Posted on 12/10/2017 10:54:31 AM PST by Simon Green
The first that comes to mind for me: "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Sappy and overly sentimental.
(And while I'm at it, "Titanic")
India
My sainted mom said they were in India
Yeah, it changed on occasion. China was another country given.
Gladiator. I hated that movie.
E.T. for me too.
Didn’t like Forrest Gump either.
Gone With the Wind
Just did a search. Here’s the truth:
Debra Winger was the voice of E. T. Not true.
Steven Spielberg asked his good friend Debra Winger to record the voice for E. T. on the rough cut of the movie. Which she did. But in the movie that you and I saw and heard the voice was a painstakingly made creation of the English spoken words voiced by a woman named Pat Welsh mixed with breathing, snorts, burps, and other sounds of 18 different contributors some of them animals.
ET - I hated it. HATED IT. Not because of ET but the way that boy hit his mother on the @$$ and everyone laughed. I spent the rest of the movie in the lobby waiting for the movie to end.
Never hated the LOTR films (although believe it or not, I still haven’t seen Return of the King yet), but they have yet to win me over. I still enjoy the older fantasy films moreso, like The Dark Crystal, the Neverending Story, Labyrinth, and The Wizard of Oz.
Legends of the Dull.
A River Runs Through It.
And ultimately the dad got him the gun, over his wife’s wishes....Ooooh, Sexist!
“Titanic,” can’t understand why it received an Oscar or did well at the box office.
Because of the sinking sequence
Very well done
All those effects
Big box office from teen-age boys who got to see a naked woman at a PG-13 movie.
It’s not
It makes a difference in how you view the films.
If you had read the books it may prejudice how you see the movie.
Most of the time if I have read the book and I then see the film, I interpret the book differently than the screen writer did and hate the film. Of course you can not force a 625 page book in to fa 2 hour movie effectively.
I read Dune when 16 and saw the film when I was 25 and hated it. Some People I know thought the movie good. No accounting for taste.
Reading the book can influence how you see the movie. Anyone who reads a book experiences it differently.
I read the Lord of the Rings when I was 18. 37 years ago. I liked the movies. I understood what was happening in the movie differently than you.
Reading the books can change your understanding of the movie.
If you read the books and see the movie again it could change your enjoyment of the movie.
Personally I would rather see the movie before I read the book most of the time.
If I like the movie I probably will like the book.. But invariably the book is better and the screen writer gets it wrong.
If I like the movie I probably will like the book.. But invariably the book is better and the screen writer gets it wrong.
With very few exceptions, Stephen King’s books seem to have been impossible to put on the big screen, but many tried any way, and failed. Of course, starting with Tommyknockers, King’s books became unsustainable from the get go.
In Harm’s Way follows the book closely, but the book fleshes out things the movie didn’t have time for. Anyone who likes that movie should read the book.
Just the opposite, of course, was 2001: A Space Odyssey. The thirst for interpreting the movie led to the book being written after the movie, and the book, being based on the screenplay was bereft of added character or plot development and a waste of paper.
Classic movies were much better. They concentrated on good stories. They didn't have to resort to this.
Sometimes I think doing away with the Hayes office (an organization which forbade nastiness and filth in movies) was a bad idea.)
Today's movies have contributed greatly to the decline of moral standards in America today
Are there such movies made today? Sure...but they're not the most popular ones. As I pointed out, none of the top 20 films of the 2010's have graphic sex, graphic violence, or (as you put it) unspeakable language.
Thanks-———just curious about movie choices. I didn’t like any of those either and wondered if it was a gender related thing.
I’m glad that it isn’t.
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