Posted on 09/13/2005 11:31:27 AM PDT by Houmatt
The special effects remain the gold standard even today.
If you'd have given me enough warning to move to the other side of the theater, I'd have paid to see you do that.
Battlefield Earth
"Piranha"? I can only imagine. One of my favorite directors, James Cameron, directed the sequel ("Piranha 2: The Spawning") before he was able to escape Hollywood's clutches long enough to make "Terminator."
"The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover"
"American Beauty"
I'll add one more, but it was so bad, I could only watch about 20 minutes of it:
"Moulin Rouge"
I haven't seen the sequel, so I can't vouch fer it.
But the original Piranha is just laugh out loud funny. It's almost a spoof of the genre.
Plot: Men wearing rubber suits covered with what look like eyes land in flying saucers near a small town. Town's teenagers in bobby socks save the day by surrounding the creatures with their '57 Chevies and turning on their headlights. Creatures explode. Hero teenage guy gets teenage girl. The end.
Yes, but it was one of the best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.
"Fright Night".....Chris Sarandon as a vampire was a total loser
"Boys Don't Cry" I HAD to walk out of....can't believe I didn't check out what it was about before I let my girlfriend at the time talk me into going....
That's the problem--you only watched the first 20 minutes of Moulin Rouge. You have to get beyond that first part.
5.56mm
"A Beautiful Mind"
What a waste of 2 perfectly good hours. I take no one's advice on what is a good or bad movie anymore. Except my wife's. She knows what I consider garbage which is most of what Follywood puts out.
Eddie Murphy flick called "The Golden Child" (I think). Horrible.
OMIGOD!
I forgot that one....
I was dating someone at the time who saw it and told me I just HAD to see this movie! It was wonderful, deep, great blah blah blahbla blah.
I didn't see it until later, after we had broken up...Wish I'd seen it sooner so I'd had a clue about the inside of his head.
Love Groundhog Day too.
I like those "mafia" movies. I prefer a war story over a love story.
The English Patient
Fargo (sorry, it was lame, lame, lame, trite and mean)
The one with Harrison Ford and some blonde, and their spouses died in a plane crash while heading off for an affair (Broken Hearts?) Completely wooden performances.
Anything with Keanu Reeves (other than Speed)
Hidalgo (gag)
Blade with Wesley Snipes was pretty awful
Anything with Mickey Rourke, but especially "Angel Heart"
Sean Connery is the best as far as I am concerned but two
of his worst stinkers are Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
He is about 20 yrs old in this painful piece and actually attempts to sing,
dreadful voice
and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen This thing is a real nothing !
In order to make this thing they must have had something on him and blackmailed him to make it !Its so bad that it is funny ,especially the invisible man and the very skinny submarine !
"Just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, [the movie] plunges into incomprehensible action, idiotic dialogue, inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy."
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Connery chews the scenery, beats up everybody in sight, and tries to bully his co-stars into acting."
Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
1. "What a riveting movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen might have been! And what a rickety mess it turned out to be when the people responsible lost faith in the origin of the material!"
Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
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