I liked the movie, I just didn’t like Lori Petty.
FWIW I liked John Carter, and I have never met someone in real life who hated it. Even someone who usually is not a scifi fan liked it, it seems only the critics hated it.
Her: awful. How could that man never stop for one second and think, “Gee, this might not work out.”
Inside Llewyn Davis: a total dud. I love the Coen bros but I feel like people were too afraid to admit that this movie sucked. The protagonist was such an asshole that I started rooting against him before the movie was halfway over.
I like Twister.
Many years ago, I vowed never, ever to watch Casablanca – having been utterly sickened by hearing up-themselves pseudy self-congratulating film buffs raving ecstatically about it at great length, and doing bad Bogart impressions. No personal barbs intended as aimed at you, Stranger; but your post above confirms me in my prejudice against the film, rather than persuading me toward changing my mind.
Blade Runner. It annoys me sometimes why people can’t see how bad it is. I guess I feel the same way about Blade Runner as those who dislike Alien, but in fact Alien is the only Ridley Scott film I like.
I liked Hudson Hawk. It got panned big time as a vanity project for Bruce Willis, but I didn’t think he smothered the movie. I thought the costars were all on point, especially Richard E. Grant. The way he pranced about reminded me so much of my friend Brett, flamboyant and silly, but still an evil genius. Plus, the named-after-snacks CIA agents are sitting around a campfire, complaining about the principles arguing, and the big lunkheaded guy says “You want me to rape 'em?” Just so many out-of-the-blue lines that had me busting a gut laughing.
Agree completely. I remember seeing this on opening night with a packed theatre. I was expecting something on the level of Batman Begins. Instead I got something that felt like a stage production Batman. The sets looked like stage sets, the acting felt theatrical, the stunts looked like stage stunts, etc. I hated the whole mess.
Yes, that movie sucked on so many levels. Not a single redeeming quality. Ugly, hateful and ridiculous characters, and in a movie about a folk musician, shitty music.
And to anybody defending Blair Witch: You are WRONG! Biggest piece of cinematic shit ever. Its been over 10 years and I’m still pissed and want my money back!
So, I really, really liked Gravity as well as Alien. I even really enjoyed Prometheus (which I guess qualifies for the OP’s question, though it was reviewed decently).
However, I cannot stand 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I found dull as absolute dirt. Nor Shawshank Redemption for the same reason.
I enjoyed Blair Witch, I thought it had a nice scary vibe to it. One of the best parts: the Blair Witch is unseen, only hinted at. Lots of suspense. Now I may be objectively wrong about its being a great film (not that I think it is, I think it’s a pretty good indy horror film that scored way above its tiny budget in terms of effectiveness) but I CAN’T be wrong about enjoying it and thinking it had a scary vibe, because that was my actual EXPERIENCE.
I actually liked The Postman.
There. I said it.
Me too. I think it is seriously one of the top Post-Apocalyptic films of all time. It’s not perfect (the horrible epilogue you just have to ignore) but it’s still pretty good.
The movie bombed horribly, but I really liked The Alamo in 2004. I thought it was a pretty balanced and accurate take on the Alamo with terrific battle scenes. Thornton did a great Davy Crockett and the movie had guts showing his fate:
He was captured, rather than fought to the death, like the De la Pena diary. But it seemed plausible without diminshing the heroic legend: he was overwhelmed and perhaps knocked out in the rush. At any rate, he wasn’t sniveling and begging for mercy.
Of course, Disney dropped the ball not paying enough for Ron Howard and Russell Crowe, but it didn’t deserve to be such a catastrophic bomb ($25m on a $107m budget).
I’m a Godzilla fan, so there’s that. However, most people seemed to enjoy the 2014 Godzilla movie; myself among them.
I loved Dances with Wolves and consider it one my favorite movies. I wonder if the status now is more of a backlash than anything else. I remember it being pretty much universally acclaimed. 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7 Academy Awards. Even the Far Side made a joke about it: Only a couple people attending “A Meeting of the International ‘Didn’t Like Dances With Wolves’ Society”. They were arguing about the insensitive portrayal of the US Cavalry. It had perhaps the best soundtrack ever and they somehow make flat Nebraska and South Dakota look as exotic as the Grand Canyon.
I cannot think of a movie that got a more vicious backlash on the Internet. Maybe Return of the Jedi? Perhaps it had to do with Costner’s later ego projects like Robin Hood, Postman and Waterworld?
As in Sharon Stone, at the very acme of her beauty? The movie with an absolutely terrific male cast about whom I go blank because I’m thinking about her in a Stetson and a duster?
THAT’S IT! It all ties together! It’s as if they planned it that way, if they hadn’t made it up as they went along.
Me too. I kept thinking, “the good part is after this…after this…after this. Must be after this…still waiting…” Movie ends. Where in the fuck was the supposed brilliance of that movie?
I guess you had to be there at the time. When it was new.
Oh, wait- I did see it when it was first released, in a huge-screen theater, and my thoughts were (and remain) the same as yours.
Kubrick didn’t make 2001: A Space Odyssey as a conventional, plot-driven adventure or drama. As a collaborative effort between Clarke and Kubrick it was intended to portray a realistic “first contact” scenario with a truly alien and advanced species as well as an exploration of how our tools are an inherent part of our evolution and may end up supplanting or even replacing us (as HAL attempted to do in order to achieve the ill-defined mission parameters). That the pace of the film is stultifying (until HAL fakes the failure of the AE-35 and attempts to kill the crew) and the ending of the film is incomprehensible are intentional choices. Real space exploration will not be zap guns and rocket ships zipping though space with zooming noises, but silent, tedious, and almost immediately lethal conditions. And our first encounter with an advanced alien species will almost certainly result in incomprehensible motives from them and ineffectual defense against whatever they do to us. Kubrick was making real science fiction, not the space opera, conspiranoia, or disaster movies that generally populate the ostensible genre of “sci-fi” cinema.
Stranger
Oh.