Posted on 03/21/2011 8:46:19 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
10. Titanic: If you’re a teenage girl, I understand – Leo is soooo dreamy (retch). But if not, you have no excuse. Utterly ludicrous interpretation of a tragic event. Exploitative in the extreme. Yes, during the sinking of the Titanic, I’m sure that people went hunting each other with pistols. The dialogue is some of the worst ever penned. And she throws the diamond into the sea at the end? My God, old woman, there are millions starving and you throw a priceless jewel into the ocean? Selfish hag.
9. Some Like It Hot: Not a terrible movie, just not a great one. Still unsure why this is considered one of the great comedies of all time. I love Billy Wilder, but this isn’t his best comedy, or even among his top ten movies (see The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie, Stalag 17, the underrated Ace in the Hole, Witness for the Prosecution, Ball of Fire, Sabrina, Love in the Afternoon, Sunset Blvd. and Ninotchka all rank above it). And what the hell does the last line even mean?
8. Chinatown: A good movie, but is it really the best script of all time?
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey: 45 minutes of greatness, almost two hours of poop, including half an hour of monkeys hitting each other with sticks. Oh yeah, and there’s a monolith.
6. The Usual Suspects: When I finished this movie, I wanted to punch somebody. Here’s the deal with twist endings: you have to give the audience clues, and the twist must not invalidate the entire movie. The Usual Suspects broke both these rules. First, the clues were not available the entire movie – only when they show you the board, the mug, etc. do you realize he’s been making up the story. That’s called cheating.
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Why? I thought that scene was particularly touching, because he knew that the Hanks character essentially gave up his life for him.
>>except Meryl Streep was hot.<<
Meryl Streep is to acting what obama is to politics. She is so over the top that even SHE can’t see where the scenery she chewed up is left behind.
Her use of “deftness” is to wield an axe where a small dagger is needed.
You’ve got to be kidding! Fargo would be listed in the top 20 of my favorite movies.
After we see Jack and Rose, we all are rooting for the ship to successfully sink. The handcuffs should have held....
The best or close to it is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. Next one “1984”. The worst is hard to pick since there are so many.
For a couple of good Titanic movies see ‘A Night To Remember’(1958)
and ‘Titanic’ (1953) with Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb.
This one defly blends fact with fiction, while A Night To Remember, an excellent Brittish film is more documentary like.
Please don’t reprint profanity such as the ‘f’ bomb here.
There are ladies present.
Dirty Dancing used to be what I considered the worst movie ever. I’ve seen some other stinko movies since but it still among the worst.
Re; Titanice, in the first place, I didn’t like the two leads. They just didn’t go together.
There were too many scenes were you were expected to just suspend belief- like how could they be sloshing around in frigid water for hours on the ship and still be functional.
The only redeming features were the spectacular special effects and the theme, ‘My Heart Will Go On’.
He is PATHETIC
His flaunting of his foot fetish on the big screen is more than I can take.
Yeah, the first 1,000 times you had to hear it.
Ben Shapiro is a an excellent young Conservative writer.
Benjamin Shapiro was born in 1984 in Burbank, Calif. and brought up in the home of two Reagan Republicans,. He entered the University of California Los Angeles at the age of 16 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in June 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He graduated Harvard Law School cum laude in June 2007.
Exerpt from 2006 column:
‘The Democratic Party cannot be trusted with national security. This is a party more concerned with health care than terrorism, more concerned with global warming than Al Qaeda. They complain about President Bush’s use of wartime powers to order wiretapping on domestic to international phone calls between suspected terrorists, complaining that civil liberties are being violated. Democrats are more worried that the government will monitor calls between a mother and her daughter backpacking in Europe than that the government will ignore calls between deputies of Osama bin Laden and terrorists like Mohammed Atta. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) attempts to have President Bush censured for protecting the American people.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to pander to those who cross the border illegally and block any concerted action to end illegal immigration. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) thanks illegal immigrants protesting in New York and hopes that their protests will bring “out of the shadows the millions and millions of people who are here who make our economy work.” Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) speaks similarly at a protest in Washington, D.C. It is no surprise that Democrats were recruiting voters at pro-illegal immigration rallies.
Democrats cannot be trusted to handle the war in Iraq. They are too busy claiming that the war has already been lost to notice that American casualties are declining dramatically; they are too impatient for Iraq to become Vietnam to wait for the development of democracy in a part of the world that has never seen democracy before. The Democrats are too busy gleefully pointing at body bags and Abu Ghraib to care that they are undermining the morale of our troops.
Democrats cannot be trusted to handle the economy. Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, home ownership is rising rapidly. Democrats would reverse all of these trends in order to grow entitlement programs and, by doing so, buy more votes. They would raise taxes dramatically and cut defense spending.
Democrats cannot be trusted to tolerate the viewpoints of religious people. It is Democrats across the country who seek to legitimize homosexual marriage; it is Democrats across the country who seek to keep the legal abomination of Roe v. Wade on the books so that ordinary Americans cannot vote on abortion; it is Democrats across the country who want God out of the public schools and courthouses.’
Gotta love this kid.
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More:
http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/
"But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen, it's the dead n---er in my garage."
But notice that Tarantino gets away with using the N-word, because it's revealed later that his wife was black.
TITANIC One of the worst ever! The original, A Night to Remember was ungorgettable.
The Matrix was another major disappointment.
My 20 overrated films:
1)Imitation of Life (1959)
2)Roman Holiday (1953)
3)The Fountainhead (1949)
4)Rope (1948)
5)The Sun Also Rises (1957)
6)The Last Tango in Paris (1973)
7)The Misfits (1960)
8)Sabrina (1954)
9)The Blue Lagoon (Brooke Shields)
10)The Rock (1996)
11)Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
12)The Lost Weekend (1945)
13)1941
14)Double Jeopardy (Ashley Judd)
15)Congo
16)The Hot Rock
17)Foreign Correspondent (1940)
18)The Postman Always Rings Twice (1945)
19)Blind Date (Bruce Willis)
20)Reunion in France (1943)
How about ‘guilty pleasures’?
(Ok, so you know they’re stupid but you just want to snuggle up with a snack and get your mind off things)
Some of mine are:
Feris Buehler’s Day Off
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
The Bird Cage (Robin Williams’ version)
Blast From The Past
Encino Man
Pretty In Pink
Biggest problem was that it was filmed in Detroit. Cleveland never looked as bad as some of the areas of that film looked. Collinwood doesn't look that bad now.
However our former idiot Governor Ted ‘Loose a 1/2 million Jobs’ Strickland and the previous Dem run statehouse didn't want to give tax breaks to the movie.
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