The other side of film dissonance...

[jonesy]

Gangs of New York - After the semi-interesting beginning (and not in a good way) the movie turns into something so awful it's not even funny.

The Patriot - Three Oscar nominations? What?

La Vita è bella - So I had see it. Couldn't watch all the way to the end, but I did try.

Sling Blade - Ugh.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

However, my walking out of the theater on Gladiator did pay off a little. I walked into another theater, playing Love and Basketball, by Spike Lee. That movie was fun.

Love and Basketball was directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Spike Lee produced the film. You might be thinking of He Got Game, a basketball-themed film which Lee did direct, but I think Love and Basketball came out the same year Gladiator did.

If the women in the movie you saw were not awful wenches, sex objects, or complete ditzes, it was probably Love and Basketball.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Let me add Eyes Wide Shut. Unwatchable, and I LOVE Kubrick. I've never seen a real-life husband/wife acting combo who looked less convincing playing a husband and wife. And it was just . . . painful, is the best adjective I can muster. This is not how I want to remember a great visionary such as Stanley Kubrick.

Ugh, now I have to go watch Dr. Strangelove to wash away the bad taste in my mouth.

BTW, did anyone see Vanilla Sky? Is it just me, or was Tom Cruise's chemistry with Penelope Cruz, like, 100 times more believable than his on-screen chemistry with Nicole Kidman?

 

[Wayside]

And anything with Jim Carrey, with the exception of The Truman Show and The Mask.

I liked The Majestic, but maybe only because of the ragtime.

I used to feel the same way about LotR: FotR. However, after being pretty much abused everytime I've been asked my opinion about it, I now officially hate the movie.

Villano, I got your back. I'm not a fan of either LotR movie, which doesn't entirely surprise me since I was not a fan of the books. I can, however, stand them. I got through them, after all.

Let me add Eyes Wide Shut. Unwatchable, and I LOVE Kubrick. I've never seen a real-life husband/wife acting combo who looked less convincing playing a husband and wife. And it was just . . . painful, is the best adjective I can muster.

I have a strange infatuation with the Kundera-esque relationships in that movie. The acting fits them well, I think. The rest.. feh.

 

[Dark Jezter]

One movie I hated that others seemed to love was "The Thin Red Line." I got the plot and everything that they were going for as for the themes but it was just a flat movie.

Amen to that. If I may quote Maxim magazine's thoughts on The Thin Red Line: I walked into this movie expecting a World War II action movie, but instead found myself at a candy-ass poetry reading.

But, IIRC, not many critics liked the movie either.

Let's see... some other movies that people seemed to like but I can't stand...

A.I.: What the hell? Why do so many people like this movie? I had high hopes for this movie after hearing the critics drool over it, but aferwards I was thuroughly underwhelmed.

The English Patient: Yawn. Assenpfeffer hit the nail on the head with his thoughts of the movie.

Moulan Rouge: You know, there's a reason that musicals stopped being popular 30 years ago.

Sorry John, but I've just got to mention one more that probably won't make you happy...

Chasing Amy: To this day, I still don't understand why this is considered Kevin Smith's best movie. I rented it and watched it with my friend because we were expecting to be entertained like we were with Clerks, but when it was over I actually apologized to my friend for subjecting him to it. It had some genuinely funny moments in it, but the film on a whole left a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Dagger75]

You may all kill me now....

I don't know what critics thought of it but gamers sure as hell like it.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail- I have been forced to watch this crap more times than I care to admit. I can't stand it. I bought the DVD in hopes I grow to like it, never did. Whats worse at cons theres that guy who has to freakin quote that movie every 10 seconds. I wanna tap him on the shoulder when he turns yell NI!!!!!!!!!!!! in his face and kick him in the family jewels, and then gloat over his fallen body and say "Is it only flesh wound @#$#$%^%&^!!"

The Lion King- I don't why, but I saw this movie once and didn't care for it. Maybe its because I am uncaring bastard.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Whats worse at cons theres that guy who has to freakin quote that movie every 10 seconds. I wanna tap him on the shoulder when he turns yell NI!!!!!!!!!!!! in his face and kick him in the family jewels, and then gloat over his fallen body and say "Is it only flesh wound @#$#$%^%&^!!"

Well, I think I just woke my family up laughing so hard...

Moulan Rouge: You know, there's a reason that musicals stopped being popular 30 years ago.

<snip>

Chasing Amy: To this day, I still don't understand why this is considered Kevin Smith's best movie. <snip>

I'll go with both of those. Moulin Rouge was just cheesy to the max. Admittedly I'm not a huge fan of musicals, but if they're good I can appreciate them. Moulin Rouge definitely fell short of good.

I'm not sure why Chasing Amy is considered KS's best movie either. I'd have to definitely go with Dogma being his best movie - a movie that's actually satirical and makes you think at the same time. I don't think any of the other three compare to it, and I'm not expecting Jersey Girl to either.

Right, so this isn't a movie, but the musical Rent is one that all sorts of people seem to like. I found it horribly contrived and unimaginative - as if someone decided to take every social issue from the 90s on and shove it into a musical. Sorry, but including lots of social issues does not make a good musical, movie, or any other media production.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

AI I thought was pretty good...right up till the last section, when Spielberg went mad and tacked a stupid ending on the, um, end. I mean, just leave him staring at the Blue Fairy underwater, that's poetic and interesting. What actually happens ruined the rest of the film...

I will leap to the defence of Moulin Rouge, even though no-one wants me to. But then, I'm a sucker for big flashy musicals.

 

[Someone]

There´s lots of movies that people like and I don´t, but the one I feel the most isolated is with The Two Towers.

 

[Viking Bastard]

The Patriot. Gladiator was an allright movie which was overrated,
but The Patriot was just bad. Painfully bad. It was tanked by critics
over here and I never expected to see any Oscar nominations.

The Godfather Trilogy. I mean, I'm not saying that the movies
weren't good. Just that they weren't that good. I expect they
were just children of their time, but I was very much underwhelmed.