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Why is Trek XI in some lists does it suck real bad to some people just wondering
Films you can't stand...
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Why would you give a spacecraft intended to land on an asteroid landing gear designed for a runway and no VTOL capability?
Not everyone likes the same things, surely you must have encountered that phenomenon before?
I would have put nuTrek on my list, but it's better for my blood pressure if i convince myself it doesn't exist.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
Hulk(2005) Theres others, but I can't think right now.
I'm glad to see someone say that. I just always assumed I was just too stupid to "get it". I'm a huge Coen fan, and thought they just went over my head with that one. I hated that ending. In fact, there a couple of other elements in that movie that I was dissatisfied with as well.
These kinds of threads are always interesting. So many of my all-time favorite films have been listed, Apocalypse Now and Sin City in particular.
People who hate Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Jack Black etc, who do you think is funny, Tom Green?
And Owen Wilson gets no love for Bottle Rocket even?
As far as Tim Burton goes, it's odd to me that people see his work as unoriginal, since the very reason I love most of his films are for the fact that he does have such an original style. Edward Scissorhands, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland are all movies that are high on my list. I don't think that Mars Attacks! and Ed Wood are bad either.
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I quite liked the first hour or so--a lot of those silent, cat-and-mouse scenes were really tense--but it seemed to lose the thread of the narrative somewhere in the second hour, particularly when following the perspective of Tommy Lee Jones' useless character. And the movie finishes with a non-ending on the scale of Eyes Wide Shut. I really hate it when creators think they're being oh-so-clever by failing to conclude their stories, as though making some deep statement about the form of storytelling and our expectations. There's a reason why 'traditional' storytelling has endured millenia--it's infinitely more satisfying than the postmodern fetish for non-endings.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
It is not a matter of attention span. It is a matter of movies in which nothing interesting happens, the characters are dull, and there's no memorable dialogue. I'm 26 and I love a lot of old movies that are very long, but I appreciated them because unlike "The Thing", "Brazil", "The Third Man", "The Conversation", "Lord of the Rings", "Apocalypse Now", and "Blade Runner", they had more going for them than pretty scenery/visuals and/or cool special effects - they had original events and characters worth giving a shit about and conversations that really have substance.
For example, "Gone with the Wind", "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Bridge of the River Kwai", the first two "Godfather" movies, "Ben-Hur", "Spartacus" "Scarface", and "The Shawshank Redemption". What has been said about genitals is applicable to movies here - "It's not the size, mate, it's how you use it"
. A movie isn't good or shitty based on length. It's whether it does something worthwhile with that length...as in developing/presenting characters, plots, and conversation that are involving, entertaining, or fascinating and have something of substance to say.
I thought this movie was just okay, but the hype about it on the Internet kind of ruined it for me. It's a touching movie in some parts, but the message that relationships are worth remembering even if they've caused you pain is fairly obvious, so I don't really get why people think the movie is so profound in how it conveyed that message.
I also think people made way too big a deal of Jim Carrey in it, saying he deserves Oscar nominations and such.
Come on, just because he was acting serious for once doesn't mean it was an amazing performance. Especially since he's acted seriously (and played far more interesting characters) in other movies and done a much better job of it (i.e. "The Truman Show", "Man on the Moon", "The Majestic").This is also another movie in which the best thing about it is the visual effects and I think the splendid visuals do a good job of tricking people into thinking it's a lot deeper than it really is. The other thing about this movie that bugs me is that it came out after "Adaptation.", and sort of stole its thunder.
It disappointed me, because "Adaptation" got me really psyched for whatever Charlie Kaufman would write next. I think "Adaptation." was one of the most brilliantly written, acted, and directed movies of the 2000s, and it got overlooked because of "Eternal blah blah blah". Of the two, "Adaptation" was superior, and the one more deserving of an Oscar for writing and a cult following.
Say what you will about the ending, but it's straight from the book. I'm glad the Coen brothers stuck to it rather than create a more traditional finale.
RE: All the Tim Burton hate: Some of his movies, especially the more recent ones, do feel really lazy, like he's just auto-pilot slapping on his gothic production designs to lackluster stories-- Alice in Wonderland, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd. Planet of the Apes sucks worst of all but for completely different reasons. It's probably the most un-Burton of all of Burton's films. Still, there are some movies he did that I absolutely love, like Batman, Batman Returns, Big Fish, Ed Wood, & The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Ouch! Yeah, you're right. I'd mercifully forgotten about that shitfest. One of the newspaper critics put it best when he said that it was like banging a trash can with a baseball bat. It's loud and pointless. The jive-talking cars were worse than Jar Jar Binks. Most of the time in the final battle, you can't even tell the difference between the Autobots & the Decepticons. The only thing I liked about the movie was when the mom got stoned on "magic" brownies.
Awww. I like that one. "I am a great magician. You're clothes are red!"
Last night, I went to the discount theater to see Remember Me. I'm no huge fan of Robert Pattinson but Emilie de Ravin in pretty cute. Watching Pierce Brosnan channel Robert deNiro (or maybe Eric Roberts) while trying to play a tough New Yorker is nearly worth the price of admission. Indeed, it's mostly a serviceable cliche of, "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl," up until
Wait, what?!?!?
Ouch! Yeah, you're right. I'd mercifully forgotten about that shitfest. One of the newspaper critics put it best when he said that it was like banging a trash can with a baseball bat. It's loud and pointless. The jive-talking cars were worse than Jar Jar Binks. Most of the time in the final battle, you can't even tell the difference between the Autobots & the Decepticons. The only thing I liked about the movie was when the mom got stoned on "magic" brownies.
Awww. I like that one. "I am a great magician. You're clothes are red!"
Last night, I went to the discount theater to see Remember Me. I'm no huge fan of Robert Pattinson but Emilie de Ravin in pretty cute. Watching Pierce Brosnan channel Robert deNiro (or maybe Eric Roberts) while trying to play a tough New Yorker is nearly worth the price of admission. Indeed, it's mostly a serviceable cliche of, "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl," up until
Robert Pattinson dies in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It turns out that his father's law offices were in Tower 1 right around the spot where the 1st plane hit.
It turns out that his father's law offices were in Tower 1 right around the spot where the 1st plane hit.District 9
Royal Tenenbaums
Elizabeth
Mars Attacks
What Dreams May Come
Royal Tenenbaums
Elizabeth
Mars Attacks
What Dreams May Come
... And you were expecting to like these?
Well, as we all know, talent doesn't always get passed on through the DNA.
I give you Groucho Marx's daughter Melinda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQb-KUe1l4k
(Okay, Melinda tried to be a singer, not a comedian -- but her dad was a better singer than she was.)
V is an anarchist, isn't he? He doesn't want to restore democracy. He doesn't want to restore ANYTHING. (Except chaos.) Therefore any symbol of government, even a benevolent one, is a target for him.
I don't think I hate Trek XI. To me, it's kinda like when a special needs kid shows you a drawing and you kinda smile and say "that's nice" when deep down you know it's a screaming pile of shit.
Actually there was talk about the Moon landing being faked before this film came along. The film simply tried to capitalize on the idea.
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