I bet that Tucker Max movie would be a contender if I bothered to watch it.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Punchdrunk Love.
― hey it's (jel --), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Lost in Translation. Never seen it. American Beauty = abominable, 2nd. Transformers 3rd, and if the newer Transformers is as bad as I hear then throw that one in too.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmmorbius
― velko, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
dammit jel beat me to it
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Love that movie. :(
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
how he went boogie nights - PDL - TWBB is completely and utterly beyond my comprehension, it's like aliens abducted him for a year
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Could we maybe just talk about movies we hate because we've actually seen them, please? We get enough "I hate this movie that I've never seen and have no intention of seeing!" in every other film thread. Thanks.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Contact (or basically anything else by Zemeckis)
― canadian teen queen (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Can we talk about movies we only watched half of and then turned off?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i hated cache at the time but i don't know how i'd feel now
― mark cl, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
forest gump edging out american beauty for me
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously, I did not need to see any more of Pucked to know that it was a dead end street.
But considering movies that I've seen all the way through that I had some positive expectation towards only to find myself betrayed and angry once I paid money to see it, I think There's Something About Mary would be pretty high up there. I also found House of 1000 Corpses to be pretty head-clutchingly bad.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
oh btw my real actual answer is jointly held by 'a perfect storm' and 'apollo 13'
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Apollo 13?
Huh.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Clerks
― canadian teen queen (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
At least you made the effort, y'know?
I thoroughly prepared myself to hate Juno, and I kinda did hate the beginning of it, but I thought it was okay once it relaxed and stopped trying so hard to impress me.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
juno was totally inoffensive for the most part and reasonably watchable
― omar little, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Star Wars, for its influence on American film. On its own terms, I like it. But I think it was the turning point when studios discovered that they could make huge returns by marketing films directed solely towards pre-teens and teenagers.
― You Are All Sanpaku (Derelict), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The second half of Juno was pretty solid, I thought. I can see how it would make a bad first impression.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
(Don't) try sitting through this sometime:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3341
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
A Perfect Storm and Apollo 13? Those are as inoffensive and mainstream as modern films get. I can understand maybe seeing through their more emotionally manipulative aspects, but hating them? That just means you have too much animosity towards the world in the first place.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
your second sentence is onto something!
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
That Tony & Tina thing was playing below the Second City Training Center for the better part of a year, and it always looked and sounded suuuuuuuper obnoxious.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
but the "play" was AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! what a property to make into a film!
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, they're making films of a wide array of Milton Bradley board games. Seems like anything's fair game at this point, however little sense it makes.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what, I think I hated forrest gump even more than forest gump
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, let me tell you: don't even bother with Forrrest Gump. Although Forrrrest Gump was actually pretty good.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Fight Club. Hate it so damn much.
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing brings me closer to ILX than it's blanket condemnation (or thereabouts) of Crash.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Requiem for a Dream
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
not quite blanket condemnation (where's Dan...)
x-post
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
In terms of wishing the characters were killed in the first fifteen minutes thus ending the movie: "The Strangers," "Saving Private Ryan," "Boogie Nights," "Apollo 13," "Forrest Gump," "American Pie 2," "Spice World," and "It's a Wonderful Life."
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
A special kind of loathing is reserved for "Southland Tales."
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Watchmen. Ergh, 3 hours of bad speeches, absolutely no fun, 4 penii, just everything wrong wrong wrong. Have to hate movies that could be potentially great and fuck up in every single way more than movies that were always going to be crappy.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
If The Fountain didn't have Hugh Jackman literally turn into a tree, I think I would hate it more than Watchmen.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Signs
― canadian teen queen (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus h christ people apollo 13 is not a good answer
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
well why don't you tell us what movies we should hate then?
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
peter jackson's King Kong! fucking horrible
― carne asada, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Serendipity.
― if, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp i just don't see how one can find it contemptible unless it's very MOR-ness is what makes it contemptible for you in which case whatever
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Love Potion No. 9 with Sandra Bullock is some shit
― akm, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I forgot - the one with the pianist, drillbit taylor, and that smarmy guy with bad facial hair on a train in India.
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
have any of you successfully gotten your money back for hating a movie? this seems like a fun thing to do and would almost be worth hating a movie for.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i just don't see how one can find it contemptible unless it's very MOR-ness is what makes it contemptible for you in which case whatever
That's a large part of why I dislike it (and It's a Wonderful Life).
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Conspiracy Theory but I'd have a hard time explaining why exactly
― canadian teen queen (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Watchmen for free. Asked my friend who works at the odeon if I could get those 3 hours of my life back, she called me an ungrateful cunt.
Paid for The Golden Compass though ;_;
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
it smells like challops in here.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't really work up much vitriol for boring mainstream movies that are boringly mainstream.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
It's because Morgan Freeman is America's cuddly grandpa.
...who we have sex with and get married to.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the subtext of Forrest Gump is that sexually liberated women with liberal politics get AIDS and die.
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is a whole genre of movie, the out of control lady movie. i hate it.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
but she redeems herself by marrying the retarded patriot and, of course, having a baby.
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Splitting hairs, I know, but I'd say it's "a subplot" rather than "the subtext" of Forrest Gump. The subtext of the film is: stumbling brainlessly through life will lead to a wondrous existence filled with magic and stars.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
it isn't a subplot, it is a subtext, but not the only one.
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i was alarmed by the pro-jogging undercurrent.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was about the rape of our Gulf coast's seabed just to please gluttonous Americans who crave shellfish.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Another vote for Donnie Darko, the worst film ever made.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Mordy, have you seen Southland Tales?
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. Southland Tales is bad enough to be enjoyable as a shitty movie (not to mention quotable with all those ridiculous The Rock lines). Donnie Darko is just competently enough made to impart absolutely no enjoyment while watching it whatsoever.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Usual Suspects is awesome if only for Benicio Del Toro and his accent/look.
― Change Display Name: (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
On that IMDB list Fight Club would get my vote. I don't hate it, but I dislike it more than most of them.
no-one's hardcore enough to challop Schindler. Cool. That might be be our saving grace, gize.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a soft spot for Schindler's List because my mom's a bookkeeper for right-wingers, and it gave me hope that if there were some sort of purge on liberals and lefties, that my family would be similarly saved.
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Lost in Translation. I really hate this style of under-scripted movie which then gets praised for being subtle and meaningful cos it's so lacking in substance that people just project whatever they want on to it. Actually come to think of it i might hate Broken Flowers even more.
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked Broken Flowers. And I liked Lost in Translation. But I already cried about LOTR so hack away :)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually come to think of it you might hate Bill Murray most.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I will no longer see any movies where Bill Murray does his deadpan depressive schtick. He should have stopped at Rushmore.
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
And to balance the universe I will see them in your stead. Ah. harmony!
I don't know if everyone a) saw this or b) raved about it but I didn't like 'Tell No One'. And I kind of liked it even less for having had it RAVED to me that it was omg awesome. Really not. You don't get a pass just for having subtitles.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Lost in Translation. I really hate this style of under-scripted movie which then gets praised for being subtle and meaningful cos it's so lacking in substance that people just project whatever they want on to it.
i dunno, i liked it in a 'don't mind spending time with these characters + listening to this music + watching the pretty lights' sort of way but 'under-scripted' still doesn't seem fair. (or at least changes in your direction would prob have doomed what *I* like about it). its charms are fragile but not slight if that makes any sense.
― alex b. skeaton (tremendoid), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I just didn't think there was anything there beyond "It can be a bit lonely being in a foreign country on your own and incidentally aren't those Japanese crazy?" You could take a walk round any big city at night with some My Bloody Valentine on your iPod and get the same experience.
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
number none, there is a thread for that POS film where I blather on endlessly but echoing your sentiments in poorer fashion.
― Change Display Name: (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah i'll shut up about it now. It just bothers me when something so half-arsed gets feted to such a degree.
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I really liked Lost In Translation the first time I saw it, then a negative review by Momus made me change my mind. His most OTM point IMO is his objection to the film's portrayal of Bill Murray's character as someone likeable, while he's really just a smug, racist prick. And so is Scarlett Johansson. Yet, it's still a beautiful film with an amazing soundtrack, so it's hard to completely hate it.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
surprised that fucking huckabees movie has not been mentioned yet
― skeletor, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned "The Squid and The Whale" yet?
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
No, but thanks for mentioning it. HORRIBLE!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Huckabees was a big bag of WTF.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
human traffic, requiem for a dream
i think i just hate all 'young people take drugs' films
― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I started off taking Huckabees seriously and hated it, then I slowly realised it was completely taking the piss, and decided it was grebt.
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"about schmidt"
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link