Seemed like all my friends like the Mr. Bean movies, and I could NEVER enjoy them Napoleon Dynamite I also agree with not liking. I did like most of the marvels, the Harry Potters, and LOTRs Didn't like any of the Hangovers after the first. I'll have to think of more
I didn't like Napoleon Dynamite either. Donnie Darko however was great. Same with the Butterfly effect (which also got dissed fairly often. I liked it though) The books were kind of long (well most fantasy books that come in series are) AND longwinded too, just like the movies. Especially in the second and third book it gets terribly longwinded at times. Still, I enjoyed the shit out of them several times (incl the for many unbearable Silmarillion)
First Pirates of the Caribbean is very good. Later ones had some great scenes (I liked the surrealistic ones) but were over the top as a whole or disappointing storywise (also too over the top/nonsensical for me).
I started watching A Clockwork Orange the other day on DVD. I got to a scene where they knock on the door of a house with intention of robbing it .Set in the future they still land phones and electric typewriters. I stopped watching the film at this point. Halliwell's Film Guide stated that left wing intellectuals find acres of deep meaning in it.I guess I am not a left wing intellectual.
How can somebody dislike Braveheart!? :dizzy2: The only thing I dislike about it are the historical inaccuracies. But even that didn't stop me from loving everything this movie does right.
Although not blockbusters but cult classics: Empire Records. Fuck this movie shoots it's load on cliches in the first 15 minutes. From the kid doing everything the boss tells him not to do and blowing the days profit in the casino, to Liv Tyler announcing she just got into Harvard, the unrequited crush, the girl wanting to lose her virginity to the washed up douchebag rock star and getting snaked by the slut, to the triumphant ending where they save the store. What a piece of shit! Juno. Badly written, badly acted, badly cast, and badly directed. The dialog sounds like it was written by someone trying too hard to be quirky. To steal a line from the movie God Bless America, "Diablo Cody is the only stripper with too much self esteem." Again she reminds me of someone who try's too hard to be "Quirky" it's almost like an attention getting device. The cast were all tv actors. Generally Michael Cerra an irritating **** who's monotone delivery and flat affect make him come across as Mark Wallberg in Fears pussy little brother. And that's him in pretty much everything he does. Ellen Pages career essentially peaked for me season 2 of Trailer Park Boys. The only reason she stood out in Juno is the fact that she was better than the rest of the cast. To me it's like saying, "This pile of shit smells like perfume compared to the piles of shit around it." To each their own I guess. C/S, Rev J
Star wars, the original. I've never bothered with the rest, I get it already. I won't extrapolate because it offends too many people. Worse than insulting their religion, in many cases. Spielberg movies tend to turn me off too, in general.