OT: Hit Movies that Blow Chunks

[dogscoff]

I enjoyed Full Metal Jacket. Well, not sure 'enjoyed' is the right word (much as I can't really claim to have 'enjoyed' the Shawshank redemption, but list it in my top 10 favourite films), but it was a damn good film.

Bad films?

Twister: (You know they're evil meteorologists because they drive a black car. Walked out of the cinema on this one it was so bad.)

The Thin Red Line: (Too long, too much angsty inner-monologue, wtf is going on anyway?)

Titanic: Just crap, really. Although you do get to see LdC drown at the end, so it does have at least one redeeming feature.

Anything with Sylvester Stallone in it. It's a sad state of affairs when the most enjoyable film of a person's career is "Stop or my Mom will shoot."

Anything (ie much of Disney's output) that takes a well-loved classic story that has stood the test of time (Winnie the Pooh, Hunchback of Notre Dam, Beauty & the Beast) then inserts a few cute, marketable comedy cartoon characters, lots of inappropriate accents, changes the original ending to bland, generic schmaltz and then flogs the result back to the world (the story's original owners), shrink wrapped and repackaged with a line of franchised Happy Meal toys.

Pretty much anything based on "a true story" or "true historical accounts" if it then goes on to disregard the truth and rewrite history completely.

Anything specifically designed to make small children pester their parents into buying them crap (pokemon et al)

Came across The TV.Cream top100 films list today. An interesting selection from an excellent website, and no Star Wars in sight. It's fairly UK-centric, but take a look. There's a few in there I'll be hooking out of the bargain bin.

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If I seem bad tempered today, it's because I am. It's Monday morning, for crying out loud.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Bad films?

Anything (ie much of Disney's output) that takes a well-loved classic story that has stood the test of time (Winnie the Pooh, Hunchback of Notre Dam, Beauty & the Beast) then inserts a few cute, marketable comedy cartoon characters, lots of inappropriate accents, changes the original ending to bland, generic schmaltz and then flogs the result back to the world (the story's original owners), shrink wrapped and repackaged with a line of franchised Happy Meal toys.

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Anything specifically designed to make small children pester their parents into buying them crap (pokemon et al).

It must be Monday morning - you're repeating yourself.

[EDIT - I'm bucking for a promotion - can you tell? )

[ October 06, 2003, 10:24: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[David E. Gervais]

My vote goes for "The name of the Rose" (Sean Conery as a detective monk) I literally fell asleep during this movie due to it's total lack of action. (the trailer made it look like it had much more action than what was actually there.)

[Instar]

anything lifetime, but then again, everyone knows that stuff is usually not so great

[Katchoo]

Dumb & Dumber. Any Movie that can make you *feel* the seconds slowly ticking away can't be very good. Why TBS shows it constantly is a sign of either A) Lack of nothing better to put on, or B) It's really popular down south, which would explain why the Atlanta Hawks suck so bad in the NBA.



Mortal Kombat 2. If they haden't replaced Raiden with another actor, then it might have made it worth spending the $6 to see it on a matinee show when it first came out. But the acting is worse than the first film (which wasen't absolutely horrible), and even the special effects look childish. Oh, and TBS shows this film often too.

[Loser]

Fargo and Dumb and Dumber are two movies I have never managed to finish. I get this sympathetic shame thing and I just can't watch it.

[henk brouwer]

Fargo is a good movie, my vote for one of the worst "big movies" goes to Cast Away..

Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball... for hours.. about nothing...