QuanoLad, I was amused that you picked four movies I like a lot. You’re entitled to your opinion, but I’m not sure you and I saw the same Pulp Fiction. Are you sure you’re not thinking of another movie? Killing people and laughing about it? That movie has a body count of something like seven (the four kids in the Kahuna Burger apartment, Vinny, Zed’s friend, and presumably Zed). Who “started killing people”? The three kids in the apartment were killed by hired assassins, who did not laugh about it, and who can hardly be expected to show remorse. Zed and his friend deserved it. Vinny and Marvin were killed accidentally (well, negligently). Who laughed? What movie are you talking about?
“Didn’t get” Magnolia? I got it. Up the ass! It’s torture when you see a movie and know exactly what was going to happen, and then have to wait 3 friggin’ hours, while the director thinks he’s being “profound”, only to find out you had it figured out in the first 60 minutes.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
Are you a turtle?
The audience, for the most part. I know I laughed when wassisname (Marvin, I think) got his head blown off when the car hit a bump in the road. It wasn’t an ‘Oh, man, that was hillarious’ laugh, it was an ‘Oh, gods, that was disturbing and disturbingly absurd’ laugh.
Didn’t particularly like Pulp Fiction - in fact, I’ve never been able to watch it all the way through, I found it uninteresting, and I always get squeemish seeing needles - but the violence didn’t bother me.
The Black Hole. Remember this Star Wars rip off attempt of Disney’s? It was maybe 1979 or 1980 when it came out. I was maybe 12 and dragged to it by my sci-fi crazy brothers. I wanted to die die die die.
Permanent Midnight shut this video off after twenty minutes. I had absolutely no interest in ex junkies telling their stories that was suppose to be funny. It missed big time. I like indy films, but this one was really depressing.
sdimbert: The mouse movie was probably The Secret of NIMH and yeah, it’s too dark for kids. Blame the marketing departments that see ‘cartoon’ and cannot seem to think of anything other than ‘little kiddies will love this’.
BorisB: Okay, maybe they didn’t laugh out loud. It’s the glorification of extremely graphic realistic violence as entertainment that I don’t like. Tarantino is one sick twisted madman, overrated up the wazoo. I’m stunned at the people who prefer the first half of From Dusk Till Dawn to the second, because I’m the total opposite. Watching Tarantino himself badly act his way through a scene where he unecessarily murdered a woman just made me want to grab the wanker by his hair and scream at him. Which can’t be a good response.
Cartoon violence is entertainment, realistic violence is meant to make dramatic impact, not make you snigger or cheer.
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Nine Months. What a great stonking unfunny unrealistic pile of kack! And Hugh Grant overdid that “Let’s try to be cute and nonthreatening” stammer and twitch thing to a seizure-like point.
Eye of the Beholder. Kinda surprised no one mentioned that yet. The onlyreason I didn’t walk out on that nonsensical piece of shite was that I find Ewan McGregor quite pleasing to look upon. (yep, I’m a lass.)
Showgirls. Didn’t walk out on it either, but paid more attention to counting the walkers than to the film. About 2/3 of the theatre had the good sense to bail by the swimming pool sex scene, knowing full well they wouldn’t be missing a damn thing.
Miracle Mile. I’d rather gouge my own eyes out with a tapestry needle (the blunt kind) than sit through even a nanosecond of that king of all turkeys again!
Oh, and chalk up another Baseketball liker here. Dunno why, maybe it was the Steve Perry references… Hargh!
The only movie I ever walked out of at a theater was “Pink Flamingoes”. And I usually like Jon Water’s films…but the chicken rape scene just sent me and my friend out the doors as fast as we could walk.
I nearly left “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” but managed to tough it out…and then regeretted it.
I turned off “Wizards” halfway through. It was, bar none, the worst animation I’ve seen outside of my freshman year computer animation course…how it ever got on the big screen I will /never/ know.
A friend and I turned off Amadeus after about 30 minutes. How in hell did that get Best Picture?
Saw Sudden Death with Mr. Rilch. Walked out and had a smoke halfway through. Wouldn’t have gone back, or at all, if it hadn’t featured my beloved Penguins.
Saw Heat at Mr. Rilch’s boss’ apartment. Took frequent smoke breaks.
Saw Endless Love at the behest of a dippy friend. Halfway through, told her I couldn’t bear more insults to an exquisitely written novel.
Had another friend who was trying to verse himself in foreign film. He rented Prospero’s Books, by, I believe, the same guy responsible for Cook/Thief/Wife/Lover. PB is based on The Tempest, so I and another guy in the group weren’t completely lost, but no one enjoyed the gratuitous homoeroticism. Eventually, someone asked how long it was, and when it was discovered that there were two hours remaining, we all said ‘no way’.
Same guy also rented a Spanish film called Spirit of the Beehive. I read a book. There was one plot point; someone appears to die on camera and later sneaks up on another character.
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
No.
You aren’t. I haven’t seen Keanu in anything yet that I was interested in, but my 18 yr old daughter thinks he’s hot. Uck
Okay GuanoLad, I understand your point better. At first I thought you had seen Natural Born Killers and gotten the two confused.
The big disappointment I saw recently was Woody Allen’s Celebrity. Allen obviously made this movie just so he could show that he can make louzy Hollywood-deconstructs-itself movies just like everybody else. Melanie Griffith was in it. On the upside, I finally got to see what Hank Azaria looks like. (He doesn’t look anything like Moe from the Simpsons.) Also on the upside, I was pretty impressed at Kenneth Branagh’s imitation of Woody Allen. The first three-quarters of the movie were heinous. Fortunately, I was watching it on vid at a friends house, so I could sneak away and play computer games instead of watching the last quarter.
Actually, that’s my favorite movie of all time. It was a brilliant film, IMHO. Maybe you just have to like costume pieces and classical music… 
Esprix
Ask the Gay Guy! (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, Asketh the damn Priest Guy!)
Neither The Secret of NIMH or Wizards match the description of the (mice = Jews) film that someone was describing. Could that person have possibly meant An American Tail?
Oh, I also saw Lost In Space and said, “I liked it better last year…when it was called Event Horizon.”
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
I couldn’t leave because I was in my own living room… My husband has abysmal taste in movies. Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea would have to be my picks of all time worst movies. I also hated Thin Red Line and Titanic. Ugh!
“Pacific Heights” and “In Dreams” were laughably, wretchedly bad. Made me appreciate “Sixth Sense” - a thriller that made my hair stand on end - all the more.
Watch your step there, SS…we already had this discussion once on the board. It IS possible to “get” something and still not like it. I didn’t like American Beauty because I thought the performances were strained and unrealistic, and it was too derivative of other movies. Believe me, I GOT it. The cinematography and general look of the movie however, were excellent. I did like Magnolia because I thought the characters and their stories were all interesting, and I liked the devices used to tie them all together. (Once again, nice filmmaking.) I don’t know why one of the other posters was expecting some sort of twist or surprise…it’s not a whodunit, just a story for cryin out loud! Julianne Moore once again, nearly ruins an entire production with ham-handedness, but there was enough going on to distract you from her. 
“Satan – I’ve had enough of your two cents!” – The hilarious Federalist
I’m curious too…If the film in the other theater was Sgt. Peppers… that would place it about 1978. I think American Tail was mid to late '80s. I know there’s a comic book/graphic novel called MAUS that is Holocaust themed.
Re: Secret of NIMH. I didn’t see the movie but I remember the book being (I think) a metaphor or allegory for the Holocaust, but I know I didn’t catch on to that until I was older, and I doubt a kid watching it at the time would notice.
“Satan – I’ve had enough of your two cents!” – The hilarious Federalist
How could we get this far and not mention Barton Fink. I like John Turturro, and I like the Coen Brothers, but what a loooong, boring movie. If I saw him run down one more long hotel hallway in his dreams, I was going to scream, so I just shut it off instead. Who would think that a movie with a subtext of tedium would be tedious. Sheesh.
“Wild at Heart” The worst Nicholas Cage Elvis inpired performance was in this David Lynch movie where Lynch was at his Lynchiest (honourable mention to “Blue Velvet”).
Any animated movie made by adults and aimed at kids (“Pokemon”, “Land Before Time”) and any Pauley Shore move (If my mom wasn’t a bigwig on the comedy scene I wouldn’t have a career(Oops, I guess I don’t have a career anymore)).
God, now you’ve got me upset about all the time I’ve wasted in these and other flicks.
Keith
You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
The mouse movie was perhaps “The Mouse and His Boy” or something like that? I remember seeing it in 1978 or 1979. Awful depressing stuff…the dad was chained to a millstone like a donkey.
I mis-wasted my youth.
I’ve been trying not to think about Magnolia because I really hated it, so I don’t recall all of the things that set me off. Yes, it’s just a story. An incredibly boring one. As I said, the entire thing was predictable. What’s the point in watching when you know what’s going to happen next? The director seemed to reveal his plot developments as if they were some sort of golden nuggets, as if to say, “Oh, isn’t this beautiful? isn’t this touching? Oh! The pathos!”; but that only works if there is something to be revealed. There wasn’t. I like multi-dimensional films. Linear plot-lines drive me nuts. Yes, I “got it”. No, I didn’t like it… in spite of the acting.
(Side note: One thing I particularly didn’t like was watching Jason Robards die. There are techniques to show a person dying without having to hang at his bedside every single second. Having gone through three years of watching my own father die, it was especially unbearable. They should have let Jean-Luc Goddard get in there to edit it.)
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
Are you a turtle?