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So I'm stuck in the states at the moment working. Whilst most of the TV in the states is hideous they do have the wonderful HBO where you can watch top notch films without constant ad breaks.
I got in last night, cracked a bottle of Mexican beer and stuck the box on. Avatar was on.
Now this is a film that seemed to gain such media fuss when it came out and had people clammering to see it.
But I thought it was utter cock.
OK - I get the effects were good (and I did watch it on a stupidly big telly), but the story was dull, slow and pretty ridiculous.
There's been loads like this - films where they get lots of media attention but just seem so undeserving when you actually see them.
Watchmen - Utter pish.
Star Wars episodes 1, 2 and 3
Donny Darko for me absolute pants!
The Big Lebowski.
disneys 'Up'. seemed to go on for ages and not much happened IMO
The latest Batman whatever that was called
star wars films, lord of the rings, nearly all comic book based films.
I thought everyone had said Avatar was crap? Anyway, I had low expectations and thought it was alright.
The new Batman films were hyped up as being really good. I thought they were quite forgettable.
Watchmen - Utter pish.
So much so, the hamsters posted it twice.
deerhunter. what a load of shite.
Lord of the Rings +1
King Kong similarly uninvolving big-budget tosh but x10
Star Wars episodes 4, 5 and 6.
watchmen was pretty rubbish.
Up was great, but then for me it was moving in other ways too.
Hurt Locker. Pants.
Lord of the Rings +1
Yip. Nearly fell asleep
ohhh i keep wanting to '+1' things!
king kong
godzilla
pretty much every horror i've been encouraged to watch
watchmen
deerhunter
the shrek films
rocky (bought a box set of them all, havent bothered watching anymore after the disappointment of number 1)
Lord of The Rings +1
Why didn't they just get a taxi. 🙂
Cold Mountain and anything starring Brenda Blethyn, especially Secrets & Lies.
The 3 Star Wars prequels
The Ghost Writer
Back Door Badgers
rocky (bought a box set of them all, havent bothered watching anymore after the disappointment of number 1
I wanted Apollo Creed to win too.
Kill Bill vol 1 - gave up after 2 minutes it was pish
Jackie Brown - yawn! Did make it to 10 minutes though
Avatar is one of the worst films I've ever seen - I wasn't even expecting it to be amazing, just reasonably entertaining but it was almost unwatchable.
No Country For Old Men is the most over-hyped film ever though - dull and pretentious.
Watchmen was crap (is there an anti blue people sentiment here?).
I quite liked Shrek 1 though.
I guess a lot of this comes down to the Oscars. Most of these gash films get at least nominated - but they get nominated by filmy types, not the beer swilling masses that watch them.
Oh, and all Matrix films except possibly the first one.
The leather clad female in those films is hot though. 🙂
Oh, and both Daniel Craig Bond movie. Cock to the power of helmet.
Oh, and Con-Air. 😐
Reservoir Dogs.....
Tried to watch it a couple of times, but got bored & turned it off. Normally I can persevere, but not with this...
Is this one of those threads that people contribute to in the vain hope of finding someone who agrees with them?
Yes, it's one of those.
Except that my choices are objectively correct. All the other choices are just subjective opinion.
con air?!
CON AIR?!>"
HOW DARE YOU!
die hard 2
Another Is Blair Witch. **** I was bored to death never mind scared to death.
Natural Born Killers
Sin CIty
The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
Con Air is a classic! "Put the bunny back in the box"
I didn't like "No Country For Old Men" either, but apparently that's because I lack the imagination to deal with an ambiguous ending 🙄
Cock to the power of helmet.
Phrase of the week, surely? 😀
rocky (bought a box set of them all, havent bothered watching anymore after the disappointment of number 1)
Now that is just wrong. The original Rocky is fantastic, 2 and 3 are pretty good. 4 is just about bearable, 5 IS pants. Tommy f*****g Gunn my hairy white arse.
Pulp Fiction
Seven
Trainspotting
All completely overrated, not awful, but oh so overrated.
Meh.
Who actually raved about Con Air? come on, everyone knows its a joke film and like all jokes, you either get it or you don't. I didn't!
Highlander - worst film I have ever seen (part of).
Any Lord of the Rings
E.T. (sleep enducing, literally)
Uh... 32 posts and no-one's mentioned Titanic yet?
Stereotypical Irish types dancing/getting pissed on pleb deck anyone?
Lost In Translation
And another one for Watchmen. Watched about 30mins and couldn't find a character I wanted to survive
Never seen Avatar, any of the Die Hard films or Star Wars prequels.
Another Is Blair Witch. **** I was bored to death never mind scared to death.
I was reading this thread thinking "my god, you're all mad" until I came across this. The Blurred Witch Project is an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back, I've had scarier bowel movements.
Seems like one of those threads where everyone contributes with films that are actually perfectly good in the hope that everyone else will think 'ooooh... this guy is obviously the next Barry Norman..'
I'm just going to take the opportunity to big up 'Trollhunter' cos I can't be bothered starting a new thread. Great scenery, fun plot, some good funny bits. Even the end credit music would have been good if some guy hadn't started screaming over it (might have been the vocals..)
As a disclaimer we saw it in the Cameo and I'd had a few...
Phrase of the week, surely?
And that's the second sensible thing that's been said here.
Yes, it's one of those.
woohooo, thanks, I feel GREAT
[i]Norwegian Wood[/i] - enjoyed the book, was deeply bored by the film... especially as I'd seen [i]Blue Valentine[/i] the day before, which knocked me for six.
300, homo erotic crap fest!
star wars prequels.
Avatar is fern gully but flashier, what a load of shite.
Ice age all of them.
+1 for matrix... eugh.
The day the earth stood still.... just no
so many crap films!
There're quite a few films generally regarded as rubbish being mentioned here.
I do travel a lot and BA seem to have these "rave" films on their in flight entertainment system.
I've done two returns to San Francisco in the last three weeks and the list hasn't changed between flights.
So I watched:-
Super 8 (utter crud nasty disney ET nonsense)
X-Men First class (made no sense on relation to the other films as Dr X gets crippified as a young man, not an old slap head)
Flying home tonight I intend to watch GnTs being drunk and that's all.
Was Open Water raved about at the time? I think that's the worst "big" film I've ever seen. Two people go on holiday, get lost in the ocean, argue a bit, get nibbled at by sharks, the end. The most exciting bit of the entire film was one of them having a wee.
Blair witch scared the crap out of me 😯 was about 12 when I watched it (under the covers at a sleep-over, not a great idea)
Is this where the people with no taste hang out?
No its those folk with[i] opinions[/i]. Got any of your own?
DrRS**** - Member
I do travel a lot and BA seem to have these "rave" films on their in flight entertainment system.
^^This^^
Watch films on flights a lot these days. Recent flights have included;
Big Lebowski - pointless and unfunny
Watchmen - Pish
The Green Hornet - A moment or two of fun. Otherwise pish
Tron Legacy - Pish
Not doing very well, am I?
Blair Witch was rubbish.
Under the Tuscan Sun
Like sucking on a honey coated panda nipple - for 90 minutes straight. 😈
Atonement
War as sculptural masturbation. 👿
All the Star Wars films.
Can't believe someone said The Godfather!
For me, the new Oliver Stone Wall Street is a shocker and 2012 was terrible.
Big Lebowski - pointless and unfunny
I'm intrigued now. What would you regard as funny then Flashy?
well your here Schrickvr6, so probably..
No Country For Old Men is the most over-hyped film ever though - dull and pretentious.
Not completely dull, I did enjoy the acting, but just like Lost in translation, the whole film just goes no where...
Seven .. fanatistic film, until the ending which was so obvious, it was pointless.
+1 for Natural born killers, saw the thread the other day and thought it not even worth reading.
EDIT: 13thfloormonk, there already a thread about it [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/is-this-the-ideal-film-for-stw-norwegianenglish-sub-titles-content ]here[/url], I'm half way through it, and it is good.
Shawshank. Pretty much everyone's top 5 best movies always contain this. I think someone started seeing it in someone's top five and had such crap imagination that they also started copying it. Wtf? it was decent, not a top 5!
You've just reminded me of another (this'll be popular)
The Usual Suspects
more like The Usual Overacting from Kevin bloody Spacey.
(I admit Benicio del Toro's character is brilliant)
gave up after 2 minutes it was pish
I'm struggling to take seriously the views of anyone who thinks they can fairly judge an almost two hour film (which is half of a two-part story) on the basis of the first two minutes.
If this is a common view then it's no wonder half of you hated The Lord of the Rings.
No its those folk with opinions. Got any of your own?
Yes I do thanks, I just can't be bothered to share them with you, oh except to say I think you're bitchy. 🙂
Seriously I do agree with your choices, but so many classic films slated in this thread.
Not completely dull, I did enjoy the acting,
I found the central bad guy completely unconvincing, though I agree it goes nowhere too. The only thing I enjoyed about it was the cinematography.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
10 minutes of taut plottage gives way to an hour or more of steamin' ass wizardry. 👿
At the risk of over-posting...
Nosferatu
Just too damn quiet! If it's horror, I need to hear shrieking. 😆
[i]War as sculptural masturbation[/i]
I have no idea what this means, enjoyed the film though, I thought it was well acted, good plot, intriguing ending.
[i]oh except to say I think you're bitchy.[/i]
Takes one to know one 😛
Lost in translation "Shite"
Black Swan "Shite" but nice Lesbo scene 😀
Citizen Kane - complete rubbish.
I must confess I also found the godfather a bit meh, I'm sure it muust be me though so will give it another whirl soon.
shawshank ok film but the ending made me want to vomit - it ruined the film for me
I more intrigued to know what some of the people think are good films....
Will they be hyping Peter Greenaway or Mike Leigh?
Maybe some just have no taste?
Or is it just somewhere for the non-geeks hang?
When someone says Nosferatu do they mean the 1922 classic silent (although I did find it a bit dull but admired Francis Ford Coppola's homage via cinematography in Dracula)
or the 1979 / 1998 versions?
The original Star Wars films. Great when I was 8 or whatever, pants now.
Anything with Madonna in it. Utter tripe.
Harry Potter.
bought the godfather films on remastered blu-ray.... a bit meh but will give them another chance.
surprised nobody has mentioned inception yet considering the mixed reaction it got!
shawshank indeed, good film but ending left a bitter taste!
Lost in Translation is a good example of what I meant really.
It was hyped by the critics - and was awful and dull.
I don't mind the 'pop' films on here. So Star Wars - yes the films are pretty dull, but they were never hyped.
Avatar did seem to win the plaudits of proper "filmys". Same as Black Swan, Lost in Translation, English Patient.......
They're all awful - yet somehow we get duped into watching them cos some critic said they were great.
But - can I add ANY film by Quentin Tarantino to the list. I've not really enjoyed anything he's done and I can't stand his insistence on cameoing in films. If you had him, Bin Laden and Hitler in a room and had two bullets - I'd shoot QT twice to make sure.
Is this place where taste goes to die?
I cannot believe that Shawshank Redemption, Godfather, The Big Lebowski and the Usual Suspects are mentioned
Avatar, Hurt Locker and Lost In Translation i can agree with. I'll add Inception to that list - nowhere near as clever as it thought it was
^ with regards to Shawshank and it's ending. Was there something mildly camp about it? It always seemed a bit, well, "man love" to me.....
Not that there's anything wrong with man love. It did seem to spoil an average film some what though.
When someone says Nosferatu do they mean the 1922 classic silent (although I did find it a bit dull but admired Francis Ford Coppola's homage via cinematography in Dracula)
The 1922 classic silent... probably still pretty chilling after a litre or two of rum, but DO NOT watch this with friends... uncomfortable! 😳
Shawshank. Pretty much everyone's top 5 best movies always contain this. I think someone started seeing it in someone's top five and had such crap imagination that they also started copying it. Wtf? it was decent, not a top 5!
Well you see, that is my favourite film of all time, ever. I have watched it multiple times and never bore of it. Wonderfully acted throughout and utterly captivating.