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post #301 of 369
7/10/10 at 9:15pm
Like most threads that invite people to express negativity, this has turned into a parade of those displaying pride in their bad taste.

Not naming names, but Jesus, guys...
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post #302 of 369
7/10/10 at 9:35pm
Shrek 3 and DOOM.
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post #303 of 369
7/10/10 at 9:49pm
Miami Vice. Sorry, but Michael Mann is one of my blind spots.

EDIT: Enjoyed Manhunter, The Insider and Collateral. Have no use for the rest.
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post #304 of 369
7/10/10 at 9:55pm
Heat?

Please answer.
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post #305 of 369
7/10/10 at 9:56pm
I know it's heresy. But I couldn't wait for Heat to be over.

I don't begrudge others' enjoyment of it. It just did a whole lot of nothing for me.
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post #306 of 369
7/10/10 at 11:40pm
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Originally Posted by Malmordo View Post
what's the problem here? That I walk out on movies, or that I walked out on OLDBOY? (After the "big twist" was revealed, btw).
You couldn't wait five minutes for the film to end? Weird.
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post #307 of 369
7/11/10 at 4:55am
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Originally Posted by Martin Blank View Post
Miami Vice. Sorry, but Michael Mann is one of my blind spots.

EDIT: Enjoyed Manhunter, The Insider and Collateral. Have no use for the rest.
Mann is hit and miss for me as well. I prefer Heat to Manhunter, though. I've never understood the people who think that's a better film than Silence of the Lambs. Maybe it's just rooting for the underdog.
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post #308 of 369
7/11/10 at 9:38am
Or maybe it's Mann die-hards refusing to acknowledge that Jonathan Demme could've made a better film than Michael Mann.

I definitely prefer Manhunter to Red Dragon, though. It's easier to say that Michael Mann made a better film than Brett Ratner.
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post #309 of 369
7/14/10 at 6:30am
My most recent was Beverly Hills Cop III.

A few weeks ago I finally watched the first two films. I just never got around to seeing them before then. I enjoyed the first film very much. II was an odd film, mainly because to me it just seems out of place to have Tony Scott's style in a Eddie Murphy film. Despite that I enjoyed it. Popping in the DVD of III, I knew I was in for a big disappointment given the bad buzz I heard of but was still shocked by how bad it was. I figured that this being another collaboration between Eddie Murphy and John Landis that there might be something worthwhile in it. The film just felt dead to me. The film itself looked ugly, the direction had no style to it, the jokes were utterly lame, the villains had zero menace and Eddie Murphy just seemed out of it.

It's not one of the worst films I ever saw but having watched the first two immediately before made III seem too depressing to watch.

One movie I wish I walked out of was Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Horrifying. Glad the very next day I got rid of that bad taste in my mouth when I went to go see The 40 Year Old Virgin. Talk about night and day.
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post #310 of 369
7/14/10 at 6:39am
Normally I can’t stand not finishing a movie, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button wore me down last night. I turned it off about an hour before the end because despite it’s opulence and it’s cute ideas it just felt utterly inert. Even the film’s biggest conflict felt dramatically suspect.
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post #311 of 369
7/14/10 at 8:00am
Enchanted. I've sat through "SyFy" Channel movies to laugh at how bad they are. I mean, I've never liked James Marsden, but I'm not one to walk out on a movie (I didn't see it in theaters mind you, but at a friends home. I walked out of the room and never came back.) pretty much no matter what. But it. Was. So. Bad.
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post #312 of 369
7/14/10 at 8:28am
Sukiyaki Western Django: I pretty much dig most Miike films I've seen but I only lasted about thirty minutes through it before sealing it back up in the Netflix envelope.
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post #313 of 369
7/14/10 at 8:38am
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Sukiyaki Western Django: I pretty much dig most Miike films I've seen but I only lasted about thirty minutes through it before sealing it back up in the Netflix envelope.
Amen.

A friend of mine LOVES this film. I couldn't get past the first 20mins.
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post #314 of 369
7/14/10 at 8:44am
The Namesake - It didn't engage me in any way. I kept waiting for it to go somewhere and it just didn't. Shut it off after 45 minutes or so.

Gangs of New York - As much as I love Scorsese and Daniel Day-Lewis, when the opening fight scene ramps up and all the Irish characters have individual themes like a team of GI Joe bad guys, I was rolling my eyes hard. When the ugly chick with the hooks or claws or whatever did her super move jump attack at the camera, I turned it off. I'm sure I missed some great work from Day-Lewis and I might revisit it again one day after I've caught up on a lot of other films, but for now it's on the shit list.
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post #315 of 369
7/14/10 at 8:51am
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Originally Posted by GreatMindsThink View Post
Amen.

A friend of mine LOVES this film. I couldn't get past the first 20mins.
Your friend has good taste, as that film is a ton of fun. Maybe I'm just wired that way, but I couldn't get the stupid grin off my face even after the credits rolled.

And aside from the horribly miscast leads, Gangs of New York is pretty great. I'd say you should give it another go, Rakkasan
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post #316 of 369
7/14/10 at 9:25am
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Originally Posted by Chris Olson View Post
And aside from the horribly miscast CAMERON DIAZ...
Fixed.
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post #317 of 369
7/14/10 at 9:50am
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Originally Posted by GreatMindsThink View Post
Fixed.
Sorry. I love DiCaprio, but I think he's pretty weak in Gangs, especially when trying to go toe to toe with Day-Lewis.
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post #318 of 369
7/14/10 at 4:44pm
Sanity...slipping...must...unsubscribe...must reach...the button...
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post #319 of 369
7/14/10 at 5:06pm
I didn't finish "High Fidelty," but I have an excuse. A friend of mine had brought the movie over, but near the end, she had an inexplicable meltdown, turned off the DVD and left with it. I was digging the film, too. Guess I should bump that one to the top of my Netflix queue, so I can finally have closure.

Similar thing happened with "Lost Highway," but with a different friend.
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post #320 of 369
7/14/10 at 5:08pm
Thread Starter 
What are you doing to your friends during movies? I once fucked a girl in the middle of watching Grease 2* on TV, having correctly guessed that going down on her would trump "Cool Rider". But you gotta pick those moments carefully, son.

*OH SHIT TWO MOVIES I DIDN'T FINISH
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post #321 of 369
7/14/10 at 5:25pm
I wasn't doing anything. Perhaps that's where went wrong.
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post #322 of 369
7/14/10 at 5:34pm
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What are you doing to your friends during movies? I once fucked a girl in the middle of watching Grease 2* on TV, having correctly guessed that going down on her would trump "Cool Rider". But you gotta pick those moments carefully, son.

*OH SHIT TWO MOVIES I DIDN'T FINISH
This was pretty much how every movie rental night ended for me in high school (if girlfriends were present). Until I gained a greater appreciation for cinema. Then I learned the hard way that there's nothing ladies like less than being told, "Let's wait til the movie is done. I'm trying to watch this."

Speaking of watching movies with a lady. This weekend a gal and I started ARTHUR on Instant Watch. I recall liking it as a wee child, but we switched to a different movie about ten minutes in because Moore was getting on our nerves (mostly hers).

Is there a thread for movies you've tortured others by demanding you finish? Cause our ARTHUR replacement was THE ROOST, which the gal pleaded with me to turn off... but I felt compelled to complete.
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post #323 of 369
7/15/10 at 6:08pm
Couldn't finish CARS. I got to the point where Larry the Cable Guy showed up and turned it off.
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post #324 of 369
7/15/10 at 11:43pm
Made out with my girlfriend during the entirety of Paparazzi, but I don't think I missed much.
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post #325 of 369
7/16/10 at 9:08am
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Originally Posted by elsnakeo View Post
Made out with my girlfriend during the entirety of Paparazzi, but I don't think I missed much.
WRONG! You must rectify this, Paparazzi is sleazy gold.
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post #326 of 369
7/16/10 at 7:24pm
The SHARKTOPUS trailer thread made me realize I stopped watching MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS. That's a film to watch with a group of friends and a larger group of beer. I was alone. Couldn't hang.
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post #327 of 369
7/16/10 at 8:39pm
Diary of the Dead. I couldn't stand to watch Romero do that to himself any longer. What a gigantic, steaming turd of a film.
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post #328 of 369
7/16/10 at 9:52pm
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WRONG! You must rectify this, Paparazzi is sleazy gold.
And produced by Mel Gibson!
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post #329 of 369
7/30/10 at 6:01pm
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford bored the crap out of me the time I rented it. I stopped it about halfway through, sleeping through part of it. Appaloosa was another that I stopped early because it sucked. Don't even get me started on Mystery Team.
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post #330 of 369
7/30/10 at 6:07pm
Man, I hope Greg got away from this thread in time, 'cos damn...
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post #331 of 369
7/30/10 at 6:16pm
Never finished Appaloosa either.


Last night, I was trying to finish up CRIMSON TIDE when I discovered to my horror that the last 10 minutes of the film was full of that weird "mosaic" glitching. I was able to watch it up to the point with the courtroom scene (the climax of the "will they launch or not?" stuff was all herky jerky though), when the admiral (or whoever) tells Denzel that he's ready to rule based only on Gene Hackman's recommendation. What happened next? I pulled out the DVD and it was full of pitting on the outer edge, like it had been sandblasted or something

I'd love to know how the movie finished. Did Denzel save the world and get drummed out of the army as a thank you? Or was he given a parade or something?
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post #332 of 369
7/30/10 at 10:03pm
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The only movie I can recall walking out before it ended was Cats & Dogs, which my parents took me to see. Since they were my ride home, I had to wait until it was over anyway before I could go. I decided that standing in the lobby was better than watching that film.
*recordscratch*

Whoa, for who knows what reason I thought you were older than this. Damn.

I didn't finish Up. I know, I know, I'm inhuman, have no heart, etc. Honestly, I don't know what the problem was. It just didn't click with me. I didn't find the opening with the wife as heart-wrenching as everyone said it would be, and it I just got kinda bored after that.

I KNOW. Save it.

On Demanded the first Twilight for a night of drinking and mocking. Got a good 45 minutes of bourbon-infused hilarity (I almost re-enacted an Edward-in-the-lab spit-up at the piano scene), but as my buzz wore off I just started to resent the thing and turned it off.

(If you want a really great bad movie to drink to/hurl insults at, look no further than Edison Force with Justin Timberlake, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey's toupee.)
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post #333 of 369
7/30/10 at 10:13pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Spider View Post
All right, I'll attempt to finish it at some point, but only because you're one of the smarter, friendlier people here, and, well, I really do wanna see McGregor sing some more. Boy's got some lungs on him!
The others are right. MOULIN ROUGE! is half of an excellent movie. I cannot stand the first half - scenes range from annoying to insulting* - but the second half is stellar, just really, really wonderful. "Roxanne" is amazing.

(*Ewan's scenes get a glowing pass, naturally.)
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post #334 of 369
7/30/10 at 10:23pm
Almost didn't get through Predators. Bright ironic gods, what a turd.
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post #335 of 369
7/30/10 at 11:20pm
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Originally Posted by CDI F. Kelly View Post
Whoa, for who knows what reason I thought you were older than this. Damn.
I don't know how old you thought I was, or how old you think I am now for that matter, but I was 13 when it came out. Not the target audience, for sure, but we were family friends with Sean Hayes' cousins, so it was a big deal? Or something like that.
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post #336 of 369
7/30/10 at 11:39pm
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford bored the crap out of me
I once broke off all contact with one of my oldest friends because he said he hated Jesse James and prefered Juno. I mean, there were many other complicated, painful and really awful reasons, but that was the clincher. Literally the last email exchange we ever had was about that.



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I didn't finish Up
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Man, I hope Greg got away from this thread in time, 'cos damn...
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
Mr Kelly; you are history's greatest monster.
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post #337 of 369
7/31/10 at 12:26am
The only movie I've never been able to get through is "Slacker". I just think if I spent money to go to the movies or rent something, I simply HAVE to finish it because I'm such a cheapskate, but "Slacker" was such torture, after awhile I just couldn't stand to watch it anymore.

All the pretentious characters and their excruciatingly boring conversations just made me want to throw my TV out the window. I couldn't bring myself to turn it off, though, because like I said, I paid for it...so I called a friend and talked to her until it was over. That way, I technically never turned off the movie and played it for its entire duration, but didn't have to endure its shittiness past a certain point.
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post #338 of 369
7/31/10 at 1:00am
Thread Starter 
This is the worst thread ever.
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post #339 of 369
7/31/10 at 1:24am
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Originally Posted by OCallaghan View Post
I once broke off all contact with one of my oldest friends because he said he hated Jesse James and prefered Juno. I mean, there were many other complicated, painful and really awful reasons, but that was the clincher. Literally the last email exchange we ever had was about that.







Yeah, Jesus Christ.
Mr Kelly; you are history's greatest monster.
That's Miss Kelly actually. And I know, I know. I have no excuse. I don't know what's wrong with me. Just caught it on a REALLY bad day, I dunno. But I own up to it, so that's something.

Sometimes life just interferes with a particular moment and you can't get back to it. I've missed dozens of movies in the last 6 months - trying to finish my dissertation. *cue violin*
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post #340 of 369
7/31/10 at 1:50am
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This is the worst thread ever.
No it's great for the complete douchebags on the board to out themselves.


Not saying everybody sucks just, you know, a couple of folks.
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post #341 of 369
8/9/10 at 7:59am
Was watching Superman Returns on a hotel TV one night. Just couldn't get into it at all. Had a similar experience with Speed Racer. Felt like being waterboarded with Kool-Aid.
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post #342 of 369
8/9/10 at 9:03am
Superman Returns I can understand, cos after the first major set-piece, its all down hill.

But you shold give Speed Racer another shot - its starts out rocky and gets more awesome as it goes on.

Interesting that films have the initials SR...
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post #343 of 369
8/9/10 at 9:12am
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This is the worst thread ever.
Hey *you* started it!
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post #344 of 369
8/9/10 at 9:48am
Thread Starter 
Then you know I mean it.

Nearly didn't finish watching Bogie, a dreadful 1980 tv movie bio of Humphrey Bogart, and yet another in a line of "who knew this even existed?" titles dredged up by MGM HD. The lead tries but he's all capped teeth and Bogart-impression by way of Harvey Fierstein. Five year old Drew Barrymore turns up as his daughter in two scenes, and the guy who plays Peter Lorre for 30 seconds was pretty good. The rest, bleh.
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post #345 of 369
8/9/10 at 9:51am
I actually finished RockNRolla a few weeks ago. I don't hate it anymore, but I'm not in love.
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post #346 of 369
8/9/10 at 12:23pm
I've tried to watch the remake of BANGKOK DANGEROUS twice and fell asleep both times, Nic Cage and his wig seemed as bored as me in those first 15 minutes anyway.
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post #347 of 369
8/9/10 at 8:06pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
Normally I can’t stand not finishing a movie, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button wore me down last night. I turned it off about an hour before the end because despite it’s opulence and it’s cute ideas it just felt utterly inert. Even the film’s biggest conflict felt dramatically suspect.
I WISH I hadn't sat through all of that, you didn't miss anything.

I couldn't finish SPEEDRACER, I got through the first 20 minutes and then turned it off because I was bored out of my mind. Fancy visual effects only hold my attention for a few minutes and if that movie had a real story I couldn't find one.

Also, LADY IN THE WATER. Usually Shyamalan films at least hold my interest even if they have problems but I could not bring myself to care about any of the characters or anything that was happening in this one.

Judging by the massive amount of people in this thread who walked out of SOUTHLAND TALES it sounds like I can safely put that on my 'Do Not See' list.
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post #348 of 369
8/9/10 at 10:48pm
My best friend got me Feast 2 for my birthday once. I got about two minutes in before I shut it off because it just looked and felt so shitty. That was a year or two ago and I still haven't watched it. In return I got him Irreversible, hoping that he'd get so freaked out he wouldn't be able to finish, but he ended up loving it...
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post #349 of 369
8/9/10 at 11:01pm
Aww, I like the Feast series. I think I've seen three so far? Is there a fourth out there?
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post #350 of 369
8/9/10 at 11:23pm
I'll echo not sitting through Lady in the Water. Went to see it in theaters, walked out (I've done this two times in my life), tried to watch it at a friend's house a few months ago and couldn't sit through the first 45 mins.

I tried to watch Southland Tales three times. I finally finished the third time and actually enjoyed it a lot more. It's just too weird to ignore, definitely a bad film though.
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