Vanilla fucking Sky. Jesus, could there be a more pretentious, obnoxious piece of shit?
Hell yeah. I got a chance to see the original film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) which Vanilla Sky is based on, and it's amazing that a movie made 4 years earlier with a lesser known director, lesser known actors, a smaller budget, and a completely different language is so much better. Vanilla Sky is essentially a scene-for-scene remake and somehow it does so many things wrong that the original did right.
I hate Donnie Darko. So much. Everyone loves it and I loathe it.
DodgerGirl
1st November 2006 - 12:11 PM
QUOTE (StellaStarr+Oct 27 2006, 11:37 AM) What Dreams May Come
Oh! Oh! I had managed to forget that HORRIBLE HORRIBLE movie and you have now reminded me of it! BAH! A pox on all your houses, StellaStarr!
Eris Rising
1st November 2006 - 12:18 PM
You know, I never saw that movie. The trailer scared me off.
treehouse
1st November 2006 - 12:20 PM
I'm so happy to see the Serendipity hate. I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd ever seen it. What a ridiculous piece of crap. Speaking of which: The Lake House. I know, I know, it's my own damn fault.
Eris Rising
1st November 2006 - 12:23 PM
My Brilliant Career. Artsy dreck about a woman finding herself in Australia.
HATED Steel Magnolias. I know, I know...chick flick. But I've managed to sit through other ones without wanting to break into hysterical laughter at every "tragic" moment.
skittlebrau
1st November 2006 - 01:38 PM
Ooh, how I love the Lake House. But I am an unapolgetic lover of Sandra Bullock movies. I have a girlcrush on her.
| QUOTE | I hate Donnie Darko. So much. Everyone loves it and I loathe it.
<br>I'm like the only person I know who hates it, so this is reassuring. And why is it that when I say I didn't like it, everyone's retort is always "Probably because you didn't get it."
Gracie
1st November 2006 - 01:44 PM
| QUOTE | I'm like the only person I know who hates it, so this is reassuring. And why is it that when I say I didn't like it, everyone's retort is always "Probably because you didn't get it."
<br>You must know my sister. She went absolutely batshit over that movie and I..."just didn't get it". Bah.
La G
1st November 2006 - 03:56 PM
QUOTE (Gracie+Nov 1 2006, 09:44 PM) | QUOTE | I'm like the only person I know who hates it, so this is reassuring. And why is it that when I say I didn't like it, everyone's retort is always "Probably because you didn't get it."
<br>You must know my sister. She went absolutely batshit over that movie and I..."just didn't get it". Bah. I love Donnie Darko. But I would agree that obscure theorising all over the internet about it has lessened the joy. I don't need to think I'm right about what actually happened to enjoy it - too many people treat it like a physics paper.
Little Bear
1st November 2006 - 04:40 PM
QUOTE (La G+Nov 1 2006, 06:56 PM) I don't need to think I'm right about what actually happened to enjoy it - too many people treat it like a physics paper. Exactly how I feel about it. I love it for its overall mood and for all the little moments--to be honest, I don't know exactly what I think it's all about or what really happens, but I don't care that much, and I definitely don't care what other people think is the correct interpretation. In fact, I think anyone, quite possibly including the filmmaker, who claims to know and understand precisely what it's on about is full of shit. Like it, don't like it, sure. But "you didn't get it?" Bah.
roseland
1st November 2006 - 05:21 PM
The thing I like most about Donnie Darko is that everytime I watch it, I make another connection and the film makes a little more sense to me. I'll be able to tell you all exactly what this film is about by the time I'm 93 years old. Stay tuned.
max power
1st November 2006 - 05:59 PM
QUOTE (treehouse+Nov 1 2006, 01:20 PM) I'm so happy to see the Serendipity hate. I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd ever seen it. What a ridiculous piece of crap. Speaking of which: The Lake House. I know, I know, it's my own damn fault. I saw the Lake House on the plane. Maybe it was the nausea brought on by lack of sleep, but I...didn't think it totally sucked. Trivia question: Besides the fact that I saw both of them on the airline and they both kinda suck, what is the connection between The Lake House and American Dreamz (the Mandy Moore- Hugh Grant movie satirizing American Idol)?
Joe Don Faker
1st November 2006 - 06:04 PM
QUOTE Trivia question: Besides the fact that I saw both of them on the airline and they both kinda suck, what is the connection between The Lake House and American Dreamz (the Mandy Moore- Hugh Grant movie satirizing American Idol)? Hmm! They were both produced by Sandra Bullock's production company? Each has one of the main stars from Two Weeks Notice? Both have a time-travelling mailbox?
DodgerGirl
2nd November 2006 - 04:41 AM
They were both MOVIES! on a MOTHERF**KING PLANE!
max power
2nd November 2006 - 10:50 AM
QUOTE (Joe Don Faker+Nov 1 2006, 07:04 PM) | QUOTE | Trivia question: Besides the fact that I saw both of them on the airline and they both kinda suck, what is the connection between The Lake House and American Dreamz (the Mandy Moore- Hugh Grant movie satirizing American Idol)?
<br>Hmm!
They were both produced by Sandra Bullock's production company?
Each has one of the main stars from Two Weeks Notice?
Both have a time-travelling mailbox? Good guesses, but I was going for an actor they have in common: Shoreh Aghdashloo, best known as Dina Araz from 24. In both movies, she plays a sympathetic, loving mother of a terrorist. (Sandra Bullock is a terrorist...of my heart.)
indigoblue
2nd November 2006 - 06:47 PM
| QUOTE | Shohreh Aghdashloo, best known as Dina Araz from 24.
Was she Charlie on Smith?
La G
3rd November 2006 - 03:00 AM
QUOTE (max power+Nov 2 2006, 06:50 PM) Good guesses, but I was going for an actor they have in common: Shoreh Aghdashloo, best known as Dina Araz from 24. In both movies, she plays a sympathetic, loving mother of a terrorist. (Sandra Bullock is a terrorist...of my heart.) Oh, that lady. She was in an episode of ER last year, playing the sympathetic, loving mother of two children - her daughter who is the victim of an honour killing by the son.
Meglio
3rd November 2006 - 04:12 AM
QUOTE (La G+Nov 3 2006, 11:00 AM) Oh, that lady. She was in an episode of ER last year, playing the sympathetic, loving mother of two children - her daughter who is the victim of an honour killing by the son. Ooh, that was a rare good episode from ER last year. I've never seen 24, but she really stood out in that role. A film I would like to punch in the face is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It's going to be on TV soon, and I've been watching the adverts for it and thinking, "o, that looks quite good". I've only just remembered I had already bloody seen it (in fact, I think I bought the DVD on a whim, and it pains me to have wasted that money) and that it had bored me half to death. Sea battles where I couldn't tell what was going on! Pompous speeches! Excessive length! I love Paul Bettany, but I would like him not to make any more films with Russell Crowe.
DodgerGirl
3rd November 2006 - 07:08 AM
Oh, man, I loved that movie, Meglio! It probably helps that one of my favorite books is "Two Years Before the Mast", and that I love Russell Crowe. But hey, I even loved the music in it and bought the soundtrack.
redbeans
3rd November 2006 - 09:32 AM
Shohreh Aghdashloo rocks, she totally deserved the Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog.
Anyway, movies I want to punch in the face: The Medallion. God almighty did I hate this movie. Jackie Chan, what the fuck were you thinking? I've seen more creativity and depth in Backstreet Boys videos, and your "romance" with Claire Forlani was utterly nauseating. You're lucky you've got Project A on your resume, because that's the only thing that keeps you from joining Forlani and Lee Evans on my Tainted Forever list.
Juxtaposeur
3rd November 2006 - 10:07 AM
I've found most plane movies are the suck. When people say, "Oh that's a great plane movie!" I think, "hoo boy. This is gonna blow." In the last few years, I've seen White Chicks, Maid in Manhattan and The Wedding Date on a plane. Yuck.
Funny thing with that last one, I was in LAX standing on line, waiting to board in that accordian hallway thing that leads to the plane, when I noticed Dermot Mulroney in front of me. Then, when I was informed of our feature, I thought "Hey! What a coincidence. Star of the movie is a few rows in front of me." Then I had this fleeting paranoid X-files thought like, "If the star of the movie is on the plane, does it create some kind of weird paradox that will cause the plane to crash while all the passengers get yoinked into some alternate dimension?"
Of course I wasn't serious, and really. If I were to experience some alternate dimension yoinking, I'd hope it would be over a better movie than that.
Joe Don Faker
3rd November 2006 - 10:43 AM
QUOTE (Juxtaposeur+Nov 3 2006, 01:07 PM) I've found most plane movies are the suck. When people say, "Oh that's a great plane movie!" I think, "hoo boy. This is gonna blow." In the last few years, I've seen White Chicks, Maid in Manhattan and The Wedding Date on a plane. Yuck. But have you seen Die Hard on a plane? (I'm not sure if that would be Passenger 57, Executive Decision, or Air Force 1...?)
Gatorbait
3rd November 2006 - 06:26 PM
QUOTE (redbeans+Nov 3 2006, 09:32 AM) Anyway, movies I want to punch in the face: The Medallion. God almighty did I hate this movie. Jackie Chan, what the fuck were you thinking? I've seen more creativity and depth in Backstreet Boys videos, and your "romance" with Claire Forlani was utterly nauseating. HA! The movie poster for The Medallion actually prompted me to write an Open Letter to Claire Forlani to McSweeneys. (And yes, I'm pimping it. I was told by the editor, whatever his name is, that it was "utterly charming." Even if we both missed the typo.)
NatalieX
3rd November 2006 - 08:14 PM
'Night Mother. Absolutely the most depressing and tedious piece of crap I have ever had the misfortune of sitting through. QUOTE You're lucky you've got Project A on your resume, because that's the only thing that keeps you from joining Forlani and Lee Evans on my Tainted Forever list. Forlani made my list after Meet Joe Black.
buffyvol
6th November 2006 - 10:33 AM
Any movie based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. I fricken hate that man!
Austin16
13th November 2006 - 10:30 AM
I still want my money back for Freddy Got Fingered. It was just awful.
notime
15th November 2006 - 09:34 AM
I got stuck on plane watching "Broken Bridges" yesterday. Augh! It was so horrible! By law, no movie should be allowed to be that bad.
DodgerGirl
22nd November 2006 - 06:30 PM
This thread seemed like the best place for Infamously bad coaching decisions.
EssPee
6th December 2006 - 06:57 PM
I first saw Almost Famous on a plane, and thought it was pretty good until the very end, when it sort of fell apart in a raft of non sequiturs. It wasn't until months later that a colleague happened to make a passing reference to "the airplane scene" being great, to which I could only drop my jaw and say, "Airplane scene? What airplane scene?"
Of course, she was referring to the great, "I am flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi, with America's hottest band, and we are all about to die" scene. Which, of course, the asshats who decided to use the film in flight had completely excised, leaving no trace. I had to rent the movie again to see what I'd missed, and how the ending actually made sense after all. The experience put me off in-flight movies ever since.
Msquared
14th December 2006 - 05:59 AM
Garden State. I never thought I could hate Natalie Portman, or Zach Braff for that matter, but I stopped watching about ten minutes after Portman showed up. Oh I get it. She's whacky, and quirky and she knows a secret about life that no one else knows, and she's going to change my life.
Minority Report. I always protest when someone talks me into seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but this one really pissed me off. One hour of greatness, and then it turned into just another fracking "One Man Against the Establishment" Tom Cruise piece of crap.
Top Gun. This is the one that made me hate Tom Cruise. Dreck.
Half Moon Street. Has anyone else ever seen it? Sigourney Weaver as a PhD researcher who is a hooker by night. Are you kidding me? And Michael Caine in one of his rare movie appearances.
Dances with Wolves. This is the one that made me hate Kevin Costner. Also dreck.
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 11:55 AM
Love, Actually. I would ring it's neck if I could. With my bare hands. What a horrible, horrilbe movie.l Poor whatsherface resigns herself to the fact that as long as her brother is alive, she will never have her own life. Emma takes back Snape. Aslan get's with Claudia Shiffer,I know that spelled wrong, less than a year after his wife dies? There is another horrilbe sl in there somewhere, but I can't remember it because of the anyurism I just had thinking of this movie!
And thanks Cass for bringing this movie up in the Holiday Music thread. Thanks a whole frackin lot!
cassandra
14th December 2006 - 01:30 PM
Heh heh. This, I expected.
I know, I hated it too at first. I thought it was cheesy populist tripe with a facile view of love and heartbreak. (Mmm, tripe).
(And I still hate the storyline where Laura Whatserface never gets it on with the Brazilian hunk.)
All I can say is that the movie wore me down and broke my spirit until I started to believe it. They kept re-running it on TV and I got used to it and now it's the kind of movie that if it's playing on TV when I get out of the shower, I will sit down balls-naked (um, metaphorically) on the edge of the bed until it's over.
It really comes down to Hugh Grant's dance to the Pointer Sisters. What is not to love about that?
Little Bear
14th December 2006 - 02:14 PM
cassandra, you're not alone. The first time I saw it, I cried at least three different times, and when it was over I was like, "Oh God, what just happened?" I hate that shit as a rule, but this one completely got me. I think the whole movie was some kind of experiment, and they put in subliminal images--sad puppies and whatnot--and I just happened to be susceptible. There's no other reasonable explanation.
It feels good to let go of some of the shame.
notime
14th December 2006 - 02:49 PM
I know that I should hate Love Actually. I can't help loving it though. I don't even know why, I just ..... man, I love that movie.
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 02:57 PM
Oh! You all are just....... I don't know what you are!
notime
14th December 2006 - 03:03 PM
Saps?
roseland
14th December 2006 - 03:12 PM
I have to admit, I'm pretty unromantic, yet Love, Actually is one of the few DVDs that I own. I don't think it's because of the storylines (most of which are simplistic and cloying) but the fact that is filled with some of my favorite actors. Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Colin Firth, Bill Nye (phonetic spelling), Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant doing what Hugh Grant does best. And then Richard Curtis has the sense to have that hot Brazillian actor take off his shirt! I also admit that the opening and closing sequences at Heathrow always get to me. Everyone's so happy to see each other! I just can't hate it.
Also, the DVD contains the funniest commentary ever done out side of Billy Boyd and Dominic Monghyan on the LoR's DVDs.
Mike-El
14th December 2006 - 03:20 PM
I'm a sappy, romantic comedy-loving, Christmas freak Anglophile. So that movie punches all kinds of buttons for me.
Everyone looks like they had such a blast making it. I dunno...it's just infectious. It always leaves me smiling.
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 03:36 PM
QUOTE (notime+) Saps? I was thinking FREAKS!, but whatever. It's christmas. Time to be nice and all.
Little Bender
14th December 2006 - 03:43 PM
I know I'm late but
| QUOTE | Meet Joe Black
<br>but but but it had Brad Pitt getting knocked down by a car! Twice! In less than a second! I turned the movie off right there and immediately put it on my top ten "Best Movies Ever" list for life.
"The Day after Tomorrow". Horrible, horrible film. How did they manage to make a movie about the end of the world so very boring? And outrunning the cold? What!?
There is one very good part in it though (unintentional of course). When Keira Knightly is crossing the flooded street, she gets her leg impaled on a car's tailpipe. The sound effect they used is the single most hilarious thing I have ever heard. Seriously, my friends and I kept rewinding and playing that one part over and over again at least ten times. By the end we could barely breathe.
Msquared
14th December 2006 - 03:49 PM
| QUOTE | Bill Nye (phonetic spelling)
The Science Guy?
certified
14th December 2006 - 03:52 PM
Don't feel alone, buffy. It's Hate, Actually in this house.
fofanna1
14th December 2006 - 03:57 PM
I think we should just punch buffyvol and certified in the face.
In the spirit of Christmas, of course.
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 04:15 PM
I knew I liked you certified, but just between you and me, that fofanna1 is a raggidy nailed hussy. Don't tell her I said that though.
La G
14th December 2006 - 05:07 PM
Where do I buy my Team Buffyvol and Certified T-shirts? Just because a film has good actors and is sentimental, doesn't make it good.
Bill Nighy is a phenomenal actor, but it doesn't actually make his role in that film funny. So is Emma Thompson, but hey, love means excepting your husband is a immature twat? Quite the Xmas message. Colin Firth is never more anal and unappealing than in this film, and if Hugh Grant is really truly what people find entertaining about England - here's my passport - would anyone like to sponsor me for a green card? The only decent character in the movie gets to have a shit life caring for her brother. Happy Bloody Christmas.
Yeah, so I'm not keen on Love Actually (the title of which is the only decent bit).
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 05:08 PM
QUOTE (La G+) Where do I buy my Team Buffyvol and Certified T-shirts? WOOT! Two more and we get a toaster!
Gladly
14th December 2006 - 05:38 PM
Even though I think it's heart wrenching and it makes me cry when Emma Thompson cries alone in her room and then manages to pull herself together to go back out to her family, I hate that movie. Even adorable Tiffany from East Enders couldn't save it for me.
buffyvol
14th December 2006 - 05:39 PM
*throws Gladly a T-Shirt*
certified
14th December 2006 - 05:53 PM
I really want that toaster.
ladybug
14th December 2006 - 06:33 PM
Love, Actually is a good movie but it's not on my love or hate lists. I don't own it and I have not seen it multiple times. Hugh Grant is meh to me ever since he had his blow up with the hooker. I mean you have Elizabeth Hurly at home and you go off and get serviced by Devine Brown. It creeped me out and it prooved that men are dogs all in one fell swoop. I already was mostly sure of the latter but that cemented it for me.
cassandra
14th December 2006 - 07:08 PM
Well I had this whole theory about how Elizabeth Hurley was in fact a gorgeous transgender man who always knew ever since he was a little boy that he was going to Make It No Matter What and needed a high-profile relationship to Hit It Big so that their relationship was a matter of publicists' convenience and as a result Hugh Grant had to go to a hooker to get actual sex.
But I don't know, back then I had a thing for fey floppy-haired English public-school boys.
Now I only like Hugh Grant when he is an asshole. For this I blame Bridget Jones' Diary, which I also planned to hate on feminist grounds but turned out to be one of my serious favorites because as Mike put it, everyone looks like they're having fun.
Okay, here's a controversial one that will cause toasters to be thrown. Film I would like to punch in the face:
Muriel's Wedding.
My reasons for this are: the heroine is such a hateful, low, selfish person and the film never addresses that.
fofanna1
14th December 2006 - 08:16 PM
| QUOTE | Well I had this whole theory about how Elizabeth Hurley was in fact a gorgeous transgender man who always knew ever since he was a little boy that he was going to Make It No Matter What and needed a high-profile relationship to Hit It Big so that their relationship was a matter of publicists' convenience and as a result Hugh Grant had to go to a hooker to get actual sex.
Her having a baby couldn't have helped your theory much.
indigoblue
14th December 2006 - 08:23 PM
Suri Cruise! Just saying...
fofanna1
14th December 2006 - 10:24 PM
Well, there's a bit of a difference. Unless you think Katie and Tom are both transgenders and he's actually the one who gave birth to Suri.
cassandra
15th December 2006 - 03:10 AM
QUOTE (fofanna1+Dec 14 2006, 11:16 PM) Her having a baby couldn't have helped your theory much. <br>Forget transgender --how do we know that baby had a human father? I will only point out that she named the child Damien. And then refer you to The Omen Parts I, II and III.
qb9b
15th December 2006 - 06:43 AM
| QUOTE | My Best Friend's Wedding. Julia Roberts needed to be smacked.
<br>I really dislike Julia Roberts acting in most movies and I also get annoyed by Cameron Diaz in all of her movies. So I hate this movie for the sole fact that it makes me like a CD character.
fofanna1
15th December 2006 - 07:20 AM
| QUOTE | Forget transgender --how do we know that baby had a human father? I will only point out that she named the child Damien.
Oh, I forgot that part. OK, you win.....this time.
cassandra
15th December 2006 - 07:36 AM
Awesome. I will be here waiting patiently for my toaster.
DodgerGirl
15th December 2006 - 07:51 AM
Cassandra's toaster: 
cassandra
15th December 2006 - 09:17 AM
Ack! It looks like it toasts...people.
fofanna1
15th December 2006 - 10:31 AM
That's a toaster? It looks like an exhibit at the Natural History Museum.
ladybug
15th December 2006 - 02:36 PM
| QUOTE | I really dislike Julia Roberts acting in most movies and I also get annoyed by Cameron Diaz in all of her movies. So I hate this movie for the sole fact that it makes me like a CD character.
<br>I SO agree with you, gb9b. I did not understand her being in Ocean's 11. She was basically scenery with little dialoge. Julia Roberts has yet to wow me in anything. Cameron was good in Best Friend's Wedding and Being John Malkovich, at least.
La G
15th December 2006 - 02:43 PM
Has anyone mentioned Pretty Woman yet? Because is there an element of that film not to be insulted by?
buffyvol
16th December 2006 - 04:32 PM
When Julia Roberts laughs in Pretty Woman, does it remind anyone else of the sound a horse makes when you knee it in the ribs to get it to let it's breath out so you can tighten the girth on the saddle?
Yeah, I'm not a fan of that movie or Julia either.
ladybug
16th December 2006 - 05:23 PM
That noise she makes when she opens her mouth and shows you that she has extra teeth?
zan
18th December 2006 - 10:01 AM
| QUOTE | My Best Friend's Wedding. Julia Roberts needed to be smacked.
<br>Oh God. I loathed this movie not for Julia Roberts nor Cameron Diaz, but because I thought Dermot Mulroney was no prize. The whole message of the film just bugged so very, very much.
woodstove
18th December 2006 - 10:10 AM
Oh man, I love that movie. It's not one that I think too hard about, but just to enjoy various scenes that are really well done. The garden party with "There goes the Best Man!" The karaoke scene. The scene in the woman's bathroom that Diaz and Roberts just nailed.
The premise was dumb, but the execution was popcorn and raisinettes. I could even relate to Robert's motivation, (been there, haven't done that though I may have felt like doing it a couple of times...)
Ah well, for some reason I enjoy watching Diaz whenever I am in a "fluffy" mood, except in the one movie of hers that everyone else seemed to like, "What about Mary?" or something, the one with cum in hair. I thought that entire movie was just awful, just stunk to the moon. Put her in Charlie's Angels though, and I can sit back and laugh and relax.
Then again, I "do" movies for different reasons, and sometimes it's for the "popcorn/chill/laugh/don't think" effect.
cassandra
18th December 2006 - 10:23 AM
I feel like the whole point of Pretty Woman is the scene where she goes shopping aided by her new leveraged buyout king sugar-daddy. And then she goes into the shop and says, "You remember how you wouldn't serve me? Big mistake. Big. HUGE" and then flounces out in her 80s power suit.
Because, like, revenge and rampant in-your-face consumerism is what this country is all about. That's the whole principle America was built on. "Hey England, you wouldn't serve us? You wanted to tax us without representation? Look at how rich we are now! We could buy and sell you! Big mistake! Big! Huge!" *
*excerpted from the diary of Thomas Jefferson. Except, like, totally not really.
Canard
19th February 2007 - 03:50 PM
Let the force of my hatred blow the dust off this thread: I want to punch The Family Man, City of Angels, Leaving Las Vegas, and pretty much any other movie where Nicolas Cage does not play an action hero. Because when he's not shooting people, he's a whiny, greasy ferret.
Though oddly enough, Adaptation is one of my all-time favorites.
NikkiJ
19th February 2007 - 04:02 PM
I started to watch Match Point and gave up after 20 minutes. I'm not a huge fan of Woody Allen but this just pissed me off. To start with it was Jonathan Rhys Meyers accent, he's supposed to be Irish. He's got the poshest English accent ever, it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Then we have all the typical postcard views of London, which just gets my goat for some reason. I should be pleased that such a big director filmed here but I'm not. Irrational, yes but I don't care!
potmeetskettle
19th February 2007 - 04:27 PM
QUOTE (Canard+Feb 19 2007, 03:50 PM) Let the force of my hatred blow the dust off this thread: I want to punch The Family Man, City of Angels, Leaving Las Vegas, and pretty much any other movie where Nicolas Cage does not play an action hero. Because when he's not shooting people, he's a whiny, greasy ferret.
Though oddly enough, Adaptation is one of my all-time favorites. But, but, what about Con Air? I mean .. ew. (And I lurve Nic Cage)
Canard
19th February 2007 - 04:53 PM
| QUOTE | But, but, what about Con Air? I mean .. ew. (And I lurve Nic Cage)
<br>I don't think I've seen Con Air -- but I'm perfectly willing to believe he's ferretly in that too.
ladybug
19th February 2007 - 05:21 PM
You will love Ghost Rider I do believe. No whiny pants guy here.
I also just saw Music and Lyrics so anything would be a vast improvement.
skittlebrau
19th February 2007 - 05:30 PM
The only movie I adore Nicolas Cage in is Raising Arizona. And you're right, City of Angels needs to be punched in the face.
I haven't seen Match Point but Woody also filmed Scoop in London and that movie was sort of cute. It would've been better if I hadn't of just seen Scarlett Johanssen and Hugh Jackman in The Illusionist, which is a good movie but a total mind fuck, so I wasn't ready for the same principals to get all cuddly bumbly together.
OffTopic
19th February 2007 - 05:32 PM
Heh. I actually liked Con Air. But I'm easy when it comes to action/adventure stuff.
We saw Ghost Rider this weekend.
As long as you're in it for the buttered popcorn, it was ok.
ladybug
19th February 2007 - 06:24 PM
I think Raising Arizona is one of the funniest movies EVER.
I liked Con Air and I liked Ghost Rider, but Gone In 60 Seconds is still one of my favorites. That movie has three Oscar winners in it and it is pure fluff.
Come to think of it, I did like Matchstick Men.
| QUOTE | Woody also filmed Scoop in London and that movie was sort of cute.
<br>I thought that was a gem of a movie. Just a cute little who done it.
Juxtaposeur
19th February 2007 - 07:39 PM
QUOTE (OffTopic+Feb 19 2007, 08:32 PM) Heh. I actually liked Con Air. But I'm easy when it comes to action/adventure stuff.
Heh. I'm a sucker for those ridiculous loud music, shit blowing up in slo-mo type movies where the hero slides in at the last minute, reaches for...something which will save the day and screams, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" for a solid five minutes. Movie crack. Although Independence Day. Man, that deserves a good solid upper cut.
fofanna1
19th February 2007 - 07:58 PM
| QUOTE | It would've been better if I hadn't of just seen Scarlett Johanssen and Hugh Jackman in The Illusionist, which is a good movie but a total mind fuck, so I wasn't ready for the same principals to get all cuddly bumbly together.
Were you drunk when you saw The Illusionist? Because that was Edward Norton and Jessica Biel and for the life of me, I can't figure out which movie you really mean.
I got it! It's The Prestige - I have that one in my Netflix queue.
OffTopic
20th February 2007 - 12:51 PM
| QUOTE | It's The Prestige - I have that one in my Netflix queue.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE (-> | QUOTE | It's The Prestige - I have that one in my Netflix queue.
<!--QuoteBegin)which is a good movie but a total mind fuck
Hugh Jackman in period costume.
That's all you need to know.
Everything else is irrelevant.
skittlebrau
20th February 2007 - 01:05 PM
I did say the Illusionist, didn't I? Damn Hollywood and their damn two movies of the same damn ilk.
I haven't even seen the Illusionist. I'm drunk right now!
DodgerGirl
20th February 2007 - 01:55 PM
QUOTE (skittlebrau+Feb 20 2007, 04:05 PM)
I haven't even seen the Illusionist. I'm drunk right now! Are you sure? Or is it just an...illusion? (If I were clever like JDF, I could have worked "prestige" in there)
DrSnark
20th February 2007 - 02:09 PM
Be Cool.
I fucking HATE that fucking movie. I and a friend rented that movie and about halfway through, I looked at her and said, "Is it just me, or is this movie fucking boring?" She was, "Oh, God--I thought I was the only one!" It...it...I don't think I finished watching it. If I did, I sure as hell don't remember the rest of it. Not even the premise of The Rock being gay could keep me invested in that stupid shitfest.
ladybug
20th February 2007 - 02:14 PM
| QUOTE | Be Cool.
<br>I kinda liked it. But I love anything Vince Vaughn does.
DrSnark
27th February 2007 - 06:05 PM
I mentioned this in the "Posters Who Bug" thread, but I want to kick Crash in the shins and punch it in the face. TWICE.
All my friends told me this was a "powerful" movie. All the reviews told me that I was fucktard if I didn't go see this movie. So, when I was in NYC, I decided I'd go see this movie before going out to the clubs.
God. That movie sucked. It was so damned preachy, predictable, and pedantic. I would sit there thinking, "Gee, wouldn't it evoke X emotion for the director to have character Y do this?" And voila--the very action would happen! And the audience would predictably react to the predictably racist actions! That movie just had this...this smugness to it that pissed me off. When Terrence Howard's wife got felt up and he didn't do a fucking thing, I thought, "You have GOT to be fucking kidding me!" People would do stupid, STUPID things and it only seemed that they did these stupid things only to further the thin plot.
Yeah, I hate this fucking movie.
little melly
27th February 2007 - 07:10 PM
I haven't seen this movie yet, but when my friend saw it she said she felt incredibly emotionally manipulated and hated, hated, hated it. I still remember the huge gasp when it won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain.
Speaking of incredibly obvious cliches, I would like to punch Titanic, just because.
As for Nick Cage, sweet Jebus I hate that man in movies. I could barely sit through him talking about Ghost Rider at the theatre, let alone see the damn thing. That being said, I absolutely adored Lord of War, and I was shocked that it was so good.
buffyvol
27th February 2007 - 07:20 PM
| QUOTE | I would like to punch Titanic
That movie needs to be doused in acid and set on fire. Fuckin' Rose!
TVJunkie
27th February 2007 - 07:29 PM
Wow. So much hate for "Crash". I liked it. 
Darn
28th February 2007 - 12:11 AM
QUOTE (DrSnark+Feb 27 2007, 09:05 PM) I mentioned this in the "Posters Who Bug" thread, but I want to kick Crash in the shins and punch it in the face. TWICE.
All my friends told me this was a "powerful" movie. All the reviews told me that I was fucktard if I didn't go see this movie. So, when I was in NYC, I decided I'd go see this movie before going out to the clubs.
God. That movie sucked. It was so damned preachy, predictable, and pedantic. I would sit there thinking, "Gee, wouldn't it evoke X emotion for the director to have character Y do this?" And voila--the very action would happen! And the audience would predictably react to the predictably racist actions! That movie just had this...this smugness to it that pissed me off. When Terrence Howard's wife got felt up and he didn't do a fucking thing, I thought, "You have GOT to be fucking kidding me!" People would do stupid, STUPID things and it only seemed that they did these stupid things only to further the thin plot.
Yeah, I hate this fucking movie. Guh. Yes, yes and more yes. Racism = Bad, y'all! NO SHIT, MOFOS! Okay, I admit my hate for it increased tenfold when it beat BBM for the Oscar but really, that film was not best picture material. I can barely remember half the plots because they were just a bunch of cliche race stories. Blergh. And I hate Thandie Newton's American accent. And Sandra Bollock was horrible. The only part I liked was Latino Fellow and that whole plot with his daughter. And even that was beyond ridiculous. | QUOTE | Scarlett Johanssen
...needs to stop with the British accents. She can't do them. In fact she can barely act at all.
QUOTE (-> | QUOTE | Scarlett Johanssen
...needs to stop with the British accents. She can't do them. In fact she can barely act at all.
As for Nick Cage, sweet Jebus I hate that man in movies. I could barely sit through him talking about Ghost Rider at the theatre, let alone see the damn thing.
Ghost Rider is an insult to cinema. I'm sorry but you do not let the man who RUINED DAREDEVIL DIRECT ANOTHER COMIC BOOK MOVIE! Christ, I could kick Avi Arad in the balls. And Nicolas Cage is just gross looking. Poor Eva Mendes.
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