The Damned United - was really looking forward to it after all the hype - but it was quite awful and had loads of continuity errors which made it even worse (for example Elland Road with seats in the Gelderd End, and the huge new East Stand which didn't exist until the very late 1980s)
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Highly rated films you just don't rate...
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fight club
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I thought Damned United was really good, actually.
I was more interested in the portrayal of the character of Brian Clough, than continuity errors, I have to say.
Fight Club- I was expecting it to be poor, because it had received such rave reviews (often means I find the film to be shit, tbh), but it lived up to the hype.
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Lots of people I know highly rate Anchorman...I think its utter shite.
Others in the list include:
The Dark Knight
Last Samurai
Dances With Wolves
Broken Flowers
Sideways
30 Days Of Night
Hostel 1&2
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Agree on Fight Club. Very Pretentious and trying too hard to be cool.
Just read the OP again though - Godfather Part II is a superb film imo.
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Did someone just say that the damned united is bad movie because they couldn't afford to recreate 1974 ellnd rd with CG? Seems harsh... Not seen the film yet but the book is superb.
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@porterclough - No - I thought it was a disappointing movie after all the publicity and hype surrounding both it and the book which is what this thread is about (also got the book but not read it yet). Apparently the film has been significantly softened from the book after complaints by Johnny Giles and the Clough family.
I really rate Timothy Spall as an actor but just couldn't relate to his portrayal of Peter Taylor in this film. And the continuity errors could easily have been avoided, and just made it worse for me.
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Gonna get flamed for this one (I always do)... The Usual Suspects was total crap IMO. Everybody else loves it, but it bored me to tears!
Withnail & I too, ok I understand it's more about the "shock factor" of the characters, but it's BOOOOOORING!
Plenty of other tosh films out there, but none others I can think of at the mo that recieved universal praise except from myself.
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That thing with the two girls and the cup
Dunno what you were all on about....
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Withnail & I too, ok I understand it's more about the "shock factor" of the characters
It is? Blimey And there was me thinking it was a deeply moving story (and very funny, but a little over-quoteable) with an awesome soundtrack.
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Fight Club is just miserable, Pulp Fiction bad Deathproof just a disaster on celuloid. Tarantino is so overated.
I love Blade Runner but it depends which version you see first, the original release with the voiceover I think is the best.
Same with Apocolypse now, the Redux version is just to long, the French Plantation scene is beyond awful, Coppola had lost the plot completley when he put that bit in.
No Country for Old Men in my humble opinion is a work of genius.
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Pkay, I admit it, I've not read the whole list, but has anyone mentioned Lord of the Rings yet? There's three years of my life I'll never get back (or however long the film was). I only really have two memories of watching that. The first was "has it really finished this time or are they just getting my hopes up again" and then when it did finish, I realised I couldn't care less whether they found the ring or not.
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In LOTR why didn't the eagles just carry the Hobbits to the Cracks of Doooooooooooom to drop the ring in? It would have saved a lot of time and anguish! (But may not have made a good book).
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Sideways
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IdleJon - the Eagles didn't enter Mordor untill the ring was destroyed, and sauron defeated. Whether they could've or not, I guess is unknown - but they were similar spirits to Sauron(Also Gandalf, Saruman & The Balrog for that matter). By your rational, why didn't Eru, or the Valar stop all wrong doing?
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The Great Escape
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'the Eagles didn't enter Mordor untill the ring was destroyed, and sauron defeated. '
Always the same, eagles, trying to claim all the glory after the deed is done.
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Always the same, eagles, trying to claim all the glory after the deed is done.
I quite liked Hotel California.
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two souls floating up to heaven. They spot a couple of eagles circling next to them and exclaim "Ah, eagles", but the eagles were too polite to respond
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The Truman Show.
If they'd made what they did half as long, then the rest of the film about what happened after he left, it would have been better, but as it was, deadly boring.Posted 3 years ago # -
I think the way The Truman Show ended was perfect. I think the movie would have been cheapened and spoiled with the "afterwards"
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Pretentious art house films seem to be getting a pasting on here, so to redress the balance, can I just say - James Bond films.
They all merge together in your head into one brilliant film, but even with the classic Sean Connery/Roger me Moore ones, when you watch them individually they're pretty disappointing.
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Slumdog millionaire
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They all merge together in your head into one brilliant film, but even with the classic Sean Connery/Roger me Moore ones, when you watch them individually they're pretty disappointing.
I'd agree with that but the latest reboot is a vast improvement.
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I thought Slumdog Millionaire did a good job of doing a film of a book. Not exactly the same, less gritty, but still a reasonable rendition. Plus Dev Patel has blossomed into a hottie so that was a bonus
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The Bourne films. Just loads of rushing around, with a very thin story, and no real conclusion. And that Matt Damon just looks constipated all the time.
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out of interest, all these 'that's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back' comments - does that mean that if you see a good film, you get that time back?
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Nope, but if the 3 hours of my life are not wasted, I don't feel the need to get them back!
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2 Kubrick films
Eyes wide shut, like what was the plot?
Clockwork Orange, after all the hype about it being withdrawn by the
director it turns out to be a big pile of poo.Posted 3 years ago # -
Bonfire of the vanities.
I tried really hard to go to sleep in the cinema as the person I was with would not walk out. Sadly I failed.
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Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Kill Bill 1&2, are favourites of mine, so no time soon I hope. No-one's mentioned Dusk till Dawn, which started great and turned bad quickly for me.
That's probably as Robert Rodriguez directed it - so not so much your taste as the films Taranteno directs.
However my least favourite sci-fi film has got to be "The Matrix" - it's just a creepy fan-boy manifesto and bashes its single "moral" home with all the subtlety of a half brick.
It's a Hollywood film - they can't afford to be too subltle if big merchandising deals are in the offing, however i still feel that this film has merit in that it makes a simplifed investingation into the works of Hilary Putnam (read reason truth and history - good book) - Plus it gave all those ex Home & Away actors some work god bless em.
In conclusion: I'm not going to state a personal opinion of what film i don't rate, there should be arguments for and against any film mentioned, for if there were not it would be a sad day - just because you all may be intersted in bikes it doesn't mean have to enjoy the same films.
Oh stuff it - 'eye's wide shit' utter crap.
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Eyes wide shut, like what was the plot?
That is predictably crap under the "Tom Cruise" rule. Still, Nicole Kidman, phoah!!
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Wasn't expecting much of Eyes Wide Shut, so wasn't disappointed - quite enjoyed it in fact!
The worst waste of 3 hours ever, was Bridge over the river Kwai - OMG! What were they thinking of! And why is it still screened these days?
Blair Witch would be my other nonination for the crap film award.
Blade Runner.... everyones got an opinion on that! As a Philip K Dick fan i was a bit miffed first time i saw it, but by the third or forth viewing, i was being to warm to it. By around the eightth or ninth time , i was in love and still am .Posted 3 years ago # -
I find it quite hard to laugh at the Will Ferrel/Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller stuff although Wedding crashers was quite good if not laugh out loud funny.
Biggest dissapointment was Burn After Reading - I really wanted it to be as good as the trailer but soon realised it was just the elbow song used that made it look good.
Anything with Adam Sandler. Oh look, another looser done good film...
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ET .......tosh.....
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