Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
My husband said he wants to buy you a drink.
Does there have to be a happy ending? At least it was ambitious.
"Nobody is really interested in war flicks anymore, particularly WWII."
Ummm...I am.
And I was oh so disappointed by "The Great Raid". What a great story. What a disappointing movie.
I had heard that someone was making a movie about Iwo Jima...I cannot imagine how they could make a movie about it that would be accurate while allowing people to stay in the theatre watching it...
That would be "Vampires."
BTW: Some say "Videodrome" would qualify as a truly bad movie. I for one think it was worth the price of admission just to see Woods have sex with his television set.
My favorite movie of all time is Good Fellas,even the sound track is great.
You can find more talented people in any high school or bar.
Just in the last year, movies that either my wife or kids dragged me to:
Mr. 3000 - Bernie Mac, dry and humorless
Meet the Fockers - unfunny, leftist garbage
Stealth - Why did Jamie Foxx do this film?
The Honeymooners - I slept through this one
The Up Side of Anger - another Kevin Costner and I forget who the woman was, bomb.
This is just within the last year
I happen to have liked the movie,
but for me it was more because of Daniel Day Lewis.
The most recent stinker I've seen was The Brothers Grimm. Aside from Leana Headley (Angelica) and the computer-generated sfx, this thing blew like Moby Dick! I got a sharp reminder why I despise Matt Damon- he can't act his way out of a paper bag. Heath Ledger did his career no favors either, although he was more appealing than Damon.
My wife and I got a private showing of sorts. We were the only ones in the theatre.
This falls into the "I paid for it dammit!" category.
I never saw Alexander. I did forget to mention Troy, though.
Troy was a number two, only because it stunk, but not bad enough to ask for my money back, but very close.
AI. No kidding. I just kept wanting it to be OVER.
Broken Arrow (w/ Travolta) was horrendous. Pretty much any John Woo is terrible IMO. Face/Off is another awful one by Woo.
Then where? The American film industry? How would you know if you don't go to movies by your own admission. There are plenty of terrific films every year.
I must admit, after seeing Band of Brothers, any war flick will have a tough job topping that one. Say what you will about Spielberg and Hanks, but they did a damn fine job on Private Ryan/Band of Brothers.
I thought "Enemy of the Gates" was good, but could have been much better. I particularly enjoyed seeing that real-life commie Ed Harris get blown away at the end.
I thought Aviator really made Hepburn and family look like idiots.
I would disagree, I found American Beauty to be an interesting movie.
However, I did stop watching the Oscars when "Shakespeare in Love" got "Best Movie" instead of "Saving Private Ryan".
"Deep Impact" really fried me: it was so utterly, contemptibly negative and cliche, from letting the bitchy single-mom boss take her place in the shelter, to the so-called heroine's "conflict" with her divorced father. But it was the smaller things that made this movie so totally insulting, to wit: Remember, the shelter would hold only one million people. Now, one million people is a tiny fraction of the 16 mil here in So Cal, let alone all the folks in the U.S. The chances of you even knowing one of those lucky million selected from all America to go to the shelter, would be very slim indeed. Yet this idiotic, downer, pessimistic, loser of a movie had BUSSES crusing through a SMALL TOWN picking up those folks in that town -- and they were numerous -- that were among that million! As if each town in America would be sending a small group!
"Armageddon," on the other hand, was equally ridiculous on many fronts, but it was upbeat, entertaining, humorous, and above all, optimistic. I loved Armageddon, then again, the opening scene of Bruce Willis hitting golf balls onto a Green Peace ship from his own oil rig was worth the price of admission!
Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine, A History of Violence, Sideways, Primer, Adaptation, 25th Hour...
Among other things, learning how to read would be a good place to start. Nowhere did I post that I dont't go to movies" by my "own admission."
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