I fell asleep while watching it, so I agree with you.
We HATED The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. I had heard it praised and I love Westerns, so I had to see it… it was full of gratuitous violence with a really frustrating ending. Also, no likeable characters, implausible plot, and way too long. Quite disappointing.
I caught the last half hour of the Cole Hauser flick The Cave. Pretty bad standard monster shit.
I also caught the last 15 minutes of **House of the Dead ** on Sci Fi. That was enough suck to last a lifetime.
Emmanuelle 6. Emmanuelle and four models go to the Amazon jungle where absolutely nothing happens. A bigger waste of location shooting I’ve never seen.
In fact, this is the only erotic movie we MSTied. In Emmanuelles state room is a big box with a lid that keeps popping up and down, just as if it were occupied by Thing in the Addams Family. This seemed fitting since a character in the beginning of the movie was a dead ringer for Uncle Fester.
The big ending is when Emmanuelle connects with her true erotic spirit by masturbating - which she does by rubbing her stomach.
It taught me one lesson - don’t put anything on your NetFlix queue without googling for reviews.
He mentioned this in another thread - he works with mentally disabled people. This is the reward he gets for doing a good deed. Really makes you question the whole idea of karma.
I’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth, Clerks II and Little Miss Sunshine in the last two weeks. I liked them all a lot. Unfortunately, I saw Nacho Libre about two weeks before that. Ewwww. It had a couple of laughs, but it was even less funny than Napoleon Dynamite without the interesting parts. I like Jack Black, but most of his movies suck.
There must have been some Cinemax preview deal this weekend, because I caught a bunch of movies, including the last hour of The Island. Besides Ewan and Scarlett looking pretty, there is nothing positive I can say about it.
The Libertine. I think it’s the only Johnny Depp movie I didn’t like. Now, if it had been more about the character we see in the opening and closing narrations and less about politics, the actress he was coaching and so forth, I would have loved it. Depp brought it home in those two short bits, but the rest of the movie didn’t meet my expectations.
I finally watched Brokeback Mountain, and it was a waste of time. But there is already a thread on that subject…
The Pacifier. The parents of the kid I babysat yesterday left it to watch, could Disney get any more tired? Who writes that crap?
Poor guy, seems like karma can be cruel.
Damn you summed it up. Jack Black is funny, I like him, I want to like his movies and yet, most are crap.
Jim
Good call on that. Even worse was one of the cable premieres this weekend, The Fog. It’s never a good sign when the two leads are tv actors, and it only went downhill from there.
The Weatherman, with Nicolas Cage. Man, that was dull.
Edward Furlong as the crow?? Edward Furlong fighting the dude from Angel and winning?? I don’t fucking think so!
And if it hadn’t been for this movie, then I would have nominated The Fog remake, too.
Edward Fucking Furlong. I still can’t believe it.
Not bad as much as… sort of disappointing.
**This is Spinal Tap. **
I suppose some of the jokes were just before my time and some of them, I had already heard repeated enough to lose their funniness. But I loved Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, and A Mighty Wind, and everyone seems to love Spinal Tap, so I figured I would.
I sat there and watched it… kept wanting to get up and do something more interesting but hoped it would get good and didn’t want to upset my dad. It had its moments, but I was glad when it was over.
I was going to start a thread on this very subject. I love George Clooney and I think the subject matter is important and interesting; however, I could not track with this movie to save my life. The back-and-forth of it was so rapid that I couldn’t get acclimated to any of the scenarios. I’m going to try it again when it comes on cable, but for now, color me lost.
I loved this movie. I’d give it an 8. The mood of this movie was subtle and it captured an ominous-loneliness-desperation vibe that I can’t adequately describe. It’s been a few years. Maybe I’ll rent this one again.
V For Vendetta. A French version of the Burger King bores evil-doers to death by mumbling long British speeches at them. The trailers lead me to believe this movie was pretty action-packed. I was mistaken. There was a bit of action at the beginning and at the end. Unfortunately, there was about two hours of…stuff…in between. Zzzzz.
In the last 60 days, it would have been Ultraviolet, hands down. We watched it as part of a double-feature with Bloodrayne–UV made Bloodrayne look like Lawrence of Arabia…
“Click” if that’s been within 30 days. “Talladega Nights” if not.
Drive ins double features are the portal to movie suckness.
Saw
I’m way behind the times. I just saw Saw recently on DVD. I’ve decided that I hate movies with omnipotent, omniscient insane serial killers. Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs were good, dammit, but I’m fed up with Se7en and Hannibal and even In the Line of Fire and novels like “Darkness at Pemberley”. The flaws and idiocies i saw overwhelmed the flick’s good points, and I decided not to try and watch the sequels. What I’ve read here only reinforces that.
Damn. And both of these are on my list of BB mail rentals.
…Is it bad of me that I liked most of the films mentioned in this thread?
Even the one I saw most recently in theatres, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, wasn’t all that bad–not the best movie ever, but a mildly entertaining, sometimes-amusing popcorn blockbuster.
Maybe I’m just too nice about movies. 
If you went in expecting an action movie, I can understand you didn’t like it. I loved the graphic novel it’s based on and also loved the movie - a rare combination it seems.