Millionaire all that much but to this day I can’t quite figure out why I didn’t like it. I should have liked it. It’s got all the stuff I generally like in a film, good story, unconventional narrative structure, good acting, excellent production values, dry humour, an absolutely gorgeous female lead, and loads of other stuff, too. I’m really not sure why I didn’t “connect” with it like everyone else seems to have done. I think it might be to do with the fact that it was marketed as the “Feel-good movie of the year” when in fact it’s anything but a feel-good film. There’s a lot of menace in it, and a couple of scenes which are absolutely horrific. I mean it has a happy ending and everything, but I certainly wouldn’t call it “Feel-good”. I think I went in with the wrong expectations. Maybe if I saw it again I might like it.
I was also somewhat disappointed by ‘Ironman’. Again, I’m not 100% certain as to why. But I think in this case it’s because I went into the cinema expecting to see something that wasn’t a retarded piece of shit.
Of those already mentioned, I’d agree on Prizzi’s Honor (just didn’t see the appeal of that at all) and - sorry - The Princess Bride (some often-quoted good lines, but the story is slight, gimmicky, and overly sentimental).
I found Ghostbusters a huge disappointment - I think it comes down to humour being such a personal thing; I’m obviously just not on the same wavelength as its creators and its fans. I think I did laugh a couple of times.
And Conan the Barbarian should have been right up my street … but shots of Arnie’s rippling thews (and, much better, Sandahl Bergman’s rippling thews) don’t make up for a plot which seems to have been written on the back of a postcard.
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Madwoman!
This is a movie so great that even the fact that Kate Winslet is not naked in it doesn’t matter!
Another vote for “Borat”. Maybe it was just oversold to me but I kept hearing about how it was so edgy and smart and satirical and thought-provoking and so on and so forth.
I got it through Netflix, watched maybe half of it and was so bored and unamused that I just turned it off and sent it back.
I saw it long ago, but I don’t think I liked it.
I didn’t like Withnail and I either–can’t figure out why anyone does.
The Cook, the Thief… is just disgusting and misbegotten.
The Reflecting Skin was even worse.
There Will be Blood just blew. So dull, with irritating music that was pervasive, no one to be interested in or to care anything about, a stupid scene in the bowling alley and a non-ending.
Atonement: After ten minutes of watching gross, strident, thoroughly unpleasant people, I just wanted them all to die. Had the same problem with Gangs of New York.
I saw The Departed but can’t remember a darn thing about it. That doesn’t seem to speak well of it.
Magnolia: a self-important piece of crap from a self-indulgent director that took half an hour’s worth of story and dragged it out to 3 hours.
I understand this one. I liked Ghostbusters, don’t get me wrong. But I had no idea it was supposed to be a comedy.
The closest I can get to the OP is Prince Caspian. They totally screwed that one up. I mean, it wasn’t bad enough to make me stop watching it. But I was heavily disappointed that they screwed it up so badly. I no longer wonder why it didn’t do better financially.
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.
As long, slow, and meandering as its title.
Batman is my second favorite super hero. I was a big fan of Christian Bale. What could be better than Christian Bale as Batman?
Turns out a whole hell of a lot of stuff could have been better than Bale as Batman. The only really interesting part of either movie is I now think I understand what people mean when complaining that anti-depressants like prozac leveling out emotional highs and lows, because nothing was too sad in the movies and nothing was allowed to be too exiciting, either. In The Dark Knight is Batman meant to be clinically depressed throughout the entire thing, including before anything sad happens to people he knows?
I was looking forward to the remake of Rollerball. I loved the original so I thought they would just update the special effects and leave the story pretty much the same. How did they manage to make a more cheesy and less realistic movie than one made 35 years ago? Unless they tried to, in which case they succeeded.