Movies Others Loved But You Hated

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by 720pDude

Yep..

Gone With The Wind-YEE-AWN
2001-Snnorrrrre.....ZZzzzzzzz
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
The Graduate

WOW!Watch it where it matter:In cinemas.

Can't fail you on Zhivago though...

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

See above.

Gladiator Good film

Braveheart Great film

Titanic Better film

Than the above?

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by clownface

I don't get these:

Eraserhead

Nobody does. If they claim to understand, they are liars.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by BluraySe7en

I don't stretch none of my credibility Gump is Hollywood at it's worst and so many actors deserved it over Hanks, it was joke he was awarded 2 years in a row.

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[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by Fabio13

I think I´ll add another movie too this thread.
"Gone With The Wind".
My god. 4 hours of boring drama from the south, during the american civil war with a protagonist I just couldn´t stand.

But I gotta admit, it´s really satisfying when Clark Gable says that line in the movie.
Frankly, I did´nt give a damn myself.

I'm with you on that one. No doubt it is the ground-breaking, cinematic epic that everyone claims, but I just couldn't get into it. What made it even worse is that it was my (at the time) girlfriend's favorite movie, and she modeled her personality after Scarlett O'Hara.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Gladiator Good film

Braveheart Great film

Titanic Better film

Than the above?

Sorry squid, I should have been more clear. I think overall it's better than Braveheart and Gladiator. I like Braveheart more and it could really go either way. I think Gladiator is a step down, albeit not significantly.

[42041]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Gladiator Good film

Braveheart Great film

Titanic Better film

Than the above?

Braveheart didn't really work for me. Gladiator I quite enjoy, but Titanic beats it out for my tastes. It was a victim of the predictable backlash that always accompanies hugely successful films but I think it's a terrific piece of filmmaking.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Sorry squid, I should have been more clear. I think overall it's better than Braveheart and Gladiator. I like Braveheart more and it could really go either way. I think Gladiator is a step down, albeit not significantly.

OK. Understand now, but mildly disagree.

Get over to the movie club thread and discuss North by Northwest.

[Fighter]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

OK. Understand now, but mildly disagree.

Get over to the movie club thread and discuss North by Northwest.

Braveheart < Titanic & Gladiator

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Fighter

Braveheart < Titantic & Gladiator

Gladiator
Titanic
Braveheart

[Kizzo]

This is an interesting thread.

For me a recent movie that I rented, due to the overwelming hype was "District 9". I didn't like this movie at all, and was pretty much a waste of my time. God.. terrible.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by clownface

I don't get these:

Eraserhead

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Nobody does. If they claim to understand, they are liars.

It's about human neurosis

But man! what a movieexperience Eraserhead was!Remember it vividly to this date 20 years+ since I first watched it.Ranks up there in movie-experiences with Great expectations,wild at heart and color of money for me

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

It's about human neurosis

But man! what a movieexperience Eraserhead was!Remember it vividly to this date 20 years+ since I first watched it.Ranks up there in movie-experiences with Great expectations,wild at heart and color of money for me

Me too. The audio and visuals were K I L L I N G me the entire time. But I just could NOT turn it off.

I felt violated and abused afterwards.

Highly recommended.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Gladiator Good film

Braveheart Great film

Titanic Better film

Than the above?

Include me in this also, though I would say that Braveheart is just good, not great. (gasp) I never understood the love for it. I watched it when it premiered on HBO and though it was ok...no big deal. Then when it came out on DVD I bought it thinking that my view would change. Boy was I wrong. I find the battles pretty boring and the rest not very interesting at all(and I have a big LOVE for European history), so I just gave the DVD away to someone at work. I would love to see a PROPER reboot done on this where they can add some CGI to the battles to give those scenes the proper depth that they deserve and most of all...make it more historically accurate because of all the liberties that they took in its telling of this great story.


Now with Gladiator I find it a pretty average film with some great CGI in it and a couple of great battles but I find the characters very unexceptional, specially the movies villain(I really would like to have seen someone else in that role). I still do not understand how this won best picture though I like it just enough to buy the Blu whenever they get its PQ straitened out.


Just my opinion.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

OK. Understand now, but mildly disagree.

Get over to the movie club thread and discuss North by Northwest.

ha....I haven't seen North by Northwest recently enough for my thoughts to hold any weight....I have to watch it again for sure.

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[mjbethancourt]

Inglourious Basterds.

It's by far Tarantino's worst film, (OK, maybe not... I never saw 'Deathproof', so that one might be worse): it has a thin and implausible story, all of its halfway-decent scenes and sets are lifted straight from other movies, the dialogue ranges from anachronistic to incongruous to pointless, (really, Quentin, it's not exactly knee-slapping humor to have all your characters say "Bingo!" in all of your movies... it was never funny, and now it's just old). I really like some of his movies, but I think this one totally missed. I'm puzzled by the popularity and critical acclaim for it.

Originally Posted by Mac08j

By saying the Halloween movies were good in any way is just ludacris. Seriously.

What does Chris Bridges have to do with 'Halloween'? Did you mean ludicrous?

Originally Posted by BluraySe7en

God Titanic , shocking script, shocking acting, terribly paced, even the effects look suspect now, Cameron is so overrated it's ridiculous and now he's gone and conned the planet again with a film I refuse to see because it looks god awful.

Yep, James Cameron has just "conned" hundreds of millions of people into believing they had a great time watching a very entertaining movie, which you haven't seen, but can still authoritatively say it is "god awful". I wish I had that superpower, to be able to know exactly how good or bad a movie is without even seeing it.

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

Inglourious Basterds.

It's by far Tarantino's worst film, (OK, maybe not... I never saw 'Deathproof', so that one might be worse): it has a thin and implausible story, all of its halfway-decent scenes and sets are lifted straight from other movies, the dialogue ranges from anachronistic to incongruous to pointless, (really, Quentin, it's not exactly knee-slapping humor to have all your characters say "Bingo!" in all of your movies... it was never funny, and now it's just old). I really like some of his movies, but I think this one totally missed. I'm puzzled by the popularity and critical acclaim for it.




What does Chris Bridges have to do with 'Halloween'? Did you mean ludicrous?



Yep, James Cameron has just "conned" hundreds of millions of people into believing they had a great time watching a very entertaining movie, which you haven't seen, but can still authoritatively say it is "god awful". I wish I had that superpower, to be able to know exactly how good or bad a movie is without even seeing it.

+1--well said.

[Fighter]

Raiders of the Lost Ark

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

Inglourious Basterds.

It's by far Tarantino's worst film, (OK, maybe not... I never saw 'Deathproof', so that one might be worse): it has a thin and implausible story, all of its halfway-decent scenes and sets are lifted straight from other movies, the dialogue ranges from anachronistic to incongruous to pointless, (really, Quentin, it's not exactly knee-slapping humor to have all your characters say "Bingo!" in all of your movies... it was never funny, and now it's just old). I really like some of his movies, but I think this one totally missed. I'm puzzled by the popularity and critical acclaim for it.

I'd say to watch Death Proof, I'd call that one Quentin's worst by far.

Yep, James Cameron has just "conned" hundreds of millions of people into believing they had a great time watching a very entertaining movie, which you haven't seen, but can still authoritatively say it is "god awful". I wish I had that superpower, to be able to know exactly how good or bad a movie is without even seeing it.

That would be an awesome super power.

Logan