Kewl thread.
“Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)
anything starring ben affleck
Is this really a thread? Great.
I hate all Harry Potter movies, if you can even call those “great films”. They seem to have a following, but I just can’t get into them.
I don’t necessarily “violently hate” it, but I seem to be the only one who feels E.T.- THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL to be lesser Spielberg. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and RAIDERS are better, and JAWS is infinitessimally so. And it doesn’t even come close to his mature works, such as MUNICH.
I honestly didn’t care if the puppet got home.
I must say E.T. too. It’s just horrible. And although I don’t hate Alien, I never liked it as much as so many seem to do.
Casablanca (but not violent dislike, just bemusement as to why a film that bores me is so famous).
E.T. as well. I wanted to punch that movie in the face.
I don’t violently hate any movies, but I do find that most films “everyone” says are great are suspect. And that doesn’t make me an idiot.
But since this has become somewhat of an “I hated E.T.” thread, I’ll jump on and simply say I found it to be okay, no great shakes.
Just because no one has picked it yet, and everyone else loves it, The Godfather. Don’t violently hate it, but I’ve never even bothered to see the second part. But I AM a total idiot and Harpo is my god! (Please don’t throw the rocks my way.)
Ghostbusters II
The Departed for me as of late.
The Godfather – what Bob said.
No Country For Old Men.
And this was great how?
Blood Simple. Hated it.
Forrest Gump just didn’t do it for me, and Shawshank Redemption just seemed like a pastiche of prison movie cliches.
Oh yes, don’t see what the big deal is with Fargo being considered so great – I don’t hate it either, but can’t see it being touted everywhere as one of the greatest films ever made (see my latest comments on the current ‘top ten films’ thread). I really must be dumb – close enough to an idiot, I guess.
I agree with Dcdreams, Corduroy, and Bob regarding those Coen Brothers films. Blood Simple is as mannered and uninteresting as Barton Fink, but in no way funny. I agree with Bob re. Fargo, but it’s at least comic. However, No Country for Old Men is essentially a complete rehash of Fargo but less funny, and more grave.
Annie Hall. Can we stop thinking Woody Allen is a genius now. Please.
I second Shaun’s thoughts on Woody Allen. Annie Hall was okay, but he’s been milking it for over three decades now.
I second Fargo and Blood Simple.
I have one more final (I promise) offering: The Searchers by John Ford. Again, don’t hate it at all, just don’t see how and why it always makes it into so many top 10 or top 100 lists when there are so many great Ford films out there – Stagecoach and Grapes of Wrath – hello? I have a theory that someone with a big rep. must have written a great review of this film at some point, and now everyone is afraid to diz it. I am fearless enough (or idiot enough) to say I think it is just rather conventional, stereotypical as regards its “Indians”, and a bit hamstrung storywise. I get bored just thinking about it.
I think it is one of those films whose reputation rose dramatically because someone took up its cause. After Pauline Kael wrote the definitive essay (Raising Kane) on Citizen Kane, for example, everyone was scared to death to leave it out of their top ten. At least Kane is deserving of recognition, not the least for its technical innovations, but why all the fuss about The Searchers??? OK, that ends my rant – sorry.
Yeah, Pauline Kael’s “Raising Kane” has been pretty well debunked since its publication, and it had already reached the top of the Sight & Sound poll about eight or nine years before its publication. I’d say Bazin and other French critics had a lot more to do with its resurgence in the late 40s and 50s.
Thanks for the correction Adam. Does anyone know who started touting The Searchers? Don’t tell me it was Bazin, as I still really respect him (or did).
“THE BIG SLEEP” (Howard Hawks) – I love Film Noirs, all types, I own many titles, gone to film fests blah- blah etc… but after numerous times seeing this so-called Bogart classic, I always find myself lost after the first hour. Yeah, I’m probably an idiot but for fuck’s sake, can somebody please tell me who killed the fucking driver? Believe me, I asked many folks who claimed they “got it”, but still couldn’t give the straight answer. And I live in San Francisco, the “Noir” city. If Raymond Chandler doesn’t know or wouldn’t say, I have no hope!
This could be a new thread – “Who Got ‘The Big Sleep’, If so, Then Explain the Plot, Dammit”!
Bob, you’d probably appreciate Stephen Metcalf’s article “The Worst Best Movie”: http://www.slate.com/id/2145142/
Losing in Translation, de Sofìa Coppola. Me parece una pelìcula racista, sobrevalorada… pero soy yo, muchos amigos me dijeron que se sintieron identificados… a mì me molesta cuando la cámara no se interesa por la gente que està mostrando… (espero que lean español, como yo leo inglés)
I don’t know why but the tom hanks, tom cruise, and…uhm… spielberg movies… all of them… I found no reasons really, so I guess is idiotic
oh and rambo and rocky and… anything with stallone…
Graciela Goldchluk
“Losing in Translation, de Sofìa Coppola. Me parece una pelìcula racista, sobrevalorada…”
pues lost in translation tampoco me emociono demasiado pero no estoy seguro de que haya mala intencion en el manejo…
lo que supongo es que la directora queria mostrar el aislamiento emocional y fisico de los personajes principales y por eso termina dandoles caracter de paisaje o muebles a los demas… es lo que percibi… aunque estoy de acuerdo en que estuvo sobrevalorada
The Shawshank Redemption – but not because I’m an idiot, because I’m smarter than all the idiots who think it’s a great film.
And Eraserhead – definitely because I’m an idiot, since I didn’t comprehend one frame of that thing.
Rodney Welch
Who’s gonna be first?