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All of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies. Probably the movies I hate more than anything else. 5 minutes of one of those and I feel like the Hulk when Rick Jones is killed every few years--ready to start punching people in the face!
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quote:Originally posted by profh0011: Let's see... saw E.T. once... ONCE!! More than enough. Bordered on nauseating.
A girlfriend took great umbrage to the fact that I hadn't seen E.T. and made me sit down and watch it. We're not together anymore.
quote: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, if I hadn't read the comic-book adaptation first, and knew the ending and was waiting to see the ending, I swear, I would have walked out halfway thru. That's how annoying that film was. (My sensibilities and Steven Spielberg's must be so far apart, only a tiny handful of his films I've ever gotten to really like at all...)
Excruciatingly boring movie (and I say this as a big fan of Star Trek: the Motion Picture and A.I., which are widely panned as being boring).
The only thing that made me wake up was when the dude started sculpting Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes. I thought 'I've been there' and then I thought 'bastard is ripping off Call of Cthulhu...'
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quote:Originally posted by Vee: Dances with Wolves ~ I saw it when it was already on the "C" circuit at a neat little place called the Brewhouse
It was so god-awful boring
Different setting, I saw it while traveling Indonesia, in a little Kinabalu movie house not much more than a painted white wall. I marveled at the reaction of a peoples barely a full generation out of the longhouses, bones in the noses and stretched ear lobes, freaking out when a Pawnee showed up. And Buffaloes (Bison)? They LOVED those.
I still really don't know what the movie was about but the visuals were stunning.
OT: for me I guess, Caddy Shack but then I'm not a huge Bill Murrey fan.
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quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Agreed. It's not that I think it's a bad movie or anything, it's just I could probably easily name 100 movies that think are better than it, so I find it puzzling that so many people consider it the greatest thing ever.
I'll agree with you guys that it's not the most engaging movie ever, and I don't personally enjoy it either, but I do think it is justified in the praise it gets solely because it's level of innovation literally changed the way films are made. There is so much in terms of tracking shots, narrative structure, shot composition, etc. that really seem commonplace when you watch it now, but were absolutely unheard of at the time. That it seems pedestrian now is a testament to just how much it set the standard for film.
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The Crow: The book was such an amazing piece of dark and uncomfortable poetry, and then this "MTV KEWL Dark" thing comes along and turns it into something completely different. Even more frustrating because Lee looked GREAT.
Lord of the Rings (particularly Two Towers): I understand that things needed to be cut, but to add stupid BS and arbitrarily change plot points really frustrated me. Jackson could have stayed more faithful and still achieved what he wanted.
Watchmen: Awful, Awful. awful. Snyder completely missed the entire point. Total letdown.
Guess I'm just a purist at heart.
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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The actor playing Caspian was FAR too old. The addition of the slight romantic interest between Caspian and Susan made me want to puke. The addition of the failed attack on the castle wasn't needed. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Where do I start? They cut out nescessary scenes, changed the order of how things occured in the book, added a scene with the White Witch that was totally unnescessary and basically just butchered the entire story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part2. C'mon... I can't be the only one that was dissapointed (despite knowing full well they would never do it) that Harry wasn't nude (as he was in the book) when he met Dumbledor in the 'Kings Crossing' afterlife.
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quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett:
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: But one disappointment for me was "Citizen Kane". I'm sure it was very innovative at the time and I can appreciate the craft behind it, but when something's been called the "Greatest Movie Of ALL TIME" so many times, it's hard not to be let down.
Agreed. It's not that I think it's a bad movie or anything, it's just I could probably easily name 100 movies that think are better than it, so I find it puzzling that so many people consider it the greatest thing ever.
I'll agree with you guys that it's not the most engaging movie ever, and I don't personally enjoy it either, but I do think it is justified in the praise it gets solely because it's level of innovation literally changed the way films are made. There is so much in terms of tracking shots, narrative structure, shot composition, etc. that really seem commonplace when you watch it now, but were absolutely unheard of at the time. That it seems pedestrian now is a testament to just how much it set the standard for film.
See also its influence on comics, particularly via Bob Kane's Batman artwork.
One of the most important or influential movies of all time I'll grant it, but one of the greatest? Not by a long shot, imo.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: 30 Days of night wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
I saw the ending of this when my roommate watched it. I noticed right off that the vampire they ground up appears at the end. I hope the continuity person on the film never worked in continuity again.
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quote:Originally posted by Iam Legion: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The actor playing Caspian was FAR too old. The addition of the slight romantic interest between Caspian and Susan made me want to puke. The addition of the failed attack on the castle wasn't needed. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Where do I start? They cut out nescessary scenes, changed the order of how things occured in the book, added a scene with the White Witch that was totally unnescessary and basically just butchered the entire story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part2. C'mon... I can't be the only one that was dissapointed (despite knowing full well they would never do it) that Harry wasn't nude (as he was in the book) when he met Dumbledor in the 'Kings Crossing' afterlife.
I agree with the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Regarding the non-nude scene in Deathly Hallows part 2, after Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was gay do you really think they would have a young guy that many would still consider a kid be nude with him?
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: 30 Days of night wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
I hope the continuity person on the film never worked in continuity again.
That was really the least of the continuity problems w/that film. The entire premise (that there is an overnight switch from a normal day to a month long period of sustained night) is a continuity error. It just doesn't work that way. And while I'm railing, why was it imperative that all planes out had to be off the ground before the sun set? Can planes not take off at night?
In any case, the movies in which I've been disappointed have been mostly of the sequel/prequel types... movies that by their creation actually decrease my appreciation for the original film(s). The Godfather III, both Matrix sequels, the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy.
But my absolute most disappointing film was Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow". Perhaps it's not fair, because I had absurdly high expectations for this film. I grew up in Kinderhook, NY... the basis for the fictional Sleepy Hollow. I went to "Ichabod Crane High School" for Pete's sake! At the time, Johnny Depp was my absolute favorite actor, I was a huge Christopher Walken fan, and I thought that Christina Ricci was about the hottest actress in existence (not to mention the fact that she bore an incredible resemblance to my girlfriend from my Kinderhook days). I felt like this movie was tailor made to be exactly what I wanted in a film...
...but it wasn't. I hated the liberties taken with the story, I found the performances to be almost caricatures, and the "horror" reminded me of nothing so much as "Large Marge" from "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure." All hallmarks, I found out as the years went on, that would typify so much of Tim Burton's output for me.
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I find most movies, disappointing, TBH. And the more they get hyped up as being some transcendent experience of either the high or lowbrow variety, the more disappointed I usually am.
Probably the main reason I enjoyed Thor recently was because I don't regularly read the comics, so I wasn't constantly comparing the movie to the comics and feeling shorted. It also helped that I avoided most of the discussions about it before watching, and that I paid three bucks to get in rather than whatever ridiculous amount they charge for first-run films these days.
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