Your #1 and 2 ALL time Hated Movies?

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RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 1:11 AM

Mine are:

#1 Class of 1999

#2 Return to the Posidon Adventure

*BTW my high school was used in the Class of 1999*

-River

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:04 AM

1 - Quigley down under
2 - Spiderman 2 and 3 well ok and 1

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CATWOMAN

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:26 AM

1.Dantes peak 2.Hitch hikers guide to th galaxy

bridget

REDLAVA

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:36 AM

1. Breakfast Club
2. Fast and the Furious movies (Can't think of anything else that drives me crazy at this moment.)

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:47 AM

There's only one movie I seriously and desperately wanted to walk out of, and that was Napoleon Dynamite. Why didn't I walk out if I wanted to so bad? Because my ride was enjoying himself. So I suffered.
Also, I fell asleep during the Exorcist, so I guess I'm not all that fond of it, either.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:57 AM

I really don't watch movies all that much, but the one that I hated with a passion was Saw 3. I simply don't understand how those things do so well, or how they get such large fan bases (or any fan base for that matter). The whole plot just seemed to be trying to use as much fake blood as possible.

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RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by CATWOMAN:
1.Dantes peak 2.Hitch hikers guide to th galaxy

bridget

Are you talking about the series Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, or that movie they made a few years ago that pretty much raped the book? If its the movie (I guess it is seeing that this thread mentioned movies) For me what made it a terrible film wasn't the story itself, but it was character placement problems. The guy they picked for the role as Arther Dent...that worked. The guy they picked to play Ford Prefect...no. Didn't fit at all and I like that particular actor. The guy they picked to play Zaphod didn't do it for me and oh god! the woman they picked to play Trillion...someone should have lost their job for that.

-River

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:07 AM

I forgive the movie for being so different from the book, which I never ever do except in this one case, because all the different manifestations of that universe contradict each other. Douglas Adams was a crazy, crazy man, with fluid thinking and storytelling, and he was changing things all the time. Of course that's what made him so brilliant. Apparently he was especially proud of the movie concept for Vogsphere.

But speaking of raping books, I think I have to add the Harry Potter movies to my list.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
There's only one movie I seriously and desperately wanted to walk out of, and that was Napoleon Dynamite. Why didn't I walk out if I wanted to so bad? Because my ride was enjoying himself. So I suffered.
Also, I fell asleep during the Exorcist, so I guess I'm not all that fond of it, either.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

People I know keep telling me that I NEED to see Napoleon Dynamite, but for some reason I've been stalling on it. Now you gave me a reason not to watch it.

-River

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I forgive the movie for being so different from the book, which I never ever do except in this one case, because all the different manifestations of that universe contradict each other. Douglas Adams was a crazy, crazy man, with fluid thinking and storytelling, and he was changing things all the time. Apparently he was especially proud of the movie concept for Vogsphere.

But speaking of raping books, I think I have to add the Happy Potter movies to my list.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I haven't seen not one of the Harry Potter movies, or even bothered to read the books. Just not my cup of tea, and is way past the red line.

-River

ZEROKIRYU

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:15 AM

Napoleon Dynamite and Deliver Us From Eva.

And speaking of raping books, the most recent that comes to mind was Ghost Rider.

And anything that Steven Segal is in.

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Rosa Rubicundior, Lilio Candidior

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:19 AM

Slightly off topic. The best Book to Movie I've ever seen was the "1984" brought out in the year 1984. It was well done and followed the book to the tee. They even found actors who totally fit the characters in the original book.

Back to our scheduled program...

-River

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by zerokiryu:
Napoleon Dynamite and Deliver Us From Eva.

And anything that Steven Segal is in.

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Rosa Rubicundior, Lilio Candidior

*laughter*

-River

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Monday, May 14, 2007 4:20 AM

River, I love your new tagline!

Worst movie ever- Bloodrayne. I think Michael Madson was drunk throughout the whole thing and didn't even bother trying to act.

I agree about movies like Saw and Hostel- too close to some crazies out there for comfort.

Deb

KAYNA

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:23 AM

First I have to agree with some movies already mentioned.
All Harry Potter films
Napolean Dynamite (my brother tried to make me watch it and I gave uo half way through)
Anything with Steve Segal. I don't understand the appeal

Now my top two are (or bottom two, depending on how you look at it)
1. Any movie that is considered a "Ben Stiller" movie
I cannot stand that man and I do not think he is funny. I may watch the occasional movie with Ben Stiller in it but not if it is "his" film.
2. The Queen of the Damned.
Talk about raping a book. Actually, it managed to rape two books all at once. And the really sad part is that Stewart Townsend is a wonderful actor and I was really excited before the movie came out when I heard he was playing Lestat.

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PEULSAR5

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kayna:
First I have to agree with some movies already mentioned.
All Harry Potter films
Napolean Dynamite (my brother tried to make me watch it and I gave uo half way through)
Anything with Steve Segal. I don't understand the appeal

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Actually, the Harry Potter movies turned me on to the books, which I enjoyed (and you have to admit cudos to Rowling--she's got kids reading--I wondered if kids today even knew how.)

Steven Segal's first movie "Above the Law" I always thought was pretty good, but I admit he did slide downhill from there.

Now for mine:

The 1994 Fantastic Four movie by Roger Corman--makes the newer one look like "Casablanca" (my all time favorite--Serenity included--please don't flame me!)

Wolf Creek--ABSOLUTE COMPLETE AND TOTAL FEYOO!!
90 min of nothing--15 minutes of crap scary I've seen a million times.

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:09 PM

There was a 1994 Fantastic 4 movie???? Also, considered yourself virtually flamed for not liking Serenity.

-River

CONSTANCE

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:19 PM

Ok I only really have one movie that I hate with a passion (cause sombody tricked me into paying to see this piece of crap in the theatre) its *drumroll*

Armageddon.

WHY oh WHY did they make that one, and WHY oh WHY didnt it just go straight to video (because of the budget and the actors I know but still)

I usually dont bother with getting worked up over bad movies..

But if ever someone gives you a DVD of the movie "Shepherd" from 1999 directed by one Peter Hayman... even if your a David Carradine fan... hit them on the head with it.

Constance

"I wanna live on an abstract plane"

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:25 PM

Highlander 2
Matrix Revolutions

Excuse me....

NaushussssChrisisall

ZEROKIRYU

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kayna:
2. The Queen of the Damned.
Talk about raping a book. Actually, it managed to rape two books all at once. And the really sad part is that Stewart Townsend is a wonderful actor and I was really excited before the movie came out when I heard he was playing Lestat.

Not to mention a waste of Aaliyah's talent.

She could have been brilliant in that role.

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Rosa Rubicundior, Lilio Candidior

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Constance:

Armageddon.

No way was Armageddon worse than Matrix Revulsions. Armageddon was Shakespeare next to that piece of crap.

Ewwwue Chrisisall

SAFEAT2ND

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:43 PM

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Like watching a car wreck. Couldn't look away but was deperately bored. It wandered aimlessly all over the place. All kinds of artsy scenes very loosely conected.

2. It's a tie. a)Sin City, b)Envy, c)BloodRayne & d)Starship Troopers 2. a)Gore for the sake of gore, b)sheer stupidity and none of it funny, c)Uwe Boll... need I say more? And d)"Are you sure this is Starship Troopers? HOLY, Kimber is REALLY naked! When is this movie over? I want that 2hrs of my life back with interest." pretty much sums it up.

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KAYNA

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Highlander 2

I'll up you one on that. Highlander 3

And of course, Dumb and Dumber

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

BORNTOFLY

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:45 PM

I actually just watched Matrix Revolutions with a friend. Now I'm something of a Matrix fanboy, so my opinion isn't really valid, but he found it quite good. Not brilliant, no, but definitely worth a watch.

Now on to my all time most hated films.

#1: Gosford Park. I walked out. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, will ever make me watch that waste of talent and (more importantly) my time ever again. A movie about something in which nothing remotely entertaining or interesting happened. As opposed to a film like (because it's been mentioned here) Napoleon Dynamite, a film about nothing in which very little happens.

#2: I'm gonna have to go with Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong. It just shouldn't have been made, period. What a waste.

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Forsaken initiate.

CONSTANCE

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by Constance:

Armageddon.

No way was Armageddon worse than Matrix Revulsions. Armageddon was Shakespeare next to that piece of crap.

Ewwwue Chrisisall

Ok yes, I agree. Not to Armageddon beeing in any way near Shakespeare in any way, but Matrix Revolutions was crap. So much so infact that I had totaly repressed the memory of ever having seen it. Now that I remember, I have the image of Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss having some kind of extremly boring and unnesessary sex (well unessesary for the movie anyways) and the depressing thought that the only music in the future is tribal, hippy trance techno shite.
Thanks

Constance

"I wanna live on an abstract plane"

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BornToFly:
I actually just watched Matrix Revolutions with a friend. Now I'm something of a Matrix fanboy, so my opinion isn't really valid, but he found it quite good. Not brilliant, no, but definitely worth a watch.

One was stellar! Two was intriguing!

3 made my cry (not in a good way...).

The Jesus thing again!!!???
And: He dies in 1, she dies in 2; they BOTH die in 3....Matrix 2 & 3 is like Superman 4 or Highlander 2 to me; they don't exist.

Grrrr Chrisisall

BORNTOFLY

Monday, May 14, 2007 2:56 PM

BWAHAHAHA...Supes 4...*wipes from memory, along with, let's face it, 90% of Supes 3*.

I will say though, that Revolutions kinda lost the 'feel' of what makes a Matrix film a Matrix film. It's definitely the weakest of the three. Something about it just doesn't sit right.

Still love it though

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Forsaken initiate.

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BornToFly:
BWAHAHAHA...Supes 4...*wipes from memory, along with, let's face it, 90% of Supes 3*.

Superman 3 I will watch with my eight year old son; NO power in the 'Verse could get me to watch MR another time...not even a Clockwork Orange-like set-up...I'd choke myself unconscious first!!! I'd hyperventilate till passing out!!! I'd...well, you get the picture.

I love the first one so much...Chrisisall

SISTER

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:27 PM

Solaris (w/george clooney) was So bad, and soooo sucky...it forever set the standard in my family by which all movie suckiness is judged. It's the Solaris Scale of Suckiness. 10 being Solaris...

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:33 PM

Welcome to the show! Please be seated, as the next fight is about to begin!!
DING!

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
Solaris (w/george clooney) was So bad, and soooo sucky...it forever set the standard in my family by which all movie suckiness is judged. It's the Solaris Scale of Suckiness. 10 being Solaris...

That was a *GREAT* movie, if it 2001'd you, that's because of it's deep and signifigant message(s). In time it will be regarded as a classic, sister.

*sigh* Oh brother Chrisisall

RIVER6213

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:34 PM

Someone mentioned Starship Trooper 2 and I have to say you gotta wonder about some of these producers that are out there...I mean what on earth were they thinking? That movie was so beyond bad that it made the 1st one look like pure art, which it wasn't, but the 1st one had a lot of good visuals. The 2nd one looked like it had a budget of $100 ,and they didn't think we would notice that a certain ships captain was brought back from the dead to play a trooper!

I'm sure NONE of the actors put THAT movie on their resumes.

-River

CONSTANCE

Monday, May 14, 2007 3:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Welcome to the show! Please be seated, as the next fight is about to begin!!
DING!
Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
Solaris (w/george clooney) was So bad, and soooo sucky...it forever set the standard in my family by which all movie suckiness is judged. It's the Solaris Scale of Suckiness. 10 being Solaris...
That was a *GREAT* movie, if it 2001'd you, that's because of it's deep and signifigant message(s). In time it will be regarded as a classic, sister.

*sigh* Oh brother Chrisisall

One shoud try to see the original russian movie though. The original or both.. then afterwards one can have long deep debates about the differences in the two..

Constance

"I wanna live on an abstract plane"

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, May 14, 2007 4:16 PM

I like cheap sci fi which is among the worst of bad movies, that means I like movies with lousy acting, cheap special effects, and highly contrived plot. As a result of this I once thought that there could be no movie bad enough to make me hate it. I recognize that a good movie can provoke hate by taking you places you don't want to go, but I really thought that the fact that I liked bad acting, bad plot, bad direction, and generally bad things made me immune to hating bad movies.

A History of Violence was the movie that proved that wrong. The special effects weren't bad, in fact they were great and I remember no time at which you felt like you were looking at a special effect instead of, say, someone's face being burned off by hot coffee. The camera work wasn't bad either. The lighting was also fine, as were the sets the costumes and the sound. Everything else was the worst I have ever seen in my life. The acting, the writing, and what passed for plot made me want to wretch.

It was the first and only time I left a theater thinking about how much of my life I had wasted, 96 minutes about 5760 seconds, enough time that on average ten thousand people died, and really knew what it was like to mourn every second lost. I had literally nothing else to do during that time and found myself wishing I had done just that: nothing. Never before and never since have I actually felt a sense of loss for having done something less productive than staring at a wall.

If I had been on my own I probably would have waked out, but the person who paid for my ticket was right next to me. Which brings up another thing, I didn't think I could feel like a movie someone else paid for was a waste, after all it cost me nothing except time, I was obviously wrong.

As far as I could see the only thing the movie had going for it, and I have to give it credit for it, is that in spite of offering nothing whatsoever to the viewer I meant it when I said, "I probably would have walked out." Notice the 'probably.' I might not have walked out even if I were the only one in the theater. Based on what I overheard and what was told to me directly every single person in the theater had the same experience I had, which means I have to give the movie a lot of credit, because every single person was kept not on the edge of their seat but at least interested by the continuing feeling that if you just watched for a little bit longer something would happen that would somehow make the movie worth watching. At every stage of the way it felt like something interesting was coming up, something that would turn the whole thing around and make enduring what had come before worthwhile was right just around the bend. That something never came, but the fact that the movie managed to give in the theater that feeling for more or less the entire time is very impressive.

I know that the theater I was in is not representative of most theaters, I know that there were people who liked the movie, even loved it, but I don't know what they saw in it. I'm sure there's someone who's going to be shocked that is the movie I hate the most, yet it is and I hate it so much all else pales in comparison and I have no second most hated movie.

SINGATE

Monday, May 14, 2007 5:21 PM

1. Dirty Dancing

2. Flashdance

As if sitting through chick flicks wasn't bad enough these include dancing as a vital element. Along the lines of what Chrisisall said, if someone strapped me down and forced my eyes open I would try my damnest to rupture a blood vessel in my brain to avoid watching these films.

I'm actually stunned at several of the films people have listed here, then again I'm sure my top two are bound to be on someone's favorite list.

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DUG

Monday, May 14, 2007 5:23 PM

The one that came screaming into my mind was Tim Robbin's "Jacob's Ladder". It's been 17 years sine that crap wasted 2 hours of my life and I'm still p*ssed off about it.

To any budding script writers out there:
1. The ending of "it was all a dream" is not ok. If the movie is nothing but a wandering, aimless drug-trip as a soldier dies then gee....NOTHING HAPPENED. So why did I need to watch?
2. We all know Viet Nam was bad. Let's talk abot something else now.

To any movie marketers out there:
Don't advertise a movie about demons and supernatural stuff and give me a Viet Nam drug trip. In fact, don't ever advertise one movie and give me a different one. Tends to make me grumpy.

MAL4PREZ

Monday, May 14, 2007 5:57 PM

1) Gone in 60 seconds. unbearably baaaaad. I'm thinking the flaming skull motorcycle thing fits right here too, but don't plan on finding out.

2) Jim Carey anything. He just gives me the heebie jeebies, and he's not funny.

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IRISHWASH

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:16 PM

first of all i think i quite like gone in 60 seconds and the fast and the furious trilogy, but am a car buff so my oppinion is tainted, and armeggedon [brain fart spelling] is a good movie kinda does what its supposed to,bigbudget triller

anyways worst films i've seen
1, gangs of new york. wasted two hours watching that crap
2, any james bond movie. why can't he just die in one or atleast lose out to a baddie

irishwash

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by irishwash:
2, any james bond movie. why can't he just die in one or atleast lose out to a baddie

James Bond is almost always out to save the world as we know it, if he were to fail then the next movie (supposedly a sequel) could not be set in the world as we know it. Hence he must win.

The only thing in doubt in a Bond movie is the fate of the sidekicks.

ORANGEHAT

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:29 PM

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams actually came up with the idea *so I've heard from some interview* Lying in a field -plastered- looking up at the sky, he happened to be carrying a Hitchhikers Guide to Europe...The reason the book is so well...crazy at times and parts are a little hard to make sense of ( a trilogy of five?!:P) because (something I heard for a teacher of mine) it was all originally a radio show that at any moment could be cancelled, so he had to be able to finish the 'story' at any time.
Then there was the Spiderman comment... I cried a little :P I actually can't bring myself to pass judgement on that movie mostly because I like Spiderman tooooo much

now the worst movie I ever saw...
1. 300 HAHAH that's right I said it!(Please, no need to tell me how wrong I am, my friend bitched me out for literally 3 hours about how I'm wrong and then did a low blow- talked about hating Spiderman....I don't even think its that bad I'm probably spiteful to all the hype)
2. The Lizzie Mcguire movie- everytime I babysat this family this movie was on, continuously. This was YEARS ago and I still hate it

That nerdy hat

KAYNA

Monday, May 14, 2007 6:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by OrangeHat:
2. The Lizzie Mcguire movie- everytime I babysat this family this movie was on, continuously. This was YEARS ago and I still hate it.

You know, I was lucky enough to babysit mostly boys so I never had to suffer through that crap. I despise anything with Hillary Duff, just on general pricipal. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the epitome of mediocraty.

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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

CONSTANCE

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:02 PM

Quote:
and armeggedon [brain fart spelling] is a good movie kinda does what its supposed to,bigbudget triller

the thing that bugged me the most about it, exept the crazy idea of Bruce Willis saving the entire world by blowing up a meteorite (with not that much warning), was the scene where he says goodbye to he's daughter. And the ending where everything is fine.. it was sickening. Im usually very positive toward catastrophe movies. Not this one. And why is it always Bruce Willis that has to save the world?? (Hes got the company of Keifer Southerland now I know, but anyways)

Armageddon came out just about the same time that song "daddy loves you" (I think it was by Will Smith) came out. All I could think about during that horrible scene just before Willis sacrefices himself for his daughter and the world was that stupid song... made the scene a bit funnier..

Constance

IRISHWASH

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:12 PM

yeah but the villains aren't out to end the world they are looking for domination, and then the next film could have james bond leading a revolution type film

irishwash

STORYMARK

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:14 PM

1: Batman & Robin
2: Highlander: The Source (okay, so technically, it's not out yet, but I've seen it, and it's baaaaad)

And to comment on two of the movies mentioned above:

I adored Solaris. Great film. As soon as I finished it the first time, I read the screenplay without even getting up to go to the bathroom, I wanted to continue the experience so much.

And I thought A Histroy of Violence was great, in my(and many others') top 10 for that year.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

KAYNA

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:19 PM

sorry, double post
read on

KAYNA

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
2: Highlander: The Source

Is that the one with the guy in the mountain? If so than it's the Highlander 3 movie I mentioned earlier.
There's been some talk about Highlander 2 but I admit, I actuallly like that movie. Sure it's not the best movie in the world but I thought it was amusing and Michael Ironside is always a great villain. Highlander 3 however, was just horrible. Crappy, unbelievable story, no continuity with the other films, and since when did Connor adopt a kid?

*edit*
Ok, I just read your post again and I see it's a new Highlander movie?!?? Why would they do such a thing? WHY??? The first one was great but every movie after that has gotten progressively crappier. The show was all right if you took it as a seperate entity from the movies but not great and that Endgame movie made me ill.

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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

FREDGIBLET

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by OrangeHat:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams actually came up with the idea *so I've heard from some interview* Lying in a field -plastered- looking up at the sky, he happened to be carrying a Hitchhikers Guide to Europe

Yep, the whole story is in the foreword of "The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe" Which is all 5 books plus a short story in one giant book.

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...The reason the book is so well...crazy at times and parts are a little hard to make sense of ( a trilogy of five?!:P) because (something I heard for a teacher of mine) it was all originally a radio show that at any moment could be cancelled, so he had to be able to finish the 'story' at any time.

The history is right in that it was originally a radio show, but the books weren't a transcript. Every time it went to a new medium (radio, TV, book, play, movie) it was rewritten with just the basic idea and characters the same.

Another fun bit of trivia, the first book ends abruptly because he had missed so many deadlines* that his publisher told him literally "finish the page you are on and send it in".

*"I love deadlines, especially the whooshing they make as they go flying by" -Douglas Adams

SISTER

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:30 PM

Sorry Chrisisall...hated it (solaris)...and, actually loved 2001...as for "DING...fight?" no thanks, it's pointless and life is too short - we like what we like and we don't like what we don't.

STORYMARK

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kayna:
Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
2: Highlander: The Source

*edit*
Ok, I just read your post again and I see it's a new Highlander movie?!?? Why would they do such a thing? WHY??? The first one was great but every movie after that has gotten progressively crappier. The show was all right if you took it as a seperate entity from the movies but not great and that Endgame movie made me ill.

I'm a big fan of the series, whgich I hold on the same level as the first movie. 2 & 3 sucked. I enjoyed Endgame, though it did have problems. But The Source... not only does it not feel like a Highlander film (it makes 2 feel like a great follow-up), but it's just a horribly written and made film top to bottom. I like the characters (this one centers on Duncan, Methos, Joe and some new folk), but the movie is just plain awfull. Post-apocalyptic setting, tazmanian devil-style sped-up fight scenes, Cannibal biker gangs, and a Villain who says some of the most idiotic dialog I've heard, and that's when he's not singing "Who wants to live forever" from the original film. Bad, bad, bad movie.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

PEULSAR5

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
There was a 1994 Fantastic 4 movie???? Also, considered yourself virtually flamed for not liking Serenity.

-River

Yes, it was never actually released, you could only see it at comic cons, but now you can get it pretty easy on ebay.

And hey, come on--Casablanca isnt no 2 on the AFI list of all time greatest movies for nothing. (I still watch Serenity at least one a month though)

KAYNA

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:02 AM

After all Peulsar never said he didn't like Serenity, just not quite as much as Casablanca.

Serenity isn't my favorite movie either but it is in my top five with Firefly as my favorite TV show ever.

As to the Fantastic Four movie you're refering to, I've never seen it but I now what kind of crap Roger Corman turnes out. Any fan of MST3K has seen a few of his..."films"...
The thought of a comic book movie coming from that man is just revolting.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:14 AM

1# Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
2# Star Wars Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith

I'm sure many people feel the same way, these films made the Star Wars series CRAP

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:49 AM

Pulp fiction. My brain hurt watching this movie.

And Jaws because it gave me nightmares including one dream where my backyard filled up with water. I swam through the water to an orange tree and a shark bit my bum off.

CALHOUN

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:01 AM

Quote:
mazaen wrote:
Monday, May 14, 2007 21:49
Pulp fiction. My brain hurt watching this movie.

And Jaws because it gave me nightmares including one dream where my backyard filled up with water. I swam through the water to an orange tree and a shark bit my bum off.

Pulp Fiction is a classic! and there are plenty of worse films than Jaws too...

The most recent pile of trash I sat through was "Little Miss Sunshine"..

The worst book rapage in history would have to be "Battlefield Earth".

DARKFLY

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:01 AM

Quote:
mazaen wrote:
Monday, May 14, 2007 21:49
Pulp fiction. My brain hurt watching this movie.

And Jaws because it gave me nightmares including one dream where my backyard filled up with water. I swam through the water to an orange tree and a shark bit my bum off.

Quote:
Pulp Fiction is a classic! and there are plenty of worse films than Jaws too...

The most recent pile of trash I sat through was "Little Miss Sunshine"..

The worst book rapage in history would have to be "Battlefield Earth".

Damn Right Pulp Fiction is brilliant, Battlefield Earth is CRAP but not my worst movie's look up a few posts to see my worst

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:00 AM

Quote:
Darkfly wrote:
Monday, May 14, 2007 23:01

Damn Right Pulp Fiction is brilliant

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. BLESSED IS HE, who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brothers keeper and the finder of lost children. And I WILL STRIKE DOWN ON THEE WITH GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS ANGER, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee"

Heh heh.

CALHOUN

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:04 AM

Quote:
Darkfly wrote:
Monday, May 14, 2007 23:01

Battlefield Earth is CRAP but not my worst movie's look up a few posts to see my worst

Ahh but have you read the book? My comment was that IMO Battlefield Earth was the worst movie made from a book.

MRSHINYVERSE

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:18 AM

I would have to agree with the earlier posts about highlander 2. Sean Connery is egyptian in the movie so what's the crack with all the dodgy bagpipe music when he's doing something. Ahhhh . "Cheese Gromit" springs to mind.

I'll throw in Anaconda as my second choice. It's just awful. Even a fit looking J-Lo can't save it. seriously, it's awful.

MrShinyVerse

DARKFLY

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Calhoun:
Quote:
Darkfly wrote:
Monday, May 14, 2007 23:01

Battlefield Earth is a CRAP adaption but not my worst movie's look up a few posts to see my worst

Ahh but have you read the book? My comment was that IMO Battlefield Earth was the worst movie made from a book.

Yeah your probably right about Battlefied, can't really think of that many bad book adaptions though I found Blade Runner dissapointing & Harry Potter are crap books & crap films

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:20 AM

A Phantom Double Post, Attack of the Double Posts, Revenge of the Double Post, A New Double Post, The Double Post Strikes Again,Return of the Double Post, I'll stop now by the way the Star Wars Series is Crap thanks to the first 3 Episodes

GOMITHROUS

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:37 AM

The Saw movies, gross, icky, ew!
I know the head make-up guy for that movie he says there's gonna be about 7. That's right 7! Those movies are just gross and stupid and the puppet mask thingy gives me nightmares!

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:09 PM

1. Battlefield Earth. When we got out of that movie, a friend put it best when he said, "I think I'd have been better off just putting $8 down on the ground and walking away from it." And I have read the book, and it wasn't that good either. Not as bad as the movie, but it still stank.

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas - I took a date to see this movie, and if my date hadn't been a huge Tim Burton fan, I'd have walked out of the movie.

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KINETIC

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:35 PM

Have to go with

1. Double Jeopardy - Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones. Utter Crap

2. Pearl Harbor - How can you make a movie about an unprovoked surprize attack, and try not to offend the attackers? Oh yeah, portray them as victims of an over-controlling ruthless government. Well, that and Ben Affleck.

Edit - I had a friend who saw Nacho Libre for free and went to the ticket counter after and demanded her money back - it was that bad. I never saw it based on this rousing recommendation.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:36 PM

Nightmare, really? To my entire generation, that's a movie that has so much magic and power. I'm surprised to hear someone NOT liking it. Mind you, there's been a few films mentioned here that I actually liked that I don't mind.

But getting back on topic, I don't have a #2, but I do have a #1, which goes too...

WILD WILD WEST.

That movie is without a doubt the lowest of the low. It is without a doubt the biggest insult to human intelligence ever created. A $100 train wreck of awful jokes, lame special effects, no script (to say a weak script is to imply that there were actual pages written), horrible concepts and just an embarrasment for everyone involved. This movie is my litmus test for bad movies. If someone says that blank film is the absolute worst movie ever made, I intentionally seek that movie out to see if it's even worse than WILD WILD WEST. There have been a few, but nothing so far has surpassed that cinematic equivalent of cyanide.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:02 PM

I'll admit Wild Wild West isn't brilliant but its at least a 3 star film for me, made me half at least a dozen times

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:42 PM

Heh. So many choices, so little time.

I'm a little surprised at some of the selections, though... A History of Violence??? Great film!

The only movie I ever walked out of was "Thief", some movie with James Caan. And we wanted to flee so badly it wasn't even worth it to stop long enough to get our money back.

"Dances With Wolves". I've tried, I really have, to watch it, and have NEVER managed to make it past an hour. What a piece of overblown PC revisionist CRAP. Ew.

CLJOHNSTON108

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
Sorry Chrisisall...hated it (solaris)...and, actually loved 2001...as for "DING...fight?" no thanks, it's pointless and life is too short - we like what we like and we don't like what we don't.

It's okay, Sis, you're not alone.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/usercomments?filter=hate

I hate this movie, too, but for me it's a sensory thing.

Solaris had the most irritating sound design & dialogue I've ever experienced.

Two types of sounds grate on my nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard: Whispering/mumbling & gum chewing: All the actors whispered or mumbled their lines, and Jeremy Davies was constantly chewing gum (and gesticulating weirdly).
This movie was miked so well, every tiny nuance of all that was drilled into my skull.
Sheer torture!

My other choice is Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis.

ZEROKIRYU

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:42 PM

Cast Away - Two hours of Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball.

The Scorpion King - Well make that anything the Rock stars in.

The Mummy - I swear if this franchise ruins Jet Li I'm gonna be pissed.

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SAFEAT2ND

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kinetic:
Edit - I had a friend who saw Nacho Libre for free and went to the ticket counter after and demanded her money back - it was that bad. I never saw it based on this rousing recommendation.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:01 PM

1. Ultraviolet. After I watched this, I had only one question. Why?

2. Anything with Eddie Murphy (Except Shrek)

But you guys should feel blessed that you are spared Leon Schuster movies. He's a local film maker and for some strange reason, very popular. (May you be protected against a South African sense of humor) Think Police Acadamy 8 but with elephant sh*t. And it won't be a movie unless someone has to stick his head up a rhino's ass.

Sucky sucky sucky...

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EXOTICK

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:04 PM

1. 12 monkeys (sp?)
2. Bloodrayne

I just wanted to contribute, I'm trying to be less of a lurker

TINADOLL

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:18 PM

Oh god there is so many i hated

1. The Punisher (remake with Thomas Jane) I was a fan of the comics but this remake (There was one done in the 80's with Dolph Lundrin which was HOT) sucked the big time. Jane cannot act. It's set in Tampa- when it was supposed to be a NY based comic. Bad guy was John Travolta(why why why) and the plot was thin at best.

2.X-men 3 - Another comic book based movie that missed the mark. Jane Grey becomes the Pheonix-yes but come on the rest of the movie was off canon and were way off base where certian characters were concerned(Prof x dying?Magneto and Rogue losing powers? COME ON) and other dissapearing (Where did Nightcrawler go?) and all the big egos in the movie as well- With Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman vying for on screen time. And excuse me WHERE THE FUCK WAS GAMBIT?

3. Ghost ship- I love Gabriel Burne and weirdo horror movies but this movie was the pits. You have a ship that has been floating out in the Ocean for decades(oooh this could be good) and then you add ghosts(oooh better) but then the movie deevolves after that...meh

4. Wayens Brothers movies- need i say more?

5.Star Trek Nemesis- They Killed Data! You bastards. Worst Trek Movie (Besides ST5:The final Fronteir) Worst Plot.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:58 PM

There are a LOTTA movies I can't stand, whole GENREs I won't spend time or money on. But only 2 that I really hate

1. Starship Troopers. I read the novel when it was new, and found it amazing and inspiring. Read the screenplay online, and halfway thru, said, " This is an insult. Veerhooven totallty distorted what Heinlein had to say. Never gonna watch this, or anything derived from it. " At least that's the censored version of what I said.

2. Chapter 27. This ain't even been released yet, and may never be. The story about the man who shot John Lennon, because he wanted to be as famous as Lennon was. Don't wanta hear about it, ain't gonna go see it, ain't gonna read reviews of it or buy anything that has anything to say about it. AND I will not ever acknowledge that man's name. For his punishment, he must be consigned to nothingness.

ZEROKIRYU

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:
And excuse me WHERE THE FUCK WAS GAMBIT?

I love Gabriel Burne and weirdo horror movies

I've been asking that question since the FIRST X-Men.

If you like wierd horror check out damn near anything by Takashi Miike, or this movie called Suicide Club, in the opening scene 54 smiling schoolgirls join hands and jump in front of a moving train.

Oh yeah, I loath American remakes of great Japanese horror films, just look at what they did to Dark Water.

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TINADOLL

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zerokiryu:
If you like wierd horror check out damn near anything by Takashi Miike, or this movie called Suicide Club, in the opening scene 54 smiling schoolgirls join hands and jump in front of a moving train.

Oh god that sounds poeticly beautiful..

Quote:
Oh yeah, I loath American remakes of great Japanese horror films, just look at what they did to Dark Water.

..And Audition...and The Eye ...

PEULSAR5

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Mine are:

#1 Class of 1999

#2 Return to the Posidon Adventure

*BTW my high school was used in the Class of 1999*

-River

O.K., River got me curious as I had never seen either one of these movies, so I watched "Return To The Poseidon Adventure" yesterday. She's right. Absolute crap. (couldn't find Class of 1999)

THESOMNAMBULIST

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:39 AM

1: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.
Premise: Something shocking is going to happen... BASH! Something shocking is Happening....BASH! BASH! Oh my god something shocking just happened BASH! BASH! BASH!!!! over the bloody head again and again and again!! One of the most melodramatic and insignificant films I have ever had to watch. A simplistic message, thrashed out over and over again!!!!!

2: CRASH (David Cronenberg)
Two hours of watching Cronenberg's perversion! Irrelevant dribble from someone who should know better!!! This may aswell have been written by Joe Eszterhas (he who wrote Showgirls)

There are of course worse films out there but one thing that really gets my goat with films is when they presume that the 'Taboo' is somehow intellectual and by intellectualizing (for want of a better word) it that this somehow elevates a film to some kind of cinematic significance. Thereby garnering a slew of simple minded reviewers claiming it is a: "Must' see film", if one regards oneself as a serious film fan....

Well in the immortal words of SPIKE..... "BOLLOCKS!!!"

Give me 50's sci-fi, give me Indiana Jones hi-jinks, give me Airplane belly laughs or Starman sentiment, or give me..............Give me........
SERENITY!!!!

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Mine are:

#1 Class of 1999

#2 Return to the Posidon Adventure

*BTW my high school was used in the Class of 1999*

-River

O.K., River got me curious as I had never seen either one of these movies, so I watched "Return To The Poseidon Adventure" yesterday. She's right. Absolute crap. (couldn't find Class of 1999)

Keep looking for the Class of 1999. It's out there and it is a terrible movie. It was shot in Seattle where I live and the school they used for it was my old high school called Lincoln high. In the movie they changed the name to Kennedy High School. I guess the whole idea of it was that it was the year 1999 and gangs have taken over most of North Seattle, and most of the schools zones were considered "red zones" Not even the cops wanted to go in there, but some of the schools were still open for business, but the teachers kept getting killed off, so the state sent in some "Special Teachers" who all just happen to be Terminators. You can already guess where this is going to go...

It was freaky watching those killer, terminator, teachers cyborgs having a shootout with those kids in my old science class... Something like that does something to your head, or at least mine. Really, really bad movie!!!!

"Return to the Poseidon Adventure" was so beyond bad that it makes you wonder why they even made it. BTW, I saw that in the movie theater, and this was the 1st movie that I ever felt that I should walk out of but I didn't because I had paid good money for it, so I sat there and watched and felt victimized. "The Bow-People?" LoL!

-River

SHINYLIBRARIAN

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:55 PM

I don't see a lot of movies in the theatre. The upside of this is that I manage to not see lots of the worst ones.

Sometimes, though, one slips past the radar and the one that I hate the most is Excalibur.

It was attempting to be authentically medieval and failing awfully and annoyingly.

Then, a guy leaves his horribly inauthentic armor on while making love....

rrrrrrrrrrr

That was it for me. And, that scene is nearly at the beginning of the film....

I was actually reduced to muttering at it out loud much to my husband's and friends' embarassment.

ShinyLibrarian

KANEMAN

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
Solaris (w/george clooney) was So bad, and soooo sucky...it forever set the standard in my family by which all movie suckiness is judged. It's the Solaris Scale of Suckiness. 10 being Solaris...

There must be two Solaris movies with George clooney, because the one I watched was phenomenal.........

CONSTANCE

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Canter:
1. Ultraviolet. After I watched this, I had only one question. Why?

ME to... why oh why? Then it came to me... to get money out of horny nerdy 12-18 year old boys wholikes vampires and Milla Jovovich. That has to be it.

God theres so many movies I just have blocked out of my memory. Reading this thread brings them back. Not shure if I like that. Its funny though how people actually watches movies "recomended" here just to see if they are as bad as people say they are.

I disagree with a lot of people here, but thats just to be expected. People dont like the same movies.

I would like to add two movies that annoys the hell out of me

Constantine
and
Spawn

I liked the comics damn it, and then they go and rape them like this... grr!

John Constantine just cant be american, he just cant and Keanu Reeves.. not the greatest actor in the world. It could have been soooooooo good but alas it was crap.

Same goes for Spawn. It shouldnt be difficult to make atleast a half decent movie out of this.. but clearly it was.

Constance

CONSTANCE

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:

3. Ghost ship- I love Gabriel Burne and weirdo horror movies but this movie was the pits. You have a ship that has been floating out in the Ocean for decades(oooh this could be good) and then you add ghosts(oooh better) but then the movie deevolves after that...meh

Was that the one where everyone got beheaded by a wire at the beginning. If it was that was the only memorable scene. But that was kinda cool though. And does it have anything to do with ghost Rig... havent seen it but the cover is about the same only with an oil rig instead of a ship... Clearly someone has tried to find an original "oh my god its scary and we cant get away" location for a horror movie. if the rest is just like every other ghost movie ever made you have to try something right...

Constance

TINADOLL

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Constance:
Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:

3. Ghost ship- I love Gabriel Burne and weirdo horror movies but this movie was the pits. You have a ship that has been floating out in the Ocean for decades(oooh this could be good) and then you add ghosts(oooh better) but then the movie deevolves after that...meh

Was that the one where everyone got beheaded by a wire at the beginning. If it was that was the only memorable scene. But that was kinda cool though. And does it have anything to do with ghost Rig... havent seen it but the cover is about the same only with an oil rig instead of a ship... Clearly someone has tried to find an original "oh my god its scary and we cant get away" location for a horror movie. if the rest is just like every other ghost movie ever made you have to try something right...

Constance

yeah the wire was the best scene. Thats about it lol

SPACEMANSPIFF76

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:38 PM

when i see previews or clips or whatnot, i decide if i want to see the film. so ive manage to avoid seeing movies i hate. heres what i do hate about films though. i watch a lot of medieval period films, braveheart, king arthur and the like. the one thing that really honks me off that every time someone pulls a sword, it goes "shing". go get a sword a pull it, it wont do that, and it bothers me to no end when i hear that sound on a film because i know its so contrived, a sound effect invented by a bored foley.

ZEROKIRYU

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:
Quote:
Oh god that sounds poeticly beautiful..

It was.....

Quote:
..And Audition...and The Eye ...

OH GOD!!! They're remaking Audition!!! Another movie ruined by Americans...

The Eye will star Jessica Alba.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff76:
when i see previews or clips or whatnot, i decide if i want to see the film. so ive manage to avoid seeing movies i hate. heres what i do hate about films though. i watch a lot of medieval period films, braveheart, king arthur and the like. the one thing that really honks me off that every time someone pulls a sword, it goes "shing". go get a sword a pull it, it wont do that, and it bothers me to no end when i hear that sound on a film because i know its so contrived, a sound effect invented by a bored foley.

Doesn't depend on the sheath?

DUG

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:16 PM

Quote:
. And does it have anything to do with ghost Rig... havent seen it but the cover is about the same only with an oil rig instead of a ship... Clearly someone has tried to find an original "oh my god its scary and we cant get away" location for a horror movie. if the rest is just like every other ghost movie ever made you have to try something right...

My wife and I enjoyed "Ghost Rig", which we still refer to as "Ghost Pig" after the clerk at the store's misreading of the title. "Ghost Rig" is the American name. The movie is British and set in the North Sea. It is low budgety and stock horror-y but has a fairly tight script. A fairly satisfying ending that isn't telegraphed.

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CONSTANCE

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:44 PM

The wire decapitation was cool. Ill have to see Ghost Rig then.

Constance

CLJOHNSTON108

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff76:
the one thing that really honks me off that every time someone pulls a sword, it goes "shing". go get a sword a pull it, it wont do that, and it bothers me to no end when i hear that sound on a film because i know its so contrived, a sound effect invented by a bored foley.

Jayne's knife makes that sound when he pulls it on Dobson, but it's barely audible.
http://www.moviesoundclips.net/tv1/firefly/job.wav

TINADOLL

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zerokiryu:
Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:
Quote:
Oh god that sounds poeticly beautiful..

It was.....

Quote:
..And Audition...and The Eye ...

OH GOD!!! They're remaking Audition!!! Another movie ruined by Americans...

The Eye will star Jessica Alba.

They remade "Audition" -It was called Hard Candy and it starred effeminate actor Patrick Wilson

Jessica Alba needs to commit Sepoku!

ZEROKIRYU

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tinadoll:
Jessica Alba needs to commit Sepoku!

I agree.

Seppuku.

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TINADOLL

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:51 PM

Like right now.

That she-demon

MAL4PREZ

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:20 PM

I got a new one to add to the list last night - unfortunately when friends brought it up as thir favorite musical...

Moulin Rouge *shudder* It's visually pretty, but the over acting and whacked out weird lyrics and insane camera work make it impossible to watch more than 5 seconds. I know they were trying to be different with it but...

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RIVER6213

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:23 PM

What about Dare Devil? A few years back when this movie came out people were screaming and crying because they thought it was so bad. I personally didn't think it was that bad at all, but I like Ben Affleck, so what do I know?

-River

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:

There must be two Solaris movies with George clooney, because the one I watched was phenomenal.........

THANK YOU!!!

Chrisisall

STORYMARK

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mazaen:
Pulp fiction. My brain hurt watching this movie.

And Jaws because it gave me nightmares including one dream where my backyard filled up with water. I swam through the water to an orange tree and a shark bit my bum off.

Holy crap! Those are both in my top 10 favorite films, ever.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff76:
the one thing that really honks me off that every time someone pulls a sword, it goes "shing". go get a sword a pull it, it wont do that, and it bothers me to no end when i hear that sound on a film because i know its so contrived, a sound effect invented by a bored foley.

Oh God, I hate that too. The most you should have is genereally a slight hissing noise.
Have you ever seen the movie "Ladyhawke"? I like this movie. I really do. It has a good story and is well cast. Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, and a pre "War Games" Matthew Broderick. There are issues however. The armor and -Oh GOD!- the helms in that movie are so horrible and just about everything worn by the Bishop is just so wrong! I wanted to punish the costume designer.
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2977920860032109529muXWEL?vhos
t=entertainment
This should link to a pic of Rutger Hauer in one of the helmets I mentioned. When the visor is down he looks a little like a medievil Robocop. And just imagine it in gold, which is what the bad guy wears.
My other big issue with this (and many other films) is how the broadsword is handled. Rutger hauer has a massive sword in this movie that he tend to throw like a spear. At on point he hurls it about a foot into a tree. First off, that's physically impossible for a human being. Secondly, sword don't really work like that. They're not balanced properly for throwing. It would also be damned hard to get it out. Later he throws it through a man and pins him to a wall./ The sword is up to the quillions in the gus chest and the man has his back flat to the wall so presumable the rest of the sword is sticking out the other side of the wall.
Ladyhwke isn't the only movie to do such things just one of the most obvious. It. Is. Not. Possible. The only way filmakers should be able to get away with this is if either the sword or the weilder is magical.

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RIVER6213

Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:01 AM

What about the Rocky or Rambo movies?

I liked Rambo 1, but the rest of the movies were pretty bad.

-River

MISSTRESSAHARA

Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:22 AM

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Kayna;
My other big issue with this (and many other films) is how the broadsword is handled. Rutger hauer has a massive sword in this movie that he tend to throw like a spear. At on point he hurls it about a foot into a tree. First off, that's physically impossible for a human being. Secondly, sword don't really work like that. They're not balanced properly for throwing. It would also be damned hard to get it out. Later he throws it through a man and pins him to a wall./ The sword is up to the quillions in the gus chest and the man has his back flat to the wall so presumable the rest of the sword is sticking out the other side of the wall.
Ladyhwke isn't the only movie to do such things just one of the most obvious. It. Is. Not. Possible. The only way filmakers should be able to get away with this is if either the sword or the weilder is magical.

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You should suggest this on the Mythbuster's site Kayna. I can just see Jaimie or Adam trying to throw a huge broadsword at a tree or maybe Buster.

Seriously, you should post there.

Anyway back to the topic, there are many movies I hated that I wouldn't watch voluntarily (though if they came on tv and I was bored I might watch it back and forth between other shows) But there are two that I saw that I refuse to watch andonly if I was offered a LARGE sum of money would I watch again.

The main one If Event Horizon, I even hate saying the name, it started off well, Fishburn was great and commanding and there were times it reminded me of the original Alien movie, but then it got gory and the story unravelled and it was all I could do not to walk out. I was with my brother, and he said if you hate it leave (he wasn't very sympathetic) kept telling me I told you it was going to be scarey. But this wasn't just scarey, it made my stomache turn and it was all I could do to keep my popcorn down. So stupid me I stayed, did the hands over my eyes thing, but occasionally took a peak (and regretted it. Just stupid doesn't make sense un-nescessary gore. It had two kinds of impact. One, ever since that movie anything Sam Niel is in I can't enjoy because I keep seeing him as the psycho killer, and 2, for a year (yes a year) I had nightmares of this film, I kid you not. Just the most horrid dreams, and it's telling how terrible this movie was because I'm feeling nauseous revisting it.

Forget the million, I'm going to have to have all the gold in Fort Knox to rewatch that film.

Then there's the second one I was stupid enough to see with anoher brother that again was gratuitous, nauseating and actually very demmeaning and negative towards women. Sin City. I don't understand why people like this film, men I can it's got all the action and naked chicks, but many women like this piece of fey-yoo and I can't understand it. One of the worst pictures to come out in the last 5 years that from beggining to end show women as sexual objects to be exploited and abused, not to mention that pedophile getting away with torturing and killing other young girls while a cop is forced into admitting he did it to save one of the victims, and there's one scene where Bruce Willis pulls a guys **** off, well again it took a lot to keep my popcorn down. And now there's talk of a sequel? So how many women and children are going to be abused in this?

I think there can't be any worse films that makes me physically ill (even Pulp Fiction had some cleverness to it's violence) And though many will find this strange I'd be willing to sit through Star Wars 1, 2, and 3, then watch these two horrible movies.

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RIVER6213

Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:18 AM

I still to this day do not, and will not understand why Pulp Fiction is such a good movie and how on earth did it become a classic watch? It was a pretty bad, brutal, and senseless movie; I don't get it.

I made certain to watch it 6 times just to make sure I didn't, or hadn't missed anything. I simply don't like it, and I put it right down there with "Picnic at Hanging Rock" as a totally pointless film. Others on the other hand seem to like it. I guess in this area I'm clueless.

-River

FORGE

Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:18 AM

I do agree with a lot of the selections here, but my worst two are both the fourth installment in each series.

The Crow: 4 (not sure the real title) I was medical standy by on this and the producer threw us off the set before the hanging sequence because he didn't want to pay for paramedics. I only watched it because I was there for a bit, and it had David Boreanaz in it.

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. I did medical stand by again for one of the scenes. I am suprised that someone didn't die in the filming of this movie. Everything kept breaking while they were filming and when the producer showed up you could smell the alcohol on him from about 20 feet away. I was actually in this one for about 10 seconds, I am the medic (without glasses) who is about to pick a corpse up off the road. If you watch close, the way they spliced it together we get the stretcher out of the ambulance about 3 times.

Mason

This is just another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety...breaks the heart.

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