I liked Titanic 🙁
[i]Eh? What? That was a bloody fabulous film!! Now as for No Country for Old Men...it was very good, but certainly not great. [/i]
I'm sorry your very misguided.
The Wicker Man - i've tried watching it many times but always end up switching it off!! (And I'm not on about the re-make!)
Hmm, I don't believe anyone cannot appreciate Bladerunner or Apocalypse Nowat even just a cinematic level; I mean, I find Mean Streets a dull, dull, dull narrative but as cinema it is superb.
Over-rated to the point of my disbelief? The complete works of Mr Guy Ritchie, Sin City, Slumdog millionaire (Salman Rushdie's appraisal: "Poverty Tourism" hit the mark), all Star Wars sequels, Marx Brothers films... I'll stop there, I need to go to the chippy.
I wonder what the response would be if I classified much, if not all, of the output of Mr Tarantino as 'pretentious w@nk'.
Actually, I take it back. I mean all of it.
Everything by Tarantino - shocking people is not a substitute for talent
Donnie Darko - I almost liked it, but then didn't
PI - I will try again sometime
But I do rate: Crash, Lost in Translation, Bladerunner, American Beauty
Film that surprised me because it was great
Charlie Wilsons War
IHN, I for one would agree whole heartedly.
Glengarry glen ross couldn't even finish it
Wunundred!
Debbie Does Dallas.
Because we don't actually see her in Dallas, 'doing' anyone. A proper swizz. Deffo want me money back on that one.
is there a prize?
I thought the Exorcist was pants as well - just made me laugh!
No Country For Old Men is possibly the most over-rated film ever. Very disappointing.
Everything by Tarantino - shocking people is not a substitute for talent
I had to turn Deathproof off before I kicked the tv.
The Exorcist was just so badly made, and not scary in any level.
Meet Joe Black, just pish!
PJ.
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)
fight club
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.
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
Anything after the first Resident Evil
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.
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.
@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.
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.
That thing with the two girls and the cup
Dunno what you were all on about....
[i]Withnail & I too, ok I understand it's more about the "shock factor" of the characters[/i]
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.
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.
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.
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).
Sideways
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?
😉
The Great Escape
'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.
Always the same, eagles, trying to claim all the glory after the deed is done.
I quite liked Hotel California.
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
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.
I think the way The Truman Show ended was perfect. I think the movie would have been cheapened and spoiled with the "afterwards"
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.
Slumdog millionaire
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.
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 🙂
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.
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?
Nope, but if the 3 hours of my life are not wasted, I don't feel the need to get them back!
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.
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.
