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[surfdude12]

Boyhood
Fight Club
Seven
Zodiac
Birdman
Avatar
Iron Man
TDK
300
Transformers
Watchmen
Inglorious Basterds
X-men
Pirates of Carribean
Hangover
I Am Legend
Spiderman

[BRu-LAy]

Hunger Games - I think because of Battle Royale...

[Troll2fan]

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Apocalypse Now
Dr Strangelove
Gone with the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
The Sixth Sense
Boyhood
Gravity
Transformers 2-4
Iron Man 3
Amazing Spider-man 2
Godzilla 2014
Interstellar
Gone Girl

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by dantheman89

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This times a billion. Such a piece of shit movie.

[msb1428]

Lord of the Rings/Hobbit Movies =

[GorillaGuy]

The avengers
Frozen

[Tony208]

Social Network
Gravity

Originally Posted by GorillaGuy

The avengers
Frozen

[GorillaGuy]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Social Network

[trevanian]

Smokey & the Bandit (even drunk, I wasn't amused)

ET - spent the whole movie wishing they'd gone with their original idea (google NIGHT SKIES/John Sayles/Ron Cobb for more)

Ghostbusters (best line wasn't even in the movie, it was for a caption in a STARLOG review of the film, saying Sigourney is posessed and the team must repossess her.)

TOP GUN - if I want to see a stupid and jingoistic military movie, that is what IRON EAGLE is there for, this thing has a second-half-of-act-2 problem beyond almost anything I can recall in that it just LIES THERE like a dead whale, not that much of anything before was all that exciting either.

89 Batman (even ignoring the miscasting, the thing is just dull and the photography is wrong.)

All post T2 Cameron

TRANSFORMERS 1 (had to fast-forward through about a quarter to a third of the movie to stay awake.)

LOTR - saw the first two on homevid, but had to struggle to get through them, no way I'm going to invest in the third, or these prequels.

AbramsTrek - lens flare overuse is like watching a little kid play with a zoom lens, but that is nothing compared with story and character sins and idiocies. Second one was as stupid as the first, but at least had Cumberbatch and gave Greenwood a terrific death scene.

Casino Royale and especially Skyfall, which prid near killed 48 years of Bond devotion - I need to rewatch Dalton and Connery anytime the Craig films get mentioned, just to wash the taste from my mind

[DamageINC]

The Hunger Games - I made it through the three books, which were somewhat interesting, but i did not like the movies a bit.

Pacific Rim - Just thought this was inane drivel.

Fury - Not a bad movie by any means, was entertaining, but not one i'd ever care to own or watch again. Overall, a bit Disappointing. I expected much more out of it.

John Wick - Similar thoughts to Fury. I think i may have just expected too much.

Fast and Furious Movies - See Pacific Rim.

[Member-260138]

Any movie with Ben Stiller in it.
Superman movies. I have tried several times to watch the different Superman movies. But I just can not make it through them.

[hanshotfirst1138]

I was quite proud of what I wrote about Cabin the Woods, pretentious as it was:

"I can see by your eyes you must be lying, when you think I don't have a clue. Baby you're crazy if you think that you can fool me, because I've seen that movie too."
Elton John

"Maybe it's time we stop deconstructing things and start putting them back together."
Alan Moore

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
Plato

And the geek shall inherit the earth. A combination of a pair the massive nerd-TV lords who've rapidly been overtaking Hollywood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and Cloverfield scribe Drew Godard from J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot school, Cabin the Woods arrives after much publicity. A film that's been sitting on a shelf for a couple of years following the fallout of MGM, Hollywood's once mighty megabucks studio, Cabin the Woods was finally picked up by Lionsgate, and is at least in a multiplex near you for horror fans ready for a blast-of-fun bloodbath. Cabin in the Woods isn't a bad film, and for a certain fanboy, there's undeniable fun to be had. But I for one can't help but feel I'm outgrowing Joss Whedon. This might've seemed brilliant when I was 16, but these days, I just don't think "clever" is enough.

"You think you know the story?" So the poster proclaims, but of course, you at least partially do. A group of teens fitting into archetypes all head out for a secluded night where there's no cell phone reception, because apparently, even at this point in the 21st century, no one seems to grasp that getting off the grid to a place where you can't call for help is never a good idea. And the jock (Chris Hemsworth), the stoner (Fran Kranz), the dumb blonde (ex-Power Ranger Anna Hutchison), the nice guy (Jesse Williams), and the bookish virgin (well, as virginal as anyone nowadays-more in a minute) (sexy former soap star Kristen Connolly). They go to the cabin, ignoring the warnings of the weird old guy at the gas station who hasn't changed since The Hills Have Eyes, but beneath it, there's a massive organization reminiscent of the one in Buffy's fourth season, led by geek goddess Amy Acker, obviously designed to represent filmmakers, who manipulate the characters to make things play out as they want. In the basement, they find a variety of things from numerous horror subgenres, read out a mystic incantation in Latin, and bo and lehold, evil comes to kill.

Presumably, the idea of seeing cliches slightly subverted while still giving the audience what they want is supposed to be clever, as things play out like Whedon's usual genre mishmashing with everyone dying until the survivors break into the compound and unleash hell in the most literal sense. The last half-hour is a gorehound's paradise, as Whedon and Godard unleash every horror fan's dream of bringing together all of the genre and monsters into an action-packed battle. It's fun, certainly. But is that enough? Film buffs and horror fans have see this all before under numerous titles: Evil Dead II, the woefully unappreciated Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs. Jason, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill, Fright Night, Funny Games, Army of Darkness, Targets, Peeping Tom, Behind the Mask, Shadow of the Vampire, Grindhouse, Videodrome, Body Double, Piranha, and countless others.

Post-modernism has become films about films about films about films about films and culture is now eating itself. At its best, these films off some sort of commentary on the nature of storytelling or the importance of the tales (I'll plug Wes Craven's New Nightmare again; seriously, see it, it's brilliant.), or find some sort of social commentary like Shaun of the Dead (When Dana sneered "Me? A virgin?" and the Director quipped "We work with what we have." I was hoping for some commentary on changing social mores, but alas, it's just another smart-ass remark.), or at least attempt to do something interesting. But the genre has now been played so thoroughly from every possible angle that Whedon is just adding a new coat of paint, and his brand of smart-ass glibness is less subversive than it is simply smug and annoying. Yes, Joss, I've heard that joke before. The wording is different, the coat of pain is different, but it's stil the same. Godard certainly has skill behind the camera, but he doesn't quite make it into anything more than a fanboy dream, and his hand isn't deft enough to balance his multiple tones and balls in the air and cohere completely. That's fine, certainly. Cabin in the Woods offers up plenty of fanboy fun to be had, but ultimately the film winds up a bit between the two stools, not quite smart enough to be subversive, and not straightforward enough to just be old-fashioned fun like Dog Soldiers. In the end, the movie's self-satisfied tone, affectionate and satirical, but never quite cutting, doesn't make the pieces into the whole I would have hoped for. Again, that's fine, fun is OK, but The Cabin in the Woods isn't as clever as it thinks. To Whedon and Godard, even the end of the world is just a big cosmic joke.

[imsounoriginal]

Gladiator. I just don't get it. Dour, unpleasant experience from start to finish. How this movie not only won Best Picture, but Crowe's one-note, one-face performance won Best Actor, will always be incomprehensible to me.

[Abby is Q]

The Avengers
Fight Club
Inception
Saving Private Ryan
The Departed
Blade Runner
Gladiator
The Lion King
The Dark Knight Rises
North by Northwest
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Scarface
Heat
Million Dollar Baby
The Life Aquatic
Shutter Island
X-Men: Days of Future Past

I just went down the imdv top 250 and picked out some movies I don't care for. I'm sure I made some enemies with my list. =\

[marmup]

Blade Runner

I should love this movie. I love sci-fi and most Harrison Ford movies. I was the perfect age when this came out, but for some reason I just don't connect with it.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

[Show spoiler]I was quite proud of what I wrote about Cabin the Woods, pretentious as it was:

"I can see by your eyes you must be lying, when you think I don't have a clue. Baby you're crazy if you think that you can fool me, because I've seen that movie too."
Elton John

"Maybe it's time we stop deconstructing things and start putting them back together."
Alan Moore

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
Plato

And the geek shall inherit the earth. A combination of a pair the massive nerd-TV lords who've rapidly been overtaking Hollywood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and Cloverfield scribe Drew Godard from J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot school, Cabin the Woods arrives after much publicity. A film that's been sitting on a shelf for a couple of years following the fallout of MGM, Hollywood's once mighty megabucks studio, Cabin the Woods was finally picked up by Lionsgate, and is at least in a multiplex near you for horror fans ready for a blast-of-fun bloodbath. Cabin in the Woods isn't a bad film, and for a certain fanboy, there's undeniable fun to be had. But I for one can't help but feel I'm outgrowing Joss Whedon. This might've seemed brilliant when I was 16, but these days, I just don't think "clever" is enough.

"You think you know the story?" So the poster proclaims, but of course, you at least partially do. A group of teens fitting into archetypes all head out for a secluded night where there's no cell phone reception, because apparently, even at this point in the 21st century, no one seems to grasp that getting off the grid to a place where you can't call for help is never a good idea. And the jock (Chris Hemsworth), the stoner (Fran Kranz), the dumb blonde (ex-Power Ranger Anna Hutchison), the nice guy (Jesse Williams), and the bookish virgin (well, as virginal as anyone nowadays-more in a minute) (sexy former soap star Kristen Connolly). They go to the cabin, ignoring the warnings of the weird old guy at the gas station who hasn't changed since The Hills Have Eyes, but beneath it, there's a massive organization reminiscent of the one in Buffy's fourth season, led by geek goddess Amy Acker, obviously designed to represent filmmakers, who manipulate the characters to make things play out as they want. In the basement, they find a variety of things from numerous horror subgenres, read out a mystic incantation in Latin, and bo and lehold, evil comes to kill.

Presumably, the idea of seeing cliches slightly subverted while still giving the audience what they want is supposed to be clever, as things play out like Whedon's usual genre mishmashing with everyone dying until the survivors break into the compound and unleash hell in the most literal sense. The last half-hour is a gorehound's paradise, as Whedon and Godard unleash every horror fan's dream of bringing together all of the genre and monsters into an action-packed battle. It's fun, certainly. But is that enough? Film buffs and horror fans have see this all before under numerous titles: Evil Dead II, the woefully unappreciated Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs. Jason, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill, Fright Night, Funny Games, Army of Darkness, Targets, Peeping Tom, Behind the Mask, Shadow of the Vampire, Grindhouse, Videodrome, Body Double, Piranha, and countless others.

Post-modernism has become films about films about films about films about films and culture is now eating itself. At its best, these films off some sort of commentary on the nature of storytelling or the importance of the tales (I'll plug Wes Craven's New Nightmare again; seriously, see it, it's brilliant.), or find some sort of social commentary like Shaun of the Dead (When Dana sneered "Me? A virgin?" and the Director quipped "We work with what we have." I was hoping for some commentary on changing social mores, but alas, it's just another smart-ass remark.), or at least attempt to do something interesting. But the genre has now been played so thoroughly from every possible angle that Whedon is just adding a new coat of paint, and his brand of smart-ass glibness is less subversive than it is simply smug and annoying. Yes, Joss, I've heard that joke before. The wording is different, the coat of pain is different, but it's stil the same. Godard certainly has skill behind the camera, but he doesn't quite make it into anything more than a fanboy dream, and his hand isn't deft enough to balance his multiple tones and balls in the air and cohere completely. That's fine, certainly. Cabin in the Woods offers up plenty of fanboy fun to be had, but ultimately the film winds up a bit between the two stools, not quite smart enough to be subversive, and not straightforward enough to just be old-fashioned fun like Dog Soldiers. In the end, the movie's self-satisfied tone, affectionate and satirical, but never quite cutting, doesn't make the pieces into the whole I would have hoped for. Again, that's fine, fun is OK, but The Cabin in the Woods isn't as clever as it thinks. To Whedon and Godard, even the end of the world is just a big cosmic joke.

I totally agree. It's a pretty good film but it's neither as clever nor as funny as it thinks it is. It relies on cliches more than it dissects them and the middle act kinda drags.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Saw Gone With the Wind for the first time. You know, Ben-Hur may be a glorified Sunday school lesson, but it has some awesome spectacle in it. Gone With the Wind has very little, mostly just soap opera stuff, it's unbelievably long. It's also racist and sexist. Nice cinematography though.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

Saw Gone With he Wind for the first time. You know, Ben-Hur may be a glorified Sunday school lesson, but it has some awesome spectacle in it. Gone With the Wind has very little, mostly just soap opera stuff, it's unbelievably long. It's also racist and sexist. Nice cinematography though.

Gone With The Wind has some uncomfortable racial politics, without a doubt. I wouldn't call the film racist, however. But I know what you mean.

But I would never in a million years consider the film sexist in the least. The most interesting character is a woman, and the character who is flat out the best person in the entire film is also a woman.

I mean, sure, Scarlett's a narcissist of the first order. But she's also one of the most compelling characters in film history, IMO. I just can't take my eyes off of her whenever I watch it.

And how could someone be a better human being that Melanie? I'm not sure it's even possible.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

But I would never in a million years consider the film sexist in the least. The most interesting character is a woman, and the character who is flat out the best person in the entire film is also a woman.

I mean, sure, Scarlett's a narcissist of the first order. But she's also one of the most compelling characters in film history, IMO. I just can't take my eyes off of her whenever I watch it.

And how could someone be a better human being that Melanie? I'm not sure it's even possible.

You beat me to it. Scarlett O' Hara is one of my favourite female characters. The last thing I'd accuse the film of is sexism.

Not only that, but... it's based on a book written by a woman.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

You beat me to it. Scarlett O' Hara is one of my favourite female characters. The last thing I'd accuse the film of is sexism.

This discussion has me wanting to pull out my Gone With The Wind DVD package (yeah, I know -- it's the one update I've never gotten around to that I really to) and watch it tonight. It's been a while.