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| Tommathy Posts: 214/339 |
Howl's Moving Castle just didn't seem very cohesive. It was certainly *pretty* flash-dazzle-wow, but not particularly gripping.
Also, I just couldn't really connect with Being John Malkovich, I kept wanting to just distance myself from everything it brought up. |
| emcee Posts: 400/867 |
Originally posted by Rydain Yeah, that made me wonder too. I just kind of figured, based on his living conditions and situaton, that at that point he had pretty much burned up most all his money and didn't have much more coming in. But then, after that scene, he's suddenly rich again. Even bought a fancy new tractor. I guess maybe he eventually got that check reissued and cashed it. And it was really big. It also bothered me that it showed him as an adulterer and drug addict, who was always on the road, but they still somehow managed to blame all his marrage problems on his wife. I'm sure she was likely atleast partly to blame, but the movie seemed to go out of its way to show him as an innocent bystander in every situation. I just didn't buy it. |
| Rydain Posts: 401/633 |
Originally posted by emceeTHANK YOU! This movie was also highly praised by reviewers and various people I know, so I expected it to grab me and make me want to buy the DVD. I thought it was OK to good overall, but I didn't get what the big deal was. The beginning was great, especially the dramatization of Johnny Cash's record deal and the part where he met June, but it slid into mehville somewhere in the middle. I didn't think June and Johnny had that much chemistry. I mean, I knew she cared about him because she stuck by him even though he was wrestling with addictions, but it didn't feel like I was watching a real relationship unfold. Their interaction with each other seemed arbitrary at times. Example: that bus scene where June is magically perky and sassy immediately after having been woken up and then rejects Johnny's marriage proposal for nonsensical reasons. Ohnoes the rules say the d00d can't propose on a bus at 2 a.m.!!1!!eleventy I'm a sucker for fuzzy wuzzy onscreen couples (I cried at the end of Titanic - more than once - go ahead, laugh, I can handle it  ), but this one didn't affect me.
The latter half of the movie had continuity problems that got on my nerves. For example, in one scene, Johnny is down and out and sharing an apartment with Waylon Jennings. The phone is being shut off, and Johnny freaks because the bank won't cash a check for him. Soon after that, he's wandering through the woods and winds up buying a brand-new house. Buh? Plus, I hoped to see a wee bit more of the inspiration for Johnny's music. There was a bit of that (e.g. the scene where June was working on "Ring of Fire"), but not really much, which is probably one reason why Walk the Line came off as a garden-variety biopic. |
| Arwon Posts: 177/631 |
What sort of world do you live in where ANYONE FUCKING THOUGHT THAT MOVIE COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD?
Wherever it is, get the fuck out of there... now. |
| Magic_Vampire_Joe Posts: 18/54 |
That new one - The Shaggy Dog, Tim Allen plays a man who turns into a dog every now and then because he got bit by a magic dog.
All my mates and the media sed it was brilliant, wheras i found it quite boring. |
| Sin Dogan Posts: 510/861 |
Originally posted by emcee That's funny because I remember everyone calling it crap. (The Village) I recently saw Lucky Number Slevin this past saturday and have to say it was really fun, cool, and smart. People might accuse it of being too arrogant and shit but it was good. There's no way getting 'round it. The John Hughes movies were overrated, especially breakfast club. The only movie of his I honestly can say lives up to the hype is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.(of course) |
| emcee Posts: 377/867 |
Let's see...
The Village got fairly good reviews. And I liked The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. I guess with these movies the story was engrossing you don't see the ending coming, but once it comes you can think back through all the clues that were given. But the story with the Village was unoriginal and played out slow and boring, so the "surprise" ending was pretty obvious 20 minutes in. Titanic is the perfect example of an overrated movie. Well reviewed, won a bunch of rewards, and made hundreds of millions of dollars. But it was a really bad movie. The acting was bad, the dialog was just stupid, and the plot was a generic harlequin romance, that happened to take place on a sinking ship. On top of that it was full of historical inaccuracies. The GodFather Although this was a pretty good movie, it seems to be consistently rated as "The Best Movie of All-Time". But I can think of several movies that were better. Really about half of Scorsese's films are better. Actually, I think Coppola, is really overrated. With a good script he does well, but he also creates movies like "Jack", which ties "Bicentennial Man" as worst Robin Williams movie. Or "The Outsiders", although, to be fair, I didn't really like the book either. Young Frankenstein I laughed maybe three or four times. The monster yelling "Putting on the ritz!" was one of those times, but it wasn't worth watching the rest of the movie for. The Green Mile It seems like whenever I say I didn't like this movie, people look at me like I just beat a kitten to death with another kitten. I already read and watched "Of Mice and Men", a dumb "gentle giant" getting killed no longer makes me that sad. The whole movie was set up to force emotions down people's throats. They made sure to show the bad characters doing the worst possible things you could think of, without showing any redeming trait. And made all the good characters only good, in order to make you feel bad when they're burned alive or something. I'm just not a fan of movies with phony one-sided characters. Kill Bill I would have liked these movies if they had stuck with just being a homage to classic kung fu movies. Rather then trying to be too serious and just coming off goofy. There was alot good cinematography though. Walk the Line This is actually what made think of this thread, I heard such good things. It wasn't bad, but, it wasn't really that good either. The plot was basically the same as every single other celebrity biography movie. I'm not saying that's not how his life went, but if there wasn't anything about his life that set it apart, maybe he wasn't the best candidate for a biography movie. Maybe if I was a Johnny Cash fan. But if I was it wouldn't make lines like "I'm not going to be the little Dutch boy holding my finger in the dike anymore" any less stupid. Also, Fantastic 4, was overrated, not that it got good reviews, but I don't think the reviews were bad enough. Somehow it manages 6 stars on IMDB, it should be in their Bottom 100, somewhere between "The Beast of Yucca Flats" and "Spice World". |
| emcee Posts: 374/867 |
Maybe I should have been more clear. Overrated movies that you've seen. |
| drjayphd Posts: 407/1170 |
Originally posted by Rawk Hawk 64Originally posted by Snow TomatoOriginally posted by Rawk Hawk 64 No she didn't. Grow up. 
Was this thread started under a full moon? Yeesh.  |
| Deleted User Posts: 29/-7750 |
Originally posted by Snow TomatoOriginally posted by Rawk Hawk 64 I didn't see it........You flamed me......... 
Snow Tomato is starting a flame war....... |
| Snow Tomato Posts: 637/798 |
Originally posted by Rawk Hawk 64 That's your own fault. You went to go see a movie about penguins WALKING. Envy = the worst movie under the sun. It got such good reveiws from my friends. I went to see it... and it was absolutely, positively.. the worst movie ever. My IQ lowered as I left the theater... actually. |
| Emptyeye Posts: 475/869 |
Blazing Saddles comes to mind.
Seanbaby agrees with me. |
| Deleted User Posts: 26/-7750 |
March of the Penguins........end of story.... |
| Sin Dogan Posts: 504/861 |
Ziff: Scarface-too true
March of the Penguins. I could watch something like that on discovery. And there was hardly anything cute about it. All it's about is emigration and death. Yea. |
| Valcion Posts: 324/585 |
Napoleon Dynamite is pretty overrated. |
| Ailure Posts: 1284/2602 |
Scarface have a awesome theme.
At least, the "Take it to the limit one" No I hadn't seen the movie, just heard the theme on YTMND. 
Hmm, I dunno about what I found overrated recently. I have quite low standards when it comes to movies, though I have started to watch quite a few recently so... watch this thread.  Originally posted by Tarale Funny you mentioned it, becuse I have it somewhere and yet hadn't watched it... I probably take a quick look at it. |
| Ziff Posts: 922/1800 |
Scarface - it was a shitty 1980s movie. It's a pity that we have a shitty gangsta culture that is glorifying what is ultimately a poorly done movie. The Godfather pt. 1 and 2 were far better and the modern Road to Perdition is by far the best mobster movie ever made. It was simply amazing. |
| windwaker Posts: 93/235 |
Originally posted by Rydain I liked the movie, though to be honest I fell asleep with it about 3/5 of the way through. The flashbacks were geniusly (sp) done, I thought. |
| Rydain Posts: 391/633 |
*puts on a Dr. Mario mask and chucks a bottle of chill pills into the thread*
Topic good. Topic very good. The media, the war in Iraq, and terrorism have nothing to do with this topic. Umkay? Umkay. Anyway...Boondock Saints. My friends love this movie. It bored me. OK, I thought it was pretty interesting at least up until that flashback scene with the toilet, but it went downhill sometime after that. I can't remember specifically what made me lose interest, though. |
| windwaker Posts: 92/235 |
Originally posted by Skyon lol I laugh at the liberals being against war! If we were to not go to war, what the heck do you think would happen? There would be even more terrorist attacks! I hate war, but it needs to be done! I'm going to say one sentence. OSAMA WAS NOT AFFILITATED WITH IRAQ AT ALL. Now. Stop talking. |
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