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Movies you wish you hadn't bothered watching
- Thread starter desprateseagull
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lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
What's wrong with Finding Nemo?
Horrible Disney, mawkish,sentimental,rubbish. Compare it to Jungle Book, all the toy stories, and even Bambi, and Dumbo,and it pales into insignificance
Independence Day
Four Weddings and a Funeral
They were probably OK but due to incredible over-hyping at the time, I found them a flat disappointment. The latter was a typical, "Good old British film renaissance ... we make films as good as the yanks", talking up our film industry instead of just letting the individual films do the talking. And Hugh Grant, essentially plays himself, in every movie.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
They were probably OK but due to incredible over-hyping at the time, I found them a flat disappointment. The latter was a typical, "Good old British film renaissance ... we make films as good as the yanks", talking up our film industry instead of just letting the individual films do the talking. And Hugh Grant, essentially plays himself, in every movie.
All about opinions, but I loved the Truman Show. An original idea, surprising ending, and Carrey showed a different and sensitive side to his acting skills ... not just a lunatic who can pull amazing faces.
desprateseagull
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Have to add The Hangover.. lame American 'forgot what we did on the stag night' scenario..
like, i mean, it would be rather dull if there WASN'T a tiger in your bathroom, the next morning!
like, i mean, it would be rather dull if there WASN'T a tiger in your bathroom, the next morning!
John Bumlick
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what an ironic choice of phrase.
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Too many to go into but of late? "Filth". James McCavoy on predictably no-mark form, pointless drivel from start to finish.
Ones that I recall: Fell asleep during Troy, switched Devil Wears Prada off before titles finished, switched Eternal Sunshine off 20 mins in, threw Miss Congeniality in the bin after my girlfriend finished watching it.
Ones that I recall: Fell asleep during Troy, switched Devil Wears Prada off before titles finished, switched Eternal Sunshine off 20 mins in, threw Miss Congeniality in the bin after my girlfriend finished watching it.
London Irish
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Anything by Paul Thomas Anderson - meandering films with no point except to show off the method acting skills of his mates
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Scary Movie 5... no where near as good as the first four
Same as Anal Intruders 5 then.
Surely you cannot include Boogie nights in that criticism can you ? Excellant film.
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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And Final Destination 5 then
Anal Intruders.......... Final Destination. Same thing really.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Agree on both counts. A Field in England is utter gash, but the sort of shit The Guardian raves over regardless.
Inception is the daddy of them all for me. Complete tedious bollocks for Matrix-loving sad acts who were good at Physics at school.
supaseagull
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Jacobs ladder, the new version of day the earth stood still, tropic thunder and every other Kack Black film.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Terry Gilliam's masterpiece!!?? You've got to be kidding me
You must have watched only incredibly good movies to list this within just 3 examples of Movies you wish you hadn't bothered watching. My goodness, 98% on rotten tomatoes, 8.0 on IMDb - a simply stunning piece of film making, I must have watched this more than any other film. I'm in shock...
John Bumlick
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Jacob's Ladder? How dare you?
Same goes for Tree Of Life - mind blowingly good movie.
Brighton vs. Hull, Part II
Was supposed to be a fairy tale, but was actually a horror show, including the worst car crash you've ever seen after about 15 minutes.
Was supposed to be a fairy tale, but was actually a horror show, including the worst car crash you've ever seen after about 15 minutes.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
I watched this a bit off my head and it reminded me of when I went to see Kurosawa's Throne of Blood at the NFT where part of the film is a key character lost in a foggy wood, and he stays lost for a while....a long while. I fell asleep and upon that comedy sudden waking up you get if you've fallen asleep without realising, I looked round to see if anyone noticed and half the cinema was asleep! Incredible. A Field of England was very similarly shot, I was on the single malts while watching and I honestly don't know if I saw the whole thing or dropped off during parts of it, what with all the hallucinations and various monologue ramblings - Mark Kermode was going to give it his film of the year on the Culture Show the other night!!!
