Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
edited September 2015
you know, I wanted to say that the worst movie I've ever seen was something obvious, like Dungeons & Dragons or The Wicker Man
and I thought about movies that are so fucking twee that they're just insulting, in addition to bad acting and bad shooting (thinking mainly of The Last Kiss here but lots of forgettable romances wind up like this)
but the thing is that most of those movies are bad in a way that is inoffensive
like, D&D is ultimately incompetent but it still has some heart so I just can't hate it to any serious degree and most of the rest are just so forgettable it's hard to spare any thought on them
as I was thinking about this, I realized that there's only one movie I hate with the kind of intense ferocity that keeps me coming back (though The King's Speech comes close)
and that is The Phantom Menace
it is a complete piece of shit, it is obviously bad to anyone who's watched it, even George Lucas
whatever, you might say, lots of movies are bad, lots of them are even worse than this one
but I don't think any other movie was so disrespectful of its audience, or proof of such utter cluelessness on the part of its creator
it made it virtually impossible to enjoy being a star wars fan anymore
I hate it and I hate George Lucas and I hate that he donated a billion dollars to charity because now he gets to use that to deflect any criticism towards him
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the first time I saw this, when I was ten or so, I really didn't like this movie
but I've watched it a few times since then and I'd have to say that I think the main reason I didn't like it was because all the future stuff from the second was basically my favorite thing when I was a kid, and I resented that they gave me exactly the opposite after that
it's actually pretty good, probably better than the first one
Tron: Legacy is unendingly exciting for me, even though I've watched it 50+ times. The visual and audio experience of that movie is delightful to me in every way.
These are all amazing movies. It's extremely hard for me to narrow down my favorites movies, but these are a few: Terminator 2, Interstellar, The Matrix, and A Beautiful Mind.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I think I can safely say I don't 'get' mobster movies
like pooro I find them super dull and boring
but clearly there's something I'm missing that a lot of other people see
I don't look at The Godfather as being a mob movie
It's a movie about family, and that family happens to be part of the mob
Because otherwise I'm kinda with you? Goodfellas and other notable mob films are wasted on me
Maybe that's sort of a cop out, but all the things I love about the film the most are not specifically things about the mob, the mob is just window dressing
The book that "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is based on is drastically different.
For one, it's called "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"
Roger is actually a comic star, not a cartoon star. Toons "talk" by creating speech bubbles (unless they practice really hard to speak with actual voices like humans do) and then the comic guys take pictures of the Toons posed with their speech bubbles to create the comics.
Also Judge Doom and "Dip" do not exist. Toons are actually mortal. Instead of being indestructible like in the film, all toons instead posses the natural ability to create a temporary duplicate of themselves to serve as a stunt double and get killed by by the anvil dropping on it's head. These duplicates can survive for a few minutes or a few days depending on how much concentration the Toon puts into creating it.
Oh yeah, and Roger Rabbit is shot and killed near the beginning of the book. For real.
The rest of the book is Eddie Valiant teaming up with a duplicate that Roger created before his death and trying to solve Roger's murder before the duplicate Roger dissolves. Also the same night that Roger was shot, so was one of his bosses and all evidence points towards Roger being the culprit, so they have to solve that too.
Of course, after the movie came out, the author wrote a sequel book that was much more similar to the movie version.
Roger is alive again, with the only explanation being "Toons play fast and loose with continuity." Largely, it's more like a sequel to the film, but a few things are still taken from the first novel, such as Toons communicating with speech bubbles (in fact, a key piece of evidence is a withered speech bubble of a murdered Toon).
Dip is now also a thing (with a Toon being murdered by "dip-tipped bullets") and I don't think the duplicate ability ever comes up.
Also, everybody now has never-before-mentioned siblings.
Pacific Rim's depth was overstated by the enthusiasm of a lot of the fanbase who saw shit that wasn't there, as excitable nerds are wont to do these days
I did, however, enjoy the simplicity of the muscular character archetypes used and enjoyed the movie a lot
Pacific Rim's depth was overstated by the enthusiasm of a lot of the fanbase who saw shit that wasn't there, as excitable nerds are wont to do these days
I did, however, enjoy the simplicity of the muscular character archetypes used and enjoyed the movie a lot
I feel the same way about Fury Road, I'm not saying that doesn't have depth, but that I have seen way too many people reading far too much into the film (not people here, mind you).
Aaron Sorkin's track record with women in his writing is... Bad. Real bad. Him writing a movie about arguably the Best Woman makes me reeeeeeeeeeal wary.
There's a lot of stuff that appears in Pacific Rim that was really explained and developed in ancillary materials as well as interviews before release! The movie did a really shit job of communicating any of those ideas.
Aaron Sorkin's track record with women in his writing is... Bad. Real bad. Him writing a movie about arguably the Best Woman makes me reeeeeeeeeeal wary.
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and I thought about movies that are so fucking twee that they're just insulting, in addition to bad acting and bad shooting (thinking mainly of The Last Kiss here but lots of forgettable romances wind up like this)
but the thing is that most of those movies are bad in a way that is inoffensive
like, D&D is ultimately incompetent but it still has some heart so I just can't hate it to any serious degree and most of the rest are just so forgettable it's hard to spare any thought on them
as I was thinking about this, I realized that there's only one movie I hate with the kind of intense ferocity that keeps me coming back (though The King's Speech comes close)
and that is The Phantom Menace
it is a complete piece of shit, it is obviously bad to anyone who's watched it, even George Lucas
whatever, you might say, lots of movies are bad, lots of them are even worse than this one
but I don't think any other movie was so disrespectful of its audience, or proof of such utter cluelessness on the part of its creator
it made it virtually impossible to enjoy being a star wars fan anymore
I hate it and I hate George Lucas and I hate that he donated a billion dollars to charity because now he gets to use that to deflect any criticism towards him
I know they exist, but I can't think of any right now
There are definitely ones that I just don't "get", though
Like Hot Rod
It's not bad
It's just kind of okay
Part III
like pooro I find them super dull and boring
but clearly there's something I'm missing that a lot of other people see
I'm split on it, honestly, it's a perfectly fine and dare I say good movie starring people I love.
And yet the other half despises it because they made Gamorra the plot machine, and they didn't do a very good job of it.
My favorite movie of all time is Pacific Rim, specifically because I saw it in Imax opening weekend.
Pacific Rim was the movie I dreamed of Imax theater's having when I was a kid going to the history museum.
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I saw Pacific Rim like 7 times in IMAX. Home viewing that movie is ruined for me.
Comics can do drama pretty well.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
whoa now
when people talk about how film adaptations are always worse than the books they come from, the 13th warrior is one of my first counter-examples
that and fight club
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It was all style and no substance
the first time I saw this, when I was ten or so, I really didn't like this movie
but I've watched it a few times since then and I'd have to say that I think the main reason I didn't like it was because all the future stuff from the second was basically my favorite thing when I was a kid, and I resented that they gave me exactly the opposite after that
it's actually pretty good, probably better than the first one
but the second is still my favorite
It was pretty good style, though
And the hints of substance were enough that I'm excited for more of that universe
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Dances with Wolves is a much better film than book
Which is kinda damning with faint praise, but, eh
wow, even with kevin costner, huh
damn
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that movie is proof that hollywood is mostly for white male boomers
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These are all amazing movies. It's extremely hard for me to narrow down my favorites movies, but these are a few: Terminator 2, Interstellar, The Matrix, and A Beautiful Mind.
I really wish I didn't like that movie as much as I do
I don't look at The Godfather as being a mob movie
It's a movie about family, and that family happens to be part of the mob
Because otherwise I'm kinda with you? Goodfellas and other notable mob films are wasted on me
Maybe that's sort of a cop out, but all the things I love about the film the most are not specifically things about the mob, the mob is just window dressing
Roger is actually a comic star, not a cartoon star. Toons "talk" by creating speech bubbles (unless they practice really hard to speak with actual voices like humans do) and then the comic guys take pictures of the Toons posed with their speech bubbles to create the comics.
Also Judge Doom and "Dip" do not exist. Toons are actually mortal. Instead of being indestructible like in the film, all toons instead posses the natural ability to create a temporary duplicate of themselves to serve as a stunt double and get killed by by the anvil dropping on it's head. These duplicates can survive for a few minutes or a few days depending on how much concentration the Toon puts into creating it.
Oh yeah, and Roger Rabbit is shot and killed near the beginning of the book. For real.
The rest of the book is Eddie Valiant teaming up with a duplicate that Roger created before his death and trying to solve Roger's murder before the duplicate Roger dissolves. Also the same night that Roger was shot, so was one of his bosses and all evidence points towards Roger being the culprit, so they have to solve that too.
Of course, after the movie came out, the author wrote a sequel book that was much more similar to the movie version.
Dip is now also a thing (with a Toon being murdered by "dip-tipped bullets") and I don't think the duplicate ability ever comes up.
Also, everybody now has never-before-mentioned siblings.
I did, however, enjoy the simplicity of the muscular character archetypes used and enjoyed the movie a lot
but i fucking love scarface
See I agree but love pacific rim
I actually don't think movies need substance to be fun
its only really a problem if they're trying to be deep and fail, and I don't really think pacific rim was
Aaron Sorkin's track record with women in his writing is... Bad. Real bad. Him writing a movie about arguably the Best Woman makes me reeeeeeeeeeal wary.
The main character just isn't one of them
just complete disrespect towards the material
Oh god no I read this on Twitter and I thought they were joking! Hoped!
They weren't joking!
Half of it was a joke but the premise was real!
Truth in comedy!