I liked Congo, I think Crichton is the one author where I enjoy the movie more than the book (except for Rising Sun). I think Crichton is just too smart for me and I get lost but after Hollywood dumbs it down, as they henerally do, I can follow.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
johnny_law wrote:
and every Martin Lawrence movie.
I hope that doesn’t include Bad Boys I.
Everything else, agreed.[/quote]
No, just every movie where he is the street wise smart guy and his side kick is always a dumb white guy. It seems all the movies that are multi-racial has that same plot. The whole ‘fish out of water’ plot I would call it.
[quote]jlesk68 wrote:
This movie sucked.[/quote]
oh yeah. fuck you for even reminding me about that loser and his floating bag. i never felt so tediously manipulated watching a movie as i did w/ that one.
although that scene when the wife’s getting tagged by “the king” was frickn classic !
Saw it the other night, a touch long but I liked it. They really developed a number of characters, and even the “bad guy” Jack Black, the overzealous movie maker was hard to dislike. I wasn’t alive in the depression but I suspect the movie captured the desperation of the era. Definitely an improvement over thaty hippy made oil companies are evil, let’s all hug trees and smoke dope while we starve to death version they made in 1976.
ON EDIT: thought I was quoting someone else. was talking about King Kong, pretty good show.
I think some of you people should get out and see some more bad movies. Go to the video store and rent:
xXx 2 - the Next Level (of crap)
Spanking the Monkey - a touching story about a young man who has sex with his mother.
Any movie with Lorenzo Lamas in it.
Battlefield Earth - side rant - Can anyone tell me the last decent movie that Travolta made? I mean seriously, the guy has been in more bad movies than Van Damme, but still gets treated like he’s the king. I don’t get it?
[quote]robzilla wrote:
Ha ha ha ha! I never realized anyone else in the entire world had seen Megaforce. My condolances.
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Hey now, I thought Megaforce was one of the best movies I’d seen…
My excuse is I was 9 years old.
I agree with another poster about Swordfish. Travolta had a great opener with why Hollywood makes crappy films, then the movie goes on to prove its own point.
[quote]Massif wrote:
Can anyone tell me the last decent movie that Travolta made? I mean seriously, the guy has been in more bad movies than Van Damme, but still gets treated like he’s the king. I don’t get it?
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But…but he danced on Oprah.
I liked Face Off. I can’t think of much else at the moment. I do know he isn’t a bad actor, he just seems to sign up for less than stellar movies.
Oh, and you really can’t leave out Pulp Fiction. That shit is classic.
Anybody remember “Superfuzz”? A cop, for some unknown reason, gets superpowers that stop working when he sees the color red. Superfuzz is played by a guy with a huge blond afro and some sort of speech impediment.
And I can’t believe no one’s mentioned “Toys” with Robin Williams or “Space Cowboys” with Clint Eastwood. The last one was so bad, I walked out, had a smoke while talking myself into going back in, sat there for fifteen more minutes until the William Devane character ACTUALLY SAID, “I’m getting too old for this shit,” then walked out again.
Yes. A movie so bad I walked out twice.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Massif wrote:
Can anyone tell me the last decent movie that Travolta made? I mean seriously, the guy has been in more bad movies than Van Damme, but still gets treated like he’s the king. I don’t get it?
But…but he danced on Oprah.
I liked Face Off. I can’t think of much else at the moment. I do know he isn’t a bad actor, he just seems to sign up for less than stellar movies.
Oh, and you really can’t leave out Pulp Fiction. That shit is classic.
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also get shorty and blowout were killer movies.
Gods and Generals.
Especially when compared with the awesomeness that was “Gettysburg”
[quote]JPBear wrote:
Worst Mainstream Movies:
Ghost World
The Royal Tenenbaums
Drowning Mona
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
How can you not love “Clueless” ???
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Man, I loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Put American martial artists (w/ exception of Jackie Chan) to shame.
But worst mainstream movies? The remake of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Wynona Rider and Keanu Reeves was pretty horrendous, Wing Commander was an atrocity, anything by Jean Claude Van Damme with the exception of Lionheart, all of Steven Segal’s movies. Actually pretty much any martial arts film done by an american actor. They can’t act, and they can’t fight. Why are they making movies? (this has seriously puzzled me.)
I hated Sin City…it didn’t seem to have much of a point.
Hidalgo was pretty bad too…I almost fell asleep in the theater.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Massif wrote:
Can anyone tell me the last decent movie that Travolta made? I mean seriously, the guy has been in more bad movies than Van Damme, but still gets treated like he’s the king. I don’t get it?
But…but he danced on Oprah.
I liked Face Off. I can’t think of much else at the moment. I do know he isn’t a bad actor, he just seems to sign up for less than stellar movies.
Oh, and you really can’t leave out Pulp Fiction. That shit is classic.
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Pulp Fiction rocked ass. I didn’t mind Face Off, even though Nick Cage annoys me.
Travolta’s whole career seems to be based on Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction.
Maybe there is something to being a Scientologist? Who else could have two hits in a 30 year career and still be considered the king?
[quote]swivel wrote:
also get shorty and blowout were killer movies.
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What the hell is Blowout???
[quote]Massif wrote:
What the hell is Blowout???
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A movie Travolta starred in back in the early '80’s.
[quote]halfpintdd wrote:
I hated Sin City…it didn’t seem to have much of a point.
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I thought Sin City was amazing. First movie in a long time when after watching it I actually sat back and said:“Damn, that was a good piece of cinema.”
If we’re talking about movies with big box office that a lot of people like, I think “Meet the Parents” is one of the worst ever. A guy making an ass out of himself just isn’t funny to me, and that seems to be the intended source of humor in most Ben Stiller movies. I kind of liked “Zoolander” though.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is no movie worse than this.[/quote]
I pretty much agree here, but “Being John Malkovich” may have been even worse. That’s 4 hours of my life I’ll never get back.
[quote]larryb wrote:
If we’re talking about movies with big box office that a lot of people like, I think “Meet the Parents” is one of the worst ever. A guy making an ass out of himself just isn’t funny to me, and that seems to be the intended source of humor in most Ben Stiller movies. I kind of liked “Zoolander” though.
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you see right there,that’s what i like about these threads. i thought zoolander was crap, but i liked meet the parents. it would be interesting to combine the personality profiles with the worst/best movies. then instead of rating a movie pg-13 or r, they could rate it enfp, or intj.
worst movie I ever saw was “A boy and his dog”…I know, I know,sounds well, yeah. Anyways it was about the future after a nuclear war and all this guy had left was his dog…Absolutely awful, actually considered a cult classic by some.