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No thats not a joke. I watched Legend of the Seeker on the premise that it would be amazing but lo and behold it sucks. The battle scene was so lame, one guy defeats an entire army (comprising of 12 people with lots of close up shots to obscure the fact that there are only 12 people), and they give him ample time to take on 2 or three soldiers at a time. Seriously. Fantasy makes no sense, its not believable, I can't relate to it. Sci Fi is manly. I read all of Tolkiens books, rubbish, the silmarillion was ok but still boorrrinng. And I gave up on page 100 of the chronicles of thomas covenant because it was just, ooh look I'm in a fantasy world of elves and pixies!
300. I giggled the whole time. It's a bloody miracle nobody tossed me out of the cinema at the time. But I could NOT help it. Found it so stupid that it was funny...
No thats not a joke. I watched Legend of the Seeker on the premise that it would be amazing but lo and behold it sucks. The battle scene was so lame, one guy defeats an entire army (comprising of 12 people with lots of close up shots to obscure the fact that there are only 12 people), and they give him ample time to take on 2 or three soldiers at a time. Seriously. Fantasy makes no sense, its not believable, I can't relate to it. Sci Fi is manly. I read all of Tolkiens books, rubbish, the silmarillion was ok but still boorrrinng. And I gave up on page 100 of the chronicles of thomas covenant because it was just, ooh look I'm in a fantasy world of elves and pixies!
Were there elves in Thomas Covenant? I never noticed with all whiny depressing emo talk from Covenant. My god that book made me want to kill myself for ever thinking I should pick it up and read it. I actually 'bought' most of the series from a used bookstore that was going out of business and they were letting you fill up boxes with as many books as you could carry for $10. So I bought A LOT of stuff. I gave all the covenant books to the library.
The Dark Knight and Batman Begins...possibly has something to do with my dislike of Bale but if I never have to see those two movies again I'll be happy.
Pretty much all the big animated movies since Aladdin, which was the last one that I thought was worth watching. Probably the one I dislike the most out of them would be "Finding Nemo". I was forced to watch over half the movie and all it did was make me want to self-harm and go to get some fish and chips.
Spider-man, again its lead actors were two I'm not fond of - Dunst and that guy with the whiny voice. Plus I thought they removed some of the more interesting parts of the backstory.
Pretty indifferent to the latest Star Trek movie but few people I know actually like it so I guess that doesn't count.
Those LOTR films are so damned long it's unreal. And for no good reason, either. The last of the three is the absolute worst offender (I thought it was ending about 5 times before it actually DID, in fact, end )...and yet incredibly, won an Oscar for 'Best Film Editing'.
What a load of utter and complete crap THAT was! I am just positive that they didn't edit a single frame they shot out of that damned movie. WAY too long. And completely unnecessarily so. On that one, they could easily have chopped 45 minutes out of the thing and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference.
In truth, I think that Peter Jackson was so in love with the sound of his own creative voice by that time that he just let that damned thing go on and on and on and on and ON.....for as long as he thought the average patron could STAND before we finally just got up and walked out on him.
If I hadn't been with my two nephews when I went to see that movie, I'd have walked out after about the third faux ending. It is one of the few movies I have ever gone to where I actually felt annoyed with the director on the way out.
As for Jim Carey, I don't get what all the love for him is all about. I find his humor to be tasteless and juvenile, for the most part. He's like the guy who can't stop laughing a his own perpetually UN-funny juvenile fart jokes or something.
Well, somebody obviously remembered the story, since it was lifted practically in it's entirety from Dances With Wolves.
I mean, these guys weren't even subtle about it. They just lifted the entire story and plopped it into CGI. Frankly, I was seriously stunned that they would be so brazen about it.
Now granted, Dances With Wolves is an excellent movie - one of my favorites of all time, in fact. I have seen that film about 25 times, and I love it.
But when I was sitting there in Avatar and realized less than a third of the way in (when she got assigned to 'teach him their ways') what it was, I knew exactly how the entire rest of the film would play out. The only thing I hadn't worked out was how he was gonna be able to stay with the tribe once the humans pulled the plug. And that one final mystery was solved the moment Sigourney Weaver's character died.
I liked the movie - because I liked Dances With Wolves.
I was going to say perhaps you came into the thread late. But seeing as how in reflection the following clearly state their dislike of Titanic throughout the thread and you've been posting since page one its clear you just aren't seeing the big picture most of the time.
Well, it's not 'everyone' because there are a lot of opinions out there in this big world of ours; but these are movies that are considered successful or popular, but I personally don't care for:
And the more people rave about Avatar, the less I like it. I thought it was fine when I saw it, but totally derivative, unoriginal and lacking any kind of depth or nuance. It was a popcorn flick, but a middling one.
If you're going to see Avatar for the entrancing story, you're pretty much going for the wrong reasons. I'm kind of getting tired of hearing about this...it's a very dead horse.
Highlander isn't exactly a critically-acclaimed movie, but a lot of geekdom loves it. But I'm in the minority when I say it was merely average. Interesting concept that it never really delivered on. The series was probably the only Highlander that delved deeply into its mythology, if you can get past that half the episodes sucked.
Titanic - Can't stand Decrapio. I only wanted to see the special effects. The story was stupid and that old chick at the end was dumb for throwing that diamond overboard. I guess she didnt care about her offspring being taken care of when she kicked the bucket.
Paranormal Activity - I fell asleep in it. All they did was talk and argue. If I was haunting them I would have left out of boredom.
Okay, as someone who just watched "Casablanca" for only the second time in my life (first time was about 8 or so years ago), I feel compelled to respond to some of the criticisms. I agree, it's not as flawless as many say it is. I remember the first time I watched it, like a big softie I adored it and thought it was perfect just because I felt the love story was so strong and I was in a really 'romantic mood'.
Watching it for a second time, I now feel that the love story still works beautifully, but there's a lot of other stuff in there that's kind of crappy that I conveniently ignored when I saw it for the first time. All the stuff about World War II and the suppression of freedom of the press by the Nazis going on during that period isn't all that interesting and I found myself getting frustrated during those parts, waiting for the movie to get back to the romance.
As for the end,
I still believe it works wonderfully and makes sense. I think the point was that Rick was about to get in a lot of potential trouble with the law (despite his new friendship) and he had to let her go not only because her going with Victor would help a worthy cause, but also because it would ensure her safety. It's a classic love story development of having to let the one you love go even though you want her to stay with you because that's the only way she can be happy and free. He sacrifices their love so that she can be okay, as staying with him, she'd be caught up in the same trouble he's in.
Okay...as someone who has seen Casablanca more times than I can count (I'm a TCM junkie and it comes on there fairly regularly, to the point where I've happened upon it at various stages in the story so many times I can't even begin to guess at how many total viewings I seen) I have to stand up for it as one of the best films ever made.
I agree completely with your explanation of the love story in spoiler tags. But I think the Nazi stuff is even more necessary now than it was when the movie was made....just because I'd bet a good bit of the modern-day audience doesn't even know the Nazis were IN North Africa. Or France, for that matter.
Anyway, I have never seen the Nazi stuff as weighing down the picture at all. And some of it I found rather emotional (for example, the who-can-sing-louder sequence. Some brave souls, when you consider the fact that Conrad Veidt's character, Maj. Strasser, was no doubt taking names.). I found the Nazi stuff to be a very interesting component, in fact. Especially when viewed in light of the fact that pretty much everyone in Casablanca was there precisely to escape them.
As for the rest....well, there is certainly no film that is quoted more than Casablanca is. Even Gone With the Wind takes a distant second place, in terms of quotability. I think that just about every line spoken by Claude Rains is quotable - in fact, I think Rains' quotability equals that of Bogie's in this film!
The music, of course, has also become legendary - especially "As Time Goes By", but a couple of the other songs too - "Knock on Wood" springs immediately to mind.
Paul Henreid was fabulous - making Lazlo likable enough to really care about, despite the fact that his presence was screwing up like, the greatest romance ever.
And of course, Ingrid Bergman...well, she is was always outstanding in every role she ever played. And I think quite possibly the most beautiful movie star ever. Heddy Lamarr or no.
As for Bogie....well, his presence in this movie is the reason I am a classic film junkie to this day. There are a lot of films where Bogie comes off, shall we say, as less than 'elegant'. But in this one? Class act! Quotability is high, elegance high (I am a huge Bogie fan, but this is one of his few non-Bacall pictures where I find him downright sexy)...and he did pretty doggone well in his first stab at a romantic lead (had alot more practice with these in his later movies with Lauren Bacall )
I don't know if you know much about what was going on off-set during the filming of Casablanca...but it is interesting to note that, for all it's quotability, it was written essentially on the fly, the writers barely staying a couple of scenes ahead of production. It is said that it is almost a miracle that Casablanca came out any good at all, considering how chaotic things were off-screen. Warners considered it, at the time, to be just one of many films they were making that year. But here it is....it won Best Picture in 1943, has consistently made pretty much anyone who matter's list of best films ever made, and is one of the key pictures, together perhaps with The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen, that turned Bogie into an outright legend, even among the the average joe blows of the world who don't know diddly squat about classic film.
)...and yet incredibly, won an Oscar for 'Best Film Editing'. 
