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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?

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*

Feb-23-2007 11:08

Battlefield Earth.

I'm so embarrassed now.

Feb-23-2007 11:17

Don't be Sunny...

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

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!

Feb-23-2007 18:41

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

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!

Feb-24-2007 20:38

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

Kangaroo Jack


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

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

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....

Mar-4-2007 00:16

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Fortunately, the girl I took (on a DATE) to see that movie was at least as big a turbo-geek as I was, so we dealt with the horrible plot, then went home and played Risk.

Sadly, that is not code for anything.