Hey, Fletch was a really good movie!
Nacho4Sara writes:
> Besides the fact that the movie was an hour and a half too
> long, and the fact that the scene where Brad Pitt is hit by a bus
> has such poor special effects that his death is comical, the
> man’s character works up more passion for peanut butter than
> he does for Claire Forlani.
When I saw the film, most of the audience actually cheered when Brad Pitt’s character was killed.
As for Meet Joe Black, I saw the airplane version. The one that was disowned by the director. I was contemplating leaving, but figured that the massive decompression would piss off the people who were merely asleep.
Disney’s Hercules!
ARG… I know it’s a kid’s movie, but kids should learn the Greek myths like they SHOULD be. You know, not BRUTALLY CONVOLUTED.
Grr… :mad:
Each and every movie with Adam Sandler in it.
Worst. Actor. Ever.
Dirty Dancing has my vote, IIRC. The reason is that somewhere in the film a girl gets pregnant and the father holds up an Ayn Rand book and claims that the book is the reason he isn’t responsible for the kid.
The first time I saw the movie I had no idea why that was in the movie. The second time I saw it I had read some Rand stuff and the scene was a) a cheap shot at Rand b) had nothing to do with the plot and c) didn’t represent Rand’s philosophy in any way. To this day I don’t understand why that scene was in the movie.
Slee
sleestak writes:
> The reason is that somewhere in the film a girl gets pregnant
> and the father holds up an Ayn Rand book and claims that the
> book is the reason he isn’t responsible for the kid.
You may be right that Dirty Dancing misrepresents the philosophy of Ayn Rand (I won’t offer any opinion on that, since I haven’t read her books), but you didn’t describe the scene in the movie correctly. Jennifer Grey goes to the guy (played by Max Cantor) who got the girl (played by Cynthia Rhodes) pregnant and asks him why he abandoned her like that. The guy holds up a copy of an Ayn Rand book and says that this is in accord with the philosophy espoused in Rand’s books. There’s a scene later where Jerry Orbach, who plays Jennifer Grey’s father, gets angry at the guy for getting the girl pregnant and abandoning her, but Cantor hasn’t even mentioned Ayn Rand to him, so Orbach couldn’t have attributed his abandoning the girl to Rand. And Orbach plays Grey’s father, not Rhodes’s.
The Contender
What pisses me off about this movie is that it’s so very well made — fine acting by a strong cast, great cinematography, a tightly woven screenplay, cutting edge directing by Rod Lurie. And then, suddenly, just when the movie ought to end with Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) riding off into the sunset while the powers that be (the ones who opposed her) fall off their pedestals, the President (Jeff Bridges) goes before a weird joint session of Congress and makes an impassioned speech that is used as one of those Spielbergish devices for tying together all the pieces for the comprehension impaired. And as if that wasn’t enough, Rep. Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman) is accused, tried, and convicted right there in front of everybody as he inexplicably stands up and walks out on the President’s speech just when the presidential finger is pointed at him, and he is accused of dirty politics — a redundancy if ever there was one.
So the net effect is that what could have been a powerful drama about the good atheist overcoming the evil of hypocritical politicians who posture their godliness before the public was turned by one single scene into a smarmy, syrupy, and happy-ever-after fairy tale. This movie did not need this scene. There were no loose ends to tie together. Suddenly being jerked away from fine melodrama and into romantic comedy left me bewildered, dazed, and really pissed off.
Oh hang on - do we have the wrong film? The one I am thinking of had Mandy Moore, Darryl Hannah (not that you’d recognise her) but no Keanu that I recall. Yours sounds excrutiating too though.
Mission Impossible: 2 | Awful, just awful. It was as if John Woo had asked six different screenwriters to come up with a set-piece stunt, then tacked them together with a half-baked excuse for a plot. Where did his career go wrong? None of the actors seemed to be playing characters, just themselves. It was basically one of those ‘World’s Deadliest Stunts’ shows glued together by Tom Cruise’s ego.
To expand on what Miller said, even though I haven’t seen Hollow Man either, the idea of what one would do if he/she were invisible is almost archetypal. Plato mentions it (the Ring of Gyges story) in a discussion of morality, delivering the pessimistic view that man naturally acts in an entirely selfish manner–and that the only thing that keeps him in check is accountability.
So it might be distasteful to suggest that anyone would turn evil minus this accountability, but it’s certainly something to think about, and could potentially be the basis of a very good movie. That having been said, I’m sure Hollow Man wasn’t a good movie, for several other reasons, some of which have already been mentioned.
I only saw this film once (that was enough) but I believe the process of turning him invisible supposedly warped his personality as well. The gorilla who got the treatment before Bacon did was shown to be very peaceful in the pre-treatment scenes, but aggresive and violent afterwards.
Well, I liked Hollow Man (read all about it here: http://tnmc.homestead.com/alphabetHJ.html if you really wanna know, as long as we are posting review links).
But what pisses me off is obviously phonied-up Hollywood endings to an otherwise dark, downer, delicious tale. Like they did recently in “Changing Lanes” and long ago in “Suspicion” and lots of times to Orson Welles in between. Keep 'em dark and nasty!..Tim
The Breakfast Club. John Bender hates everything about life and the world, and demands change and satisfaction, as long as he doesn’t have to modify his own behavior. When all else fails, he pushes things and throws things like a big baby. He exudes hostility, and then wonders why everyone doesn’t love him. John Hughes got dissed by a cheerleader in 1966, and this was his hate letter to all women.
Green Card.
First, McDowell’s character supposedly entered into the pro forma marriage so she could keep some swanky apartment. The rules said she had to be married. So they’re picky enough to insist that she had to have a husband, but it wasn’t going to matter that he was always away? And she didn’t think the deception was going to cause severe problems for her dating prospects later on? Okay, maybe that’s more of a suspension of belief problem than a plot weakness. But then…
When McDowell and Diaperdoo get called in for The Big Interview, there’s an ungodly amount of emphasis on whether they know what health and beauty products the other uses. If this is really the way the INS works, it’s dumb. Just as they do in the movie, it’s trivial to memorize this ahead of time. (And couples who really have been living together for years don’t necessarily remember it all either…) But that’s not the bit that really made me want to scream at the screen. No, that was the line that brought the whole elaborate hoax crashing down. Everyone believes them until Diaperdoo mutters the fateful line: “I always forget that one.”
Instantly the INS agent knows the whole thing is a hoax. Huh? That phrase is ambivalent to say the least. It could mean that when she asks him to pick up face goo for her while he’s out, he can never remember which brand she uses. He wouldn’t be the only man who couldn’t keep track of all the products his ever-lovin’ has spread over the bathroom counter. But the INS agent reacts, and Diaperdoo doesn’t even try to come up with an explanation. He admits to the deceit and - it goes from bad to worse! - he asks them not to punish McDowell and they go along with it. They let a lawbreaker walk free at the request of another lawbreaker? Um, no.
I want those two hours of my life back.
The entire James Bond series.
Just shoot the guy okay? No sharks, no death rays, no assasination fun houses. Just a bullet to the head, you win.
[dr evil]
You just… DON’T get it, do you?
[/dr evil] 
Most pissed-me-off movie that I actually saw would be Jurassic Park. I know it’s supposed to be a mindless summer blockbuster movie, but when the plot holes and implausibilities are bigger than the dinosaurs themselves (One guy brings down the security systems? There are no backups? The park has to be evacuated when it rains?), ferget it.
Most pissed-me-off movie that I didn’t see would be Mission: Impossible. I refuse to give any of my hard-earned money to the morons who decided to bastardize my fond memories of the original TV series and turn Jim Phelps into … well, that’s just not Jim, sorry. No wonder none of the original stars opted to appear in this travesty.
When I think of a movie that pissed me off, I think of movies that I thought would rock, but winded up sucking ass. Off all the movies I could name, the number one contender as of right now is Event Horizon. The movie was really going well, and then the last thirty minutes came along and just…pissed…me…off. The movie could have been SO much better.
Mrs. Doubtfire
The whole premise of that movie sucked. Is that the best they could do? (Don’t answer that.)
Judge (in the movie): I’m sorry, but we’re going to take away your kids and not even give you visitation rights because, frankly, you act like a damned fool!
:smack:
I want my brain cells back.