Vincent V
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Unfortunately I have to agree with you on that one. I absolutely LOVE the Blade Runner blaster, but no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't manage to love the movie.
Movies you thought you'd love but wound up hating..
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Unfortunately I have to agree with you on that one. I absolutely LOVE the Blade Runner blaster, but no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't manage to love the movie.
B-Movie Zombie
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Also add all the transformers movie to my list. Complete garbage.
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Darth Lars
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Bridesmaids - I thought it was going to be funny, but it was just toilet-humour.
Prometheus - I even went to the first show at midnight. What a waste.
Prometheus - I even went to the first show at midnight. What a waste.
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KrangPrime
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Oh, what was the one with him and the friends lady jennifer anniston? the trailer made that look good,
but that was the most boring, pointless movie i've ever seen.
the last time I went to an adam sandler flick.
ChefHazmat
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Superbad (It lived up to its name.)
Solos blaster
Sr Member
KOTC
The Prequel Trilogy. I bought into the hype for Phantom Menace pretty hard but not for the rest of it. ROTS is the best one out of them though...relatively speaking.
Stepbrothers. I just couldn't get over the fact of two grown, not just grown but 40ish year old "men" acting like that. Just killed it for me.....and Will Ferrell is over rated.
Kingdom of Heaven. I don't know what it was, just didn't like it much at all...thought it was pretty "meh"
Prometheus
I know there are more, I'm sure I'll come back and add to it.
The Prequel Trilogy. I bought into the hype for Phantom Menace pretty hard but not for the rest of it. ROTS is the best one out of them though...relatively speaking.
Stepbrothers. I just couldn't get over the fact of two grown, not just grown but 40ish year old "men" acting like that. Just killed it for me.....and Will Ferrell is over rated.
Kingdom of Heaven. I don't know what it was, just didn't like it much at all...thought it was pretty "meh"
Prometheus
I know there are more, I'm sure I'll come back and add to it.
I completely agree. I've tried to watch it three or four times and every time I just think "Why does everyone like this so much?"
I'm sorry for being that guy, but I can't remember the name of it. The Scorsese/DiCaprio movie about the insane asylum on an island. Thought that'd be good.
Grindhouse. The Robert Rodriguez part was typically bad (not a big fan except for Sin City), but the Tarantino one couldn't even be saved by Kurt Russell as a serial killer stuntman! The parts where the DJ character tries to have her Samuel Jackson/Jules Winfield moment is as unbearable as pissing glass.
23. Jim, I love you. Man On the Moon, Eternal Sunshine, the Cable Guy, Irene, and Ace have reserved a spot for you in Andy Heaven, but this turd was as disappointing as mince meat pie. So predictable and tried too hard to be something special. Made the direction reek of insecurity.
Anything M. Knight aside from Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs the latter two both of which are still a bit suspect. The weird thing is, Sixth Sense made such an impression that I was still entering the theater with a bit of hope for every movie right up to but not including The Last Windbreaker. I blame myself.
I think in full disclosure I should mention that I actually did like Soul Plane. The John Witherspoon/Blind Man scene in First Class is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Grindhouse. The Robert Rodriguez part was typically bad (not a big fan except for Sin City), but the Tarantino one couldn't even be saved by Kurt Russell as a serial killer stuntman! The parts where the DJ character tries to have her Samuel Jackson/Jules Winfield moment is as unbearable as pissing glass.
23. Jim, I love you. Man On the Moon, Eternal Sunshine, the Cable Guy, Irene, and Ace have reserved a spot for you in Andy Heaven, but this turd was as disappointing as mince meat pie. So predictable and tried too hard to be something special. Made the direction reek of insecurity.
Anything M. Knight aside from Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs the latter two both of which are still a bit suspect. The weird thing is, Sixth Sense made such an impression that I was still entering the theater with a bit of hope for every movie right up to but not including The Last Windbreaker. I blame myself.
I think in full disclosure I should mention that I actually did like Soul Plane. The John Witherspoon/Blind Man scene in First Class is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Vincent V
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I honestly wish I could see what everyone else seems to see in Blade Runner. I really wanted to love it, but it just seemed disjointed and VERY slow moving to me.
I love The Godfather though.
Your talking about Shutter Island right? I actually kinda liked that one, but a lot of people seemed to be expecting something else from it.
You don't need to force it. Some movies just don't feel right. Sometimes it's timing too. I saw the Cable Guy in the theater and was completely disengaged with the movie. I was really disappointed with it. Saw it again a year or two later and then realized the genius hilarity of it with connections to films and TV shows, some pointed out and most not, etc. It may be my favorite Jim Carrey movie.
I think that Blade Runner has several things happening that can be turnoffish to some people. And those same qualities of the film are part of its hypnotic draw to those that like Blade Runner. An early believable morality play fantasy set within a dystopian future. The dreamlike quality of Vangelis' score. The question left at the end about Deckard, and also the "Deckard & Rachel" situation is eclipsed by the Roy Batty's epiphany scene on the rooftop that turned a terrifying shirtless Rutger Hauer killing machine in the rain into a creation earning your sympathy in this setting where man has ruined himself and his world. It's the original machine teaches humans what it means to be human, made more impactful by bursting out of a hazy claustrophobic movie that has a slow pace. Once you understand the scope of what's really happening, the layers, all the production, and on and on, it has an amount of amazement with it too. Or perhaps you will dislike it forever. That's not a crime.
I like Blade Runner, but it's not a classic for me. I may have felt different if I'd grown up watching it, as many of my favorites from that era I grew up watching on repeat.
Prometheus is another one that had so much hype surrounding it and it was terrible. I'm not a fan of Damon Lindelof.
Even put into context and looking at the film as objectively as I can, the Godfather is still a so so movie for me. I know that for it's time it was ground breaking and everything and basically jump started the modern genre of mobster movies, but Marlon Brando's performance in it just comes across as lazy to me. There were some great scenes in it (Pacino taking out the two guys in the diner was beautifully filmed and quite horrific), but I think other film makers have done it better than Coppola.
To my mind M. Night Shaymalan has only made two good films and one decent one. The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were both great. Signs was decent. The Happening had me literally laughing out loud at some scenes. With the exception of one great acting moment from John Leguizamo, that movie was almost unwatchable. The rest I don't recall much of to even comment on other than saying they were not memorable.
Film, like humor, is subjective and what one of us finds dull the other can find hilarious. It's amazing that any movie ever gets made, even the bad ones, but what bothers me about some movies though is the fact that some film makers (and writers) can pander or talk down to their audience and that is just insulting. Others tend to leave gaping holes in their films expecting their audiences to leap to conclusions to fill the void, which again is lazy. I'm fine with movies that imply or suggest, but I also don't care to have to create leaps of logic to try and piece together what I just watched.
Prometheus is another one that had so much hype surrounding it and it was terrible. I'm not a fan of Damon Lindelof.
Even put into context and looking at the film as objectively as I can, the Godfather is still a so so movie for me. I know that for it's time it was ground breaking and everything and basically jump started the modern genre of mobster movies, but Marlon Brando's performance in it just comes across as lazy to me. There were some great scenes in it (Pacino taking out the two guys in the diner was beautifully filmed and quite horrific), but I think other film makers have done it better than Coppola.
To my mind M. Night Shaymalan has only made two good films and one decent one. The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were both great. Signs was decent. The Happening had me literally laughing out loud at some scenes. With the exception of one great acting moment from John Leguizamo, that movie was almost unwatchable. The rest I don't recall much of to even comment on other than saying they were not memorable.
Film, like humor, is subjective and what one of us finds dull the other can find hilarious. It's amazing that any movie ever gets made, even the bad ones, but what bothers me about some movies though is the fact that some film makers (and writers) can pander or talk down to their audience and that is just insulting. Others tend to leave gaping holes in their films expecting their audiences to leap to conclusions to fill the void, which again is lazy. I'm fine with movies that imply or suggest, but I also don't care to have to create leaps of logic to try and piece together what I just watched.
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darth_myeek
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Maximum Overdrive
E.T.
Phantom Menace
Battlefield Earth
Mad Max - Fury Road
E.T.
Phantom Menace
Battlefield Earth
Mad Max - Fury Road
Surprisingly I know a couple of 18 year olds who love bladerunner enough to get the fancy multi-disk set from a few years back. Battlefield earth is an odd movie, it's not the best thing out there but it's also surprisingly not as bad as everyone makes it sound. Oddly enough I used to hate 1950s scifi movies but now even the worst of them I'll watch with no issue yet I've only seen like 5 new movies in the last decade as modern films do very little for me. Captain America did surprise me despite so many not liking it. The Robocop Prime Directive miniseries they turned into like 4 movies was a surprise too given how bad the tv show was.
Damon Lindelof ruins everything he touches just like the guys who wrote the first live action Transformers movie and new trek, they also messed up a transformers cartoon.
Damon Lindelof ruins everything he touches just like the guys who wrote the first live action Transformers movie and new trek, they also messed up a transformers cartoon.
Well, I was going to put down Dungeons & Dragons, but I kinda knew that one was gonna be a stinker from the start thanks to the lack of star power in the lead protagonist roles.
So I'm going to put down Spiderman 3. We were going to get VENOM! FINALLY!
Then Eric Foreman walked on screen and Tobey McGuire decided to ghost dance his way around town.
Done.
So I'm going to put down Spiderman 3. We were going to get VENOM! FINALLY!
Then Eric Foreman walked on screen and Tobey McGuire decided to ghost dance his way around town.
Done.
Top Gun. Huge horrible disappointment. I literally thought this was a slam dunk for me. I was engrossed in aviation, I lived near Miramar NAS, my father worked at North Island, I KNEW what Fightertown USA was and had been on base, and loved Tomcats building models as a kid, collected patches... Final Countdown baby! splash the zeros!.....and as a young man I thought finally a modern movie about fighters... and it was MTV drivel idiocy made worse by being a huge hit. I remember taxiing on one of my first flying lessons and the instructor asking if I had seen it, I said yes and before I could finish he says "pretty good huh?"... girlfriend at the time loved it too... ugh! eff that movie! LOL
Smokey & the Bandit was a totally unrealistic depiction of life as a 1970's trucker. I still love that movie.
Top Gun was cheese. It was Point Break. Fast & Furious. Etc.
Nobody is saying we have to respect it. We are free to enjoy it as a guilty pleasure when it plays on cable TV.
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