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Gasp, Brinestone, you didn't like the talking pig? (I didn't see the movie, so I can't comment on it, but talking pigs!!!)
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I'm curious how many of these movie experiences were in a movie theatre, rather than on TV.
In particular, "2001" hasn't been in theaters since (I think) the '70's. I loved it when I saw it. I was about 10, and I saw it in a theater. I saw it on TV (with commercials) and got bored. I showed it to my son on VHS, and he got bored. I didn't, but I could see why he would've. I was hoping it would get shown in theaters in 2001, but all they did was release it on DVD. Maybe it would be better on a plasma screen.
Also, I recently got a copy of "Walkabout," which is from the same time period, and my daughter kept pointing out how slow it was. I think that may be a characteristic of movies of the late '60s early '70s. Today everybody is used to action every 8 seconds, and no long artistic shots. We expect the movie to keep our attention, rather than doing the work of paying attention on our own.
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Glenn, I wondered the same thing about pacing when I was watching my way through AFI's Top 100 Films list. The Graduate in particular seemed really, really slow to me. (I'm not calling it one of the agonizing movies. It wasn't bad, just slower paced.) Personally, my patience with the long, slow, artistic shots in movies depends on whether it's adding anything to the storytelling or just feels pretentious.
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Moulin Rouge (dumb story, boring dialogue, bad music). My butt went numb fast. I actually would have left the theater only I was seeing the movie with my mom...
Usually it's artsy films that I find the most awful. I can usually tell from reviews whether I'll like a "regular" film. But a critic can give an artsy film a great review... and I'll find that I can't stand it... examples = Alphaville, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Daughters of the Dust
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American Anthem. The first movie I ever walked out of.
I wanted to walk out of Muppet Treasure Island but my son wouldn't have stood for it. I got real close with Robots too... beautiful visually with a vacuum of a story.
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Death Become Her ....I wanted to die about half way through it.
I'll second “Lost Highway ”… I should have gotten lost on the way to the theater.
The only movie I ever fell asleep in the theater was " One Fine Day " with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney
But the top of my list is one no one will remember: " Solar Crisis ". It came out in the early nineties I think. It had Charlton Hesston and the "special effect team" from star wars. I couldn't possible describe how bad this movie was. I kept thinking they were going to tie together all the different threads and it would make since. It never did.
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2001 was a very bad movie already, but it was worse because I was so excited about it. My parents both speak of it with reverence in their voices. And it was so <i>bad</i>. I know people say the reason everyone likes it was because it was made before anyone made sci-fi movies. Even so...there was no plot. There was no story. Whatsoever. Maybe there was a little bit of a half-assed story, but the end didn't make the slightest bit of sense. At all. Posts: 464 | Registered: Jul 2004
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The movie was bad enough, but the "movie experience" was a nightmare. A brief anecdote:
I was working in Cambridge, UK, and Dungeons and Dragons had come out and gone in the US while I had been away. So, when I saw a movie theater showing it, I decided to go.
It was pretty far out of town, and I had to pay a few pounds for a bus to get there - I even conned a roommate into going with me. When we got there, we had missed the start of the showing we wanted to see, and decided to wait - and get food.
The food was abyssmal. When we saw the movie, it too was abyssmal. When we got out, we discovered that the last bus had already left, and we were stranded with no cell phone waaay outside the city.
We walked back about an hour or so (without seeing any pay phone - the one in the theater was locked up by the time we got back from the bus stop) before a cab finally picked us up, and we paid a lot more pounds to get home, finally.
So, I essentially paid a little more than $20 to see one of the worst movies ever.
And I will never get the stolen hours of my life back.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Other than one or two good action sequences, I couldn't find anything about that film that was entertaining.
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After repeated attempts, I finally stayed awake to see all of 2001. And I still don't get it. Or wouldn't have, if Ron hadn't read the book and explained it to me.
I saw The Crow 2: City of Angels in the theater. *shudder* It was filmed too dark to see anything, and I couldn't understand a freaking word the guy said.
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I didn't see it because as far as I could tell it was a rehash of Sleepless in Seattle, and I didn't like that one.
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I didn't really care for You've Got Mail, either.
To really alienate yourself, claim to hate Pirates of the Carribean with the white-hot passion of a thousand suns.
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My most agonizing movie experience was during "A Knight's Tale" after having imbibed a ginormous bucket of iced tea. The scene where he goes to see his father in the pouring rain was excruciating. After visiting the facilities (and missing about thirty seconds of screen time) I enjoyed the rest of the movie immensely.
(I have a crush on Heath Ledger, oh yes I do!)
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Anger Management- I went to see this with my parents, and every joke make me extremely uncomfortable sitting next to them. Not a good movie to begin with- agonizing when my mom glares at me for chuckling at every nuance.
jexx- I used to refer to Heath Ledger as Heath "yummy" Ledger until I referred to him that way to a roommate and she said, "Heath Yummy Ledger, my his name really fits him!"
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"2001 was a very bad movie already, but it was worse because I was so excited about it. My parents both speak of it with reverence in their voices. And it was so <i>bad</i>. I know people say the reason everyone likes it was because it was made before anyone made sci-fi movies. Even so...there was no plot. There was no story. Whatsoever. Maybe there was a little bit of a half-assed story, but the end didn't make the slightest bit of sense. At all."
Wow. Tell us how you really feel.
I remember when I saw it, and we came out of the theater. My brother said he loved it, but didn't understand it very well. I said it made perfect sense, and my father asked me to explain it.
Years later I had forgotten that little exchange. My brother reminded me that I had told them that the movie was about the next step in human evolution. The "dawn of man" sequence is there to show one end of an evolutionary sequence, and the end shows man becoming a new species. I hadn't remembered saying that, but I do remember the exchange outside the theater.
And I've reformulated my analogy since I was 10.
The plot is simple enough. The human race represents sperm cells in an ejaculate (Space Seed). The one sperm cell (David Bowman) makes it to the ovum and the two unite, forming a new life (Star Child). It's macroevolution and microevolution all rolled into one.
The monolith smacks of intelligent design, but certainly not what the ID people would approve of.
I'll say again that I think in this day and age people expect their entertainment in short, colorful bursts, and aren't willing to pay attention if it unfolds slowly. No wonder attention deficit disorder is so common. TV has conditioned us to expect every moment to be new, exciting and unexpected.
I happen to think 2001 is the best science fiction movie ever made, particularly because most "science fiction" consists of the writer's fantasy of what science is like. Clarke actually built his story around real science, not speculation. The sequences in space where the only thing you can hear is the astronaut's breath continue to blow my mind, and the vast blackness and monotony of space travel are spot-on. The only part that isn't science based is the monolith, and he leaves that fully unexplained. (then he screwed it up by writing the sequels, which were completely unnecessary)
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A movie that hasn't been mentioned yet is Freddy Got Fingered. Prolly because most people were too smart to watch a Tom Green movie, unfortunatly I don't fall into that catagory.
My best friend walked out of it, for some reason I sat through it.
THE worst movie EVER. EVER.
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Mouse Hunt. Back in '97, it was the only movie that I ever rented and wasn't able to finish. That says something since I was able to sit through almost any movie when I was ten years old, even the worst ones.
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Hmm bad movies? The Grudge was definitely terrible but thank god I saw that for free on DVD.
Boogieman was also equally terrible. I was confused when the credits started to roll because the movie was so lame it didn't feel like it had ended. We stayed through the whole credits just to see if it was a joke by the director and the real ending would show after the credits.
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quote:Originally posted by Lime: I'm surprised no one's mentioned Soldier. It's the only serious movie I've ever seen that actually made me laugh out loud at the climax.
Have you seen The Ring 2?
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By far and away "My Boss' Daughter" was the worst more agonizing movie experience of my life, and I see A LOT of movies. I almost walked out, but refused to waste my money, so I stayed and watched, and suffered through it.
The Ring 2 is a close second.
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Why does everybody hate AI? I totally get Battlfield Earth, even though I've seen it 3 times. I just love it, for cheese factor reasons.
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Now that I'm thinking about it, all I really remember of that movie was the end. It was absurd and completely out of sync with the rest of the movie. It felt tacked on to give it a happy ending. So, I hate it because the end sucked.
My pick right now would be The Aristocrats. I NEVER should have seen that.
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A.I. Anything with 'Ace' and 'Ventura' in it Anything with Eddie Murphy in a wig and a fat-suit SW: Episodes 1 & 2 Whale Rider That one about orchids with Nicholas Cage and John Malkovich Being There was not agonizing, but it was highly overrated
but... English Patient? Out of Africa? * sniff! * those are on my top-twenty list!
Oh well. Vive la difference.
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quote:Originally posted by Jon Boy: Have you seen The Ring 2?
Nope. Though judging from the sentiment running through the thread, I might not be mentioning Soldier if I had.
(Hmm, maybe I would be. I love the prop for the bomb - it's a silver tripod and a basketball wrapped in aluminum foil!)
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During my life I have only ever left three movies unfinished:
Hollywood Homicide Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones Catwoman
Later I discovered that Star Wars was watchable if you hit the scene skip button any time Anakin appeared on screen. The rest fits under the term "dreck", though.
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Alexander: His helmet in the battle of Guagemela was enough to ruin the movie in and of itself ... but Oliver Stone found plenty more ways to create this borefest. Created an entirely new level of suckiness.
Lost in Translation: My wife's twenty-three hours of labor was less painful and tedious than this critic's darling.
Godzilla: The Japanese fellow I went with was mad at me for days afterwards for what Americans had done to Godzilla. "Godzilla is not an iguana." And don't get me started on the Sean "Puff Diddly" Combs soundtrack work.
Mars Attacks: Probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't still hearing a couple of my friends go "Ack, Ack, Ack" all of the time.
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Un chien andalou (or in English The Andalusian Dog). It's a very random piece that was written I believe by Salvador Dali. It's just a bunch of random stuff for 13 minutes. The first time I saw it I laughed at the randomness. Subsequent times just make me hate it because it has no point. Don't even get me started on that ending. *shakes head*
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Yeah, some good, bad choices here. Not the top of my list, but definitely dishonorable mentions. AI had several endings, you know. So that's probably why it seemed tacked on: they all were.
Lost in Translation was highly overrated, boring, and immoral.
I thought Teen Wolf was perfectly awful. Michael J. Fox's worst movie. (That I saw. I never saw Bright Lights, Big City, or Casualties of War.Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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most movies i gsee are movies that I can tell from the previews are gonna be good otherwise I dont even bother. the only really bad movie experience I ever had was when I took my younber brother to see the movie cats and dogs. the theater version was so mindnumblignly excruciating that I would rather eat paint. and then for some unknown reason I watched it again on VHS. the second time I found it really good. I dinot know why . go figure. I will agree with alot of people that 2001 is not as good as you would think for all the hpye. the movie is well amde. its just that i think the ending throws alot of people. all that work paiung attention for that long and then the end makes almost no sense. SW episode 2 was the only Star wars movie that I think was subpar. it had a very bad plot and bad acting but the action scenes at least make it watvchalbe and it does set up episode 3 nicely which is my all time favorite movie.
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Lost in Translation is a character study about two people who are going through large changes in their life, in a foriegn land. They find comfort in each other, in a compleatly innocent and wonderful way.
Sure, the movie is a bit slow, and doesn't have any real action, but I really enjoyed it.
Okay, if you didn't like the pace or the plot, I could see "overrated" and "boring", but I just don't understand "immoral".
P.S. EndertheJedi, I'm not a huge grammer Nazi or anything (mostly 'cuse I can't spell so hot) but seriously...come on now.
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