And here I was convinced I was the only one who thought that.peruvianskys said:
I mean, seriously. The way he often crowbars in those "homages" you half expect him to suddenly point the camera at himself as he winks at you.
Oh wait...
Greatest Movie You Didn't Like
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I mean, seriously. The way he often crowbars in those "homages" you half expect him to suddenly point the camera at himself as he winks at you.
Oh wait...
Godfather. Too long, very slowly paced, and didn't keep my attention.
Aside from that,E.T. I have no idea why, but I was very bored during it; I can understand the appeal, but it just didn't have the "something" that would make me want to keep on watching it.
Aside from that,E.T. I have no idea why, but I was very bored during it; I can understand the appeal, but it just didn't have the "something" that would make me want to keep on watching it.
Fargo, but that was my dad's fault. He spent the weeks before I saw it building it up as a comedic masterpiece, and made me completely resistant. Then we saw it together, and he felt the need to say, "Oh, this part's fucking hilarious!" before EVERY. FUCKING. JOKE.
Needless to say, it killed the film for me.
Needless to say, it killed the film for me.
The Dark Knight and the Dark Knight Rises (I've yet to see Batman Begins) when I saw those two I got very nit-picky with them and while the Dark Knight seems just plain silly, when you look at its ending...the Dark Knight Rises just seems....pointless and unnecessary.
Ghost In The Shell: I didn't understand a damn thing about the movie. The music was REALLY good though. i have to watch it again sometime though, to give it another shot.
Dogville: HATED IT ! This weak, pathetic main character got so much on my nerves. The ending is really satisfying though.
Dogville: HATED IT ! This weak, pathetic main character got so much on my nerves. The ending is really satisfying though.
OH CHRIST YES. If this isn't the dumbest, most boring and badly made film ever... pure garbage.CrimsonBlaze said:
The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger was fantastic, agreed, but otherwise this was an okay mob movie that had Batman show up once in a while for no adequately explained reason.
Please send all flames to mitt@romneyforpresident2012.com.
Please send all flames to mitt@romneyforpresident2012.com.
The soundtrack is one of the more brilliant parts, even though many people riff on "Hallelujah" during the sex scene, I found that brilliant (and kind of beautifully shot), but I actually liked Watchmen, as I have said before, more than the source material [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.383804.15201174], Plus the Phillip Glass in the score was better than I would have done it (I'd have made it all cheesy and put in "Another heart Breaks" By The Electric Light Orchestra during Dr. Manhattan's scene, only because that song I associated with his chapter in the original story)Scarecrow said:
OT: I do not much care for Dreamworks or Pixar as much of late.
Dreamworks makes one good picture every decade; In the 90s, we had Antz; In the 00s, we had either Shrek, and as I understand it, in the 2010s, How to Train Your Dragon is that movie.
Same issue with Pixar. Everything after Finding Nemo, not that great. I wasn't for The Incredibles so much, I loved Cars (oddly enough), I loved Toy Story 3, Wall-E and Brave, but Up wasn't anything to me, just a nice reminder that old people are cool (and Christopher Plummer and Ed Asner are badasses), so Brave didn't disappoint me that much.
Also: I didn't think The Avengers was the 2nd coming. It was fine.
I didn't think Reservoir Dogs was any good. Perhaps it was because I spoiled it kind of for myself, but I wasn't intrigued.
When I first saw The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters, I was SO FUCKING BORED that I nearly fell asleep during one part where the good guys are all underground (I think there was an arch with Elvish writing on it). I don't even remember what they were doing there and don't actually care enough to look it up. Then again, I lost track of the movie after Gandalf tells Frodo that he needs to burn the One Ring in Mt. Doom. After that, there was WAY too much going on for me to understand anything. And I was honestly confused at the end of the movie where Frodo and Sam are staring at a castle... and then the credits rolled. "That's it?" I thought. "They didn't even burn the ring? WHAT?"
I'm sure that if I saw the movie again, I'd probably like it a little more and maybe be able to understand what the hell's going on, but I don't really have enough damns to give for it. I might give "The Hobbit" a shot, though; at least that one is a one-book story.
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I once made up a word: "titanicize" (tie-TAN-ih-size). It's a verb meaning "to create a work of fiction based on a real-life event and focus it on a romantic plot that would otherwise be small-scale compared to the event". I would apply this term to movies like "Pearl Harbor" or "World Trade Center" (though since I haven't really watched those movies, I couldn't tell if I'm using it totally right), but it should be obvious what movie spawned this term.
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"Avatar", too. I know it's "cool" to bash on this movie, but this one does piss me off for a possibly petty reason: for what kind of movie it is. Avatar is what I like to call "environmental propaganda". There's nothing wrong with trying to convince people that nature is worth protecting, but the grand majority of these kinds of films just do it in the most idiotic, black-and-white way. They portray Nature as this all-knowing, all-loving, all-being thing that is so pure, innocent, and just plain wonderful. Nature is all that is right with the world where the movie takes place. All of the good guys are either a part of Nature or want to be a part of Nature, and anybody who disagrees is a greedy / destructive Industrial threat to the wonder of Nature portrayed with the subtlety of a Captain Planet villain, and GAG MY NOW RED THROAT WITH A BADLY-CARVED WOODEN SPOON! This is so dumb! It's not that this is just a plotline that gets repetitive. It's a repetitive plotline that is made for the sole purpose of lecturing you, even if you haven't actually done something wrong. Avatar just feels like it hates you for existing and wants to make you feel bad. THAT is why it eats.
I need to watch Princess Mononoke now. It does have rather heavy environmental tones, but at least it's more fair about the Nature vs Industry struggle than Avatar is. Hell, Pocahontas is slightly more fair than Avatar is.
I'm sure that if I saw the movie again, I'd probably like it a little more and maybe be able to understand what the hell's going on, but I don't really have enough damns to give for it. I might give "The Hobbit" a shot, though; at least that one is a one-book story.
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I once made up a word: "titanicize" (tie-TAN-ih-size). It's a verb meaning "to create a work of fiction based on a real-life event and focus it on a romantic plot that would otherwise be small-scale compared to the event". I would apply this term to movies like "Pearl Harbor" or "World Trade Center" (though since I haven't really watched those movies, I couldn't tell if I'm using it totally right), but it should be obvious what movie spawned this term.
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"Avatar", too. I know it's "cool" to bash on this movie, but this one does piss me off for a possibly petty reason: for what kind of movie it is. Avatar is what I like to call "environmental propaganda". There's nothing wrong with trying to convince people that nature is worth protecting, but the grand majority of these kinds of films just do it in the most idiotic, black-and-white way. They portray Nature as this all-knowing, all-loving, all-being thing that is so pure, innocent, and just plain wonderful. Nature is all that is right with the world where the movie takes place. All of the good guys are either a part of Nature or want to be a part of Nature, and anybody who disagrees is a greedy / destructive Industrial threat to the wonder of Nature portrayed with the subtlety of a Captain Planet villain, and GAG MY NOW RED THROAT WITH A BADLY-CARVED WOODEN SPOON! This is so dumb! It's not that this is just a plotline that gets repetitive. It's a repetitive plotline that is made for the sole purpose of lecturing you, even if you haven't actually done something wrong. Avatar just feels like it hates you for existing and wants to make you feel bad. THAT is why it eats.
I need to watch Princess Mononoke now. It does have rather heavy environmental tones, but at least it's more fair about the Nature vs Industry struggle than Avatar is. Hell, Pocahontas is slightly more fair than Avatar is.
Oh my god, literally ANYTHING by the guy who made napoleon dynamite. Everything he does is so shit and unfunny.malestrithe said:
Scarface. Al Pacino?s awful fake accent was jarring, his character?s an unlikeable prick who kills his best friend just for going out with his younger sister, the plot was both predictable and meaningless, and at the end, I was just like, ?Is that it? This is meant to be one of the greatest films of all-time??
Tim Burton?s Batman. MovieBob can do the explaining for me. All in all, it?s style over substance. I mean, it?s not bad per se, but I just couldn?t care less whether or not Michael Keaton?s Batman lived or died, the plot was weak, and the Joker killing Batman?s parents was just stupid and unnecessary.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Michael Cena, or whoever that guy who played the main character is, just annoys me, and it?s definitely not the ?love letter to video games? that everyone kept saying it was. I just found it to be a very average film with bullshit gimmicks and I just felt underwhelmed at the end. I?m pumped for Wreck It Ralph, which looks to be the real ?love letter to video games?.
Oh, and Inception pissed me right off because of the retarded structure and that it didn?t make any fucking sense. Granted, I did take a toilet break halfway through, so it might?ve missed an important plot point, but it?s not my fault Nolan makes such goddamn long films that has too much to say about a little.
Tim Burton?s Batman. MovieBob can do the explaining for me. All in all, it?s style over substance. I mean, it?s not bad per se, but I just couldn?t care less whether or not Michael Keaton?s Batman lived or died, the plot was weak, and the Joker killing Batman?s parents was just stupid and unnecessary.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Michael Cena, or whoever that guy who played the main character is, just annoys me, and it?s definitely not the ?love letter to video games? that everyone kept saying it was. I just found it to be a very average film with bullshit gimmicks and I just felt underwhelmed at the end. I?m pumped for Wreck It Ralph, which looks to be the real ?love letter to video games?.
Oh, and Inception pissed me right off because of the retarded structure and that it didn?t make any fucking sense. Granted, I did take a toilet break halfway through, so it might?ve missed an important plot point, but it?s not my fault Nolan makes such goddamn long films that has too much to say about a little.
I agree with OP: When it comes to revered, classic films I just couldn't get myself into 2001. Honestly I think the only Kubrick films I could get through were Full Metal Jacket and, Clockwork Orange. As for 2001, the effects were great but it just seemed like everything was happening in slow motion. I couldn't get into it that movie.
As for modern classics: I have never watched Avatar or Return of the King. I plan on eventually watching Avatar but I hated Two Towers and didn't care too much for the LotR trilogy to begin with when I read them. Finally, to make me absolutely loathed, I didn't like the Nolan Batman trilogy. Dark Knight was great but Batman Begins really didn't feel like a Batman movie with the exception of The Docks scene. Dark Knight Rises was another one that I just couldn't get into DKR since it really didn't feel like a Batman movie to me. I hear the WB is going to try farting out a Justice League movie but I think it would be a better idea if they just adapted some graphic novels into films first (a-la Watchmen).
As for modern classics: I have never watched Avatar or Return of the King. I plan on eventually watching Avatar but I hated Two Towers and didn't care too much for the LotR trilogy to begin with when I read them. Finally, to make me absolutely loathed, I didn't like the Nolan Batman trilogy. Dark Knight was great but Batman Begins really didn't feel like a Batman movie with the exception of The Docks scene. Dark Knight Rises was another one that I just couldn't get into DKR since it really didn't feel like a Batman movie to me. I hear the WB is going to try farting out a Justice League movie but I think it would be a better idea if they just adapted some graphic novels into films first (a-la Watchmen).
Toss up between Inglourious Basterds and The Matrix
Inglorious Basterds because it felt like the result of someone with a very shaky grasp of history wanking onto some celluloid. Which is weird because its clearly very well researched (the German bar scene, for example). I think, ultimately, its because I didn't like the Basterds. Other than feeling entirely superfluous, serving little apparent purpose other than to mess up everyone else's plans, they have the unfortunate "America! Fuck yeah!" aura about them which I really thought you'd outgrown. I mean, they stroll into a theatre crawling with Nazi higher-ups with no disguises, no ability to speak German (or Italian, since that was their cover) and the only one to spot them is the guy who already knows they're coming? Then there's the film's message that War Is Bad, seen mostly the German sniper who can't watch the film of him shooting other people. Oh, but here come the Basterds and look at how funny it is to see them beat someone to death with a baseball bat! And that sniper turns out to be an asshole too, as though the movie realised its protagonists were unlikable halfwits so had to compensate by chucking a would-be rapist in there as antagonist. I feel the movie would have been better overall if they'd been cut out and it had just been about the French cinema owner and her quest to strike back using the power of film.
The Matrix I lean more towards indifference than dislike, but I think it has a few problems. other than the sequels I mean. For a start, its not quite as clever as it thinks it is. You can quote and reference Alice in Wonderland as much as you like, that doesn't make you deep. And there is pretty much no characterisation going on. Keanu Reeves is just Keanu Reeves, Trinity is much the same (her "I love you" bit at the end is totally without emotion, it might as well be two planks of wood kissing each other), Morpheus is a walking cut-out...About the only actual characters I can think of are Mouse and Agent Smith. So it really galls me when a whole bunch of the heroes are killed off in a single scene and they expect me to care. I can't even remember their names, for crying out loud. And I'm not getting any sorrow from the survivors, so I guess they don't either.
Oh, and how is Traitor Guy (nope, can't remember his name either) able to leap into the Matrix unassisted? He has that scene where he waxes lyrical over steak with Agent Smith and all I could think was "wait, how did he get there? if he's there, his real body must be in one of those machines the good guys have. Do they not think its odd he'd want to go into the Matrix alone? They seemed to have some way of tracking people's progress inside the virtual world before, do they not wonder why he's just been sitting in one place for ages?"
Inglorious Basterds because it felt like the result of someone with a very shaky grasp of history wanking onto some celluloid. Which is weird because its clearly very well researched (the German bar scene, for example). I think, ultimately, its because I didn't like the Basterds. Other than feeling entirely superfluous, serving little apparent purpose other than to mess up everyone else's plans, they have the unfortunate "America! Fuck yeah!" aura about them which I really thought you'd outgrown. I mean, they stroll into a theatre crawling with Nazi higher-ups with no disguises, no ability to speak German (or Italian, since that was their cover) and the only one to spot them is the guy who already knows they're coming? Then there's the film's message that War Is Bad, seen mostly the German sniper who can't watch the film of him shooting other people. Oh, but here come the Basterds and look at how funny it is to see them beat someone to death with a baseball bat! And that sniper turns out to be an asshole too, as though the movie realised its protagonists were unlikable halfwits so had to compensate by chucking a would-be rapist in there as antagonist. I feel the movie would have been better overall if they'd been cut out and it had just been about the French cinema owner and her quest to strike back using the power of film.
The Matrix I lean more towards indifference than dislike, but I think it has a few problems. other than the sequels I mean. For a start, its not quite as clever as it thinks it is. You can quote and reference Alice in Wonderland as much as you like, that doesn't make you deep. And there is pretty much no characterisation going on. Keanu Reeves is just Keanu Reeves, Trinity is much the same (her "I love you" bit at the end is totally without emotion, it might as well be two planks of wood kissing each other), Morpheus is a walking cut-out...About the only actual characters I can think of are Mouse and Agent Smith. So it really galls me when a whole bunch of the heroes are killed off in a single scene and they expect me to care. I can't even remember their names, for crying out loud. And I'm not getting any sorrow from the survivors, so I guess they don't either.
Oh, and how is Traitor Guy (nope, can't remember his name either) able to leap into the Matrix unassisted? He has that scene where he waxes lyrical over steak with Agent Smith and all I could think was "wait, how did he get there? if he's there, his real body must be in one of those machines the good guys have. Do they not think its odd he'd want to go into the Matrix alone? They seemed to have some way of tracking people's progress inside the virtual world before, do they not wonder why he's just been sitting in one place for ages?"