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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on August 08, 2002, 09:16:49 am
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And I'm not talking about those movies done on $13,000 with actors who were born and raised in the California Zoo. I'm talking big-time, Hollywood (or equivalent) movies that absolutely sucked.
My entry would have to be Battlefield Earth. It almost hurt to see that one.
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That was a good book.. They killed it though...
Worst movie? From Dusk 'Till Dawn....
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Originally posted by Thorn
Worst movie? From Dusk 'Till Dawn....
huh? it's cool :p
worst movie... bah, dunno. American Pie maybe.
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Pearl Harbour. 10 minutes of nice explosions, but the rest was pure crap. :doubt:
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Originally posted by venom2506
huh? it's cool :p
The first bit of it wasnt too bad, but once they got to that damn bar and everyone started turning into vampires... bleh...
You notice that the crossbow the girl had always had the same amount of bolts in it whenever it showed it, even though she just shot 4 off?
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Britney at her finest in Crossroads. Enough said :)
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All of them.
(well, maybe one or two exceptions, but the rest are total crap in the lowest sense of the word :p)
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I'd agree with Thunder, even though i havent seen the film. I usually dont watch a movie if its bad or i stop watching it if it turns out to be a bad film. From Dusk till Dawn is a cool film :).
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Crossroads definately reeked... but i think there is another, and even worse movie:
Kung Pow - Enter the Fist
it came out like 6 months ago, and it was only in theaters for like 1 week. that was the first and only movie i ever walked out on
it sucked
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Battlefield Earth indeed sucked.
Dunno what I'd put as my entry though - the amount of crappy movies out there is astounding.
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I haven't seen many. I'd say Star Wars Episode I. Well, maybe it wasn't all bad, but it's clearly the worst SW movie.
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You wanna talk about movies that I walked out on? Tim Burton's "Nightmare before Christmas". I had NO idea that movie was a friggin' musical!
I HATE MUSICALS!
I was totally not in the mood to see a musical that night. I walked out about 25 minutes into the movie and left my friends there. I told them "Sorry, guys, I can't handle this. Come find me in the bookstore when it's over." Then I walked out and didn't look back.
*suppresses a shudder*
Then there was "Attack of the Clones." I WANTED to like this movie, but there were just so many glaring flaws.... But I'll admit, while I was disappointed, I won't say it reeked. That distinction has to go to "Nightmare before Christmas".
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Are you on crack?
The Nightmare before Christmas is a great movie....
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That movie was freakin amazing. Its like 7 years old isn't it?
Anyways, worst movie... SW.Ep1 was pretty bad, but anything with plastic britney has got to be horrable.
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Originally posted by Thorn
Are you on crack?
The Nightmare before Christmas is a great movie....
Heh, not all have same opinions on everything (I haven't seen it).
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Million Dollar Hotel was just plain F-up. It made no sense at all. And of course, any thing with the selfproclaimed virgin Britney Spears has to be bad. (except Goldmember, As she was a fembot and they delt with her quickly:D ) But, she can act as much as she wants, so long as she NEVER SINGS AGAIN!
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Pearl Harbol is the only movie I have wished to end soon while watching it.
But I must admit the plane scenes were nice... and I laughed my ass off when I saw the oil covered marines walk to the nursery... slo mo :lol:
(actually I was the only one who laughed in the theatre at that point :nervous: )
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Originally posted by Thor
Million Dollar Hotel was just plain F-up. It made no sense at all. And of course, any thing with the selfproclaimed virgin Britney Spears has to be bad. (except Goldmember, As she was a fembot and they delt with her quickly:D ) But, she can act as much as she wants, so long as she NEVER SINGS AGAIN!
*Maeglamor breaks into song*
Tell me how ya wanna kill me...
Anyways I think Tim Burton did a great job with Nightmare. I dunno I haven't really watched a really bad film, Rocky 5 maybe?
As for how bad ep.1 was, well just read the signature below...
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Originally posted by sandwich
What's your worst movie?
I've never made any movies. So it is impossible for me to have a worst movie, or a best one, or a movie of any kind, for that matter.
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Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
I've never made any movies. So it is impossible for me to have a worst movie, or a best one, or a movie of any kind, for that matter.
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Edit: If you have nothing to say, don't come to troll the thread. :rolleyes:
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What?
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Well lets see... Theres Battlefield Earth. That was horrible.
I actually got a headache and have to physically harm people when I talk about MOULIN ROUGE. That was the WORST peice of **** I've ever had to see. The damn thing almost broke up my relationship too.
Then there was REIGN OF FIRE that was quite bad...
And TRAFFIC. That was also a real bad piece of ****.
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Well lets see... Theres Battlefield Earth. That was horrible.
I actually got a headache and have to physically harm people when I talk about MOULIN ROUGE. That was the WORST peice of **** I've ever had to see. The damn thing almost broke up my relationship too.
Then there was REIGN OF FIRE that was quite bad...
And TRAFFIC. That was also a real bad piece of ****.
Wow, Moulin Rouge almost broke up your relationship?!? That's terrible.
I thought it was quite good but I like muscals... :nervous:
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Titanic, no contest.
Actually, there are movies that are worse than Titanic(or I suppose so, never seen one), but I'm just horrified by the fact that a piece of utter crap like that got god-knows-how-many oscars and was like the most succesful movie ever.
And of course, if anyone says otherwise, he's wrong, because I'm always right. So huzzah! :mad2:
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
and thats saying alot cause my movie standards are REAL low
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Um...I'd have to agree with Titanic, or maybe Jurassic Park 3 (worst ending evvvvvveeeeeerrrrr). The 1st hour of Starship Troopers was also awful, but it's partly redeemed by the fact the latter part has more than enough daft carnage and a wee bit of satire (which was missed by most of the reviewers, natch).
honourable mention goes to the 'Relic' film, which probably wasn't exactly big budget (medium to low), but successfully managed in ripping out every single good bit of the book, including one of the most interesting characters.... and they even renamed a character from 'Whittlesey' to 'Whitney', presumably cos it's easier for tha actors to say (aaaagggghhhh!!!)
Actually, has anyone noticed major characters in Hollywood films almost always have really simple lines?
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Originally posted by Pera
Titanic, no contest.
Actually, there are movies that are worse than Titanic(or I suppose so, never seen one), but I'm just horrified by the fact that a piece of utter crap like that got god-knows-how-many oscars and was like the most succesful movie ever.
i actually thought Titanic was a pretty good movie
How can you not like Reign of Fire!? I thought the effects and acting in that movie was awesome! I guess you don't go out and see movies much, do you dark_4ce :D lol
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You know, I think the problem most people have is coming into a movie with the wrong expectations. If you went to see Men in Black, or Jurrasic Park, or Final Fantasy, you shouldn't be expecting a new Citizen Kane, or even a new 2001. They're special effects movies. Same thing with action movies. Same thing with plot-based movies.
My nominations for crappiest movie ever would be quite limited in scope, seeing as I can't really remember more than a month back too clearly, particularly not with movies. I have little sisters, too, so I have all too many choices in the chich-flick department (and, believe me, any chick flick immediately qualifies as the worst movie Ever created. They are abominations, blasphemies against human dignity, terrifyingly, face-burstingly bad movies).
All in all, Meet Joe Black was probably the worst movie I've ever seen. By halfway through the first videotape, I was screaming, and I was preparing to commit seppuku to end the pain by the end of the second.
My second and third place would go to "The Bumblebee Flies Anyway" (funniest movie I have ever seen. I literally and truthfully fell on the floor convulsing with laughter towards the end, and this is absolutely not a comedy. It's that bad. Even the title is based on a false and ridiculously flawed premise. See this movie. You will wet your pants laughing at the "science" they have in it), and "John Q." (repulsive, propogandic tripe. It would be funny if it wasnt' trying to brainwash me)
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Originally posted by NegspectahDek
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
and thats saying alot cause my movie standards are REAL low
Can you tell me why? I'm not argueing - just curious as to why you didn't like it so much.
I think we can come to the conclusion that for the most part peoples most hated movies are down to personal opinions (musicals being a case in point - I love the Rocky Horror Show but that's another story...).
However some movies really are pure ****e by most standards of people who go to see a movie and not to see their favourite superstar (I.E. Britney Spears etc...) in a film. But again even these can occasionally be salvaged in some peoples eyes by comedy, graphics or some other such thing...
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Originally posted by beatspete
Pearl Harbour. 10 minutes of nice explosions, but the rest was pure crap. :doubt:
You know what's really sad? Only about 3 people (not including me and/or my 2 best friends) knew what Pearl Harbor really was.
My entry? The Fast and the Furios. That movie was just plain pathetic. And from the looks of it, xXx won't be any better. (It's made by the same director).
EDIT: WTF was with Final Fantasy: The Spirits within. What the hell did it have to do with Final Fantasy. Otherwise, it was pretty good.
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
EDIT: WTF was with Final Fantasy: The Spirits within. What the hell did it have to do with Final Fantasy. Otherwise, it was pretty good.
Kinda my point, forget it's FF and it's a good film.
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You gonna tell me that any of the three movies I named are only bad in my opinion?
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if you go into the non-hollywood side... then pretty much every asian movie would be the crappiest, as far as acting, filming, sound, and overall the whole movie!
There are a few exceptions, and when they started making movies with America quite a few good movies came through!
EDIT: John Q was a pretty cool movie!
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John Q was a pretty cool movie!
Explain.
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What's there to explain? I think Denzil Washington did a very good job acting in it! Overall acting was very good, as was the storyline
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Oh? So if a guy goes and sticks a gun in your face, and says you can't leave this nasty-ass emergency room lobby (when you clearly need medical help, being in the emergency room lobby as you are), are you gonna harp on how great he is when you get set loose as part of a hostage negotiation? If one of your fellow hostages starts fighting back and gets the attacker in a position where he can be rendered harmless, are you going to mace the guy who might well be saving your ass and kick him in the balls?
Never mind the one-dimensional characters and all that. Or the implausible main plot. Or much of the rest of the film.
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*shrugs* you have to remember that at the beginning of when he held the hospital at gunpoint everyone was against him (in the emergency room) but as the story went on they realized he was desperate and he didn't want to kill any of them he just wanted to save his son. When the sniper shot him and it was broadcasted on public television, that's the "message" the rest of the United States got too, supposedly
it's your opinion, i found it to be a very good movie! Not as good as Bad Company, but still good :D
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Originally posted by Su-tehp
Then there was "Attack of the Clones." I WANTED to like this movie, but there were just so many glaring flaws.... But I'll admit, while I was disappointed, I won't say it reeked.
I agree with you 101% here - every single word you said is how I felt exactly. :nod:
And as far as Pearl Harbour... I actually liked it quite a bit, to be honest. I appreciated the reality it imparted to the viewers by the interrupted love story, and of course the special effects were absolutely awesome, especially in a theater w/ good surround sound. :nod: I wasn't bothered at all by the fact that the love story took up a big part of the movie; I think that establishing main characters is important, and it just got the audience more aquainted with them on a personal level.
*feels mischevious*
I must say I absolutely hated The Princess Bride. :mad:
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Here's a new entry: Monkeybone. Ugh, awful movie.
For the record, I loved John Q, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Bride, and Titanic.
Battlefield Earth review (http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/bfearth.html) courtesy of PWOT. (http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/)
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Here's a new entry: Monkeybone. Ugh, awful movie.
For the record, I loved John Q, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Bride, and Titanic.
Princess Bride was the funniest movie i've ever watched. Titanic was awesome. John Q was awesome, Nightmare before christmas... uh... i'm not sure if i remember that... was that a cartoon? about this 'dead person' or something that wants to bring christmas to the 'underworld' or wherever he lived!?
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Originally posted by Thunder
Can you tell me why? I'm not argueing - just curious as to why you didn't like it so much.
I think we can come to the conclusion that for the most part peoples most hated movies are down to personal opinions (musicals being a case in point - I love the Rocky Horror Show but that's another story...).
However some movies really are pure ****e by most standards of people who go to see a movie and not to see their favourite superstar (I.E. Britney Spears etc...) in a film. But again even these can occasionally be salvaged in some peoples eyes by comedy, graphics or some other such thing...
i think i hated because I came into it expecting a movie with an INTERESTING, PLAUSIBLE story. Instead, i saw a demonstration of beautiful graphics. At the same time, I just saw Eight legged Freaks and I loved it because 1) i didnt expect anything (its a david arquette moive, and 2) it didnt take itself seriously.
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Originally posted by Stealth
if you go into the non-hollywood side... then pretty much every asian movie would be the crappiest, as far as acting, filming, sound, and overall the whole movie!
There are a few exceptions, and when they started making movies with America quite a few good movies came through!
hurgh! I take Ring any time over any american "horror" movie (it's not horror, but I couldn't have a closer name for it so it'll do ) ... take Battle Royale, take Avalon, take... Oh wait, you woulnd't see what's so brilliant in all those movies, so I don't need to go on forever, coz it's just a matter of tastes anyway. Sure there's a lot of crap in asian movie industry, but no more or no less than in hollywood movie industry.
Oh, yeah, ubbercrap: urban legend. And about all the slasher movies anyway ( tho I like scream, coz it's funny ).
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8 legged freaks..... damn worst movie ever seen with a friend.. too bad his g/f didn't bring her friends... i tried to get inot the movie, but it sucked.. kari wuhrer even looked just okay in it.
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
EDIT: WTF was with Final Fantasy: The Spirits within. What the hell did it have to do with Final Fantasy. Otherwise, it was pretty good.
That's the point why it didn't succeed so well. People who knew about the Final Fantasy serie had some hard expectations for it. They expected it to be a Fantasy/Scifi story (guns and blades) like the games were so far. And they were so dissappointed when it wasn't (I wasn't dissappointed... not even a bit. I knew it wouldn't be like the games. The name fit for the movie too... just like the games it was a Final Fantasy... a final story... one story. And one helluwa movie). And people who weren't so familiar with the FF serie thought that it would be a Game Movie ála Mario Bros, Street Fighter etc. and didn't go to watch it.
It's a shame... real shame... :(
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Originally posted by Stealth
How can you not like Reign of Fire!? I thought the effects and acting in that movie was awesome! I guess you don't go out and see movies much, do you dark_4ce :D lol
Heheh.... You know, apart from trying to become a Graphic Designier, what I really want to be is a Film Director. My father was a TV Director/producer/writer, so you could say it runs in the family. But anyway, I have seen ALOT of movies. And I'm not one of those art house buffs either. I LOVE basic action/explosion/pop corn/leave you're brain at the ticked counter movies! And anything else that seems to be interesting. Also, I HATE to be a critic! I don't go and watch movies to look for flaws, or pont out how bad it is. I give EVERY movie a chance. Cause I have been wrong in the past when I've seen a trailer and made up my mind. I just watch the movie, and see how it is. If I like it, thats good, which is most of the time the case, cause I love movies, and can see the good in almost everything. And yes, I can see the good in ROF too. :D But if the movie starts to lag and gets boring, then I can't lie to myself and think "Well, everyone else seems to like it, so I guess its the cool thing to do.". I hate that.
But Reign of Fire was downright awful. Not for the special effects. They were good. Not for the acting, that was good too (with what lines they got). But the whole PLOT and SCRIPT! If it doesen't have a good premise, even the most lovely eye candy can be horrible.
Now I really wanted to like this film, I saw the trailers and they looked cool. But there was a question that even snagged me at the previews... HOW THE HELL DO A BUNCH OF DRAGONS MANAGE TO WIPE OUT THE WORLD?! Christ even in the film the helicopters that have the dragon catchers, manages to outrun the dragon! So, if helicopters could do that, what happened to all the fighters? Anti air artilery? And since the dragon attacks started in London, how the hell did it take so long for them to realise that perhaps the male was there???! I mean come one... They could have made this film great. Great as in popcorn great. If they would have focused more on the first few days or weeks of the dragons emergence, that would have been cool. Think of ID4 with dragons! :D I would have loved that! I can stand a few plotholes. But to have em scattered around as if a guy used an uzi on the script is too much to ignore.
HOWEVER, perhaps when it comes out on DVD I'll give it another shot, cause it WAS good eye candy and a fair bit entertaining. So who knows, maybe I'll enjoy it a second time.
And yes. MOULIN ROUGE did almost ruin my relationship. I absolutely hate that movie with a passion. Why? Cause it really is aweful. Loud. They RAPE music. I repeat. RAPE MUSIC! Its annoying, trying to be funny and different. And because of all that it seems like its the COOL movie of the year. And people should love this movie cause its so COOL and DIFFERENT. BAH! BAH I say! If the film sucks, it suck! It shouldn't be good just for the novelty value! If you wan't novelty, watch Pi or Cude or even Brazil for that matter. Thats novelty. Not Moulin rouge. Anyway, I'm sidetracking. The reason why it almost (and I think it did in the end) brake up my relationship was because she adored it. And couldn't stop telling me how much so. I tried to at first give her a calm logical explenation why the movie should be shot to the moon and never to be heard from again. But she seemed to take it as an insult to her artistic tastes. So the next thing she does while were out is get all her friends to tell me how much they loved it, so I had to once again defend myself. In a matter of weeks all her friends thought me as some sort of asshole for not liking the movie, and she want so far as to get her colledge art professor to annouce his undying love of the film to me... All that just seemed to fule my hatred for the film even more. Hence the reason why I have to need to physically damage someone whenever I think out the film or whenever it comes up in a discussion. In the beggining my hatred for the film was practically unbiased. However, now it is. Unfortunately. Whenever I think about it, I remeber those f/"#"% idiotic retards (I don't mean everyon who likes the films, just the ones I met thru my ex) trying to change my mind, and make me feel guilty for not seeing the light and hurting my GF feelings.
*Is worked up.* :mad:
Ok... I gotta calm down now... I'll just take out a few rounds with my punching bag. :D
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Power, my singing-whore hating brother.:D
That movie ruined two perfectly good songs for me, just because I happened to be typing up a story within earshot of the TV. I only saw about 15 minutes of it, which convinced me to never see the rest of it.
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Well, I found Moulin Rouge quite entertaining. It was more like a play than a movie to me. It made me emotional sometimes in the movie.
Worst movie I think I would have to vote for Street Fighter. Really sucky to the core. If you can say it is a great movie without feeling stupid, you are stupid.:D
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Originally posted by NeoHunter
Well, I found Moulin Rouge quite entertaining. It was more like a play than a movie to me. It made me emotional sometimes in the movie.
Worst movie I think I would have to vote for Street Fighter. Really sucky to the core. If you can say it is a great movie without feeling stupid, you are stupid.:D
Oh man... I forgot about that movie. Probably a supressed memory... Man that was bad...
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
{long involved response about movies here}
Wow, I think we just learned something new about you and struck a nerve, all at the same time. :D
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Rambo and any other crap where the hero strides in with a machine gun slung at the waist, and mows down thousands of soldiers who have the reaction times and intelligence of a rock.
Oh and Titanic was a load of BS as well. Historically inaccurate, techincally inaccurate, cheesy love story and all copies of it deserve to be thrown in a gigantic heap, nuked and all it's remaining subatomic particles hurled into the sun. And James Cameron should be burned at the stake.
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Originally posted by Cannikin
Oh and Titanic was a load of BS as well. Historically inaccurate, techincally inaccurate, cheesy love story and all copies of it deserve to be thrown in a gigantic heap, nuked and all it's remaining subatomic particles hurled into the sun. And James Cameron should be burned at the stake.
Meh.
I agree it wasn't a particularly good movie, but... :p
James Cameron managed to get a concept everyone in Hollywood thought would be a complete failure and make a movie that was a total success - the guy deserves some credit. ;)
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Originally posted by Cannikin
Rambo and any other crap where the hero strides in with a machine gun slung at the waist, and mows down thousands of soldiers who have the reaction times and intelligence of a rock.
That would include most Chuck Norris flicks, too, huh?
...I'm just saying, is all! It's not like I've watched a Chuck Norris flick in the last 15 years! Hey, why are you all looking at me like that? :nervous:
Originally posted by Cannikin
...And James Cameron should be burned at the stake.
He was. But flames don't affect demons from the Underworld, more's the pity.
Originally posted by Styxx
Meh.
I agree it wasn't a particularly good movie, but... :p
James Cameron managed to get a concept everyone in Hollywood thought would be a complete failure and make a movie that was a total success - the guy deserves some credit. ;)
No argument there. And seeing Kate Winslet in the nude did have its appeal, too. :D
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Styxx: P'raps it wasn't a failure because it had next to nothing to do with the actual Titanic? They're on a boat. It sinks. This is hardly even a major event in the plot. And that's about where the relation to actual history ends.
True, it wasn't an entirely bad movie, but it WAS a romance, and thus 27/30ths as evil as a chick flick. In other words, eviller than Satan, anyone not an American featured in modern-day Bush propoganda, and Microsoft put together and multiplied by twelve.:D
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Originally posted by NeoHunter
Worst movie I think I would have to vote for Street Fighter. Really sucky to the core. If you can say it is a great movie without feeling stupid, you are stupid.:D
Dear.
Fricking.
God.
Street Fighter was one of the crappiest movies ever. Even the ending was bullcrap... Guile blows away a flying/levitating M.Bison, with one punch? WTH!? They should have at least gotten a double for Raul Julia, so they could have had an actual fight scene (filmed from a distance, of course, since by then Raul had died, I think.)
Although Zangief was an okay comic relief, he was also way too one-dimensional. Though he was at least a bit more depthy than Guile.
I think Sagat was the only character with even barely decent writing, in the entire movie.
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I'll never forget how much I cringed when I heard Van Damme say "Son of a *****". It sounded more like a really struggled "Sonoh-ffah-Bfitchhf"! :D
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lol
Van Damme, haven't seen many of his movies...
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Be thankful for that fact.
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
The reason why it almost (and I think it did in the end) brake up my relationship was because she adored it. And couldn't stop telling me how much so. I tried to at first give her a calm logical explenation why the movie should be shot to the moon and never to be heard from again. But she seemed to take it as an insult to her artistic tastes. So ... etc etc etc
meh, man, you have big pbs. When i don't like a movie and all my friends love it ( can you say American Pie :rolleyes: ), I say so once coz they ask me if i liked it, then they tell me why it rocks and why I should like it, then I reply "whatever" and that's it. no need to argument ( you know nobody will be able to convince the others, and about movies, it's ALWAYS the case ) . People are too complicated.
And Titanic rocks: dicaprio dies in that shi... movie.
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Originally posted by venom2506
meh, man, you have big pbs. When i don't like a movie and all my friends love it ( can you say American Pie :rolleyes: ), I say so once coz they ask me if i liked it, then they tell me why it rocks and why I should like it, then I reply "whatever" and that's it. no need to argument ( you know nobody will be able to convince the others, and about movies, it's ALWAYS the case ) . People are too complicated.
Yeah. But over here they don't stop, even when you DO say "Whatever"! Its like they get even more determined to change you're mind, like she did. As I said, she took it personally, and thought I was mocking her tastes. Oh well, she was a bit too sensitive anyway. :D
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When you fraternize with people with that (sadly popular) form of insecurity, you frankly get what you deserve. I don't feel sorry for you at all. Hell, you might have even helped to further their vile strain, were your relationship not evidently on the rocks anyway.
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Uhh... :wtf:
I would really like to say something more, but I dont want this to flame up so...
Whatever... :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Uhh... :wtf:
I would really like to say something more, but I dont want this to flame up so...
Whatever... :rolleyes:
Actually that's exactly the stance you should have taken with those other muppets. If they tried to push the case just tell them that you don't care what they say.
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Yes... I know. I did. They kept going. We broke up. The End.
Now, lets move along...:nod: