This is NOT a troll like last week’s. I DID see Godfather Part II for the first time very recently and it was a bit disappointing. Maybe I’m a bit thick, but there were too many characters whose names I could not remember and too much of the plot development was reliant on the unsaid: expressions, inferences etc

Anyone got any other supposedly “classic” films that didn’t really do much for them?

too much of the plot development was reliant on the unsaid: expressions, inferences etc

I dislike Starship Troopers and American Pie II for much the same reasons. There’s just too much nuance and subtlety.

🙄 🙂

ET. Tremors. Titanic…

There is a long list.

deerhunter – i just didn’t enjoy it; the juxtaposition between pensylvania and vietnam doesn’t have enough parrelels to work imo- seems like two films accidently spliced if that makes sense. everyone i tell this to derides me!

shawshank, its an ok film but just soooo sentimental and feelgood to be believed

still, at uni if told a girl your fav film was shoreshank shed, be all ” wow i love that too, want to buy me a drink, can i sit on your face?” well almost

There Will Be Blood
Mist

Loads more but those too spring to mind from last year and both very painful to watch.

American Beauty.
Burn After Reading.
Lost in Translation.

All no more than average, IMO

Oh and here’s another that was merely OK and not great, No Country For Old Men. I got a bit bored, switched off during Tommy Lee Jones’ little monologue near the end and then realised that was actually the end. Damn, perhaps I should have been paying attention

is deer hunter supposed to “work” based on parallels between the two lives? i have always just enjoyed it on the basis that the horrors or what normal men are subjected to in vietnam meant they were unable to function when they got back to their previous lives?

titanic
perl harbor

come on tho does anyone think titanic is a good film??

apart from the oscar people who are all ****ts anway

Titanic – has to be over-rated right?

ET is good for kids I suppose.

The Gladiator is OK but over-rated too IMO.

Juan…FAIL…

The general consensus at the time was that Pearl Harbour was far from being highly rated 😀

Pulp Fiction

mudshark, good call on Gladiator

Lost in Translation

PeterPoddy, you are so, so wrong, on so many levels.

<shakes head>

(Juan – that may be a crap film, but it’s hard to write a good screenplay about a scripting language)

Another shout for Pulp Fiction

Shawshank Redemption

DrJ, with you on Lost In Translation. It does not deserve to be on this thread, but then I know more people who’d agree with PeterPoddy than me

is deer hunter supposed to “work” based on parallels between the two lives?

no. sorry i didn’t think i explained myself very well. i just feel like its not the same characters – may as well be rambo and two weddings. perhaps i jsut dont like the film (or get it)

i agree re: no country. overhyped imo

Crash – The one with Brendan Fraser,Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon at al.

That’s two and half hours of my life that I’ll never get back.

Sixth Sense.

What’s that film with Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Queen Amidala and I think Jude Law? Depressing and boring bunch of tosh

Well I liked Pulp Fiction, Shawshank a lot! And Sixth Sense too – well only worth watching once really.

Crash – both of them.

oh, yes, Sixth Sense was rubbish. Stick to firing guns Brucie.

ROFLMAO at Dr J
Oh well there is a reason I am a comp chemist 😉

Jonny Mnemonic – although to be honest I don’t think anyone rated it at the time. I missed an episode of Father Ted on the box to go see that pile of tripe at the cinema, bobbins of the highest order

Apocalypse Now
Withnail and I

Just terrible, both of them.

ROFLMAO at Dr J

I tried to find out what on earth ROFLMAO means and found this. I still don’t know what it means but I’ve just had a good giggle

IHN, oh so right about Withnail and I

burn after reading? burn after watching more like…..

There Will Be Blood

Eh? What? That was a bloody fabulous film!! Now as for No Country for Old Men…it was very good, but certainly not great.

Withnail is great, so’s Crash (the good one?!).

Kill Bill. Aweful film. I’ll never get that 90 minutes back.
Pulp Fiction – was ok, but nothing more.

Schlinder’s list.
Worst. Comedy. Ever.

ROFLMAO – Roll(ing) On Floor Laughing My Arse Off

I love Kill Bill – two scenes in particular, where she goes into the bar to get Hanzo to make her the sword, and the showdown with O Ren.

Pulp Fiction – just brilliant, start to finish.

Guess we’re all different.

Oh god, I normally get lambasted for this one…

Blade runner…

*hides*

Although this thread does remind me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUIF-hSXD8 (Work Safe)