You just did.
To be fair, I liked mainly the opening scenes with NEST in Shanghai, but I think that counts.
Films that sucked, but everyone else liked...
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You just did.
To be fair, I liked mainly the opening scenes with NEST in Shanghai, but I think that counts.
Don't forget that Zemeckis actually likes it when trailers give away everything and compares going to movies to going to McDonald's.
I think "Blade Runner" is pretty overrated and "Apocalypse Now" just plain sucks. It was crushingly boring start to finish. "Blade Runner" at least had some of the greatest special effects and one of the most beautifully rendered imaginary worlds I've ever seen on film, but I couldn't give a damn about any of the characters or the story and the voiceover narration annoyed me. I know there are two versions, but even without the narration I think it would still be mostly poor.
I'm really disappointed in Zemeckis lately, too. I think he's become too much about technology instead of character and story, but I liked "Forrest Gump" and "Castaway". Especially the latter, which I thought was a tremendous feat of acting by Hanks, and a surprising showing of restraint by Zemeckis, allowing a modern movie to be so dialogue-free for so much of its running time.
The scenes between the old people in "The Notebook" were awful and pathetically melodramatic cheese, but I thought the scenes with Rachel Mcadams and Ryan Gosling were endearing in their sentimentality. It's far from one of the best romances I've seen, but those two had some nice chemistry and the flashback parts of their story were well-acted enough for me to forgive how cliche they were and enjoy them on their own terms. That's definitely one of those movies I think of as a crappy movie and a decent movie stuck together rather than simply a bad one.
I'm really disappointed in Zemeckis lately, too. I think he's become too much about technology instead of character and story, but I liked "Forrest Gump" and "Castaway". Especially the latter, which I thought was a tremendous feat of acting by Hanks, and a surprising showing of restraint by Zemeckis, allowing a modern movie to be so dialogue-free for so much of its running time.
The scenes between the old people in "The Notebook" were awful and pathetically melodramatic cheese, but I thought the scenes with Rachel Mcadams and Ryan Gosling were endearing in their sentimentality. It's far from one of the best romances I've seen, but those two had some nice chemistry and the flashback parts of their story were well-acted enough for me to forgive how cliche they were and enjoy them on their own terms. That's definitely one of those movies I think of as a crappy movie and a decent movie stuck together rather than simply a bad one.
Thespeckledkiwi
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Oh! The Dark Knight -> The Joker was absolutely amazing, the rest of the movie...welcome plot holes and other trite crap.
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I'd have to go with the scientific explanation too. I think the fact that the army was right there with the flame throwers as the mist was dissipating makes it hard to tie it in so directly with sacrificing the kid. Plus I think with the whole theme they were pushing that what was going on in the store was in some ways just as bad as what was going on outside, to have Mrs. Pat Robertson and her new found flock be even a tiny bit right would have undermined all that.
Although with an entire army right behind him you'd think they would have heard something before firing off a few shots. I always wondered what they did with the Impossibly Tall Creature too.
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I was so excited to here about Jetfire being in the movie and they made him my all time favorite plane...a SR-71 Blackbird(the space shuttle would have worked too)...but then seeing the film...it was like expecting a PS3 for Christmas and getting nothing but socks & underwear instead. Since the 1st movie sucked...couldn't be too surprised the 2nd would also.
I actualy thought Jetfire was one of better devloped and better potrayed transformers in both movies.
Which says a lot considering how OTT Jetfire was. A robot, even an "old one" needs to walk with a wheeled cane?
Jetfire was fine...it was being attached to that awful film that was disappointing.
Was it I, Robot? While it wasn't totally sucky, I felt it wasn't nearly a patch on The Outer Limits's take on the Eando Binder original (featuring Leonard Nimoy
).Spirited Away. A boring, pointless mess.
I know! Grrr...I hate him! The things people complain about Lucas or Spielberg or even some of Cameron's detractors, Zemeckis is far, far, far worse than any of them.
He has no love of cinema or adventure and seems to have a real hatred or contempt for his audience and just wants to make a product. He should be in hell just for the 20 minute FedEx commercial in Cast Away. What happened to the Zemeckis of Used Cars, Romancing The Stone, the Back To The Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? GOD, I hope he doesn't make a sequel to Roger Rabbit!
Blade Runner has been mentioned and I agree. Yes, I see so many ideas in the film, but it's so goddamned slow. It's worse than 2001.
The Christopher Reeve Superman films, including the first one. I like the first one until just after he makes his appearance as Supes in Metropolis then it's downhill from there. I know saying that is blasphemy to a lot of people, but that's how I see it.
Mind you Christopher Reeve was light years ahead of Brandon Routh.
The Christopher Reeve Superman films, including the first one. I like the first one until just after he makes his appearance as Supes in Metropolis then it's downhill from there. I know saying that is blasphemy to a lot of people, but that's how I see it.
Mind you Christopher Reeve was light years ahead of Brandon Routh.
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I never thought the movies were the best thing ever, Chris really adds alot to them, if it was someone else...Superman would have been doomed. To be honest the first 3 movies all have something good and something bad...and the fourth one was just awful. SR could have been a better movie minus the kid, minus the Lex Luthor scheme...maybe if Lex unearthed Doomsday instead of that silly scheme...it would have been a better film and not much else would have change...the black out could have been cause by unearthing Doomsday and then minor details change...they could have kept the thing with the crystals and stealing the kryptonite as part of the plan to unlock whatever doomsday was contained in...I dunno...just minor tweaks and the film would have been good.
The Dark Knight. Boring, boring, boring. The Joker was overrated and I don't believe the role was Oscar worthy.
Thespeckledkiwi
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Is that the Oscar winning won where the little girl's parents are turned into pigs? If yes, then yes!
MeanJoePhaser
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That describes almost every Will Smith film.
Gah!
That being said, Pirates of the Caribbean,
Hellboy (fucking hated it, and that's the euphemism of the century),
Austin Powers (pick one. They are not funny. Not one bit. I tried, but I couldn't bring myself to laugh),
the Blair Witch Project (booooooring! [/Homer Simpson]),
Cold Mountain, Saving Private Ryan,
Shakespeare in Love (I have bever been so angry after watching the Oscars. Wtf?), A Beautiful Mind.
Shakespeare in Love.
It looks nice. It's amusing in places. But it never gels with me, and I'm unmoved by it. I don't understand the adoration of it. I think of it as one of the Weinstein's best con jobs on Hollywood. *shrug*
It looks nice. It's amusing in places. But it never gels with me, and I'm unmoved by it. I don't understand the adoration of it. I think of it as one of the Weinstein's best con jobs on Hollywood. *shrug*
I think generally Miyazaki's 80s movies like "Castle in the Sky" and "My Neighbor Totoro" were better than his 90s and 2000s output. I think he's one of those filmmakers who got his Oscar way too late in his career, long after putting out the work he actually deserved it for. I really didn't care for "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away". Haven't seen the newest one.
It's kind of sad that Will Smith has had such a successful movie career when pretty much all of the movies he's starred in have been mediocre or terrible. I only thought "Men In Black" and "Six Degrees of Separation" were great, although some of the others have a few cool moments.
All of the "Superman" movies have been very inconsistent and cheesy, but I like "Superman II" enough to own it. The love story and action sequences in that movie are rather clunky, but the three villains are awesome and elevate the whole thing big time.
It's kind of sad that Will Smith has had such a successful movie career when pretty much all of the movies he's starred in have been mediocre or terrible. I only thought "Men In Black" and "Six Degrees of Separation" were great, although some of the others have a few cool moments.
All of the "Superman" movies have been very inconsistent and cheesy, but I like "Superman II" enough to own it. The love story and action sequences in that movie are rather clunky, but the three villains are awesome and elevate the whole thing big time.
It's kinda cute but utterly irrelevant. That year, there were such wonderful films nominated, and that pile of shit wins? I mean come on, as if anyone voted for that because they thought it deserved it. Fucking Oscars, I got so mad I nearly threw my telly out of the window. I mean, The Thin Red Line, Elizabeth, even Saving Private Ryan... and Shakespeare in Love wins? Shakespeare in love? Like, REALLY?
Gonna stop now before I go into full caps lock mode, here.
