I was going to post “What’s wrong with Bring it on!,” but I see that others have already beaten me to that question. Fine. So, I’ll post this:
Left Hand of Dorkness, what’s wrong with Contact? I liked that movie a lot. If you want to talk manipulative, let’s talk The Sixth Sense. However, despite that, I still felt that it was pretty good.
For the OP:
Somebody already mentioned The Net as most stupid. It doesn’t get any stupider than that. D&D, while bad, wasn’t stupid bad. Unless of course, you’re arguing that you would’ve role played it different in your campaign.
I loved Face-Off ! Great action movie… and the acting wasn’t as bad as you make it out to be…
As for Stupid, Stupid Movie… I felt cheated, offended and treated like a sucker after seeing the Episode 3 of Star Wars. Some of the silliest dialogues, scripts and character motivations ever.
I’ll put this in spoilers, but meanwhile we should decide whether unboxed spoilers are appropriate in this thread. And meanwhile I’ll point out that even half a glass of wine REALLY impacts my typing ability: I’m having to retype just about every other word here. Or maybe it’s the mac and cheese.
[spoiler]Remember the scene where the little girl is trying to send a shortwave message to her dead mom? It even had the tiny little violin playing. It was so maudlin that I started laughing. Ridiculous stuff!
And the best thing about the movie was going to be the religious ambiguity at the end: the scientist had discovered faith, and discovered how difficult it could be. But then they ruined it, by telling you that there was evidence to back up her faith; at that point, it’s no longer faith, and the movie loses its greatest potential impact. It’s as if, in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet decides in the third act that Romeo’s an asshole and gets together with some other guy, and that’s the end.[/spoiler]
Huh … I’d never even heard of that one. Though the comments on IMDB tend to suggest that the sequel may, in fact, be light years ahead of the original. A rare occurrence, if true.
I believe it was straight to DVD, and a lot of gamers preferred it to the original–which is like saying that a lot of gamers preferred it to having a bec-de-ranseur-glaivarme swung at them and having to figure out the weapon speed if they’re wearing splint mail in first edition.
I could watch the audio commentary on the DVD though. It’s funny to listen to the directors talk about how they messed with the actors to get the reactions.
I knew it was. In fact, that’s the main reason why I was so disappointed with it. Parodies are supposed to be funny. At best, Mars Attacks! had barely enough funny stuff in it for a middling five-minute sketch on SNL. Unfortunately, it was nearly two hours long.
Anyway, if we’re talking stupid movies, I often wondered why my brain didn’t melt and trickle out my ears while I was watching Con Air.
Not knowing about his relationship with his daughter isn’t a weak plot line.
Yes, going to the diner was a retreat. Even though he killed the protagonist, he still wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do and was burdened with guilt. Sometimes that can end friendships.
I never felt that it was a political movie. It was a personal story that happens to have a controversial element. Again, the movie never says that her death was the best outcome.
That doesn’t excuse it from not having a plot. Or wasting good actors. Or the ridiculous “Hey, kids, isn’t old people’s music stupid? It’s so stupid it kills Martians! Hah hah hah hah! Here’s an “ironic” Tom Jones song to end with so you can feel even more smugly hip. Now fuck off and buy the toys.”
MOderator Speaketh: Well, we ought to keep on topic, but a little digression like that is fine. You just need to remember that this is about the arts and entertainment, which means it’s a matter of taste. “Fact” and “truth” only come into play in certain types of discussion, like whether Clark Gable or Jimmy Stewart played the lead in GONE WITH THE WIND. When it’s a matter of taste, something can connect with one person and not with another, and both points of view are legitimate. Therefore discussion must remain polite and well-mannered, as per my post above. Each person’s taste is different, and that’s OK, and discussion about the whys and wherefores of someone else’s taste may give you insights into your own, or into the world, or whatever.
In short, discussions remain polite. (Yes, I said this a few posts earlier, and no, no one has offended since. I’m watching.)
No, when I saw it I thought “My god this is stupid!” It may not be stupid in the same way as many of the others, but yes, I found it to be stupid. And dull. And pointless. And an amazing waste of my time.
