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 Re: What's your most HATED film? matatonio wrote: Super Size Me (Documentary)
I forgot about that, but yes, it' probably be a second or a third on my list. That film just made me angry, but not in a good way. Fuck Morgan Spurlock. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: What's your most HATED film? I remember when Napoleon Dynamite came out, everybody said it was brilliant. Well, I remember the reception being favourable anyway. That's going to be a tough one to find here in China, but if I see it, I'll give it a shot.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Napoleon Dynamite is delightful.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Does every Garry Marshall movie ever made count?
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Re: What's your most HATED film? David wrote: Napoleon Dynamite is delightful. 'tis _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: What's your most HATED film? The Ugly Truth.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Hard to put my finger on the most hated. There's been so many bad and terrible films I've seen, but I might have the most disgust for Terminator Genisys.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? I know it's not the worst movie ever but I loathe The Big Lebowski and the mere mention of it makes me angry. Overrated bullshit trash.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Me Before You could take the cake.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? thompsoncory wrote: I know it's not the worst movie ever but I loathe The Big Lebowski and the mere mention of it makes me angry. Overrated bullshit trash. For someone who's film taste I can usually relate to, that surprises me. The film cracks me up, love the screenplay. But it's cool though, everyone has that film that's generally loved but you just can't see it.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Flava'd vs The World wrote: The Last Airbender
F U M. Night This is still true four years later. Though me and M Night are cool again with the introduction of SCU.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Oo good call on The Last Airbender.
Shyamalan can forever eat shit for that travesty.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Bug........................................
FUCK YOU! I never give F's, but it was my 21st birthday and the girl at the theater let me go in for free. People apparently love Michael Shannon, but I still hate his guts because of that movie. Worst film experience of my life. I cannot take his whole "I chew on my own teeth" kind of delivery.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Dr. Lecter wrote: matatonio wrote: Super Size Me (Documentary)
I forgot about that, but yes, it' probably be a second or a third on my list. That film just made me angry, but not in a good way. Fuck Morgan Spurlock. Dr. Lecter wrote: matatonio wrote: Super Size Me (Documentary)
I forgot about that, but yes, it' probably be a second or a third on my list. That film just made me angry, but not in a good way. Fuck Morgan Spurlock. Super Size Me is completely fine, I can't see why anyone would hate that film. And what is the good way of being angry?
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Re: What's your most HATED film? stuffp wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: matatonio wrote: Super Size Me (Documentary)
That film just made me angry, but not in a good way. what is the good way of being angry?  It sounds like he wanted to self-harm or attempt the asphyxiwank. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Some films are just terribly made and it's hard to hate them.
Some are so bad they become entertaining in a campy way.
If I had to choose one to hate, it would probably be Armageddon because it's just so insulting to the intelligence of the viewers.
I could go into detail, but Ebert's review says it all:
Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. "Armageddon" is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
The plot covers many of the same bases as the recent "Deep Impact," which, compared with "Armageddon," belongs on the American Film Institute list. The movie tells a similar story at fast-forward speed, with Bruce Willis as an oil driller who is recruited to lead two teams on an emergency shuttle mission to an asteroid "the size of Texas," which is about to crash into Earth and obliterate all life--"even viruses!" Their job: Drill an 800-foot hole and stuff a bomb into it, to blow up the asteroid before it kills us.
OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot.
Texas is a big state, but as a celestial object, it wouldn't be able to generate much gravity. Yet when the astronauts get to the asteroid, they walk around on it as if the gravity is the same as on Earth. There's no sensation of weightlessness--until it's needed, that is, and then a lunar buggy flies across a jagged canyon, Evel Knievel-style.
The movie begins with a Charlton Heston narration telling us about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then we get the masterful title card, "65 Million Years Later." The next scenes show an amateur astronomer spotting the object. We see top-level meetings at the Pentagon and in the White House. We meet Billy Bob Thornton, head of Mission Control in Houston, which apparently functions like a sports bar with a big screen for the fans, but no booze. Then we see ordinary people whose lives will be Changed Forever by the events to come. This stuff is all off the shelf--there's hardly an original idea in the movie.
"Armageddon" reportedly used the services of nine writers. Why did it need any? The dialogue is either shouted one-liners or romantic drivel. "It's gonna blow!" is used so many times, I wonder if every single writer used it once, and then sat back from his word processor with a contented smile on his face, another day's work done.
Disaster movies always have little vignettes of everyday life. The dumbest in "Armageddon" involves two Japanese tourists in a New York taxi. After meteors turn an entire street into a flaming wasteland, the woman complains, "I want to go shopping!" I hope in Japan that line is redubbed as "Nothing can save us but Gamera!" Meanwhile, we wade through a romantic subplot involving Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck. Liv plays Bruce Willis' daughter. Ben is Willis' best driller (now, now). Bruce finds Liv in Ben's bunk on an oil platform and chases Ben all over the rig, trying to shoot him. (You would think the crew would be preoccupied by the semi-destruction of Manhattan, but it's never mentioned after it happens.) Helicopters arrive to take Willis to the mainland so he can head up the mission to save mankind, etc., and he insists on using only crews from his own rig--especially Affleck, who is "like a son." That means Liv and Ben have a heart-rending parting scene. What is it about cinematographers and Liv Tyler? She is a beautiful young woman, but she's always being photographed while flat on her back, with her brassiere riding up around her chin and lots of wrinkles in her neck from trying to see what some guy is doing. (In this case, Affleck is tickling her navel with animal crackers.) Tyler is obviously a beneficiary of Take Your Daughter to Work Day. She's not only on the oil rig, but she attends training sessions with her dad and her boyfriend, hangs out in Mission Control and walks onto landing strips right next to guys wearing foil suits.
Characters in this movie actually say: "I wanted to say ... that I'm sorry," "We're not leaving them behind!," "Guys--the clock is ticking!" and "This has turned into a surrealistic nightmare!" Steve Buscemi, a crew member who is diagnosed with "space dementia," looks at the asteroid's surface and adds "This place is like Dr. Seuss' worst nightmare." Quick--which Seuss book is he thinking of? There are several Red Digital Readout scenes, in which bombs tick down to zero. Do bomb designers do that for the convenience of interested onlookers who happen to be standing next to a bomb? There's even a retread of the classic scene where they're trying to disconnect the timer, and they have to decide whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire. The movie has forgotten that *this is not a terrorist bomb,* but a standard-issue U.S. military bomb, being defused by a military guy who is on board specifically because he knows about this bomb. A guy like that, the first thing he should know is, red or blue? "Armageddon" is loud, ugly and fragmented. Action sequences are cut together at bewildering speed out of hundreds of short edits, so that we can't see for sure what's happening, or how, or why. Important special-effects shots (such as the asteroid) have a murkiness of detail, and the movie cuts away before we get a good look. The few "dramatic" scenes consist of the sonorous recitation of ancient cliches. Only near the end, when every second counts, does the movie slow down: Life on Earth is about to end, but the hero delays saving the planet in order to recite cornball farewell platitudes.
Staggering into the silence of the theater lobby after the ordeal was over, I found a big poster that was fresh off the presses with the quotes of junket blurbsters. "It will obliterate your senses!" reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically. "It will suck the air right out of your lungs!" vows Diane Kaminsky.
If it does, consider it a mercy killing.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Audition (japanese horror movie)
The reviews said what scary horror masterpiece it is and I went with three friends in an arthouse cinema. Paid a shitload of money to see this shit.
Fuck this horseshit crap movie!
It has though one of the best jumpscare moments in movie history. I give it that!
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Groucho wrote: If I had to choose one to hate, it would probably be Armageddon because it's just so insulting to the intelligence of the viewers.
I love it 
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Armageddon makes no sense. There are so many bad disaster movies, not saying this a great one, but it holds up decently and it is better than most.
So many bad ones have followed, hell there is an Elijah Wood one of that year that is so much worse (Has like forced marriage and other goofy crap throughout)
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Thegun wrote: Armageddon makes no sense. There are so many bad disaster movies, not saying this a great one, but it holds up decently and it is better than most.
So many bad ones have followed, hell there is an Elijah Wood one of that year that is so much worse (Has like forced marriage and other goofy crap throughout) I guess Armageddon is more hated because it was a big budget film that made tons of money despite sucking. Our expectations were higher. If it was some small B movie the standards would have been lower, because you generally don't expect as much with B movies. There are certainly tons of films that are worse than Armageddon but they're almost all low-budget Ed-Wood or Uwe-Boll kind of things. No one expects those to be any good. _________________Buy my books! http://michaelaventrella.com
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Re: What's your most HATED film? I think you need to have an appetite for a film like Armageddon, for me it's like the ultimate blockbuster.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? I don't know. There are plenty of big budget films that are much worse than that film.
The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, The Core, Godzilla, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Volcano, etc. Amrageddon is above the curve IMO. I mean all these films are shit, but Armageddon is more in the ID4, Twister level.
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Groucho wrote: Some films are just terribly made and it's hard to hate them.
Some are so bad they become entertaining in a campy way.
If I had to choose one to hate, it would probably be Armageddon because it's just so insulting to the intelligence of the viewers.
I could go into detail, but Ebert's review says it all:
Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. "Armageddon" is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
The plot covers many of the same bases as the recent "Deep Impact," which, compared with "Armageddon," belongs on the American Film Institute list. The movie tells a similar story at fast-forward speed, with Bruce Willis as an oil driller who is recruited to lead two teams on an emergency shuttle mission to an asteroid "the size of Texas," which is about to crash into Earth and obliterate all life--"even viruses!" Their job: Drill an 800-foot hole and stuff a bomb into it, to blow up the asteroid before it kills us.
OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot.
Texas is a big state, but as a celestial object, it wouldn't be able to generate much gravity. Yet when the astronauts get to the asteroid, they walk around on it as if the gravity is the same as on Earth. There's no sensation of weightlessness--until it's needed, that is, and then a lunar buggy flies across a jagged canyon, Evel Knievel-style.
The movie begins with a Charlton Heston narration telling us about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then we get the masterful title card, "65 Million Years Later." The next scenes show an amateur astronomer spotting the object. We see top-level meetings at the Pentagon and in the White House. We meet Billy Bob Thornton, head of Mission Control in Houston, which apparently functions like a sports bar with a big screen for the fans, but no booze. Then we see ordinary people whose lives will be Changed Forever by the events to come. This stuff is all off the shelf--there's hardly an original idea in the movie.
"Armageddon" reportedly used the services of nine writers. Why did it need any? The dialogue is either shouted one-liners or romantic drivel. "It's gonna blow!" is used so many times, I wonder if every single writer used it once, and then sat back from his word processor with a contented smile on his face, another day's work done.
Disaster movies always have little vignettes of everyday life. The dumbest in "Armageddon" involves two Japanese tourists in a New York taxi. After meteors turn an entire street into a flaming wasteland, the woman complains, "I want to go shopping!" I hope in Japan that line is redubbed as "Nothing can save us but Gamera!" Meanwhile, we wade through a romantic subplot involving Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck. Liv plays Bruce Willis' daughter. Ben is Willis' best driller (now, now). Bruce finds Liv in Ben's bunk on an oil platform and chases Ben all over the rig, trying to shoot him. (You would think the crew would be preoccupied by the semi-destruction of Manhattan, but it's never mentioned after it happens.) Helicopters arrive to take Willis to the mainland so he can head up the mission to save mankind, etc., and he insists on using only crews from his own rig--especially Affleck, who is "like a son." That means Liv and Ben have a heart-rending parting scene. What is it about cinematographers and Liv Tyler? She is a beautiful young woman, but she's always being photographed while flat on her back, with her brassiere riding up around her chin and lots of wrinkles in her neck from trying to see what some guy is doing. (In this case, Affleck is tickling her navel with animal crackers.) Tyler is obviously a beneficiary of Take Your Daughter to Work Day. She's not only on the oil rig, but she attends training sessions with her dad and her boyfriend, hangs out in Mission Control and walks onto landing strips right next to guys wearing foil suits.
Characters in this movie actually say: "I wanted to say ... that I'm sorry," "We're not leaving them behind!," "Guys--the clock is ticking!" and "This has turned into a surrealistic nightmare!" Steve Buscemi, a crew member who is diagnosed with "space dementia," looks at the asteroid's surface and adds "This place is like Dr. Seuss' worst nightmare." Quick--which Seuss book is he thinking of? There are several Red Digital Readout scenes, in which bombs tick down to zero. Do bomb designers do that for the convenience of interested onlookers who happen to be standing next to a bomb? There's even a retread of the classic scene where they're trying to disconnect the timer, and they have to decide whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire. The movie has forgotten that *this is not a terrorist bomb,* but a standard-issue U.S. military bomb, being defused by a military guy who is on board specifically because he knows about this bomb. A guy like that, the first thing he should know is, red or blue? "Armageddon" is loud, ugly and fragmented. Action sequences are cut together at bewildering speed out of hundreds of short edits, so that we can't see for sure what's happening, or how, or why. Important special-effects shots (such as the asteroid) have a murkiness of detail, and the movie cuts away before we get a good look. The few "dramatic" scenes consist of the sonorous recitation of ancient cliches. Only near the end, when every second counts, does the movie slow down: Life on Earth is about to end, but the hero delays saving the planet in order to recite cornball farewell platitudes.
Staggering into the silence of the theater lobby after the ordeal was over, I found a big poster that was fresh off the presses with the quotes of junket blurbsters. "It will obliterate your senses!" reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically. "It will suck the air right out of your lungs!" vows Diane Kaminsky.
If it does, consider it a mercy killing. That was a great read. I forgot how entertaining Ebert could be. And he pretty much nails it. _________________
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Roger Ebert wrote: "Armageddon" reportedly used the services of nine writers. Why did it need any? The dialogue is either shouted one-liners or romantic drivel. "It's gonna blow!" is used so many times, I wonder if every single writer used it once, and then sat back from his word processor with a contented smile on his face, another day's work done. This part was funny. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: What's your most HATED film? Quote: Disaster movies always have little vignettes of everyday life. The dumbest in "Armageddon" involves two Japanese tourists in a New York taxi. After meteors turn an entire street into a flaming wasteland, the woman complains, "I want to go shopping!" I hope in Japan that line is redubbed as "Nothing can save us but Gamera!" 
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