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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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 Posted - 07/02/2007 : 21:17:15
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Chris C
My personal shitty movie list includes the following:
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
Being There
Fantastic Four
More when I think of them.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Hollywood let themselves down embarrassingly with the adaptation of this. This movie could have been so much better, but the screenwriters did their thing and ruined it. I love the books and the original TV series. The movie is just cack. Mrs C fell asleep, I watched it all, but now I look on it as a waste of 109 minutes of my life. Douglas Adams, God rest his soul, is probably still rotating rapidly in his grave at the thought of this.
Adams co-wrote the script. Some of the gags in the film were his additions. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 07:23:02
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
3. Gladiator. Better than The Last Samurai but still profoundly overrated. William Wallace goes out screaming "FREEDOM!" in Braveheart. What would Maximus go out screaming? Probably something like "Leave me the hell alone" or "This is for my wife, fuck you and die." He's not fighting for anything noble. It's a pretentious Seagal movie, is all, and I wish people wouldn't hold up this dumb revenge movie as some kind of serious art.
Boy, am I ever glad to see I'm not the only one who hated that film. I wrote a review and the title to the review was "Badiator". Really lousy, especially with all the inacuracies.
I also found Saving Private Ryan to be a total bore. Watch the opening 10-15 minutes then watch the last 10-15 minutes and that's fine, but everything in the middle - pure blech!
I suffered terribly through all three Lord of the Rings movies, as well. Sure, it was eye-candy, but that's about it. Three whole damned movies just to get rid of one stupid ring? Give me a break!
Of course, Titanic is on my list of horrible movies - the only good stuff was the bits with the real underwater footage.
For some reason, one of our TV stations put on the movie Earthquake (1974) a while back and couldn't believe how bad that was, but it seems that most of the disaster movies of the mid-70s were of that ilk.
There are more, but some have already been mentioned, like the King Kong remakes. These stand out for me.
(Sorry I missed this thread when it started.)
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 14:51:29
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Thank you to everyone who has got this thread back to what it was supposed to be. I didn't put Gladiator on my list, but am relieved to see it is hated by so many others and so thoroughly lambasted here... the Titanic thing is obvious, I suppose....but I notice that nobody concurs with me about The Godfather
In any event, keep up the good work...
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 15:19:12
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I notice that nobody concurs with me about The Godfather
I didn't hate those movies, but I did see them and while they were okay, I'd never go out and buy them on DVD. There was some value to them (if only to spur on the TV show "The Sopranos", which in my mind makes The Godfather movies less valuable).
I saw the first Rocky movie, was satisfied that I'd had my fill of that genre and never went back to see another one.
But just now I thought of two animated movies I dispised. The first one was Pocahontas which was probably one of Disney's poorest efforts, especially with that 3 minute English lesson she gets and suddenly she's fluent - come on, give me a BREAK! The other one isn't a Disney movie, but was Anastasia - oh, my, god, what CRAP that was! The songs were incipid and not at all memorable, that damned dog made me want to give it a swift kick into some ocean or river or something, and the dialogue was so predictable and dumb you wonder how these people know how to breathe (which, since they were animated, they didn't technically have to, I guess).
And while we're on that vent, there is a Cinderella movie that didn't have the Rogers and Hamerstein songs, but was a musical, and was such a flop that I'm sure its participants would want to Alan Smithee themselves from it. I'm talking about The Slipper and the Rose. The... er... "highlight" of the film was Richard Chamberlain singing AND dancing in the family cript all over his dead ancestor's tombs! Yes, you got it - not only is the idea of Chamberlain singing and dancing enough to make anyone queasy, but to do it on a bunch of sarcophagi just makes you want to puke for a week?!
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 19:55:38
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Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Chris C
My personal shitty movie list includes the following:
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
Being There
Fantastic Four
More when I think of them.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Hollywood let themselves down embarrassingly with the adaptation of this. This movie could have been so much better, but the screenwriters did their thing and ruined it. I love the books and the original TV series. The movie is just cack. Mrs C fell asleep, I watched it all, but now I look on it as a waste of 109 minutes of my life. Douglas Adams, God rest his soul, is probably still rotating rapidly in his grave at the thought of this.
Adams co-wrote the script. Some of the gags in the film were his additions.
 Oops
Somehow that makes it worse. I'd be interested to know what script additions and amendments were made in the 4 years bteween his death and the movie release. |
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damalc 
"last watched: Sausage Party"
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 20:24:30
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Originally posted by damalc
boy, tough crowd. i really enjoyed a few of those. and dissing "The Godfather?" Sacrilege!
anyway, the three that i've reviewed and rated 0/5 on fwfr:
The Ninth Gate
Halloween 3
Boat Trip -- Cuba Gooding must be the champ of having an Oscar win on one's resume and wasting it.
there are very few movies that i really love or really hate. i probly classify about 80% of films in the "ahh, whatever" category: somewhat entertaining but forgettable, exactly where i filed "Die Most Hardest," (a rejected review) or whatever it's called, which i saw last night.
my short list above has nothing to do with whether anyone else liked them. and no one has come to their defense. HA! my opinion must be the best.
without thinking about it much, "The Matrix" has to top my overrated list.
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 20:51:49
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I notice that nobody concurs with me about The Godfather
I'm reminded of the famous, probably apocryphal, story attributed to many different jazzmen, but I first heard it as spoken by Duke Ellington. A woman who had just heard a sizzling Duke set stopped him as he was walking off the stage to take five and asked, "Mr. Ellington, what is jazz?" He replied, "Lady, if you don't know by now, you never will." |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 21:42:08
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Originally posted by Chris C
My personal shitty movie list includes the following:
Being There
What a range we have here on fwfr. For more than a year after I joined this group, I posted as avatars nothing but pix from this film to bolster my own four-word description. Something happened and I lost the power to upload graphics, but I still keep the four most important words from one of my very favorite movies as my personal description. So sorry you don't dig it. IMO, your loss. |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 23:20:30
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Originally posted by Chris C
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Hollywood let themselves down embarrassingly with the adaptation of this. This movie could have been so much better, but the screenwriters did their thing and ruined it. I love the books and the original TV series. The movie is just cack. Mrs C fell asleep, I watched it all, but now I look on it as a waste of 109 minutes of my life. Douglas Adams, God rest his soul, is probably still rotating rapidly in his grave at the thought of this.
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Adams co-wrote the script. Some of the gags in the film were his additions.
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Oops
Somehow that makes it worse. I'd be interested to know what script additions and amendments were made in the 4 years bteween his death and the movie release.
Yes, I did wonder that myself - although I actually don't think the script was that bad, perhaps just the execution of it.
But - I'm going to put my neck out and say that I didn't hate this movie. I have the original TV series, and I've read the books several times. I saw the film having heard all the mudslinging, and was, dare I say it, surprised at how vilified it was. Here is what I wrote for bigpondmovies, my online DVD service. (Sorry, this ain't Shakespeare, but I felt obligated to defend the movie, which lots of people kept pointlessly comparing to the TV series.)
"The zany (and often apt) philosphies on life, the universe and everything in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Trilogy are impossible to capture totally on the big screen, so there's no point in griping about that. And of course, the BBC TV series had a lot more scope to follow through on some of the themes from the first book. So take the film for what it is. And remember, Douglas Adams, writer of the original books, had a hand in writing the screenplay before he passed away. The 'point of view' gun, and the paddles that smack ideas out of you on planet Vogosphere are both his concepts. If you watch the DVD extras you will see how much Garth Jennings (Director) and others also loved the original books and TV series. This film was created as a tribute to Adams."
I think the idea-smacking paddles are just genius. It beautifully describes a work situation I'm going through at the moment.
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 01:25:17
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I notice that nobody concurs with me about The Godfather
I'm reminded of the famous, probably apocryphal, story attributed to many different jazzmen, but I first heard it as spoken by Duke Ellington. A woman who had just heard a sizzling Duke set stopped him as he was walking off the stage to take five and asked, "Mr. Ellington, what is jazz?" He replied, "Lady, if you don't know by now, you never will."
I like the analogy, which could equally be applied to paintings or food etc.  I couldn't explain to a non-convert why I regard Jackson Pollock as the best painter ever. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 02:55:57
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Of course, Titanic is on my list of horrible movies - the only good stuff was the bits with the real underwater footage.
There was a lot more good stuff than that. How about FX? Sound? Sound editing? Cinematography? Costumes? Some of those Oscars were richly deserved. I'm glad that the technicians were rightly rewarded for a job well done and didn't suffer because the scriptwriters couldn't come up with anything better than a shallow generic romantic drama.
The only things wrong with it were the plot and length, which I gave about 3/10. Technically it looked and sounded great, probably 9/10. And Kate's assets got 15/10.  So overall I gave it 6/10.
I sum up Gladiator about the same, it looked great but was a generic revenge flick. 6.5/10.
Unless I've missed it, nobody has mentioned Troy or Alexander in this thread. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as perhaps they weren't popular enough to be hated.  |
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MisterBadIdea
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 02:58:14
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Titanic is mighty stupid, I'll agree, but it's kind of stupid that kind of cuts through my defenses because it's so sincere.
I didn't mention Troy, but yeah, it's a real honking piece of shit. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 07:01:04
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Of course, Titanic is on my list of horrible movies - the only good stuff was the bits with the real underwater footage.
There was a lot more good stuff than that. How about FX? Sound? Sound editing? Cinematography? Costumes? Some of those Oscars were richly deserved. I'm glad that the technicians were rightly rewarded for a job well done and didn't suffer because the scriptwriters couldn't come up with anything better than a shallow generic romantic drama.
Eye-candy, yes. But eye-candy doesn't make a film for me.quote:
The only things wrong with it were the plot and length, which I gave about 3/10. Technically it looked and sounded great, probably 9/10. And Kate's assets got 15/10. So overall I gave it 6/10.
Since I'm a straight female, I wouldn't give Kate's assets such a high rating!quote:
I sum up Gladiator about the same, it looked great but was a generic revenge flick. 6.5/10.
Unless I've missed it, nobody has mentioned Troy or Alexander in this thread. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as perhaps they weren't popular enough to be hated.
After being so horribly disgusted by Gladiator, when I saw the promos for Troy and Alexander, I knew right away that I wouldn't like them so I avoided seeing them. The only good thing about Troy was that Brad Pitt played Achilles and I could make a joke about always knowing he was a heel!
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 16:26:39
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
I notice that nobody concurs with me about The Godfather
I'm reminded of the famous, probably apocryphal, story attributed to many different jazzmen, but I first heard it as spoken by Duke Ellington. A woman who had just heard a sizzling Duke set stopped him as he was walking off the stage to take five and asked, "Mr. Ellington, what is jazz?" He replied, "Lady, if you don't know by now, you never will."
I like the analogy, which could equally be applied to paintings or food etc. I couldn't explain to a non-convert why I regard Jackson Pollock as the best painter ever.
Once upon a time the marvellous actor Charles Laughton met the marvellous jazz pianist Oscar Peterson in, of all places, a train station in Edinburgh. Upon being introduced to Peterson and told he was a musician, Laughton asked "Classical or Jazz?". Peterson responded "Jazz". Laughton paused, as only Laughton could, leaned in, his little eyes squinting, and asked "Got any dope?"
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 19:28:21
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
I didn't mention Troy, but yeah, it's a real honking piece of shit.
What he said.
Third review here sums it up, I think.
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