First time I saw that I couldn’t believe my eyes. The thought that I wasted over three dollars to rent this thing annoyed the hell out of me.
“Calling Sky Captain, Calling Sky Captain” :rolleyes:
But then it was on one of the free channels a month or so ago, I was playing Pirates on my notebook, not really paying attention, and about halfway through I realized that they spent a freakish amount of money to make a 50’s radio serial thing on screen and it wasn’t to be taken seriously. I actually enjoyed it! I feel shame, but it’s kind of a fun flick.
Fascination, a direct-to-cable schlock-fest starring some wannabe crooner (who, of course, plays a composer for no reason.) He falls in love with his step-sister and they suspect their newlywed parents of a murderous conspiracy.
To add insult to injury, they plug the guy’s album at the closing credits.
Penn and Teller get Killed. I like Penn and Teller. This movie showed up on an HD cable channel the other day. I’d never heard of it. I started watching it, and it just wasn’t funny. I thought about cutting my loses and stopping, but I kept thinking that it’s Penn and Teller, it just HAS to get funny. But it didn’t. And as the end came into sight, I just kept thinking, “Ok, but where’s the joke? When’s it gonna get funny?” But it never did. They just laid this giant turd in my lap and then pulled away.
I’ve seen plenty of bad movies in my time. Plenty. Some movies just stink so bad that I sit in amazement, wondering how they ever got made. Some are just pointless and boring, and afterwards I’m annoyed that I wasted two hours of my life. Then there are the movies that lots of people apparently think are great, but I hated and I can take joy in spouting off about how everyone but me is wrong.
Penn and Teller get Killed is the only movie I’ve ever seen that I just wish to God I could erase from my memory. I don’t want to think about, I don’t want to talk about it, it’s painful even to write this.
Please, for the love of God, if you ever get the chance to see Penn and Teller get Killed, just don’t. Trust me, just don’t.
Oh god, that’s easy. I saw Miami Vice while alone out of town. ( Love to go to the movies while travelling… ).
I bought a book before seeing the flick, and started reading it while eating mediocre Food Court Chinese. I remember vivid details about the plot, dialogue, emotions, character development, etc.
When my daughter asked me what movie I had seen, I drew a complete blank. It was a bit unnerving, as this was only TWO DAYS AGO.
I read fine writing, but viewed brain mung.
Who do I have to fuck to get my $ 10.00 back on that ticket ???
I cannot find a single redeeming feature about this feature. Not even some obscure technical bit. My god. What a wretched thing Michael Mann hath wrought.
It’s weird, I am one of the few people who liked Sky Captain, I figure it is because I had read so much very old Sci-Fi and Space Opera and this was the movie made from the perspective of a 1930’s Sci-Fi writer.
I thought I would like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for similar reasons and that just felt like a complete waste of concept, characters and actors.
But Sky Captain captured the flavor of the 30’s and overcame the awful Gwyneth Paltrow acting.
I tend to avoid paying for films that get poor reviews and/or that I doubt I’d be interested in, and commercials every ten minutes on broadcast TV drive me batty, so the worst films I see tend to be viewed on airplanes. And I’ve seen some real stinkeroos there.
From my latest trip, last week, I’d say Mission Impossible III was easily the worst. A load of completely empty action scenes stolen from True Lies and photographed in extreme jittery closeup, not the slightest trace of character development, Lawrence Fishburne pronouncing ponderous hard-ass dialogue that no actual person would ever say, and an utterly unbelievable plot including some bizarre shit concerning exploding nasal implants. And that’s without discussing Tom Bloody Cruise.
RV looked pretty horrifyingly awful as well, but since I only saw it on everyone elses’s little seatback screens and didn’t hear the soundtrack, I guess I can get away with saying I didn’t really watch it.
OTOH, sorry to go against those who hated 'em, but I loved Sky Captain despite its numerous and undeniable flaws, and I laughed almost non-stop through Talledega Nights. On that last one, either I was just receptive to a dose of pure silliness that day or I had not seen any of Will Farrell’s previous flicks and thus wasn’t burned out on his schtick; not sure which.
C’mon, it was! Ragtag bunch of bickering misfits in an old spaceship, on the run from/fighting The Man and led by an embittered but inwardly noble war vet. Blake’s Seven.
The thing with the Coen brothers is that some of their movies may seem “dreadfully serious”, they are actually dark comedies. TMWWT and Fargo both had some subtle humor.
You wouldn’t like Miller’s Crossing, and probably not Barton Fink. You might like Raising Arizona.
BEWITCHED…it was on cable and just watched it the other night.
I think every film student should see this film. Huge budget, well-known, talented screenwriter, Oscar winning actors, big time producer, story based on a popular television show…on paper, anyone in a major studio would have green-lighted this puppy fast as it is a can’t-miss, roaring success for sure!
Wow, what a bomb…there was nothing in that film that was worth watching - totally unfunny, badly written, poorly acted, terrible special effects…you would think at least one of those talented participants would have taken a step back and said, “this sucks!”
Mind boggling bad, cannot imagine how the studio execs reacted when they saw the final product. If I were a studio executive with a hand in making that mess, after the screening I would have gone back to my office, cleared my desk, called unemployment and looked into taking classes at real estate school.
I just finished watching The Color of Money. I’ve been using my Netflix account to see the occasional classic that I’ve always heard of but never seen, which is how I saw The Hustler a while back. Somehow, I also added the “sequel”, which, due to lack of attention on my part, made it to the top of the list and got sent to me. Man, was it bad. The 80s were not a good time for movies, and Tom Cruise + 18 inches of hair is not any better than Tom Cruise.
You nailed it perfectly.
Miller’s Crossing: Have not seen
Barton Fink: I would go as far to say I hated it, but I know a lot of people disliked or hated this one. {2 of 10}
Raising Arizona: It was okay, not great. {5 of 10}
On the other side of the coin.
**Hudsucker Proxy ** is one of my all time favorites and I gave it a 10 on the IMDB.
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Only your love of Philip Pullman prevents me from unleashing my hordes of dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark bees shot out at you, at you, Case.
That and the fact that I don’t actually have such a horde.
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