Movies Everyone loved EXCEPT you

[TklDuo-Drew]

Top Gun
Forrest Gump


Drew

 

[Knox The Hatter]

"next all the ace ventura movies, and all 3 austin powers movies!
god what fecal matter they were."


Right you are, Steve, right you are. The fact that anyone could actually find Austin Powers funny is a very depressing concept to me... 🙁

 

[Phineas]

The fact that anyone could actually find Austin Powers funny is a very depressing concept to me... 🙁 [/B]

right, like I'm the only other person in existence with "Have threesome with Japanese twins" on my "Things to do before I die" list.

😀
I second the vote for Pulp Fiction. WTF?

Also, 2001: A Space Oddity. 30 seconds of plot, two hours of film.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

right, like I'm the only other person in existence with "Have threesome with Japanese twins" on my "Things to do before I die" list.

😀

oh great! thanks phineas... now i have something else to add to my to do list! damn it, i don't have the time, nor money for all these things!

steve
p.s. i did like pulp fiction.

 

[JPie1]

"next all the ace ventura movies, and all 3 austin powers movies!
god what fecal matter they were."


Right you are, Steve, right you are. The fact that anyone could actually find Austin Powers funny is a very depressing concept to me... 🙁

I'm with knox, Ace Ventura and Austin Powers, totally not my cup of tea for humor...so much better out there in the comedy world.

 

[pgt1400]

Chicago

 

[terorizer]

Chicago

Didn't see it, but that reminds me, "Moulin Rouge", "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally"

 

[Double T]

The first "Rocky" movie

EVERYONE I knew said what a wonderful movie this was, so I decided to shell out some cash to see it....

BOULDERDASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With the possibe exception of the boxing scene at the end, I found the film drawn-out and boring!

If I had heard the phrase "Eye of the Tiger" one more time, I would have walked right out! Almost did anyway.

Am I the only one here?

"Brazil" just gave me a headache. "Working Girl" made me physically ill! (I can't STAND Melanie Griffith, and Joan Cusak didn't help either!)

 

[sushi854]

I'm glad the Austin Powers trilogy was mentioned. My friends thought the second one was the greatest thing ever but I probably would have left the theater had Heather Graham not looked so hot.

 

[Drago69]

Damn you all and your Austin Powers and Ace Ventura bashing! A pox on you all! mwahahha!

I am gonna go with "Forrest Gump" also, because I can't think of one myself, and it's the only thing I saw that was mentioned here that I didn't like at all.

 

[SlaverTickler]

Spider-Man

I don't know how this movie mad 1,000,000 dollars let alone twn times that. Toby Maquire has to be one of the most borring exusses for an actor I've ever seen. Spidey is alway full of wise cracks and bad puns. Maquire had no carissma what so ever. The Green Goblin was poorly written, and Cristen Duns as Marry Jane... HA !!! Most of all the second most pivetal event in Pater Parker's life (next to the death of Uncle Ben) was the death of Gwen Stacy, and she wasn't even in the Movie...WHAT"S UP WITH THAT !!! Still this movie managed to ern $ 100,000,000 & was dubbed the best comic book movie ever. It's enough to mak a true Spidey fan puke.

 

[Oddjob0226]

I don't think anyone liked Brazil! Rated PU!

!!!

 

[BellaRisa]

And will someone please get Halle Berry OUT of the X-Men films?? r at least get her a better wig...😛

 

[Oddjob0226]

And will someone please get Halle Berry OUT of the X-Men films?? r at least get her a better wig...😛

I understand the name draw of an Academy Award winner... but ....There are some GREAT African actresses, and they cast a Revlon model in this role?

 

[BellaRisa]

Actually I think Halle Berry is a great actress, not just a model; I thoroughly enjoyed her in Monster's Ball, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and other films. But Storm needed an altogether different type, is all.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Actually I think Halle Berry is a great actress, not just a model; I thoroughly enjoyed her in Monster's Ball, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and other films. But Storm needed an altogether different type, is all.

Well, true. I like her in Swordfish, Monster's Ball, Die Another Day (which was not a great film) and others. Even Famke Janssen started out as a model.

But YES, Storm is a very interesting and different character compared to the character she's being given by H. B. Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Scott Summers, heck most of the X-men movie characters have been pretty faithful in their translation to film while still being as believable as possible. Why couldn't Srorm be as different and interesting as the others? An African woman, living in America - and a mutant at that! Worshpped as a goddess, alone since the age of 6, trained as a theif, a young conflicted woman while at the same time having a sense of peace within her, and being a mentor for Kitty.... that broad face and amazing cheeckbones and hair. But what I get onscreen feels to me like a typical California Girl-type (and Halle Barry isn't even from California)!

Bella as Storm. I'm tellin'g ya, there's something to it.....

 

[Deleted member 2452]

halle berry is not right for the role

she done a decent job in some other movies, but she's just wrong for the storm character. the character is egyptian btw.
steve

 

[Oddjob0226]

That's right, Egyptian! I had forgotten her specific nationality. Knew one (or both) parents were. Yeah, Halle is good in her roles, but not THIS role- there's no chemistry there.

 

[Phineas]

Re: I don't usually "do" these me too threads, but...

Without a doubt, hands down, easily:

Crouching Giger, Hidden Flagon

Yes, granted, it's a martial arts-type film, and one expects ridiculous flips and kicks, a certain amount of tumbling about, etc...but....

They flew. No, they weren't pushing off of something and jumping, these people by the end of the movie just walked outside, raised their arms like friggin superman, and Flew! Apparently, this was considered normal in historic China, since nobody gave them a second glance as they walked along on those pesky legs.

I have visions of peasants walking out of their grass huts, raising their arms, and flying off to work (I'll be home early tonight, honey, as long as I don't run into another flock of pesky seagulls...).

When they climbed up into those trees and began dueling in the "wind" I just about walked out, and would have, if I hadn't been with friends. (they hated it too, and they LIKE martial arts movies). But everyone else I've talked to thinks the piece of trash was the second coming, for chrissakes.

Asinine. In it's entirety.

Humph!

Biscuit,

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an adaptation of an old series of Chinese novels about heroic warriors. Li Mu Bai was one of the greatest swordmasters in China, and it was not uncommon for authors to bestow what we would consider super-powers on their protagonists. If you'd bothered to pay attention, you'd have noticed that nobody but these great warriors were doing any flying. Peasants aren't going to be flitting around like seagulls, as you put it... but there have always been legends in China about great warriors who were capable of "the way of effortless effort", and some of them were supposed to be capable of great feats of balance, or yes, even flight. It's no different from the legends of Qui Gong masters being able to heal or kill with a touch... or to be crass, our modern stories about guys who get super strength and turn green when they're pissed off, or can shoot webs because they got bitten by a spider.

Most martial-arts films that make it here to America are not those that portray the settings of these classic works of Chinese literature, because the producers assume (...and rightly so, apparently) that these films are not accessable to American audiences used to certain types of martial-arts films - we expect Jackie Chan flying off of a bus. These films are in an alien setting to us, written to a different style of storytelling, and utilizing themes that are more appropriate to their Chinese audiences than to us chop-socky fans who went to see CTHD just so we could watch Chow-Yun Fat kick some ass.

The movie was supposed to be poetry to watch, not an action film. The flight helped to underscore that, in addition to being true to the source material.

The acting in most Chinese films is pretty subdued, and I also take it you saw it dubbed. I've watched it in Chinese, and it sounds just fine. The actors are much better in their original tongue.

In short, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese film, based on Chinese literature, for Chinese audiences. It is not a Kung Fu movie (even though it has Kung Fu in it), and it certainly isn't a mainstream American film. There are tons of films just like it in China, but we don't get to see them (well, *you* don't; I've seen more than a few) precisely because people who don't understand why they were done that way are going to have your reaction.

shame, really.

Phineas (loved CTHD - can you tell?)

 

[BellaRisa]

Now now, no 'splanations boys

If you'd bothered to pay attention, you'd have noticed that nobody but these great warriors were doing any flying.

Um, I thought this thread was for safely venting about the flicks we loathe without having them defended (the way alllll our friends do 🙄 ) Cuz if that's not the case I can spend a year defending the Princess Bride, Star Wars or ET...

Bella

(who loved CTHD but was 8 months pregnant at the time and really just wanted the Sno-Caps and Popcorn 😛 )


www.BellaRisa.com

 

[Phineas]

if the reasoning is completely founded in ignorance, I'm going to stand up for it. 😛

 

[Phineas]

I'm not complaining because you didn't like the film. I thought it had flaws myself, not the least of which being that it was a half hour too long and yes, the plot meandered a little too much.

But it seems to me that you went in expecting a "typical" martial arts movie because Chow-Yun Fat was in it, and instead got a period piece about Chinese heroic literature, which obviously didn't sit well with you. I just figured I'd explain that, because if you'd gone in knowing what to expect, you might not have reacted that way. For the type of movie that it was, (and I'm very familiar with them), it was very well done.

In addition, CTHD parodied the Wuxia genre in several places, so some of the stuff that came across as ridiculous was probably meant to be so. If you don't know the genre, you won't get the joke. I got them.

It's kind of like someone going to see The Hulk and coming out pissed because they didn't know it was based on a comic book and thought it was stupid because this guy turned green and could jump three miles.

Again, if Wuxia films aren't your cup of tea, fine, but don't attack the film as being terrible simply because you don't like and/or understand the genre.

okay, done. continue on with the thread. 🙂

 

[Limeoutsider]

The Sum of All Fears

 

[Ticklebell]

Pirates of the Caribbean. Entertaining at first, and ya gotta love Johnny Depp, but there was absolutely not enough plot to justify 2 and a half hours of movie.

 

[tickle]

Ali