Ilov80s
Footballguy
Basically every McLovin scene. Even just when he first revelas his fake ID: McLovin 25 years old from Hawaii.
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FFA Movie Poll - 2007 Lists due 8/12 (1 Viewer)
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Thanks. Can't really remember too clearly. I just remember thinking it was an analogy. I remember liking Magnolia better than There Will Be Blood, tbh. I think I only watched There Will Be Blood once or twice. Great movie, though.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
My final listed ended up:
30 - There Will Be Blood
25 - Diving Bell and the Butterfly
20- Zodiac, No Country, The Orphanage
15- Lars and the Real Girl
10 - Once, Into the Wild, Trick 'R Treat
5 - Hot Fuzz, King of Kong, Assassination of Jesse James, Persepolis, [rec], Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd, Teeth
Hardest list by far, some that were left off would have easily made other years, and some toward the bottom would have been 15pt+ movies in a lesser year.
30 - There Will Be Blood
25 - Diving Bell and the Butterfly
20- Zodiac, No Country, The Orphanage
15- Lars and the Real Girl
10 - Once, Into the Wild, Trick 'R Treat
5 - Hot Fuzz, King of Kong, Assassination of Jesse James, Persepolis, [rec], Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd, Teeth
Hardest list by far, some that were left off would have easily made other years, and some toward the bottom would have been 15pt+ movies in a lesser year.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
While you're at it, explain the whole 2nd half of the movie went it went off the rails and quit making much sense and succumbed to a typical tedious PT Anderson overlong conclusion. And this was after a first half that I actually liked.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Still waiting on Todem to finalize the points. If I don't hear back by the time the kid and I get home, I will at least get his other points in there.
A little countdown tease:
- 19 lists received
- a clear-cut no contest #1
- a surprising (to me anyway) #2
- currently 26 movies over the 50pt line
A little countdown tease:
- 19 lists received
- a clear-cut no contest #1
- a surprising (to me anyway) #2
- currently 26 movies over the 50pt line
rockaction
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
I loooove Countdown Monday!!!!!!!!
i'm on a comp-free vaca @ the beach right now - came down to the library to check my fantasy baseball & post this. Could we be on the brink of a DB&B upset?
i'm on a comp-free vaca @ the beach right now - came down to the library to check my fantasy baseball & post this. Could we be on the brink of a DB&B upset?
rockaction
Footballguy
Gone Baby Gone was 2007, too? So Casey Affleck was in two of the best movies that year?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Like I posted above, I take a lot of the movie as Plainview (business) running amok with a major theme of the battle with religion.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That is certainly a large part of it. Obviously both are exposed as frauds and crooks during the course of the film.
Like I posted above, I take a lot of the movie as Plainview (business) running amok with a major theme of the battle with religion.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I also like PTA's warped versions of family and/or father-son relationships in his movies. TWBB was full of that as well.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Let's do this! A few ties this time around, and this time I caught the movie that I had written down in two spots in my notebook.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#25tie 51pts
4 votes
too much drama and very little action
When I first heard about this movie I was expecting a movie about a counterfeit operation with the drama of the jews in the background, however what I get is a movie with too much artificial drama with a counterfeit operation in the background. Unlike in the movies like Schiendler's List or The Pianist, the drama of the holocaust seems artificial to me, it is as if the director tries to appologize for the past instead of showing the reality as it is. For example a nazi officer introducing his wife and children to a Jewish prisinor is very far from reality. That scene seems to be added just to show that Nazi officers were also ordinary people with children and families but still they committed these terrible crimes. Or a prisinor tells in every opportunity that he is a honest citizen. The director tries to say us that OK I show a criminal jew as the main character but not every jew is like that. As I said previously in Schienler's List or The Pianist we can understand all these things ourselves or there are also good Germans etc. However in this movie the director forces us to understand the drama of the Holocaust that it becomes irritating and the main plot of counterfeit operation goes to the background.
THE COUNTERFEITERS
4 votes
too much drama and very little action
When I first heard about this movie I was expecting a movie about a counterfeit operation with the drama of the jews in the background, however what I get is a movie with too much artificial drama with a counterfeit operation in the background. Unlike in the movies like Schiendler's List or The Pianist, the drama of the holocaust seems artificial to me, it is as if the director tries to appologize for the past instead of showing the reality as it is. For example a nazi officer introducing his wife and children to a Jewish prisinor is very far from reality. That scene seems to be added just to show that Nazi officers were also ordinary people with children and families but still they committed these terrible crimes. Or a prisinor tells in every opportunity that he is a honest citizen. The director tries to say us that OK I show a criminal jew as the main character but not every jew is like that. As I said previously in Schienler's List or The Pianist we can understand all these things ourselves or there are also good Germans etc. However in this movie the director forces us to understand the drama of the Holocaust that it becomes irritating and the main plot of counterfeit operation goes to the background.
THE COUNTERFEITERS
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#25tie 51pts
5 votes
I Hated This Film for political, moral and aesthetic reasons
I hated this film - mostly for political reasons, but also for moral and aesthetic reasons. Politically, this film glorified war and military technology - blowing things up real good. We are led to cheer as the music swells and the Afghans use our weapons to blow the Ruskies to bits. And no U.S. soldiers put their lives on the line - so it's a fun war. Aesthetically, there isn't a touch of real human emotion in the film, just smug, privileged people being sarcastic, feeling superior, and doing whatever they want regardless of the consequences. And speaking of consequences, the film only makes a few small hints at what the arming of the Afghans actually led to. I had read an earlier draft of this script, and it ended on 9/11 - with Charlie Wilson realizing that things had gone horribly wrong. But that wouldn't leave the audience feeling good. This is a feel good movie about killing Ruskies. And it made me sick.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
5 votes
I Hated This Film for political, moral and aesthetic reasons
I hated this film - mostly for political reasons, but also for moral and aesthetic reasons. Politically, this film glorified war and military technology - blowing things up real good. We are led to cheer as the music swells and the Afghans use our weapons to blow the Ruskies to bits. And no U.S. soldiers put their lives on the line - so it's a fun war. Aesthetically, there isn't a touch of real human emotion in the film, just smug, privileged people being sarcastic, feeling superior, and doing whatever they want regardless of the consequences. And speaking of consequences, the film only makes a few small hints at what the arming of the Afghans actually led to. I had read an earlier draft of this script, and it ended on 9/11 - with Charlie Wilson realizing that things had gone horribly wrong. But that wouldn't leave the audience feeling good. This is a feel good movie about killing Ruskies. And it made me sick.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#24 52pts
4 votes
Hollywood director watches Fargo and learns how to emulate interesting cinema without actually making an interesting movie
Preposterous from start to finish.
The whole plot turns on the assumption that everyone in the town is prepared to collude in the delusion of the central character. And that means everyone - not one mouthy teenager, not one red-neck, gun-happy crack addict, not one ultra- conservative middle American bible-belt god botherer dares to rocks the boat. It's all just a little too convenient.
This is an American fantasy about a cozy, community-spirited, love-thy-neighbor small town America that simply doesn't exist. And I'm sure I'm not the first person to suggest that the doll gave the most convincing performance in the entire movie. Utter garbage.
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
4 votes
Hollywood director watches Fargo and learns how to emulate interesting cinema without actually making an interesting movie
Preposterous from start to finish.
The whole plot turns on the assumption that everyone in the town is prepared to collude in the delusion of the central character. And that means everyone - not one mouthy teenager, not one red-neck, gun-happy crack addict, not one ultra- conservative middle American bible-belt god botherer dares to rocks the boat. It's all just a little too convenient.
This is an American fantasy about a cozy, community-spirited, love-thy-neighbor small town America that simply doesn't exist. And I'm sure I'm not the first person to suggest that the doll gave the most convincing performance in the entire movie. Utter garbage.
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#23 55pts
3 votes
Pathetic
This film has four good things in it: protagonists breast; last antagonist; visual aesthetics of the last place; the end credits.
The rest is made of idiocy in style of Blair Witch Project: endless brainless (they even managed to ruin this aspect of undead flicks) screaming; worthless story, a scenario without the presence of intellect; this fictional operator without any ability to hold the camera straight and without the ability to film (which is illogical - having in mind his profession), tons of factual errors (one on top of another - idiocy over the stupidity and vice-versa), etc.
The film has no good story, no intellect in script, no good characters and no good acting. It is a lame pseudo-documental material, which wants to create terror using this approach (think of tag line: "Inspired by true events"), but merely creates a nightmare and lunacy and in this case it IS NOT a compliment! Cinema should be a form of art, not the pseudo-realistic regurgitation of surprisingly weakly constructed reality.
1/10 and only for those four good things.
[REC]
3 votes
Pathetic
This film has four good things in it: protagonists breast; last antagonist; visual aesthetics of the last place; the end credits.
The rest is made of idiocy in style of Blair Witch Project: endless brainless (they even managed to ruin this aspect of undead flicks) screaming; worthless story, a scenario without the presence of intellect; this fictional operator without any ability to hold the camera straight and without the ability to film (which is illogical - having in mind his profession), tons of factual errors (one on top of another - idiocy over the stupidity and vice-versa), etc.
The film has no good story, no intellect in script, no good characters and no good acting. It is a lame pseudo-documental material, which wants to create terror using this approach (think of tag line: "Inspired by true events"), but merely creates a nightmare and lunacy and in this case it IS NOT a compliment! Cinema should be a form of art, not the pseudo-realistic regurgitation of surprisingly weakly constructed reality.
1/10 and only for those four good things.
[REC]
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#21tie 60pts
3 votes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix rolling around in its grave
It was by far the most disappointing movie-related experience of my life. I wouldn't even go as far as saying that this film was movie based. It was, perhaps, inspired by a book, who knows.
The storyline is rushed and empty. They cut off everything relevant to the plot, and leave everything that's due to impress those who have not read the books in.
They INVENT passages, just to fit in some of the extremely over the top special effects they want to impress us with. That's just underestimating the public.
Not only did they cut many great stuff out, they changed almost every scene. It was like they were trying to show things you get the feeling of after reading the whole book in about thirty seconds, so they had to do it super-obvious for it to show. Most scenes felt ridiculous, over the top and childish.
And, the plot being so rushed, you can't get inside the story, not even remotely in the same way as with the books. I felt like a million miles away, and left the cinema utterly disappointed.
Sure, they made tons of money, but at the cost of murdering a great book, a book in which the Harry Potter series goes from being great, interesting, kids novels about a boy with magical powers, to be an excellent series for all ages, that sure, dwells on the topic of magic, but that is also about human relationships, the characters' personalities, and teenagers' feelings. The book with more character development in the series, and you barely get to hear their names. Absolutely NO character development, but oh sure, they find time for all those irrelevant passages with a shot at winning them a prize for special effects.
Dumbledore's character, again, immensely disappointing, but that we are used to by now. You don't even get the glimpse of the absolutely calm, cold-headed and love-is-the-most-important-magic-of-all Dumbledore. Michael Gambon should read the books ASAP if he wants to continue portraying this magnificent character.
The only plus of this movie is the casting, which I thought was excellent. Luna was absolutely amazing, everything I had imagined and expected. Bellatrix was also pretty good, and Daniel was surprising. There are a couple of scenes that left me awe-struck.
Overall, I would say that calling this movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is false advertising.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
3 votes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix rolling around in its grave
It was by far the most disappointing movie-related experience of my life. I wouldn't even go as far as saying that this film was movie based. It was, perhaps, inspired by a book, who knows.
The storyline is rushed and empty. They cut off everything relevant to the plot, and leave everything that's due to impress those who have not read the books in.
They INVENT passages, just to fit in some of the extremely over the top special effects they want to impress us with. That's just underestimating the public.
Not only did they cut many great stuff out, they changed almost every scene. It was like they were trying to show things you get the feeling of after reading the whole book in about thirty seconds, so they had to do it super-obvious for it to show. Most scenes felt ridiculous, over the top and childish.
And, the plot being so rushed, you can't get inside the story, not even remotely in the same way as with the books. I felt like a million miles away, and left the cinema utterly disappointed.
Sure, they made tons of money, but at the cost of murdering a great book, a book in which the Harry Potter series goes from being great, interesting, kids novels about a boy with magical powers, to be an excellent series for all ages, that sure, dwells on the topic of magic, but that is also about human relationships, the characters' personalities, and teenagers' feelings. The book with more character development in the series, and you barely get to hear their names. Absolutely NO character development, but oh sure, they find time for all those irrelevant passages with a shot at winning them a prize for special effects.
Dumbledore's character, again, immensely disappointing, but that we are used to by now. You don't even get the glimpse of the absolutely calm, cold-headed and love-is-the-most-important-magic-of-all Dumbledore. Michael Gambon should read the books ASAP if he wants to continue portraying this magnificent character.
The only plus of this movie is the casting, which I thought was excellent. Luna was absolutely amazing, everything I had imagined and expected. Bellatrix was also pretty good, and Daniel was surprising. There are a couple of scenes that left me awe-struck.
Overall, I would say that calling this movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is false advertising.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#21tie 60pts
4votes
This movie is a wreck
Pros:
1.) Great acting.
Cons:
1.) Annoying (and redundant) flashbacks. 2.) Pointless, excessive nudity. 3.) Sloooow pacing. This is a painfully, excessively long film for so little going on. 4.) Linear plot (filled with stupid characters doing stupid things and then being shocked when it all doesn't work out.) 5.)Nobody (and i mean, nobody) to sympathize with. 6.) Who? What? Where? Wait, so she's with him, but seeing him, and he wants what? From who? Can you say convoluted? 7.) This may be the most excessively dreary film ever made. Apparently life is full of nothing but pain and there is no one (and i mean no one) you can count on... ever... no, seriously.
1 out of 8 is not so... i can't even say it. Just don't see this film, please.
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
4votes
This movie is a wreck
Pros:
1.) Great acting.
Cons:
1.) Annoying (and redundant) flashbacks. 2.) Pointless, excessive nudity. 3.) Sloooow pacing. This is a painfully, excessively long film for so little going on. 4.) Linear plot (filled with stupid characters doing stupid things and then being shocked when it all doesn't work out.) 5.)Nobody (and i mean, nobody) to sympathize with. 6.) Who? What? Where? Wait, so she's with him, but seeing him, and he wants what? From who? Can you say convoluted? 7.) This may be the most excessively dreary film ever made. Apparently life is full of nothing but pain and there is no one (and i mean no one) you can count on... ever... no, seriously.
1 out of 8 is not so... i can't even say it. Just don't see this film, please.
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#20 65pts
6 votes
Worst movie I have seen in a long time.
I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that was so bad. The ethnic nostalgia of immigrants, which in some way is well achieved (food, music, family, etc), is so strongly associated to mafia, corruption and outlaws that it reinforces racist, intolerant and denigrating stereotypes (i.e. the Greek Weeding revived this nostalgia in a completely different and positive way). The gory parts of the movie are sadistic, tasteless, and overall unnecessary. Performances are good, but the fact that Viggo (despite the fact that he is such a good looking man) is trying so hard to get away from Lord Aragorn roll, is not helping him, in this roll he keeps many qualities of the King of Middle earth: a man of few words, expressive gestures that make up for the few words, calm, never rash.... where is the change? Who is this actor that has been unable to find a decent roll after the trilogy? The movie does not bring anything good or some refreshing point of view to a topic treated endless times in many excellent movies (start with the Godfather) and in exchange for that you have to put up with the most disgusting machismo, bully, and bloody scenes (with no point). Stay away from this one!
EASTERN PROMISES
6 votes
Worst movie I have seen in a long time.
I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that was so bad. The ethnic nostalgia of immigrants, which in some way is well achieved (food, music, family, etc), is so strongly associated to mafia, corruption and outlaws that it reinforces racist, intolerant and denigrating stereotypes (i.e. the Greek Weeding revived this nostalgia in a completely different and positive way). The gory parts of the movie are sadistic, tasteless, and overall unnecessary. Performances are good, but the fact that Viggo (despite the fact that he is such a good looking man) is trying so hard to get away from Lord Aragorn roll, is not helping him, in this roll he keeps many qualities of the King of Middle earth: a man of few words, expressive gestures that make up for the few words, calm, never rash.... where is the change? Who is this actor that has been unable to find a decent roll after the trilogy? The movie does not bring anything good or some refreshing point of view to a topic treated endless times in many excellent movies (start with the Godfather) and in exchange for that you have to put up with the most disgusting machismo, bully, and bloody scenes (with no point). Stay away from this one!
EASTERN PROMISES
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#19 66pts
7 votes
What an idiot!
This film is a 1...at best. I will never, not ever, get the time back that I wasted watching this dreadful film. I am completely perplexed as to how this movie scored an 8?! I can only assume that no one else saw the film that I saw. Coming from Sean Penn, I should have known it would be filled with left-wing, anti-government bulls#!t. To be frank, the film is nothing more than the ******* love-child of Dead Poets Society and Grizzly Adams...except suckier.
Christoper McCandless was not only a misguided, self-absorbed, self-indulgent youth, he IS the ultimate idiot. There isn't a single quality to admire about him, with the exception of his generous donation to charity. An action, I would suspect this misanthrope made with the sole purpose of pi$$ing his parents off. Simply put, this film is the "whoa as me" tale of a rich, spoiled, young man who was TOO determined to prove that the apple sometimes does fall far from the tree. He is completely undeserving of the accolades or screen time he managed to eek out of Hollywood.
His "quest" for the ultimate human experience cost him his life...and to gain what? I mean, seriously, what it the point of this movie?? It really only leaves questions, for which there are no answers. Most notably, how can anyone...especially someone as educated as he was...thrust himself into the Alaskan wilderness (one of the most remote places on the planet) without doing a little research?? Congratulations Emory, you taught the boy well!!
Seriously, all of you who gave this movie higher than a 3, would you really put yourself in the position that he put himself? Would you not have spent some time in Alaska, maybe worked a job to acclimate yourself to the land? Would you not have gotten a little advice, perhaps taken a guided tour and survival courses? Would you not have learned about weather patterns and considered that after crossing a river before the summer thaw meant that you wouldn't be able to cross it when the snow began to melt??
No, this yahoo simply asks someone to drive him to the end of the road and drop him off on a trail. Smart buddy! The countdown on your life just began. In truth, Chris McCandless committed suicide and Hollywood pathetically glorified it.
Yeah, yeah, I realize he had "books" to help him out. Yet, we find out in the end what good they did him. I guess Tolstoy doesn't offer much in the way of how to preserve a moose. Any rational person would have realized they were in trouble months before this guy. "Hmm...I keep taking notches up on my belt. I am eating every day...nothing but lean protein..but still, I am eating. Yet, I have managed to lose 60 pounds. Gosh, I wonder if something is wrong??"
The only redeeming quality of this film is that it does manage to remind us that Mother Nature will always be there to strike you down when you begin to get a little too righteous for her taste. Or, in this case, she will leave you to die, alone, in the shell of an old school bus, surrounded by the philosophical b.s. that put you there in the first place, wasted away in a pool of your own feces.
INTO THE WILD
7 votes
What an idiot!
This film is a 1...at best. I will never, not ever, get the time back that I wasted watching this dreadful film. I am completely perplexed as to how this movie scored an 8?! I can only assume that no one else saw the film that I saw. Coming from Sean Penn, I should have known it would be filled with left-wing, anti-government bulls#!t. To be frank, the film is nothing more than the ******* love-child of Dead Poets Society and Grizzly Adams...except suckier.
Christoper McCandless was not only a misguided, self-absorbed, self-indulgent youth, he IS the ultimate idiot. There isn't a single quality to admire about him, with the exception of his generous donation to charity. An action, I would suspect this misanthrope made with the sole purpose of pi$$ing his parents off. Simply put, this film is the "whoa as me" tale of a rich, spoiled, young man who was TOO determined to prove that the apple sometimes does fall far from the tree. He is completely undeserving of the accolades or screen time he managed to eek out of Hollywood.
His "quest" for the ultimate human experience cost him his life...and to gain what? I mean, seriously, what it the point of this movie?? It really only leaves questions, for which there are no answers. Most notably, how can anyone...especially someone as educated as he was...thrust himself into the Alaskan wilderness (one of the most remote places on the planet) without doing a little research?? Congratulations Emory, you taught the boy well!!
Seriously, all of you who gave this movie higher than a 3, would you really put yourself in the position that he put himself? Would you not have spent some time in Alaska, maybe worked a job to acclimate yourself to the land? Would you not have gotten a little advice, perhaps taken a guided tour and survival courses? Would you not have learned about weather patterns and considered that after crossing a river before the summer thaw meant that you wouldn't be able to cross it when the snow began to melt??
No, this yahoo simply asks someone to drive him to the end of the road and drop him off on a trail. Smart buddy! The countdown on your life just began. In truth, Chris McCandless committed suicide and Hollywood pathetically glorified it.
Yeah, yeah, I realize he had "books" to help him out. Yet, we find out in the end what good they did him. I guess Tolstoy doesn't offer much in the way of how to preserve a moose. Any rational person would have realized they were in trouble months before this guy. "Hmm...I keep taking notches up on my belt. I am eating every day...nothing but lean protein..but still, I am eating. Yet, I have managed to lose 60 pounds. Gosh, I wonder if something is wrong??"
The only redeeming quality of this film is that it does manage to remind us that Mother Nature will always be there to strike you down when you begin to get a little too righteous for her taste. Or, in this case, she will leave you to die, alone, in the shell of an old school bus, surrounded by the philosophical b.s. that put you there in the first place, wasted away in a pool of your own feces.
INTO THE WILD
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#17tie 67pts
6 votes
Bad Baby Bad
Where do I begin? I read several positive reviews about this film that made it sound interesting and poignant. It was apparently meant to be a film about dilemma that was primarily designed to make the viewer reflex on its message and think about their' own moral decision making. What would you do, type of thing. By the time the moral of the story came – I no longer cared. The film was a huge disappointment. First of all, the story is confusing and disjointed. Ben Affleck directs like he acts – like a teenager with A.D.D. The characters were uninteresting, unmotivated and miscast. Casey Affleck (Patrick Kenzie) as a private eye looks more like Dookie Howser than Mike Hammer. He tries so hard to master the Boston accent that he is difficult to understand - not that he has anything interesting to say. So little time is spent on character development that the viewer doesn't really care about who any of these people are or what happens to them. Michelle Monaghan literally sleep walks through her role as Affleck's girlfriend and partner, muttering a few phrases occasionally so you won't mistake her for a mannequin, but so uninspired that one wonders who she was cozy with to get the role. (I think you can all figure out how Casey Affleck got the lead role). Ed Harris, who is a good actor, does his best with the uninspired dialogue but his efforts are wasted on a part that no one could have saved. Most disappointing of all is Morgan Freemen's role as Jack Doyle. Morgan appears as an aging police official – who looks to be about 80 – who for some reason "lost" a 12 year old daughter. OK, that's possible, but improbable. While his name appears prominently in the advertisements for this debacle, Freeman's character shows up in about 5 minutes of the actual film. In conclusion, the acting is second rate, the characters inadequately developed and the story poorly told. Gone Baby Gone should have been titled Bad Baby Bad –it stunk.
GONE BABY GONE
6 votes
Bad Baby Bad
Where do I begin? I read several positive reviews about this film that made it sound interesting and poignant. It was apparently meant to be a film about dilemma that was primarily designed to make the viewer reflex on its message and think about their' own moral decision making. What would you do, type of thing. By the time the moral of the story came – I no longer cared. The film was a huge disappointment. First of all, the story is confusing and disjointed. Ben Affleck directs like he acts – like a teenager with A.D.D. The characters were uninteresting, unmotivated and miscast. Casey Affleck (Patrick Kenzie) as a private eye looks more like Dookie Howser than Mike Hammer. He tries so hard to master the Boston accent that he is difficult to understand - not that he has anything interesting to say. So little time is spent on character development that the viewer doesn't really care about who any of these people are or what happens to them. Michelle Monaghan literally sleep walks through her role as Affleck's girlfriend and partner, muttering a few phrases occasionally so you won't mistake her for a mannequin, but so uninspired that one wonders who she was cozy with to get the role. (I think you can all figure out how Casey Affleck got the lead role). Ed Harris, who is a good actor, does his best with the uninspired dialogue but his efforts are wasted on a part that no one could have saved. Most disappointing of all is Morgan Freemen's role as Jack Doyle. Morgan appears as an aging police official – who looks to be about 80 – who for some reason "lost" a 12 year old daughter. OK, that's possible, but improbable. While his name appears prominently in the advertisements for this debacle, Freeman's character shows up in about 5 minutes of the actual film. In conclusion, the acting is second rate, the characters inadequately developed and the story poorly told. Gone Baby Gone should have been titled Bad Baby Bad –it stunk.
GONE BABY GONE
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#17tie 67pts
4 votes
Worst Musical Ever...just might be.
Let's start off, I have no experience with Sweeney Todd at all before this sham of a movie. And, judging by how awful the movie was, I'm glad I didn't. From what I've heard, the musical kills this movie, and I would agree with anyone that says that, despite the fact I've never seen the musical but anyway.
This review is simple. What makes a musical a musical? Good music.
What does Sweeney Todd have? The worst music I've ever heard in a musical. Besides the singing in this movie, which was embarrassing to hear. The music was completely atrocious. Couple that with a plot that tries it's hardest to be depressing and morbid but fails miserably. Throw in a bunch of obviously fake blood and by a bunch I mean a lot of fake blood. And you get Sweeney Todd!
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
4 votes
Worst Musical Ever...just might be.
Let's start off, I have no experience with Sweeney Todd at all before this sham of a movie. And, judging by how awful the movie was, I'm glad I didn't. From what I've heard, the musical kills this movie, and I would agree with anyone that says that, despite the fact I've never seen the musical but anyway.
This review is simple. What makes a musical a musical? Good music.
What does Sweeney Todd have? The worst music I've ever heard in a musical. Besides the singing in this movie, which was embarrassing to hear. The music was completely atrocious. Couple that with a plot that tries it's hardest to be depressing and morbid but fails miserably. Throw in a bunch of obviously fake blood and by a bunch I mean a lot of fake blood. And you get Sweeney Todd!
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#16 68pts
6 votes
Execrable Formulaic Vapid Dreck
Pure unadulterated trash. A transcendent existentialist cowboy who experiences a moral epiphany while practicing yoga and sipping herbal tea. A cloying, emotionally manipulative movie of the very worst kind; topped off with the requisite sickly, saccharine sweet 'giddy-up horsey' ending.
The script was littered with modern-day idioms and, for a period western, it was cringingly ridiculous. So many glaring anomalies: our one-legged hero, fitted with what must have been a crude, artificial limb, having the speed and agility in dragging his prisoner across rooftops, leaping from building to building, dodging bullets meant for him, but conjoined to his captive like a Siamese twin. Seriously, this one-legged superhero was so spry he'd qualify to enter the 200-metre hurdle event at next year's Olympic Games. Right 'down' there with The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption. Meant to entertain the undiscerning, uncritical, gullible, and vacuous movie-goer. Junk heaped upon junk.
3:10 TO YUMA
6 votes
Execrable Formulaic Vapid Dreck
Pure unadulterated trash. A transcendent existentialist cowboy who experiences a moral epiphany while practicing yoga and sipping herbal tea. A cloying, emotionally manipulative movie of the very worst kind; topped off with the requisite sickly, saccharine sweet 'giddy-up horsey' ending.
The script was littered with modern-day idioms and, for a period western, it was cringingly ridiculous. So many glaring anomalies: our one-legged hero, fitted with what must have been a crude, artificial limb, having the speed and agility in dragging his prisoner across rooftops, leaping from building to building, dodging bullets meant for him, but conjoined to his captive like a Siamese twin. Seriously, this one-legged superhero was so spry he'd qualify to enter the 200-metre hurdle event at next year's Olympic Games. Right 'down' there with The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption. Meant to entertain the undiscerning, uncritical, gullible, and vacuous movie-goer. Junk heaped upon junk.
3:10 TO YUMA
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#14tie 72 pts
3 votes
terrible historical movie
First of all, a historical movie should be based on the historical fact of a person and his or her true experiences; unless you want to go for Harry Potter, a total fantasy movie. You can bull#### whatever you want. You can't shoot Amrican Navy was attached Philiphine in "Pearl Harbor". That's totally wrong.
There are 6 serious mistakes in this movie.
1. Temujin went to HONGHIRAT to meet his arranged wife Borte. Not by accidentally meeting Borte in nowhere in grass land.
2. On the way back to his own tribe, Khyan, Temugin's father Esugai was poisoned by the Tartar tribe, not the so called enemy, Merkit.
3. Temujin was arrested in Talihutai when he was 13; not when he was a rough-looking 40 year old man.
4. He was attacked by Jamuhe in 13-wings Battle including 13 tribes such as Kelai and Merkit.
5. Temujin had never been arrested and sold as slave by Jamuhe or by the Jin dynasty. The Nuchin tribe occupied China during late 12th century AD to late 13th century AD.
6. Temujin arrested Jamuhe after he attacked Naiman, a tribe that dominated northwest China. Jamuhe was arrested by his slaves and was hanged to death at his request.
There are several custom and language mistakes in this movie. The most significant are: 1. Temujin's hairstyle is wrong.
2. Tribe Merkit did not wear masks.
3. People did not speak Chinese during the Nuchin occupation. They spoke the Nuchin language.
4. Temujin's second son was named Chagatai. He never had an adopted son.
5. Temujin was afraid of thunder and lightning as well as any other Mongol. This notion can be viewed in his Great Jasa code.
MONGOL: THE RISE OF GENGHIS KAHN
3 votes
terrible historical movie
First of all, a historical movie should be based on the historical fact of a person and his or her true experiences; unless you want to go for Harry Potter, a total fantasy movie. You can bull#### whatever you want. You can't shoot Amrican Navy was attached Philiphine in "Pearl Harbor". That's totally wrong.
There are 6 serious mistakes in this movie.
1. Temujin went to HONGHIRAT to meet his arranged wife Borte. Not by accidentally meeting Borte in nowhere in grass land.
2. On the way back to his own tribe, Khyan, Temugin's father Esugai was poisoned by the Tartar tribe, not the so called enemy, Merkit.
3. Temujin was arrested in Talihutai when he was 13; not when he was a rough-looking 40 year old man.
4. He was attacked by Jamuhe in 13-wings Battle including 13 tribes such as Kelai and Merkit.
5. Temujin had never been arrested and sold as slave by Jamuhe or by the Jin dynasty. The Nuchin tribe occupied China during late 12th century AD to late 13th century AD.
6. Temujin arrested Jamuhe after he attacked Naiman, a tribe that dominated northwest China. Jamuhe was arrested by his slaves and was hanged to death at his request.
There are several custom and language mistakes in this movie. The most significant are: 1. Temujin's hairstyle is wrong.
2. Tribe Merkit did not wear masks.
3. People did not speak Chinese during the Nuchin occupation. They spoke the Nuchin language.
4. Temujin's second son was named Chagatai. He never had an adopted son.
5. Temujin was afraid of thunder and lightning as well as any other Mongol. This notion can be viewed in his Great Jasa code.
MONGOL: THE RISE OF GENGHIS KAHN
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Dude, it's a ####in' movie!
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#14tie 72pts
7 votes
I want to hit the director with a tripod.
In every shot of this film the camera was jiggling around. Every shot! With the possible exception of a scene borrowed from the previous film.
On top of this, there were a lot of shots which were not very well focused. Since cameras automatically focus these days, they must have gone to quite an effort to film in this style.
In the action sequences, each camera shot lasts maybe 2 seconds maximum. The upshot is that every time there is an action shot you get half a second of out-of-focusness, then the shot gets brought into focus but the cameraman is jumping about (they must have got very fit filming this) so you get a vague impression of a person moving, and then on to the next shot - and it's out of focus again. Most of the major action sequences did not spend enough time looking at important events to let the audience realise what was happening. Very hard to follow! In a good film the audience should be totally absorbed in the story, at no point should they be aware of what the cameraman is doing. This film, you have to make an effort to get past the camera-work to figure out what is happening.
If the director had used a more traditional filming method my rating would be about 5 stars higher. The plot seemed to follow on along the same line as the previous films, Matt Damon got to hit people: good solid action movie stuff.
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
7 votes
I want to hit the director with a tripod.
In every shot of this film the camera was jiggling around. Every shot! With the possible exception of a scene borrowed from the previous film.
On top of this, there were a lot of shots which were not very well focused. Since cameras automatically focus these days, they must have gone to quite an effort to film in this style.
In the action sequences, each camera shot lasts maybe 2 seconds maximum. The upshot is that every time there is an action shot you get half a second of out-of-focusness, then the shot gets brought into focus but the cameraman is jumping about (they must have got very fit filming this) so you get a vague impression of a person moving, and then on to the next shot - and it's out of focus again. Most of the major action sequences did not spend enough time looking at important events to let the audience realise what was happening. Very hard to follow! In a good film the audience should be totally absorbed in the story, at no point should they be aware of what the cameraman is doing. This film, you have to make an effort to get past the camera-work to figure out what is happening.
If the director had used a more traditional filming method my rating would be about 5 stars higher. The plot seemed to follow on along the same line as the previous films, Matt Damon got to hit people: good solid action movie stuff.
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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Footballguy
#13 73pts
5 votes
so pretentious and derivative it should be funny
The pretentiousness kicks off with the title - criminals are not assassinated. All the affectation of a Terence Malick's "Days of Heaven" w/o the art - interesting b/c Sam Shepard was in both "Days of Heaven" and this clunker. Horrible acting; everyone except Shepard is trying to act like they are in an art film - arch without any presence. Shiitake mushrooms have more presence and are considerably less annoying than Casey Affleck. The cinematography is anti-Malick - instead of sweeping, beautifully exposed wide angles there are mid ranges with vignetting added to give it some artsy look and to make up for the bad exposure of many of the shots. It doesn't work. I can't remember when I saw a more pretentious piece of boring film.
What happens when you give a bad film student with a Terence Malick obsession a bunch of money? This "film"
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
5 votes
so pretentious and derivative it should be funny
The pretentiousness kicks off with the title - criminals are not assassinated. All the affectation of a Terence Malick's "Days of Heaven" w/o the art - interesting b/c Sam Shepard was in both "Days of Heaven" and this clunker. Horrible acting; everyone except Shepard is trying to act like they are in an art film - arch without any presence. Shiitake mushrooms have more presence and are considerably less annoying than Casey Affleck. The cinematography is anti-Malick - instead of sweeping, beautifully exposed wide angles there are mid ranges with vignetting added to give it some artsy look and to make up for the bad exposure of many of the shots. It doesn't work. I can't remember when I saw a more pretentious piece of boring film.
What happens when you give a bad film student with a Terence Malick obsession a bunch of money? This "film"
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#12 85pts
5 votes
A guy with bad music meets a girl who likes his bad music and then they proceed to make bad music together while said bad music heralds in their poorly drawn existence.
Am I missing something? The average rating of this flaming pile is really 8.1 stars?? Are we so far gone, so fully entrenched in mass excrescence that we don't know what to do when a different film comes around? Saying you like this is like saying you like eating Tuna Sandwiches without mayonnaise and hunks of celery in the mix!! Why? Why? Why? And I'm a vegetarian! The music was atrocious, and to make things even more problematic on the ear, it was played every ten seconds. Anyone ever actually listen to the lyrics? Unbelievable how far we have fallen. And, for the record, I do not 'not' like this because it is truly independent in its format and its style. That, in fact, was the only thing that saved it from being rated as 0 Stars as opposed to one (that and the fact that zero stars is not possible). I have no problem with people liking what they like, but I find it hard to believe that this film garnered the same rating as something like Clouzot's "Le Corbeau." I am so saddened by the state of the movie-going world....God help our souls.....
ONCE
5 votes
A guy with bad music meets a girl who likes his bad music and then they proceed to make bad music together while said bad music heralds in their poorly drawn existence.
Am I missing something? The average rating of this flaming pile is really 8.1 stars?? Are we so far gone, so fully entrenched in mass excrescence that we don't know what to do when a different film comes around? Saying you like this is like saying you like eating Tuna Sandwiches without mayonnaise and hunks of celery in the mix!! Why? Why? Why? And I'm a vegetarian! The music was atrocious, and to make things even more problematic on the ear, it was played every ten seconds. Anyone ever actually listen to the lyrics? Unbelievable how far we have fallen. And, for the record, I do not 'not' like this because it is truly independent in its format and its style. That, in fact, was the only thing that saved it from being rated as 0 Stars as opposed to one (that and the fact that zero stars is not possible). I have no problem with people liking what they like, but I find it hard to believe that this film garnered the same rating as something like Clouzot's "Le Corbeau." I am so saddened by the state of the movie-going world....God help our souls.....
ONCE
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#11 92pts
8 votes
Overrated, over-hyped, over and out!
I saw a free screening of American "GAGster" and it was worth every penny. Not that I was expecting much. Ridley Scott hasn't directed anything other than garbage since 1982. (Blade Runner.) Russell Crowe's and Denzel Washington's last good performances were in 1999. (The Insider and Hurricane, respectively.) Still, this was a much bigger mess than anticipated. Crowe's accent can only be described as "Crocodile Dundee Goes to Harlem." And Washington continues to sleepwalk through every role--was he REALLY hypnotized in that awful remake of "The Manchurian Candidate"? And why does Josh Brolin sport a mullet, facial hair, and leisure suit straight out of "Boogie Nights" in 1968? I could go on, but why bother? If this is what passes for a good Hollywood popcorn movie these days, maybe the Writer's Strike isn't such a bad thing.
AMERICAN GANGSTER
8 votes
Overrated, over-hyped, over and out!
I saw a free screening of American "GAGster" and it was worth every penny. Not that I was expecting much. Ridley Scott hasn't directed anything other than garbage since 1982. (Blade Runner.) Russell Crowe's and Denzel Washington's last good performances were in 1999. (The Insider and Hurricane, respectively.) Still, this was a much bigger mess than anticipated. Crowe's accent can only be described as "Crocodile Dundee Goes to Harlem." And Washington continues to sleepwalk through every role--was he REALLY hypnotized in that awful remake of "The Manchurian Candidate"? And why does Josh Brolin sport a mullet, facial hair, and leisure suit straight out of "Boogie Nights" in 1968? I could go on, but why bother? If this is what passes for a good Hollywood popcorn movie these days, maybe the Writer's Strike isn't such a bad thing.
AMERICAN GANGSTER
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I know I gush over this year, but I have to say that just might be the best top 10 we have had on a countdown yet.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#10 93pts
6 votes
The Pixar dream is over...….
This was by far the worst movie I have seen since Mystic River. And what is most terrible is that everyone thinks its great, were we watching a different film? Were we watching a cut version where all the good bits were removed? This was terrible!
The only redeeming part of this movie was the superb quality of animation which was utterly wasted on a script that has been injected with corny Disney morals. The main characters were so horribly clichéd that I actually began to despise them. And why were all the main characters speaking with American accents in Paris? In one foul swoop this destroyed all the animators efforts to create a feeling of being in France.
But the worst part of this abysmal tragedy of film-making was the fact it just wasn't funny. I think I smirked once during the whole thing. The endless slapstick comedy was just infuriating and even the kids were getting bored and restless after the hundredth time someone fell over.
Pixar have always been very successful at making films that both adults and children can enjoy whereas this film bored the adults and failed to hold the children's interest. It was an utter failure and it worries me that maybe Disney's new influence may end the wonderful Pixar story way before its time.
A sad day for animated film.
RATATOUILLE
6 votes
The Pixar dream is over...….
This was by far the worst movie I have seen since Mystic River. And what is most terrible is that everyone thinks its great, were we watching a different film? Were we watching a cut version where all the good bits were removed? This was terrible!
The only redeeming part of this movie was the superb quality of animation which was utterly wasted on a script that has been injected with corny Disney morals. The main characters were so horribly clichéd that I actually began to despise them. And why were all the main characters speaking with American accents in Paris? In one foul swoop this destroyed all the animators efforts to create a feeling of being in France.
But the worst part of this abysmal tragedy of film-making was the fact it just wasn't funny. I think I smirked once during the whole thing. The endless slapstick comedy was just infuriating and even the kids were getting bored and restless after the hundredth time someone fell over.
Pixar have always been very successful at making films that both adults and children can enjoy whereas this film bored the adults and failed to hold the children's interest. It was an utter failure and it worries me that maybe Disney's new influence may end the wonderful Pixar story way before its time.
A sad day for animated film.
RATATOUILLE
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Footballguy
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Footballguy
#9 104pts
7 votes
Extremely dull film with superb subtitles
I just don't get it, maybe its me, I'm a real film lover / buff whatever you want to call me.
I didn't have a problem with the acting, cast, subtitles or anything like that, i actually thought the subtitles were great, very clear and easy to read, but unfortunately the only part I would give 10/10 for.
I was just so bored with this film, it plodded along to 40 mins where I thought, where exactly is this going, the hour mark I almost stopped the DVD, but i thought no, I've paid £3.95 rental for this I'll stick it out, then the ending came and I was like WTF ? - I just didn't get it, to be honest, maybe thats it, who knows.
I rented this because of the 20+ reviews on play.com saying how amazing this is, I just don't see it, extremely dull imo and i'm being polite.
Maybe Spanish people have extremely simply tastes, I didn't find this one bit scary or see any psychological horror in it either.
Pans labyrinth was much better, rent this one instead.
THE ORPHANAGE
7 votes
Extremely dull film with superb subtitles
I just don't get it, maybe its me, I'm a real film lover / buff whatever you want to call me.
I didn't have a problem with the acting, cast, subtitles or anything like that, i actually thought the subtitles were great, very clear and easy to read, but unfortunately the only part I would give 10/10 for.
I was just so bored with this film, it plodded along to 40 mins where I thought, where exactly is this going, the hour mark I almost stopped the DVD, but i thought no, I've paid £3.95 rental for this I'll stick it out, then the ending came and I was like WTF ? - I just didn't get it, to be honest, maybe thats it, who knows.
I rented this because of the 20+ reviews on play.com saying how amazing this is, I just don't see it, extremely dull imo and i'm being polite.
Maybe Spanish people have extremely simply tastes, I didn't find this one bit scary or see any psychological horror in it either.
Pans labyrinth was much better, rent this one instead.
THE ORPHANAGE
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Footballguy
#7tie 121pts
9 votes
Possibly the most boring movie in the history of the world
This documentary follows the battle (director aims for epic battle, the word which comes to my mind is squabble)to be the greatest Donkey Kong player in the world. It shows the competitive video game world to be populated by boring, vindictive, petty, ego maniacal people, who occasionally - very occasionally - say something to make you laugh, perhaps once it is even on purpose. The reigning champion is quite possibly one of the most cringe worthy people I have ever come across, it would be much better for the world were he merely a character, not an actual member of the human race. The only shining moment in this film is the one line uttered by the contenders daughter.
THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS
9 votes
Possibly the most boring movie in the history of the world
This documentary follows the battle (director aims for epic battle, the word which comes to my mind is squabble)to be the greatest Donkey Kong player in the world. It shows the competitive video game world to be populated by boring, vindictive, petty, ego maniacal people, who occasionally - very occasionally - say something to make you laugh, perhaps once it is even on purpose. The reigning champion is quite possibly one of the most cringe worthy people I have ever come across, it would be much better for the world were he merely a character, not an actual member of the human race. The only shining moment in this film is the one line uttered by the contenders daughter.
THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS
Eephus
Footballguy
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Footballguy
#7tie 121 pts
9 votes
A waste of time
Good heavens! Why was this parade of silliness rated so highly by viewers? If you like camp, this is for you. If you like witty comedy, this is most definitely NOT for you. If you liked Porky's or one of it's jejune zombie clones, you'll love this. But if you are looking for anything above Dumb And Dumber (British version), you will be as disappointed as I was.
It does have some clever puns and word twists, which I consider the best part of this whole disaster – rather like saying, 'Yes, the Titanic sunk, but the stars in the sky were crystal clear.' Compared to His Girl Friday...well, it can't be compared. Though an old movie, it was both witty and well-acted, which Hot Fuzz is not. The ending was predictable; the main character's decision mere sentimentality – and also predictable. I do disagree with one reviewer who called it a "bomb". No, it's a dud.
HOT FUZZ
9 votes
A waste of time
Good heavens! Why was this parade of silliness rated so highly by viewers? If you like camp, this is for you. If you like witty comedy, this is most definitely NOT for you. If you liked Porky's or one of it's jejune zombie clones, you'll love this. But if you are looking for anything above Dumb And Dumber (British version), you will be as disappointed as I was.
It does have some clever puns and word twists, which I consider the best part of this whole disaster – rather like saying, 'Yes, the Titanic sunk, but the stars in the sky were crystal clear.' Compared to His Girl Friday...well, it can't be compared. Though an old movie, it was both witty and well-acted, which Hot Fuzz is not. The ending was predictable; the main character's decision mere sentimentality – and also predictable. I do disagree with one reviewer who called it a "bomb". No, it's a dud.
HOT FUZZ
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
that is an odd choice of comparing Hot Fuzz to His Girl Friday
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#6 147pts
11 votes
Respectfully, This Film Sucked
This was not a good film. Period. Honestly, on my personal rating scale, I would have probably given it about a 3/10. It had its moments here and there. Kind of. However, the hype surrounding this movie and all of the excitement about its poorly written, downright dumb jokes were outrageous. I'm tired of hearing people talk about Superbad. I'm tired of hearing its name compared to good movies. And most of all, I'm tired of people saying it was good because they heard it was. For all you uneducated folks who insist on hyping up this film, that's called "jumping on the bandwagon." Whatever guy of high authority used the words "good" and "Superbad" in the same sentence deserves to be locked in a room for a year with this so called "comedian" Jonah Hill. This movie was the epitome of the word "stupid" in all of its essence. From start to finish I was waiting. Waiting for something that never came: A good joke. Anything that would have let me leave the theater feeling the least bit satisfied. The filmmakers attempted to make a film that we could relate to. "We" being teenagers. Unless you are a dumb brick, you can't relate to this film. Quite simply, they failed in that sense. I mean, are we really this dumb? I beg you, if you wasted your money on a DVD of this film, watch it again, but this time keep this in your mind: This is how adults view us. This is how the world views us. Yes they probably made a bundle off this low budget piece of garbage. But I remind them, I'm still waiting for something that makes me laugh. So I vote they make a new film, maybe start fresh, throw in some guys who are actually funny. How bout NOT Jonah Hill...and let's just steer clear of Seth Rogen, because he isn't funny. "Knocked Up," another mockery of modern film making, was also crap. It's not like I don't have a sense of humor. I love comedies. Want to see a good comedy? Go watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Go see any film by Wes Anderson. Hell, I like the dumb ones too. I highly recommend just about anything with Jim Carrey or Steve Carrel. THOSE are comedians. So please try to avoid watching this if you haven't already been sucked in by all of the hype. Because (I'm sure that I'm not the first person to say this) "Superbad" was simply super bad.
SUPERBAD
11 votes
Respectfully, This Film Sucked
This was not a good film. Period. Honestly, on my personal rating scale, I would have probably given it about a 3/10. It had its moments here and there. Kind of. However, the hype surrounding this movie and all of the excitement about its poorly written, downright dumb jokes were outrageous. I'm tired of hearing people talk about Superbad. I'm tired of hearing its name compared to good movies. And most of all, I'm tired of people saying it was good because they heard it was. For all you uneducated folks who insist on hyping up this film, that's called "jumping on the bandwagon." Whatever guy of high authority used the words "good" and "Superbad" in the same sentence deserves to be locked in a room for a year with this so called "comedian" Jonah Hill. This movie was the epitome of the word "stupid" in all of its essence. From start to finish I was waiting. Waiting for something that never came: A good joke. Anything that would have let me leave the theater feeling the least bit satisfied. The filmmakers attempted to make a film that we could relate to. "We" being teenagers. Unless you are a dumb brick, you can't relate to this film. Quite simply, they failed in that sense. I mean, are we really this dumb? I beg you, if you wasted your money on a DVD of this film, watch it again, but this time keep this in your mind: This is how adults view us. This is how the world views us. Yes they probably made a bundle off this low budget piece of garbage. But I remind them, I'm still waiting for something that makes me laugh. So I vote they make a new film, maybe start fresh, throw in some guys who are actually funny. How bout NOT Jonah Hill...and let's just steer clear of Seth Rogen, because he isn't funny. "Knocked Up," another mockery of modern film making, was also crap. It's not like I don't have a sense of humor. I love comedies. Want to see a good comedy? Go watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Go see any film by Wes Anderson. Hell, I like the dumb ones too. I highly recommend just about anything with Jim Carrey or Steve Carrel. THOSE are comedians. So please try to avoid watching this if you haven't already been sucked in by all of the hype. Because (I'm sure that I'm not the first person to say this) "Superbad" was simply super bad.
SUPERBAD
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Footballguy
#5 156pts
8 votes
Another french melodrama
Its incredible how persistent the French film industry is. Year after year, day after day, they never give up and unleash to the world their new crop of mediocre dramas that impress the pseudo intellectuals.
Here we have a typical melodrama that follows all the typical patterns of melodrama films. That's it. Period.
I have seem people say that this film is one of the best ever made. Please, try watching some serious stuff, like Apocalipse Now, 8 1/2, Spirited Away and 2001 (to restrict myself to obvious masterpieces) before making such ludicrous claims. If one does say that these films are boring or don't make sense, that's only because one failed to understand them. Period.
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
8 votes
Another french melodrama
Its incredible how persistent the French film industry is. Year after year, day after day, they never give up and unleash to the world their new crop of mediocre dramas that impress the pseudo intellectuals.
Here we have a typical melodrama that follows all the typical patterns of melodrama films. That's it. Period.
I have seem people say that this film is one of the best ever made. Please, try watching some serious stuff, like Apocalipse Now, 8 1/2, Spirited Away and 2001 (to restrict myself to obvious masterpieces) before making such ludicrous claims. If one does say that these films are boring or don't make sense, that's only because one failed to understand them. Period.
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Ilov80s
Footballguy
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Footballguy
#4 161pts
12 votes
Admired by the feeble minded, hyped by the spineless
To be honest, this movie deserves more than a one star, but I gave it one star anyways as I see more than what's wrong with this movie but pop culture in general in today's world.
This is a movie that's solely about a man's obsession, to the point of perversion.
The director used a very simple trick. He created a monster that defies all valid social context but somehow thrived and survived against all odds. The movie's minimalistic presentation gives an impression of authenticity and realism, yet you have a character that's unrealistic to a comical extend.
There's this man who hate, distrust and despise everyone, yet he confront them constantly as he wishes to prove and validate something he believes to be non existence to begin with. From there, all manners of confusion and oddity arise. A man who had everything easily obtainable yet often frustrated and angry as if life has been depriving him of opportunities. Talking about not making sense! He's more cynical than the Satan himself. Thank God that he's been occupied by all these oil business. Otherwise, he would make a perfect serial killer.
The first 30 minutes have no dialogs. We are presented with this character that comes off as very little human like, and he persisted to be that way through out the whole film. Once he started talking, he's all of a sudden a man of great persuasion skills, oozes with will power and determination, and some kind of unapologetic charisma. He's an opportunist, cold and calculated. Yet he comes off to be extremely emotional and are set off by the slightest detection of insincerity. When you fuse all these contradictory personalities into one man, you would end up with a Picasso piece, a monstrosity of a character that's devoid of any real human qualities that you can relate to. For those who can't see through all these trickery are easily taken by the bold style and brute force. For me, it's a disaster.
The music is as nonsensical, menacing and crude as the character. It is there to built tension when there's actually little or nothing happening on the screen, just like the scrutinizing cold stare of Daniel Day Lewis, it offends and provokes with little or no reason.
The whole thing may very well work for those who are easily manipulated, as it can be witnessed here. Beyond the facade of cinematic trickeries that feeds off the fear and bewilderment of audience, there's nothing of substance here. Same can be said about "No Country For Old Man". It is a trend of directory style that's heavy on niche trickery, very little on character development. Because they believe that you don't need to understand the character, you just to be overwhelmed by it. It is indeed becoming a trend, spreading at an alarming rate. Before long, the screen will be filled with psychopath with very little human like qualities. I fear the worst, when those characters are to be admired and imitated by the feeble minded, and hyped by the spineless.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
12 votes
Admired by the feeble minded, hyped by the spineless
To be honest, this movie deserves more than a one star, but I gave it one star anyways as I see more than what's wrong with this movie but pop culture in general in today's world.
This is a movie that's solely about a man's obsession, to the point of perversion.
The director used a very simple trick. He created a monster that defies all valid social context but somehow thrived and survived against all odds. The movie's minimalistic presentation gives an impression of authenticity and realism, yet you have a character that's unrealistic to a comical extend.
There's this man who hate, distrust and despise everyone, yet he confront them constantly as he wishes to prove and validate something he believes to be non existence to begin with. From there, all manners of confusion and oddity arise. A man who had everything easily obtainable yet often frustrated and angry as if life has been depriving him of opportunities. Talking about not making sense! He's more cynical than the Satan himself. Thank God that he's been occupied by all these oil business. Otherwise, he would make a perfect serial killer.
The first 30 minutes have no dialogs. We are presented with this character that comes off as very little human like, and he persisted to be that way through out the whole film. Once he started talking, he's all of a sudden a man of great persuasion skills, oozes with will power and determination, and some kind of unapologetic charisma. He's an opportunist, cold and calculated. Yet he comes off to be extremely emotional and are set off by the slightest detection of insincerity. When you fuse all these contradictory personalities into one man, you would end up with a Picasso piece, a monstrosity of a character that's devoid of any real human qualities that you can relate to. For those who can't see through all these trickery are easily taken by the bold style and brute force. For me, it's a disaster.
The music is as nonsensical, menacing and crude as the character. It is there to built tension when there's actually little or nothing happening on the screen, just like the scrutinizing cold stare of Daniel Day Lewis, it offends and provokes with little or no reason.
The whole thing may very well work for those who are easily manipulated, as it can be witnessed here. Beyond the facade of cinematic trickeries that feeds off the fear and bewilderment of audience, there's nothing of substance here. Same can be said about "No Country For Old Man". It is a trend of directory style that's heavy on niche trickery, very little on character development. Because they believe that you don't need to understand the character, you just to be overwhelmed by it. It is indeed becoming a trend, spreading at an alarming rate. Before long, the screen will be filled with psychopath with very little human like qualities. I fear the worst, when those characters are to be admired and imitated by the feeble minded, and hyped by the spineless.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
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