This thread is a companion to Cathr's thread. By "good" I mean movies most people enjoyed that you just didn't like at all.
Caddyshack. I just didn't get this movie. I know it's comedy from a different time and I like most of the players but this just didn't do it for me.
The Pianist: I didn't get it.
The Thin Red Line: This movie felt like it should have been a mini-series, not a movie. The only character I remotely cared about was Woody Harrelson, and he wasn't in it much. I think Band of Brothers got the feeling and emotion that this movie failed to do.
I loved, and still love, Caddyshack.
My entry here:
Any of the LOTR series or the Harry Potter Series. I just don't get it. None of it.
Gran Torino
some say that it is the best Clint Eastwood movie they have ever seen...I couldn't get past all the profanity to enjoy it.
Haven't seen it, but I think Gran Torino looks silly. Eastwood's Iwo Jima flicks deserved more love than that.
My vote: American Beauty.
Napolean Dynamite
Departed ( one of the worst films I've ever seen )
Blade Runner
Quote from: Bishamonten on July 11, 2009, 10:48:56 AM
Departed ( one of the worst films I've ever seen )
At first this made me a little nervous, because I thought this was the favorite movie of the guy I'm crushing on. Then I realized it wasn't, his favorite movie is The Insider. I've never seen either but somehow I am constantly confusing the two.
I liked the Departed.
Blade Runner is my all-time favorite movie. I had just read the book the first time I saw it and while the story is different they go together very well. If you've read the book you understand the little things in the movie that are not explained all that well.
Quote from: Alice on July 11, 2009, 03:20:19 PM
Quote from: Bishamonten on July 11, 2009, 10:48:56 AM
Departed ( one of the worst films I've ever seen )
At first this made me a little nervous, because I thought this was the favorite movie of the guy I'm crushing on. Then I realized it wasn't, his favorite movie is The Insider. I've never seen either but somehow I am constantly confusing the two.
The Insider is awesome. Possibly the last great film Mann has made.
Quote from: swolt on July 11, 2009, 03:42:08 PM
I liked the Departed.
Lazy ass acting.
Swearing is not a substitute for actual dialogue content.
Worlds most absurd love triangle.
Laziest Directing Scorsese has ever done.
DiCaprio is about as intimidating as a pile of nickles.
Worst performance of Jack Nicholson's career.
The biggest offense is that the original is so well done that making a remake of it should have been like printing money. Everyone involved phoned it in.
Quote from: Beefy on July 11, 2009, 06:51:19 PM
Quote from: Alice on July 11, 2009, 03:20:19 PM
Quote from: Bishamonten on July 11, 2009, 10:48:56 AM
Departed ( one of the worst films I've ever seen )
At first this made me a little nervous, because I thought this was the favorite movie of the guy I'm crushing on. Then I realized it wasn't, his favorite movie is The Insider. I've never seen either but somehow I am constantly confusing the two.
The Insider is awesome. Possibly the last great film Mann has made.
Also the best acting Crowe has done in his life
I agree about american beauty. Hated it.
It's a Wonderful Life
I hate that movie so much.
Gladiator - I can't see why that movie won any of the Oscars in 2001. It was an OK movie, nothing special. As an actor, Russell Crowe played himself.
Quote from: BigDun on July 12, 2009, 03:27:51 AM
Gladiator - I can't see why that movie won any of the Oscars in 2001. It was an OK movie, nothing special. As an actor, Russell Crowe played himself.
were you not entertained?
Quote from: Bishamonten on July 11, 2009, 09:49:18 PM
Quote from: swolt on July 11, 2009, 03:42:08 PM
I liked the Departed.
Lazy ass acting.
Swearing is not a substitute for actual dialogue content.
Worlds most absurd love triangle.
Laziest Directing Scorsese has ever done.
DiCaprio is about as intimidating as a pile of nickles.
Worst performance of Jack Nicholson's career.
The biggest offense is that the original is so well done that making a remake of it should have been like printing money. Everyone involved phoned it in.
That's one thing about hearing a bunch of negative reviews before seeing a movie, your expectations are so low it doesn't take much to impress.
I agree on the acting being phoned in and lots of things not working well together. I was expecting it to suck more than it did so I was entertained.
I also hated the departed.
But the movie Crash was awful and won three Oscars. That movie was a steaming pile of shit that proved that if you talk about a sensitive subject, even if you do it terribly, you can win awards.
Quote from: eo000 on July 12, 2009, 07:24:09 AM
Quote from: BigDun on July 12, 2009, 03:27:51 AM
Gladiator - I can't see why that movie won any of the Oscars in 2001. It was an OK movie, nothing special. As an actor, Russell Crowe played himself.
were you not entertained?
Meh.
Crash about racism was ehh for me. Crash about sexy car crash victims was woah for me.
Quote from: BigDun on July 12, 2009, 03:27:51 AM
Gladiator - I can't see why that movie won any of the Oscars in 2001. It was an OK movie, nothing special. As an actor, Russell Crowe played himself.
He got it in a sort of payback for him NOT winning in 2000 for The Insider like he deserved. You're right though, Gladiator was very mediocre.
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from Benny
But the movie Crash was awful and won three Oscars. That movie was a steaming pile of shit that proved that if you talk about a sensitive subject, even if you do it terribly, you can win awards.
I hated Crash because I felt like I was being treated like an idiot who needed to have everything spelled out. It left no room to think for yourself because it bludgeoned you over the head with its message. A good storyteller shows you the story but doesn't bash you with retareded narrative.
Quote from: Jessie on July 11, 2009, 11:16:59 PM
I agree about american beauty. Hated it.
what a pretentious pile of crap and I actually like pretentious piles of crap
i haven't seen Crash but I heard enough of the above comments to avoid it
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:46:46 PM
Quote from: Jessie on July 11, 2009, 11:16:59 PM
I agree about american beauty. Hated it.
what a pretentious pile of crap and I actually like pretentious piles of crap
i haven't seen Crash but I heard enough of the above comments to avoid it
I liked AB because it was about a guy who was fed up with his life and finally did something about it. I can relate to it pretty well sometimes. And the pretension didn't bother me too much this time. But it usually does get to me in films.
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
I loved MPatsftHG!! Quoting it with friends is even more fun!!
Life of Brian was also very entertaining.
Quote from: VikingJuice on July 12, 2009, 08:48:30 PM
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:46:46 PM
Quote from: Jessie on July 11, 2009, 11:16:59 PM
I agree about american beauty. Hated it.
what a pretentious pile of crap and I actually like pretentious piles of crap
i haven't seen Crash but I heard enough of the above comments to avoid it
I liked AB because it was about a guy who was fed up with his life and finally did something about it. I can relate to it pretty well sometimes. And the pretension didn't bother me too much this time. But it usually does get to me in films.
all his problems seemed way overwrought. How can you be relatable to the everyman when the situation is so contrived!?
I liked the idea of everyday existential angst (even though its way overdone), but it should have been much more low key
Quote from: VikingJuice on July 12, 2009, 08:51:56 PM
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
I loved MPatsftHG!! Quoting it with friends is even more fun!!
Life of Brian was also very entertaining.
i love the quotable films, the smart controlled absurdity of early Simpsons absolutely directly credits Monty Python. I know its influence on many things I find funny, and I really really really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't.
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:54:09 PM
Quote from: VikingJuice on July 12, 2009, 08:51:56 PM
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
I loved MPatsftHG!! Quoting it with friends is even more fun!!
Life of Brian was also very entertaining.
i love the quotable films, the smart controlled absurdity of early Simpsons absolutely directly credits Monty Python. I know its influence on many things I find funny, and I really really really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't.
Thats the way I feel about Fawlty Towers. I want to like it but it just doesn't do anything for me.
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
We are no longer friends until you take this back. This is the funniest, wittiest movie ever made. EVER. MADE.
Damn, you are lonely.
Quote from: Infobahn on July 12, 2009, 09:57:44 PM
Damn, you are lonely.
Holy Grail introduced me to a type of humor I had never seen before. I've seen it more than any other movie and I still love watching it. I can quote the whole movie, with voices, from start to finish. And I'm not saying I think maybe I can, in high school me and a friend actually did it to see if we could, with another friend reading along with the script to make sure we got it right. No, I never got laid in high school.
Quote from: swolt on July 12, 2009, 09:56:00 PM
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
We are no longer friends until you take this back. This is the funniest, wittiest movie ever made. EVER. MADE.
i recognize that fact technically, but cannot concede to it emotionally.
Can we be friends legally, but have a hollow sham of a relationship and just put up a front for others?
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 10:46:33 PM
Quote from: swolt on July 12, 2009, 09:56:00 PM
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 08:50:24 PM
here we go
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
I like British humor. (humour)
I just didn't feel it was subtle and wry. It beat you on the face with its humor.
It had some funny parts but overall I was extremely disappointed
We are no longer friends until you take this back. This is the funniest, wittiest movie ever made. EVER. MADE.
i recognize that fact technically, but cannot concede to it emotionally.
Can we be friends legally, but have a hollow sham of a relationship and just put up a front for others?
Ok that works. If jesse can do it with boyfriends we can do it. LFFL. Legally Friends For Life
Quote from: DJ Salinger on July 12, 2009, 10:46:33 PM
i recognize that fact technically, but cannot concede to it emotionally.
Can we be friends legally, but have a hollow sham of a relationship and just put up a front for others?
******Man Crush Alert******