TheSkaAssassin said:
Hard Candy was BRILLIANT!
OT: The American remake of Death at a Funeral. Unnecessary in every single sense of the word. The took all the dry british humour, and threw it out the window.
Recently I was up in queensland for a cousin's wedding and on the hotel movie service I noticed that (they had the trailer and all). What on earth were they thinking? I can't believe it actually exists, why Americanise an extremely funny British comedy only a few years after its release? Not to mention I noticed the midget bloke was the same actor. Just how bad is it?
OT: Oh y'all forum-goers are in for a treat now, there's the:
*Time I brought a tape of the original King Kong to watch in class as it was nearing the end of the year (back in primary that's all we did around the end of year), the remake was coming out and I'd really enjoyed it. Basically all the other kids and the teacher asked me to turn it off after about, ooh, 40 minutes (when Carl Denham's crew first spot King Kong) and all remarked at how awful they thought it was (mostly because they seemed to have some kind of anti-B&W bias).
*Time I was stuck in a Japanese hotel room with three teenage girls who refused to shut off the tv that was playing the absolutely dreadful "Arizona Dream". Seriously, unless you desperately want a reason to kill yourself don't watch this dreadful piece of shit, it's not even so bad it's good it's just plain awful.
*Times where, with my Dad mostly in awkward silence due to the awfulness on screen, I've seen
The Godson (That's a link to my user-review, READ IT!), I'm not there and the Darwin awards on dvd.
*The time I had to sit through Twilight with a group of family friends' children that consists of two teen girls, one tween girl and two teenage boys all of whom are so stereotypically "Teenage" I feel like donning a pair of slit-lens glasses just so my eyes can be slightly spared. Every time I tried to crack a remark to help keep my sanity in that shit-fest the tween would whine and everyone would tell me to shuht up (still, last time I was with them we watched Old Spice videos...
and the annoying orange...and played Wii fit...)
*The time I went to see Avatar again (First was with my dad and a friend, second was when a friend invited me along to see it), the friend I listed in brackets (I know it's gramatically incorrect for me to do that but shut up) had invited along another friend I'd never met before and he was a pretty nice guy, then I discovered that this friend had invited along one of his friends (whom neither my friend nor me knew) without asking. I didn't see much wrong before the film, we all ate lunch and got to know each other and he seemed pretty nice, mind you they both seemed a bit stereotypically lad (here in Aus that's basically
this, but usually in more mainstream clothing). Then we got into the cinema, hol-y shit. Some of the things that my friend's friend and the unknown friend did included:
-Throwing their popcorn EVERYWHERE
-Yelling at a group of girls sitting across from us whom I feel quite sorry for
-Passing their phone in front of my face and shining this incredibly bright light into my eyes constantly
-Indulging in a never-ending stream of bad, loud commentary which could make any lad or xbl 12 year old blush
-Filming the part of the movie in which Jake Sully and his Na'vi girlfriend started doing it kitty style on their phones
-Attempting to hide under the seats and getting ME AND MY FRIEND to leave the theatre with them if their fears of an usher throwing them out were confirmed
-Insisting we sit up the backrow (Middle seat, middle row=best seat in the house, so why'd they wanna go up to the back of the theatre?)