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07 Oct 2007, 1:07 pm

My impression is that most movies are overrated or underrated ! ! There are very few that are exactly as good or as bad as most people have declared them to be. ! ! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Having said that ,will say the big fury for me was over three films :
That awful Julia Roberts as secretary campaigning to expose corporate corruption piece by Soderberg.
Tomb Raider. I simply couldn't believe the distance between ratings and reviews and the film itself.
Oceans Eleven. What was sooo unmissable about it pray?

( It might look as if I loathe Soderberg ; actually I enjoyed the particular brand of pretention in "Sex, Lies and videotape" , but unfortunately his pretention now extends to everything ! ! without discrimination!!)

I am now actually scared of being disappointed with almost every new film I watch. Sometimes I deliberately get out something with little , or no , or a bad , reputation , so I don't need to worry.( Even then somethings are even worse than "little, no or bad"! ! )
But it's depressing how few films are actually any good.

PS: I loved The Devil Wears Prada, not for the awful plot, the awful heroine or the awful boyfriend , but for Meryl Streep camping it up as serious megalomaniac. I enjoyed that immensely. It's not often I get to see a woman being so gloriously and unrepentingly and successfully unpleasant on the screen.It's why I like All about Eve ,and Whatever happened to Baby Jane too.

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07 Oct 2007, 4:20 pm

Anything by Andy Warhol

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07 Oct 2007, 6:07 pm

40 Year Old Virgin (maybe it only works on non-virgins?)
The English Patient (sorry, I know it has many well done aspects, but franky I was bored and walked out after the first hour)

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08 Oct 2007, 4:39 am

Veresae wrote:

The English Patient (sorry, I know it has many well done aspects, but franky I was bored and walked out after the first hour)

Coldwater Mountain ; is that what it's called? ... similarly drawn out lyricism . Wafffle.

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08 Oct 2007, 6:10 am

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Anything by Andy Warhol

It was likely that Andy Warhol was Aspie. I didn't know he made any films, I thought that he only made paintings... :?:

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08 Oct 2007, 6:12 am

Lots of people on here have mentioned "Titanic". I haven't watched it. My mum's watched it and disliked it and she's NT!

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08 Oct 2007, 6:44 am

In general, any US adaptions of Jap movies, they really miss the mark. The originals are usually a lot better.

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08 Oct 2007, 9:36 am

Dirty Dancing

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08 Oct 2007, 12:21 pm

Most of the horror movie genre. And as for "The Ring", I've seen Bugs Bunny cartoons that were scarier. If some creepy little girl came out of the TV screen on me, I would've put her in time out.

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08 Oct 2007, 3:38 pm

The Notebook

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08 Oct 2007, 4:51 pm

Most modern films that people rave about leave me unimpressed. Lord of the Rings, American Beauty, Lost In Translation ... etc etc

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08 Oct 2007, 6:13 pm

Any movie that has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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09 Oct 2007, 1:34 am

computerlove wrote:

Matrix!

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fight club
donnie darko
pulp fiction

*getting stones ready*

No kidding.

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09 Oct 2007, 1:41 am

Veresae wrote:

LOST IN TRANSLATION!! !! !
Finding Nemo (really, any Pixar movie except The Incredibles...)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Napoleon Dynamite
40 Year Old Virgin
American Pie
ANY 80'S TEEN MOVIE, including Ferris Beueller's Day Off and Fast Times
The Host
Pan's Labyrinth (I loved it but didn't think it to be the masterpiece many critics were calling it)
Brokeback Mountain (this from someone who loves Ang Lee's movies most of the time)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the sh**...sorry, Sith
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Bourne trilogy
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The Third Man
The Godfather
Rear Window (really anything by Hitchcock...none of it scares me, and I find most of it boring)
The Departed
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Maltese Falcon
Seven Samurai
Batman Begins (good, but the visuals sucked, and the action sucked, and those are what I want most from a superhero movie, especially a Batman movie, which should be a fiesta of gothic-noir visuals. It was still a great movie because of the characters and story, but it lacked what I wanted from a BATMAN movie!)
Tim Burton's Batman (sorry but the best thing about it was Danny Elfman's score. Jack Nicholson was funny as The Joker but he didn't look a thing like the Joker should have--he's too damn round. Joker's a freaky skinny scrawney scary bastard--he's not funny. Michael Keaton actually would have made a better Joker...see Beetlejuice for an example of that! A crappy plot, miscast characters, dated visuals, and awful Prince songs ruined this for me even though I normally love Tim Burton)
Blade Runner
Million Dollar Baby
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (sorry but I don't like excessive gore)
The Big Lebowski (sorry, it just didn't do it for me)
Magnolia
Any of Disney's animated movies (i.e. Little Mermaid, Lion King...sorry but I hate the songs)
Re-Animator
Over the Hedge

Some of the classic films above meant a lot to their time or did something new and different, and I can understand that. But many modern films do what they did better now, and they no longer hold up for me. I can't help not liking them.

Are you joking?! Re-Animator?! Have YOU ever seen a zombie head give head? And what about the Campyness? There's no way you can "do it better" no matter what kind of Technology you have. Maybe you just didn't see the point of the Film? Damn that just makes no sense.

I would have to say 300 by the way, even it's crappyness is overrated.

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09 Oct 2007, 1:43 am

Veresae wrote:

Oh, and I forgot The Crow (this from a goth)...then again I don't like revenge flicks. Great gothic visuals though...

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I love The Host and Re Animator! Lol Re Animator I admit can get kind of stupid sometimes but its neat none the less, and I dont think it was meant to be realistic :lol:

I don't give a sh** about it being realistic. I just didn't like the rape by severed head scene.

The Host was ok, but Ain't It Cool News was calling it the best monster movie since Jaws. Psh...

Aha! I was right, you didn't get the point.

Damn prudes. :evil:

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09 Oct 2007, 8:41 am

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Anything with Will Ferrell doing comedy. Sorry, but I just don't think he's funny.

Ditto to that! My mom thinks he is so funny. I just don't get it sometimes.

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