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I know we did a bunch of movies-we-love and movies-we-hate, but I didn't see this aspect...

What movie does practically everyone love, but is one you just cannot stand? I mean, people rave about it, but you'd rather stick a knife in your eye than watch it again. And conversely, which movie does the whole world seem to hate, but you'd watch it over and over again?

Me:
Literally everyone I know hates Vanilla Sky, but it is one of my favorite movies of all time. I never understood how people didn't get it, and I loved the multiple levels on which it worked.

Further, I couldn't stand Citizen Kane. Number one movie of all time my ass. Orson Welles was a ham trying to add layers and depth to a one-dimensional character and a overly simple plot.

I hate Titanic. Blegh.

Fight Club.

All of my friends and acquaintances rave about good it is and how "deep" it is.

I find it pretentious and stupid.

i don't like the stuff by lars von trier (sp?) i just can't stand the shaking camera's.

sometimes i like old low-budget horror movies. i know they suck, but i think they are hilarious.

Everyone i know loves Anchorman but its sooooooooooooooooooooo bad. Same goes with the Austin Powers films *shudders*

for me its Battle Royale , dont why just hate it

Titanic.

Anything with Tom Hanks in it.

Literally everyone I know hates Vanilla Sky, but it is one of my favorite movies of all time. I never understood how people didn't get it, and I loved the multiple levels on which it worked.

You're not alone...I loved that movie as well. :)

I'm gonna have to think a bit more on this one though...

I tend to like the movies that the whole world hates (literally!), such as armageddon, deep impact, volcano, day after tomorrow, etc.

I loathe the very ground that Anthony Hopkins walks on, and so any movie he has ever touched makes me want to projectile vomit across the screen just to protect my eyes from further exposure to that condensed wad of pretentious bullshit.
Especially his boring-ass Hannibal impersenation, Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon would have been better served by replacing him with a wooden plank with "I R SMRT" scribbled across it.

You're not alone...I loved that movie as well. :)

I'm gonna have to think a bit more on this one though...

That's fair enough -- I had time to think before I wrote it up. ;)

I find the Shawshank Redemption irritatingly mawkish sentimental crap - think it is still number 1 on IMDBs list of best films, cannot see why myself.

I really despise James Bond movies....really, like a lot.

I love The War, but haven't found anyone else ever who likes it, they just can't seem to get past Kevin Costners poor acting to see the beauty of the story. :(

I really like "Super Mario Brothers". I couldn't care less that it has virtually nothing to do with the actual game, Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper are great in it and it's a fun action adventure movie.

I also actually prefer "An American Werewolf in Paris" to "London". I have no excuse or reasonable defense. I know the acting is worse in the sequel, but everything else was great. Plus the chick popping out her eyeball always makes me laugh.

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I absolutely, unreservedly despise "Jules et Jim". I think it's an utterly retarded movie. I hated Catherine the moment she appeared on screen, it was obvious to me what a selfish, stupid and manipulative whore she was and I had no sympathy for any of the characters save the kid (who, surprise surprise, Catherine almost totally neglects to fulfill her own idiotic desires). I think Truffaut is a pretty good filmmaker, but he's hardly the genius everyone makes him out to be.

"Man with the Movie Camera" is another one. I can see what a revolution it must have been at the time, showing off all kinds of neat tricks, but dear God it is so BORING! Endless shots of machinery, people doing stuff, and then more machinery, accompanied by some of the most monotonous music ever devised.

You're not alone...I loved that movie as well. :)

I'm gonna have to think a bit more on this one though...

I'd rather have the 22-minute Ghost in the Shell version.

As for movies I despise, the Matrix is the biggest load of crap I've seen in years. They just chopped up various anime (ie. Lain, Ghost in the Shell, etc.) and then put in big words that made it pretentious.

Ghost in the Shell sucked. So did Ghost, actually. And so did 13 Ghosts.

I'm seeing a pattern...

Fight Club.

All of my friends and acquaintances rave about good it is and how "deep" it is.

I find it pretentious and stupid.

Agreed!

Titanic.

Anything with Tom Hanks in it.

Aaaaaaaaand agreed again.

Personally, I really like 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I don't think i've met anyone else who ever shared that sentiment.

Personally, I really like 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I don't think i've met anyone else who ever shared that sentiment.Fantastic film.

for me its Battle Royale , dont why just hate it

Haha. I love that movie.

Fantastic film.

Well, there's a first for everything. :)

I really like "Super Mario Brothers". I couldn't care less that it has virtually nothing to do with the actual game, Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper are great in it and it's a fun action adventure movie.

That movie owned.

High School Musical sucked.

Titanic.

Anything with Tom Hanks in it.


QFT

Ghost in the Shell sucked. So did Ghost, actually. And so did 13 Ghosts.

I'm seeing a pattern...

As does the TV show Ghost Whisper (despite getting to check out Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage). The pattern continues...

Fucking ghosts...

Although, Ghostbusters was good. Ghostbusters II was shit. Damn!

Fucking ghosts...

Although, Ghostbusters was good. Ghostbusters II was shit. Damn!Ghost Ship... terrible.

I'm going to have to agree with the people who said they hated Titanic. What a godawful excuse for a film.

Literally everyone I know hates Vanilla Sky, but it is one of my favorite movies of all time. I never understood how people didn't get it, and I loved the multiple levels on which it worked.
Have you seen Abre Los Ojos? I liked that ever so slightly more than Vanilla Sky.

As does the TV show Ghost Whisper (despite getting to check out Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage). The pattern continues...

Hey, I rather like Ghost Whisperer...and frankly, as a heterosexual male, I never noticed Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage until Family Guy pointed it out to me.

As for movies I hate that everyone likes...I did not like Dumb and Dumber. I was always a huge Jim Carrey fan, and everyone I knew always thought it was the funniest movie ever...I did not. I thought it was inane and depressing. I certainly didn't go see the lame excuse for a prequel...the way I see it, bad movie idea + no Jim Carrey = attempted suicide by spork before it ends

As for movies I like that everyone else hated...I rather enjoyed Street Fighter. Yes, I know it's nothing like the game, and I noticed that many of the characters were grossly misrepresented (the movie bozos listed Honda as from Hawaii, not Japan...they had Balrog as a good guy...they made Dhalsim completely lame and evil...they messed with Guile's hair...T. Hawk was an effing midget, almost...Fei Long wasn't even in the movie...and for the last time, Blanka and Charlie are NOT THE SAME PERSON) but as far as an actual movie went, it wasn't bad. It could just as easily have been done without Street Fighter characters, though; they seemed kind of extraneous.

I dislike anything with Kevin Costner. Even Dances With Wolves. Every one of his movies is his personal ego-trip. I also can't stand Tom Cruise movies, and it has nothing to do with his personal issues.

I liked Event Horizon, a movie no one ever hears about anymore.

Personally, I really like 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I don't think i've met anyone else who ever shared that sentiment.

Fantastic film.

I love 2001, when it first came out I saw it five or ten times (I forget now how many). My parents were not pleased with me going into the City by myself to see it, either. :D

Hey, I rather like Ghost Whisperer...and frankly, as a heterosexual male, I never noticed Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage until Family Guy pointed it out to me.

How could you not notice it? I can't stand her, but the cleavage is absolutely glorious. *drool*

I dislike anything with Kevin Costner. Even Dances With Wolves. Every one of his movies is his personal ego-trip.

He does good baseball movies, but that's it. Everything else is crap.

How could you not notice it? I can't stand her, but the cleavage is absolutely glorious. *drool*

I'm too busy watching her make a colossal ass of herself (well, her character) for the first half hour of every episode and noticing how it all gets tied together in the last 15 minutes no matter what. Also, I take stock in how much disbelief I have to suspend for the second season as opposed to the first. Really, there's too much to think about to worry about a pair of boobies.

I hate Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, and It. Most of my friends adore those films. "It" is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through. Ever.

I love musicals. I know people who like one or two - but I love all musicals.

*raises hand* Another 2001: A Space Odyssey fan here :)

I'm too busy watching her make a colossal ass of herself (well, her character) for the first half hour of every episode and noticing how it all gets tied together in the last 15 minutes no matter what. Also, I take stock in how much disbelief I have to suspend for the second season as opposed to the first. Really, there's too much to think about to worry about a pair of boobies.

Don't think. Just watch her rack.

I hate Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, and It. Most of my friends adore those films. "It" is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through. Ever.

I love musicals. I know people who like one or two - but I love all musicals.

*raises hand* Another 2001: A Space Odyssey fan here :)

Ah, yes! Napoleon Dynamite! What a piece of utter shite. Supposed to be sooooo funny. I think I chuckled twice. I want my 90 minutes back on that one, as well as what I paid to see it on pay-per-view.

Don't think. Just watch her rack.

Problem: That's my fiancee's favoritee show. She really gets into it, and I at least have to pretend to pay attention. I have to be able to discuss it.

That said, if I wanted to, I could watch it again later for her rack...

Have you seen Abre Los Ojos? I liked that ever so slightly more than Vanilla Sky.

I've seen part of it, but that was in passing, and I didn't have control of the TV at the time. I pointed it out to my wife, but she's not a big Penelope Cruz fan. I pity her sometimes. :-)

I dislike anything with Kevin Costner.

Normally I'd agree, but I saw For Love of the Game the other day, and I have to say I didn't hate it. And if you ignore the movie beating you over the head with the moral, Waterworld wasn't horrible either.

Problem: That's my fiancee's favoritee show. She really gets into it, and I at least have to pretend to pay attention. I have to be able to discuss it.

Ew. Well, just watch JLH's rack, and when you "discuss" it, just agree with what whatever your fiancee says. That's all she wants really. ;)

That said, if I wanted to, I could watch it again later for her rack...

No, no, no...just watch it once for JLH's rack. No need to subject yourself to that awful show twice.

I've seen part of it, but that was in passing, and I didn't have control of the TV at the time. I pointed it out to my wife, but she's not a big Penelope Cruz fan. I pity her sometimes. :-)


She's not that great of an actress, but Penelope Cruz is a goddess.

I hate Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, and It. Most of my friends adore those films. "It" is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through. Ever.

My friend told me that I would love Napoleon Dynamite. I hated it and said so. He told me, well you have to watch it like six or seven times before it's funny. I asked him, if I couldn't stand it then why am I going to watch it twice, let alone six or seven times?!

My friend told me that I would love Napoleon Dynamite. I hated it and said so. He told me, well you have to watch it like six or seven times before it's funny. I asked him, if I couldn't stand it then why am I going to watch it twice, let alone six or seven times?!

If you have to watch something six or seven times to "get it," it blows. I've had people say the same thing to me about Jacob's Ladder. No, I'm sorry. It sucks. Next!

Ghost in the Shell sucked. So did Ghost, actually. And so did 13 Ghosts.

I'm seeing a pattern...

Ghost in the Shell had a very simplistic plot, but for some reason I couldn't understand it. Maybe because I tuned out the middle hour. :D

I got in trouble with my then-girlfriend for laughing at Ghost. It was ridiculous.

If you have to watch something six or seven times to "get it," it blows. I've had people say the same thing to me about Jacob's Ladder. No, I'm sorry. It sucks. Next!

Ahh Jacobs Ladder. Another for the "hate" list. It wasn't that I didn't "get" it...it's just that it was shit.

The other person here with me at work mentioned The Goonies. (groan) There's another one. LOL. The kids just yell back and forth at each other. How can you not want to slam their foreheads into a wall or something?

Problem: That's my fiancee's favoritee show. She really gets into it, and I at least have to pretend to pay attention. I have to be able to discuss it.

That said, if I wanted to, I could watch it again later for her rack...

"So what did you think of the show?"

"JLH has a nice rack" :p

I hate Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, and It. Most of my friends adore those films. "It" is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through. Ever.

I love musicals. I know people who like one or two - but I love all musicals.

*raises hand* Another 2001: A Space Odyssey fan here :)


YAY! Someone else who doesn't like the cruddy, humourless piece of crappyness known as Anchorman

Everyone I know loves Donnie Darko. I hate it.

I liked Event Horizon, a movie no one ever hears about anymore.

There's another one I loved...I'd even put it in my top ten.

I, also, hated Napolean Dynamite and Anchorman.

But I loved 2001...(though the book was better! ;) )

I liked Event Horizon, a movie no one ever hears about anymore.

Oh man. I saw that when I was about 11 and it scared the bejeebus (http://www.bejeebus.com) out of me.

But when I saw it a few years later, it had lost its scary shine. It's still a good movie though. I especially like the little "future-Aussie" flag patch on Sam Neil's outfit. And that he ripped his own eyes out. That was cool.

I did, however, think that the deadly, killer, spinning-blade-tunnel-of-bloody-death followed by spiky-rotating-ball-of-obvious-gruesome-death was extremely contrived and silly.

But I loved 2001...(though the book was better! ;) )

That's because Stanley Kubrick took good books, crapped golden turds onto them, and turned them into good movies that bore little resemblance to the books. (see also, The Shining)

There's another one I loved...I'd even put it in my top ten.

I, also, hated Napolean Dynamite and Anchorman.

But I loved 2001...(though the book was better! ;) )

So, everyone hates Napolean and Ron, even though everyone loves them, and they all like 2001, which everyone hates.

I don't like Monthy Python. :(

I don't like Monthy Python. :(

You also obviously don't like living, what with saying that on the internet and all. To mercifully end what must be your extreme misery: *stabs Haken Rider*

I don't like Monthy Python. :(

Bloody hell, you know how to make yourself unpopular! ;)

I didn't particularly care for Lost in Translation. I didn't see what the big fuss was all about. That and The English Patient.

Conversely, I love Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Lilo and Stitch. Go figure. :p

So, everyone hates Napolean and Ron, even though everyone loves them, and they all like 2001, which everyone hates.
If it makes you feel any better, I loathed 2001.
And then, a few months after watching it, I started thinking it was pretty decent. It must have been a good movie, right? It had all those cool space scenes, and a murderous computer, and that guy who was in two Pink Panther movies. So I watched it again, and then I remembered that the beginning and ending were overwrought, far too long, and, worst of all, fucking dull.
Now I am back to loathing it, and every day I say a prayer to Darryl Worly, that I may never again suffer the agony of having forgotten how it felt that day, to see a movie that was really lame, and lose 2 and a half hours off my life.

I didn't particularly care for Lost in Translation. I didn't see what the big fuss was all about. That and The English Patient.

Conversely, I love Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Lilo and Stitch. Go figure. :p
I agree 100% with both.....I loathe the person who told me "Lost in Translation is a great movie" worst waste of my time ever!

Lilo and Stitch, absolutely awesome!

(and you know the other stuff too...I agree.)

I agree 100% with both.....I loathe the person who told me "Lost in Translation is a great movie" worst waste of my time ever!

Lilo and Stitch, absolutely awesome!

(and you know the other stuff too...I agree.)

Yay! Thank you! Finally someone agrees! I told my sister that I didn't like Lost in Translation. She told me I was dead inside. Silly siblings.

Yay! Thank you! Finally someone agrees! I told my sister that I didn't like Lost in Translation. She told me I was dead inside. Silly siblings.

my husband didn't like it either, after it was over, he said "that was stupid" and I said "yeah" and then we took it back to our friend and told them they don't know anything about anything if they thought that was good LOL

You also obviously don't like living, what with saying that on the internet and all. To mercifully end what must be your extreme misery: *stabs Haken Rider*

Bloody hell, you know how to make yourself unpopular! ;)

Nono, this is the part where you all should go like "yeah, me neither".

Yeah! Me neither!

Yeah! Me neither!

*stabs*

Just doing a service...

I know we did a bunch of movies-we-love and movies-we-hate, but I didn't see this aspect...

What movie does practically everyone love, but is one you just cannot stand? I mean, people rave about it, but you'd rather stick a knife in your eye than watch it again. And conversely, which movie does the whole world seem to hate, but you'd watch it over and over again?

Me:
Literally everyone I know hates Vanilla Sky, but it is one of my favorite movies of all time. I never understood how people didn't get it, and I loved the multiple levels on which it worked.

Further, I couldn't stand Citizen Kane. Number one movie of all time my ass. Orson Welles was a ham trying to add layers and depth to a one-dimensional character and a overly simple plot.
Austin Power movies.

Titanic.

Any Star War--*shot by everyone*

LORD OF THE MOTHERFUCKING RINGS.

And almost everything else that the vast populace adores.

Literally everyone I know hates Vanilla Sky, but it is one of my favorite movies of all time. I never understood how people didn't get it, and I loved the multiple levels on which it worked.
Me too. :)

Fight Club.

All of my friends and acquaintances rave about good it is and how "deep" it is.

I find it pretentious and stupid.
Seconded. Emphatically so.

i don't like the stuff by lars von trier (sp?) i just can't stand the shaking camera's.
Ugh, yeah, "Dogville" was infuriatingly bad. God, was I mad. The end was utterly stupid in and of itself, but then the end credits really pushed the whole thing over the edge.
Ugh.
No more von Trier movies for me, at least for the time being.


I'm sure there are more, but I'll have to think about it first.

I didn't see the big deal about Scarface. I watched it, thought it was ok and moved on. There are better gangster movies about in my opinion.

Anything by Tarantino... what a talentless hack.

Anything by Tarantino... what a talentless hack.

Didn't mind pulp fiction but other than that he hasn't done much. I liked his cameo appearence in Desperado

Movies a lot of people like but I can't stand:

#1 Gone with the wind
4 hours of utter boredom. I hate Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler should have get rid of her from the beginning so there were just 30 minutes of film, but if I try and say that at home my mom is going to shoot me.

#2 Mediterraneo (dir. by Salvatores)
Hugely overestimated movie, featuring Milanese cabaret actors as most unlikely Italian soldiers of WW2. Little more than a postcard from Greece, stereotypes everywhere.

#3 Highlander
Story sucks. Sean Connery dies too soon and through the rest of the movie there is this so-called "actor" who is just as expressive as a cooked ham. Cannot understand why so many people thing that's a cool movie.

#4 Saving Private Ryan
Ok the bit about the landing is ok (still I prefer "The longest day"), but then it becomes almost farcical. Here come the american superheroes who can take on a Waffen-SS Panzerbrigade single-handedly, yadda yadda yadda, where's Rambo? "Sticky bomb" my arse, I expect a lot better from Spielberg, expecially after Schindler's List!

#5 LOTR 1,2.
I'm a Tolkien fan and I'm so disgusted by the first Peter Jackson's movies that I cannot force myself to see the 3rd. He cuts away important pieces, changes things for no reason, introduces things that are nowhere in Tolkien's books, modifies arbitrarily even the landscape! WHY? Go back to horror B-movies, Peter, there's a good lad.

#6 SW 1,2,3.
Agh. There was a reason for Lucas not directing a movie for 20 years. And now we know it. And SW3 is so banal and idiotic... the screenplay can be used as toilet paper, characters, expecially Anakin, are monodimensional, and I've seen better CGI. Also the story doesn't fit in the continuity estabilished in the classical trilogy (I was a SW fan until I saw SW1...)

#7 Matrix the whole thing.
It started almost ok - although I cannot understand why the goodies have to blast their way through the security (and why carry so many guns instead of carrying just more ammo?) instead of attacking directly with an helicopter... Anyway, Matrix starts "philosophical" and ends being a (lousy) shootemall action movie...

I liked Star Wars 2. The general consensus seems to be that the Harry Potter movies all suck, which I agree with, but number 3 was particularly bad IMO, which doesn't seem to be within popular opinion. I also liked Titanic.

I liked Star Wars 2. The general consensus seems to be that the Harry Potter movies all suck, which I agree with, but number 3 was particularly bad IMO, which doesn't seem to be within popular opinion. I also liked Titanic.

How can you like SW2? HAERETIC! *stab*

Anyway Potter movies are a perfect example of ruining a good potential...

TITANIC ?!? *stabstabstab* :sniper:

How can you like SW2? HAERETIC! *stab*

Anyway Potter movies are a perfect example of ruining a good potential...

TITANIC ?!? *stabstabstab* :sniper:
The dialogue was horrible, but the battle scenes were great.
Funnily enough, Titanic was my favourite movie when I was about five years old. I remember going to a family friend's house one night and watching it three times in a row and falling asleep. I also remember buying heaps of books about the ship and similar stuff. A five year old loving Titanic... intrigues me to this day. I still think it's a good movie though.

LORD OF THE MOTHERFUCKING RINGS.

And almost everything else that the vast populace adores.

Wow...you're so cool for not liking anything popular... :rolleyes:

I didn't see the big deal about Scarface. I watched it, thought it was ok and moved on. There are better gangster movies about in my opinion.

I agree. Scarface is extremely overrated. Better gangster movies? Of course. Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, and helloooo...The Godfather?!?

Didn't mind pulp fiction but other than that he hasn't done much. I liked his cameo appearence in Desperado

Pulp Fiction was ridiculous shock crap. His best film is Reservoir Dogs, but even that was a lot of blatant theft from a Japanese film.

The dialogue was horrible, but the battle scenes were great.
Funnily enough, Titanic was my favourite movie when I was about five years old. I remember going to a family friend's house one night and watching it three times in a row and falling asleep. I also remember buying heaps of books about the ship and similar stuff. A five year old loving Titanic... intrigues me to this day. I still think it's a good movie though.The trick is that James Cameron constructed one of the most perfect "equal-opportunity" films around. The first half of the movie is a well-made sweeping romance, designed to appeal to the average female audience member with it's grand poetry and artful love story, the second half is made with males in mind, with it's graphic death, explosions, shootings, rampant destruction and the somewhat embarrassing death of what many men regard to be a flagrant annoyance (Jack). Very few movies have achieved this level of broad appeal, perhaps Gone With the Wind comes close.

The dialogue was horrible, but the battle scenes were great.
Funnily enough, Titanic was my favourite movie when I was about five years old. I remember going to a family friend's house one night and watching it three times in a row and falling asleep. I also remember buying heaps of books about the ship and similar stuff. A five year old loving Titanic... intrigues me to this day. I still think it's a good movie though.

Oh my... you were five when Titanic was out in VHS... boy, I feel SO old now... :(

Everybody I talk to hates Wes Anderson movies, but I really love 'em. The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, the Life Aquatic...a lot of people I talk to don't like I Heart Huckabees either. Maybe that's just because most of the people I work with are idiots. As for movies everybody loves, Saw is pretty bad.

Oh my... you were five when Titanic was out in VHS... boy, I feel SO old now... :(

Tell me about it. Damn kids...

As for movies everybody loves, Saw is pretty bad.


*thwap!*

I hate napoleon dynamite. Every time someone quotes it or wears a "Vote for pedro" shirt, I just want to kick them in the shin.

I go back and forth on Waking Life...either I really get into it, or I think it is pretentious bullshit.

I really liked Throne of Blood. Alot of people haven't seen it, and everyone I know who has hated it because it was too weird for them. Its based on Macbeth. Of course it is weird.

I go back and forth on Waking Life...either I really get into it, or I think it is pretentious bullshit.

Let me help you with your ambivalence. It's pretentious bullshit.

Let me help you with your ambivalence. It's pretentious bullshit.

I like it when stoned. That is about it.

I like it when stoned. That is about it.

Meh, I don't smoke weed anymore. Got too old for that shite.

Plus, it makes you think pretentious bullshit is cool. :p

Meh, I don't smoke weed anymore. Got too old for that shite.

Plus, it makes you think pretentious bullshit is cool. :p
haha...I rarely do. I did this past weekend because we were doing a white trash night...cheap blunts, 40's, KFC, and Dukes of Hazzard.

I think I can stand it when I'm stoned because I stop paying attention and just look at the pretty pictures:)

haha...I rarely do. I did this past weekend because we were doing a white trash night...cheap blunts, 40's, KFC, and Dukes of Hazzard.

The only thing "white trash" about that is The Dukes of Hazzard. The rest is just silly white kids trying to pretend they live in da 'hood. C'mon...blunts and 40s? :rolleyes:

I think I can stand it when I'm stoned because I stop paying attention and just look at the pretty pictures:)

Yeah, that lost its appeal for me a while ago.

i hate the sound of music and grease. and a lot of people i know found garden state really annoying, especially that star wars girl's character, but i really liked it and i loved her character.

The only thing "white trash" about that is The Dukes of Hazzard. The rest is just silly white kids trying to pretend they live in da 'hood. C'mon...blunts and 40s? :rolleyes:

Oh please. We're college students having a good time. We would have smoked up and had 40's anyway, this time, we just did it in costumes. And KFC instead of dominos.

Hardly us trying to pretend we're in the hood...it's no different than our "CEO's and Secretary Ho's" or "Golf Pros and Tennis Hos" or standard "pimps and hos" parties. Or the geriatrics party. We drink the same things, eat the same food, but add a little more fun to it by making it costumed. Dressing up as white trash is no more me trying to pretend to be from the hood than me dressing up in a suit is me trying to actually be a CEO, or me dressing up like a 90 year old with a cane is me actually trying to be a geriatric.

I hate napoleon dynamite. Every time someone quotes it or wears a "Vote for pedro" shirt, I just want to kick them in the shin.


oh, christ yeah, i'd forgotten about that one. i just didn't get it at all, but all my flatmates loved it. even stupid people i know liked it which surprised me cause i thought the reason i disliked it was because i'd missed some other level of it, but i'm pretty sure if i'd missed something about a film then they would too. i think maybe they just liked laughing at the retard, maybe that's what it was all about. *shrugs*

oh, christ yeah, i'd forgotten about that one. i just didn't get it at all, but all my flatmates loved it. even stupid people i know liked it which surprised me cause i thought the reason i disliked it was because i'd missed some other level of it, but i'm pretty sure if i'd missed something about a film then they would too. i think maybe they just liked laughing at the retard, maybe that's what it was all about. *shrugs*

You didn't miss anything. It's not funny.

oh, christ yeah, i'd forgotten about that one. i just didn't get it at all, but all my flatmates loved it. even stupid people i know liked it which surprised me cause i thought the reason i disliked it was because i'd missed some other level of it, but i'm pretty sure if i'd missed something about a film then they would too. i think maybe they just liked laughing at the retard, maybe that's what it was all about. *shrugs*

People tried to say I didn't "get" it. It was supposed to be so banal and mudane (read: plotless and boring) to make a statement.
My point is that everyone should have a span of their life that is interesting to make a movie about. I have no interest in following someone around for a standard, boring week of their life. In other words, there is nothing to "get" about it, except for people trying to make it more complex to justify liking such a piece of garbage.

and my roommate just read that and said "Christ...why don't you tell them how you really feel":)

Fight Club.

All of my friends and acquaintances rave about good it is and how "deep" it is.

I find it pretentious and stupid.

Quoted for "fucking right!".

People tried to say I didn't "get" it. It was supposed to be so banal and mudane (read: plotless and boring) to make a statement.
My point is that everyone should have a span of their life that is interesting to make a movie about. I have no interest in following someone around for a standard, boring week of their life. In other words, there is nothing to "get" about it, except for people trying to make it more complex to justify liking such a piece of garbage.

and my roommate just read that and said "Christ...why don't you tell them how you really feel":)

heh, yeh, i really felt that i'd wasted precious minutes of my standard, boring day watching this movie. i could have been watching who wants to be a millionaire or big brother or family fortunes or any other of the pointless drivel on tv and still spent my time more productively than when i was watching this movie.

Movies I thought are mediocre at best, yet critics the world over raved about:
Sixth Sense.
Lost in Translation.
Sideways.

Sixth Sense: 'amazing, unbelievable, unexpected' plot twist at the end wasn't. It was pretty bloody obvious Bruce Willis was dead. And the whole solving the kid's problems was just so banal and moronic. Haley Joel finding the tape that shows the girl's mother pouring poison into the soup was just such a ridiculous mcguffin.

Lost in Translation: was just a moronic movie that seemed to be an experiment in how many cliches one could fit into 90 minutes. There's not a scene in that movie that isn't cliche. annoying cliche at that.

Sideways: pretty straightforward, cliched 'mid-life crisis' buddy movie. Not bad, but also not good. But the reviews pumped it up so much that it made it sound like this milleniums 'Citizen Kane'. When I finally got around to watching it the best I could describe it as was, 'meh'.

Wow...you're so cool for not liking anything popular... :rolleyes:

Shit, that wouldn't be SARCASM, would it?

I have an inverse hype codicle. The more hype there is, the more brainless morons rave about it, the less likely I am to want to see it and/or enjoy it.

Sixth Sense: 'amazing, unbelievable, unexpected' plot twist at the end wasn't. It was pretty bloody obvious Bruce Willis was dead. And the whole solving the kid's problems was just so banal and moronic. Haley Joel finding the tape that shows the girl's mother pouring poison into the soup was just such a ridiculous mcguffin.



yep, about 10 minutes in I lean over and whisper to my husband "I bet he is dead" and he says "yep, gotta be"

we hate it when that happens, it's a waste of money to go see movies....

also, we were pretty pissed at the remake of The Omen, geez could they put any more red? make it any more obvious?! and that kid? blech. He didn't come off as evil so much as bratty.

I like the original Omen, I wished they had just left it alone.

yep, about 10 minutes in I lean over and whisper to my husband "I bet he is dead" and he says "yep, gotta be"

we hate it when that happens, it's a waste of money to go see movies....

also, we were pretty pissed at the remake of The Omen, geez could they put any more red? make it any more obvious?! and that kid? blech. He didn't come off as evil so much as bratty.

I like the original Omen, I wished they had just left it alone.

That and goodness knows how many remakes we've seen lately. I mean, in so many cases, the original was not only better than the remake, it was a classic in its own right. *sigh*

yep, about 10 minutes in I lean over and whisper to my husband "I bet he is dead" and he says "yep, gotta be"

At least you said it to your husband. I went by myself, so just leant over and told the woman sitting next to me who was there with her b/f.
man, the nasty look she gave me! You'd think she'd have been happy to know the ending an hour or so beforehand, but no. Some people, eh? (*shakes head*)

The woman in front audibly gasped in total surprise when Willis finally revealed he was dead. I was so so close to smacking her on the back of her head and yelling, "For God's sake! How could you not realise!!"

yep, about 10 minutes in I lean over and whisper to my husband "I bet he is dead" and he says "yep, gotta be"

I didn't even get the chance to figure it out myself. A group of friends and I had rented it and watched it, and during the opening credits the only one who'd seen it decided we needed to know he was dead. We made a rule that he wasn't allowed to talk during movies ever again, not because Sixth Sense was really ruined by that, but because someday he might spoil a good movie.

Everyone i know loves Anchorman but its sooooooooooooooooooooo bad. Same goes with the Austin Powers films *shudders*
Agreed. That and Eurotrip.

I'd rather have the 22-minute Ghost in the Shell version.

As for movies I despise, the Matrix is the biggest load of crap I've seen in years. They just chopped up various anime (ie. Lain, Ghost in the Shell, etc.) and then put in big words that made it pretentious.
Yeah. That's what they did.:rolleyes:
Anytime anyone makes a comparison between anime and a real live-action movie I can’t help but laugh. I mean please. Like real directors and writers would have to defer to that excessive, over the top fluff.

I loved all the Matirix movies. All three of them. I don’t care what every other critic following lapdog has to say.

I hate Austin Powers movies. I am really not into fart humor, but I really just dont understand what is so funny about him urinating for a long time...or any of the other "jokes" that ends up being a long silence..."HAHA, no one is doing anything, thats so hilarious!1!!one!"

I hate the movie Scarface. It seems that every other guy worships it. I really don't see the big deal about it.