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crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Feb-20-2007 23:15

Broken Flowers, Adaptation and The Anniversary Party because I felt like the filmmaker was just showing off from his bag of oh-so-original pretentious tricks for fooling an audience in each case.

Anything that has women in corsets and an outside chance of winning an Oscar for costume. No more adaptations of Victorian novels, please.

Anything where more of the dialogue is sung than spoken.

Anything that is clearly a vehicle for some poptart chanteuse du jour.

I hate them movies.

You?

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Feb-21-2007 04:44

The Polar Express!

Hanging out with my friends, one of them stupidly asked their mum (who was visiting) to 'pick' a movie from the DVD cabinet for us all to watch. Polar Express was her choice.

There is nothing 'Express' about this film. It moves with the same pace as the little old lady who blocks the supermarket aisle in front of you, as she pushes her faulty wheeled trolley in patterns that only a honey bee could follow.

Funnily enough though, even as an animated character, this was still one of Tom Hanks more emotive film rolls. I don't think he's done anything good since Turner & Hooch :D

Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

Feb-23-2007 08:00

*Stops in the middle of the aisle and contemplates all the different brands of oatmeal*

*coughs*

Annnnyyyywaaayyyyy......

I despise today's "horror" movies. There is no suspense, no decent plot, and no good acting. Gore is gore, I can see it any time by going back to Arizona and driving along the freeway (hey, between the roadkill and the accidents, there's plenty of blood and body parts). Gore is BORING! Sheesh, remember way back when, when a horror movie was something that made you sit on the edge of your seat with suspense, gripping the arms of the chair so tightly that your whole hands were white? Now they just make me want to puke.

*toddles along the aisle, wondering about the angrily chattering squirrel in the cart behind her*

sunny
sunny
Lady of Shadows

Feb-23-2007 11:08

Battlefield Earth.

I'm so embarrassed now.

Special_K
Special_K
Lucky Stiff

Feb-23-2007 11:17

Don't be Sunny...

that just reminded me how completely awful "Starship Troopers" was

cfm
cfm
Nomad

Feb-23-2007 18:10

Polar Express was such a waste of movie time, but I don't think I'd put it under the "throw it through the nearest window it sucks" category. Forces of Nature though...GUH! I hate nonhappy endings! I felt cheated!

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Feb-23-2007 18:41

Independance Day.....some actors made me feel embarrassed in their place.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Feb-24-2007 05:50

Quigley Down Under!

This movie was meant to have Steve MacQueen in it. Boy did he dodge a bullet. OK so he died, but I think that was the better option for his career! Set in Australia, instead starred Tom Selleck as a gun totin westerner imported to shoot the local Aborignal population (charming), Alan Rickman as his (shock horror) evil arch nemesis, and Laura San Giacomo as his somewhat crazy (shock horror) love interest.

Truly, terrifyingly BAD!

Emma Barlowe
Emma Barlowe
Well-Connected

Feb-24-2007 20:38

Okay, okay...here's an embarrassment:

Kangaroo Jack


Poor Jerry O'Connell - did he need the money THAT badly??

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Feb-25-2007 01:20

OH! OH! Match Point. Woody Allen shouldn't even be around 12 year olds, let alone hiring them to write dialogue :P

Fiddler's Green
Fiddler's Green

Feb-25-2007 17:13

Anything with Steven Seagal in it, apart from "Executive Decision", for three reasons. A GENUINE noprize for anyone who can get the three reasons why this is a great film even though that fat prejudiced meshugennah is in it....

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