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Post by britfan2 on Jan 31, 2007 19:19:04 GMT
There has been a lot of complaining about how bad the movie industry is & rightly so. So here is a chance to tell everyone about the one movie you thought was a waste of your hard earned money.
Mine would be Tristam Shandy. I know some out there liked it, but I thought it was sh*te, & am still scratching my head why I stayed & watched the whole thing.
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Post by ukelelehip on Jan 31, 2007 19:54:59 GMT
I LOOOVVEE Tristram Shandy.
I hated THE TERMINAL, MYSTIC RIVER, MAGNOLIA, uhm, the list probably goes on and on...
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Post by maxx02 on Jan 31, 2007 20:20:46 GMT
I liked it too.
I abhore anything with Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, generally Brad Pitt though he occasionally makes a picture with someone else I like--any of the fart/belch/vomit films, anything with Jessica Simpson showing the crack in her ass... I love action films and scifi because my motto is any scifi is better than no scifi... I tend to really love Australian pictures because they have no money to make them and are forced to come up with a decent story line to compensate... I love anything small and character driven where the acting takes center stage yet looks effortless...
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Post by britfan2 on Jan 31, 2007 21:42:56 GMT
Now I knew you liked it. But it had too much of an improvisational feel for my taste. It felt like it was going in too many directions. I really try to do my homework before I go see something, & was really expecting to like it, but.....nope....& I LOVE Alan Partridge.
Maxx, tell us a movie that you wasted your money on.
The great thing about TV is that if you turn something on that is REALLY bad, you can simply change the channel. In a theater you have to sit there & debate with yourself "Will it get better?", Is it worth my money to see it to the end?", "Can I sneak into another theater to see something else, without getting caught?" ;D
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Post by aftereightlady on Jan 31, 2007 22:18:52 GMT
The worst movie I've ever seen was "Closer", although Clive Owen is on my favourite-actors-list
Almost that bad was "The Last Samurai"
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Post by frances on Jan 31, 2007 22:33:33 GMT
I was feeling really S**tty one day and decided to go to a movie recklessly, never a good idea. I ended up seeing the latest X-men, it was horrid.
Interestingly, I went to see Closer when I was in Oxford. I didn't want to go to bars and it was the only thing I _thought_ I wanted to see. But it sucked.
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Post by frances on Jan 31, 2007 22:35:31 GMT
Oh yeah...The Last Samauri... came into my life as a rental, left about ten minutes later....
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Post by ukelelehip on Jan 31, 2007 23:05:15 GMT
He he, I loved "Closer"! I recently saw "Pan's Labyrinth" which I also didn't like. It was a freebie but I did waste two hours of my life watching it.
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Post by frances on Jan 31, 2007 23:14:54 GMT
A friend of mine told me that Pan's Labyrinth was quite good  . You see? We could go on and on, deeper into opinion, and never really accomplish anything. ;D Its cool to keep on top of our preferences, but its good too to not let ourselves be driven by them...  Has anyone disliked a movie so much they had to leave? |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 31, 2007 23:45:00 GMT
Hated "Miller's Crossing".
I was on a date, and it was his choice so even though I wanted to leave, I didn't suggest it...then when we came out, he said "That was bloody awful - if I wasn't on a date with you, I'd have walked out"!!!
There's a moral there somewhere...
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Post by frances on Jan 31, 2007 23:58:57 GMT
Oh no, GE2........  I loved Miller's Crossing. One of my all time favorite films and I'll never forget the experience of first seeing it. I hope it comes into your life another way day, that you give it another chance... |
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Post by pattirose on Feb 1, 2007 0:02:12 GMT
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen. (1988 with Robin Williams)
I was with a guy and he liked it so I left him sitting there and snuck in and watched K-9, when it finished he was dutifully waiting outside the door for me. I was rather shocked as I figured he'd left and I'd be walking home! He didn't know which one I'd gone to either - he either got lucky or watched as each movie finished.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Feb 1, 2007 0:07:14 GMT
I hope it comes into your life another way day, that you give it another chance... It did...and I still hated it! We can't all like the same things  |
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Post by frances on Feb 1, 2007 0:33:31 GMT
Fair enough... and needless to say the world would be a wobegone bland place without the differentiation of opinion needling us.... As they say, vive la difference Have you ever not wanted to see something, but got dragged anyway, only to find yourself really enjoying it? |
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Post by hammy56 on Feb 1, 2007 11:24:28 GMT
this movie is older but it was soooo bad. One night on Showtime, I actually watched Concorde-Airport 1979 with George Kennedy as the pilot. It was so terrible that it made me laugh particularly at the special effects. George actually stuck his arm out of a window and tried to shoot down a F-14 with a flare gun at the same time he was attempting to avoid death from missiles and fly the Concorde. Of course he did it! j
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