This may be a lame rant but hey, if you don’t like it feel free to make a thread pitting lame rants.
My friends have zero taste in movies. I went to go see Constantine with them today knowing full well it would be bad. I did try to give the movie a chance but alas it failed to impress me. So now I’m out 4.00. What sucks is that this happens fairly often; I like hanging out with these guys but once a week my wallet gets sucked of money to see lame ass movies. I figure I've wasted at least 150 over the past couple years on movies I have never wished to have seen.
I also hate when I try to say why I didn’t like the movie they won’t listen. Example:
Me: “I thought the pacing of Constantine was slow”
Them: “Yeah but the cross flame thrower was cool!”
(then they debate the merits of satan’s plan to take over the world, and reach the conclusion it was a stupid plan. I reached the conclusion that the writers had a stupid idea, and then executed it poorly)
Oh well, time to go rent a good movie to make up for this evening. Myazaki animes have been thrilling me recently, and Million Dollar Baby is out soon I think.
Where do you live that movies are still only 4 dollars? That’s only slightly more than a rental fee.
Constantine wasn’t that bad of a movie at all. It’s Citizen Kane compared to the movies I used to get dragged off to in my jr/sr high school days (Tango & Cash, anyone?)
Try to mooch some popcorn and snacks from your freinds to make up for your loss.
After having Spanglish recommended to me several times by my brother, we finally rented this snorefest last night. Never has so much been paid to so many stars to produce so little. As payback, I may recommend *Constantine * to my brother.
I have some friends like that and I’ve just learned that I can’t trust their judgements. I think some people just like movies in general so they’re willing to give almost anything they see a thumbs up. My friends rate movies on a scale of 1-10 with 5 being a bad movie. A rating of 5 to me is the bare minimum required to be watchable movie. Most of the movies they rate end up being at least a 7 or higher.
Resident Evil 2 scored a 7/10.
Hellboy got a 7/10.
Dawn of the Dead scores a 4/10.
Despite having their rating system explained to me I’m still at a loss. Still, I can live with it.
I’m one of those people with no taste in movies. I like most I’ve seen; the exception is cheesy feel-good family comedies. I usually warn people that I have very low standards when they ask if movie X is good. I’d go with MrFantsyPants’s idea. Why should they get to choose all the movies?
You don’t have to go, you know. Due to expenses and also the time commitment factor, I rarely see movies in the theater unless it’s something I’m pretty sure I will like. Life’s too short to sit through romantic comedies, gory horror, and “feel-good movies of the year” when there’s so much good stuff out there (or conversely, nothing good at all).
Different taste in movies does not equal bad taste. YOU may think they were bad, but maybe they don’t. You’re not the decider of what is good and bad for everyone, just you and you alone.
Don’t go. I’m sure your friends would be thrilled that the whiner chose to opt out for once. Or maybe you can suggest a movie next time. If you really don’t want to see a movie and they all do, why do you go? We all take a risk when we go to the movies, some are good, some are bad. Save your money and your friends’ time.
Constantine wasn’t a bad movie at all. I though ti was going to be awful, but was pleasantly surprised. It was a damned good noir movie with some pretty unusual elements, but well done all around.
What are you talking about? This line has nothig to do with the movie from one end to the other!
I don’t often watch movies or television at home, but the TV is on ALL the time at my best friend’s house. I have watched some terrible movies over there! SpongeBob, anyone? Sophie swore I would love it. I have had to repeatedly decline the invitation to watch gross, graphic horror movies. I have tried to explain to her husband that I don’t like that kind of movie because they give me nightmares, but he won’t give up.
Funny, tho - I can read horror all night long with nary a nightmare.
The only reason I went to see this film was because the lovely Paz Vega was in it (and there was nothing else showing). I still had to walk out about 80 minutes into the film, although this quite surprisingly owed more to the terrible dialog and Tea Leoni’s screaching banshee of a character than to Adam Sandler, who was actually tolerable.
I have a cow-orker who insists on regaling me with reiterations and reenactments of various movies he’s recently rented, most of which seem to star Saturday Night Live alums (and we’re not talking Bill Murray or even Billy Crystal here.) If I hear one more story about Corky Romano or The Three Amigos I swear I’m going to chain him down and make him watch every single episode of “Three’s Company” and “Hogan’s Heros” until he cracks.
Oh, crap…I forgot. He thinks those were “really funny” shows. ::sigh::
I’ll say it again: Constantine wasn’t bad at all. It wasn’t GREAT (and perhaps it could have been with a different third act and perhaps a different lead actor), but it was actually kinda cool, for what it was.