it wins handsdown. Pack up your bags and go home - nothing to see here.
― Anko Painting (Anko2), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies in general, though can understand their 'place' in the movie/life rubric and why people would want to see them. But there's something about Sleepless in Seattle particularly that really pushes my buttons, I can't really put my finger completely on it. It reaches beyond Hanks' mewling for his departed wife (usually, they at least try to be more subtle about that level of audience-manipulation factor in the scripts) and even moreso that annoying little kid who instinctively just...knows!!! who is right for his dad and will sabotage anything/anyone that doesn't fit The Plan...to unite his Dad with a woman from some other part of the country whom neither has met.
It's not just that I find the movie's sentiment exceptionally false, even for a romantic comedy, but more that what it's holding up as an ideal for a relationship...that you should "just know" (by instinct or fate or "magic") who the right person is that's "meant for you", and that forming a healthy relationship doesn't require work, trial and error, and substantial emotional investment and constant communication to maintain once you think you have found the right person...it seems to me a rather harmful message. I find it mind-boggling that anyone would be *touched* by the story after having seen it rather than insulted and slightly disturbed.
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― monia.l (monia.l), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― monia.l (monia.l), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300268624.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Top Gun = so bad it's great
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
oh and theres a "light show" at the end! i was half expecting pink floyd to start murdering my ears!
and a giant baby at the end! wtf? kubrick's totally ripping off that simpsons episode when homer goes to space!
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
People are dissing a lot of mediocre and flawed movies but missing out the real dreck, such as:
Batman & Robin (Arnie: "they won't put me in the cooler")The General's Daughter (another godawful Travolta thing)An Alan Smithee MovieK-Pax (Spacey smugfest that even Jeff Bridged couldn't redeem)BeachesMrs Doubtfire (travesty of a fine kids book. Anne Fine was not happy)
I was going to include The John Denver Story but it's actually quite funny for the relentlessly chirpy lead actor and his hair.
― stew, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Gigli does look truly horrendous. "Gobble gobble" aaarrrgggh!
― stew, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
"Everybody Chill!"
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
* BEST DEFENSE - this is a FUCKING SHIT film* PLANET OF THE APES (Burton) - this is a FUCKING SHIT film* 8 LEGGED FREAKS - this is a FUCKING SHIT film* BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN - this is a FUCKING SHIT film* VERONICA GUERIN - this is a FUCKING SHIT film
― Huey (Huey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
No, that movie is classic!
Trenchcoats made of Kevlar...mwahahahahaha!
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
200 Cigarettes
Lost World Jurassic Park
Escape from LA
Requiem for a Dream
The Triplets of Belleville
American Beauty
Oceans 11 (the remake)
Traffic
― Spicy Club Sauce, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Battle Royale 2 kind of sucked as well.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Dumb point taken!
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
--Tigerland?
or Zemeckis
--Back to the Future? Cast Away?
or Kevin Smith
--Clerks?
Any Oliver Stone film
--Salvador? Born on the Fourth of July? Talk Radio?
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I only said it once, for the record, but I'm glad I'm not alone... except for romantically.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 17 February 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― nader (nader), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Cronenbourg is a genius? Only if genius means rubbish.
― dmun, Friday, 18 February 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
plus you mispelled his name!
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― dmun, Friday, 18 February 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
HAHAHA. Brilliant!
Aw, c'mon - they weren't cliches in fucking 1924!
But that's my only comment regarding the dozen-or-so above films that I like. My choice for worst:
"Crash" (wurst movie I ever paid money to see!) may have turned me off Cronenberg (& R. Arquette for that matter) forever - and I liked everything previous. Never woulda believed that any film could be repellent, unbelievable and deadly dull all at once - a near-impossible combination! - so at least I'll give him credit for that.2nd würst $ layout: "Howard The Duck", and in fact EVERYTHING w/George Lucas's name on it after, oh, 1981 is a contenda. And every movie in which Michael Douglas plays an executive. And the aforementioned "Con Air" - Has there ever been a worse film w/as many usually dependable actors? (No.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 February 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link