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FFA Movie Poll - 2010 it's countdown Monday! (1 Viewer)

This is easily the most spread out votes have been.  I have 21 lists accounted for, and only 2 movies at 200pts+ and 10 more at 100+.    It's also the most titles I have had listed - if I counted right, it's 116 different titles.  

 
I am sure there are cheesy action and horror movies in foreign languages too.   :P

Seriously though, whenever we get to the year for it - even people who don't like foreign movies should probably still think The Raid: Redemption kicks major ###.  There's really no story, just 90mins of balls out action. 

 
I could only find about 12 I liked :(
@Northern Voice - just so you know for future polls, it's just like your album polls, so you can submit a list of 10-20.  If you have to go lower than 10, you only get 20 x #of movies on your list for max points.  I have been allowing people to submit shorter lists for years they aren't in love with or haven't seen much from.  

 
@Northern Voice - just so you know for future polls, it's just like your album polls, so you can submit a list of 10-20.  If you have to go lower than 10, you only get 20 x #of movies on your list for max points.  I have been allowing people to submit shorter lists for years they aren't in love with or haven't seen much from.  
Yeah, I just didn't think I had enough there to give any sort of informed opinion.

 
20 (classics)  

The Social Network

The Fighter 

Black Swan

15 (great)    

Toy Story 3

Inception

Exit Through the Gift Shop

12 (very good)   

True Grit

The Town

Winters Bone

Certified Copy

Waste Land

7 (good)   

Shutter Island

Restrepo

Incendies

The Kids are Alright

The Kings Speech
 
#25 55pts

In my experience, the prettier a girl is, the more nuts she is... which makes you insane. You're probably nutty coo coo crazy.

Choose a root canal over this one

In outstanding performances, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams bare their emotions and their bodies.

About the second time the Michelle Williams character screams "I can't take it anymore" I couldn't either. No amount of sex on the screen is worth the pain and suffering. No need to hang around for a happy ending as you know there won't be one. Not only that, what makes you think he won't be back for another round of physical and emotional abuse in a sequel?

Speaking of physical abuse, the only time the Gosling character was alone at work, and not surrounded by his big moving company buddies, was when the writers needed him to be alone at work.

The nonlinear story telling got tiresome. It takes you away from where things are in the relationship and back to the happy wedding day way too late to care. At that point it was as meaningless, as the writer forced, liquor store encounter with the old, but important boy friend.

Interesting cinematography, ranging from reflections, to up too close and personal. Rather than a fly on the wall, you feel like a voyeur to a very intimate relationship.

It appears they will market this movie on the cute little dance song on the street and the hot steamy sex. Don't get sucked in. It is dark, painful, and heavy handed. If you don't walk in, you won't have to run out of the theater.

BLUE VALENTINE

 
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#24/#23 TIED with 59pts

Machete sent me a text.

What did it say?

"You just ####ed with the wrong Mexican."

Soooo stupid, Robert Rodriguez has the mind of a 10-year-old.

Here's the deal. Robert Rodriguez is no brilliant director that the world thinks he is. After watching ALL of his films you can tell that this guy has the mind-set of a 10-year-old. He's a complete tool, wearing tight v-neck shirts and probably gets off to pictures of himself. Machete was just what you think it is. A Mexican Rambo who is fighting for immigration rights. But wait this movie is unique because its campy and exploitative.... NO, its corny, thats it, Robert Rodriguez is corny. He has no originality, just the mind of a immature juvenile who loves himself. The movie is a typical action movie with some fun blood effects and boobs, but nothing more. Watch Desperado for Danny Trejo acting in a better character, but lets be honest, even that movie becomes unwatchable after 2/3 the way through. It's just bad filmmaking and people like him will continue to make garbage for the rest of their lives.

Rating = D- ...and i'm being generous

MACHETE

I told you I don't want to join your super-secret boy band.

There's a turd in the punch bowl!!..

Repeat: There's a turd in the punch bowl!

This movie is a microcosm of everything wrong with Hollywood...and, unfortunately, humans in general.

You see, in the most basic terms possible...people are, for the most part, stupid. There are far more of these stupid people on Earth than intelligent ones. So, if you want to sell something to these people, like a movie, you need to dial-down the intelligence level of the product. (In this way, Iron Man 2 succeeds!) For instance, let's say you want to sell a product to a group of Sarah-Palin-backing Tea Baggers. You already know, without ever meeting any of them, that this a group of people who supports a brainless political creation, one who doesn't even belong to the Tea Bagger party! (High intelligence there, eh?!) So if you were to invent a t-shirt with a saying on it, with the intention of selling it to a Tea Bagger...would you create an articulate, detailed argument on the t-shirt...or would you create something that appeals to the lowest common denominator? Would your t-shirt say something smart and factual like "90% of Tea Baggers got a tax cut under Obama!". Or would you just put Obama on the shirt with a Hitler mustache?! Which one is going to sell better? Same thing here with "Iron Man 2". A producer COULD spend $200 Million on something highly intelligent and with some redeeming value -- and sell less tickets -- or that same producer could spend the $200 Million on a bunch of special effects, A-list stars and explosions -- and sell more tickets. So, intelligent people (I'm assuming if you have read this much, you're probably more intelligent than most), we get stuck with these sorry excuses for movies all the time! And I, for one, am sick of it!

IRON MAN 2

 
#22  61pts

You just had your ### handed to you by a #######ed retiree.

RED = Really Extremely Disappointing....

What a disappointment! I still try to wrap my head around the fact that a director (Robert Schwentke) who has great actors like Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren and a sufficient budget at his disposal is able to produce such an utterly crap..Pardon my french!! So what went wrong? I dare to say almost everything: Stiff and lifeless acting, lame jokes and a horrible soundtrack. If you watched the trailer then you have already seen the best parts! I highly doubt that anyone with a brain is able to enjoy the story let alone the whole movie. Directing a movie isn't an easy thing to do and that is one of the reasons why there are only a few people on this planet who are able to master this craft. Clearly Robert Schwentke isn't one of them!

RED

 
#21 62pts

The taxidermist is stuffing my mother.

Awful, Crass and Not Even Funny

I am sorry for all those who have rated this highly. What did you enjoy? The plot was predictable, the humor sporadic and mostly exploiting boorish 21 - 35 year old male immaturity. Boy, I see enough of that in real life and indulged in some myself at that age. I really don't see how crass sexual innuendo with overworked lewdness is so appealing. Now, I enjoyed hangover a lot, so I don't have a problem with the genre, or the childish jokes, but this was different. If you haven't seen it, the plot predictably has the 4 protagonists going back in time to the 80s and examines the incidents that made them what they are today, giving them opportunities to change history a sort of Back to the Future meets Knocked Up. Unfortunately I enjoyed Knocked Up! Perhaps I am getting old!

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

 
You will rarely if ever see a movie like Blue Valentine on my list. Way too depressing.  Real life has enough of that ####, not what I watch movies for.

That being said, I get why people enjoy those movies...just not my bag.

 
You will rarely if ever see a movie like Blue Valentine on my list. Way too depressing.  Real life has enough of that ####, not what I watch movies for.

That being said, I get why people enjoy those movies...just not my bag.
Glad to see it snuck into the countdown.  I love depressing films if they're done well and I think this one was---the two leads in BV were fantastic.

 
#20 65pts

You know, I've been thinking. Everything is... just comes together. It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this. This rock... this rock has been waiting for me my entire life.

Stupid guy, stupid story, stupid movie

What a waste of my time. Making a movie about an arrogant ##### going off on his own to become an even bigger #####. How about a movie that doesn't try to convince me of this. Too many fictional events added to make the story more titillating.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to have to go through what Aron did, however I am not such an egomaniac to allow myself to be in that situation. As an avid climber and mountaineer, I first learned to never go off on your own. I cannot believe I wasted two hours of my life watching this drivel.

I do not understand those of you who say you've walked away with a deeper understanding of life, felt inspired or have emotional clarity from this movie. Pathetic and sad. Let's stop glorifying idiots, okay?

127 HOURS 

 
#19 69pts

People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

Worst movie I have ever seen

Ingredients: 5% 'borrow' world elements from Fallout + 5% fighting with lots of gore + 10% illogical plot + 80% inconsistent religious propaganda = 100% crap

If you expected a fallout-like movie you are in for a big disappointment: Any kind of logic is missing. e.g. Where does the food come from? Also the movie both insist people to be traveling and not to be traveling all the time.

If you enjoy religious propaganda movies you are in for big disappointment: The messiah in this movie helps his neighbor only when he feels like it and kills when he feels like it. Then again there seem to be lots of people who get this kind of story out of the bible. (The other cheek? What other cheek? Kill 'em all!)

And finally the guy is claiming to wander eastwards for 30 years straight. Let's assume he walked 30 years, 50 weeks a year, 5 days a week and 4 hours a day at 5km/h

30 * 50 * 5 * 4 * 5 = 150000km

He obviously circumvented the world 3 times probably missing his destination twice... and that's not the biggest plot hole...

Don't watch this crap, you have been warned.

THE BOOK OF ELI

 
#18 74pts

You still stammered on the 'W'.

Well, I had to throw in a few so they knew it was me.

Crap

Booooring storyline. Hard to keep awake as it was so boring and predictable. It really is hard to understand how this can receive so many nominations. I've ticked that it contains spoilers but it really isn't hard to know what happens: Man has a stutter, gets help, succeeds. The end. There really is nothing more to it. The best part of it is when his daughter says, "splendid papa, just splendid".

The acting was good but not to the extent that people are raving on about!

I would not recommend anyone to watch this, especially not at the movies. Save your money and watch the Black Swan instead! Best movie ever!!

THE KING'S SPEECH

 
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#17 79pts

All I know is it's a mental hospital.

...for the criminally insane.

What the heck???

Nazis, House Unamerican Activities Committee, Dachau, man with scar on face, Nazi doctor, floating children, scary lighthouse... Martin, what in the heck??? I'm sure there was a story in there somewhere. A story that has been done a million times over and much, much better.

It is impossible to cite specific instances of guffaw-inducing movie-making in Shutter Island--because it was so darn awful THROUGHOUT! The first clue was that inane pounding, silent-film-organ-like music that introduced every scene you in which you were supposed to scream--and not laugh hysterically. If they had cut out all that flashback nonsense, which of course I am sure Scorcese thought was so wonderfully 'artistic', they could have got the film down to about 90 minutes and could have had, well, certainly not a GOOD movie but one that was definitely not as awful as what was produced. Reminded me a lot of Gangs of New York, which also started out very strong but then went on for 100 hours. At least that was an interesting subject and prompted me to buy the book it was based on and read it. I certainly don't feel that way about Shutter Island. And did I see the same movie as the positive reviewers saw?

There's 2-1/2 hours of my life I'll never get back.

SHUTTER ISLAND

 
#16 83pts

Who the #### are you supposed to be? The green condom? You know it ain't Halloween for another few months, kid?

Probably the worse thing I've ever seen. AVOID LIKE PLAGUE.

I registered here to review this film, as I believe the high rating it has is a result of manipulation. I went to the cinema to see this after checking out the reviews here, and it has irreparrably damaged my confidence in IMDb. . .

It is clear that the review system is being manipulated to give UTTER TRASH like this high ratings on IMDb.

CHILD EXPLOITATION

I suppose if you're a Hollywood producer backed by enough money to market your product, you can exploit children in your film. You can also assist in the progressive de-sensitization of the masses to violence and pretend to be provocative and original by getting your child actress to act out scenes of murder and extreme violence. You can do all this and still get rave reviews in the mainstream media , who are getting payed by your bosses, so who cares about human values anymore? People who find this film funny, or good in any way have some serious problems, in my opinion. This is like a bunch of ######, coked-up teenagers with lots of cash to burn trying to be as awful as Tarantino in his worse moments. If you think this would be funny somehow, you are mistaken. This juvenile, onanistic sh!t is like the worse straight-to-DVD American trash you can pick up for a buck in junk stores.

The facts : this film is marketed to young people; has received rave reviews and has not been utterly condemned for its abusive, criminal exploitation of the worse parts of human nature and Americanised trash "culture" . Pretty depressing, and this has lots to say about the hopelessness of our "civilisation". It's funny if you have the humour of a sociopathic 13-year old boy from New Jersey. And it is precisely this demographic that should be kept away from films like this at all costs.

Hollywood continues with its campaign to completely erode humane values and de-sensitize people to violence and torture. How come full-on sex scenes including genitals are taboo, but scenes of gory murder and torture are now so commonplace that even children can participate? How did we get here?

Thugggish violence and shootings in schools by under-age psychopaths can be expected to continue with increased regularity thanks to films like this. Violence and torture are funny, yeah , as funny as a full-force baseball-bat hit to your genitals.

Like another reviewer has said: AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

KICK-###

 
Didn't like the cranky reviews for the last batch but these are pretty spot on. 

Kick-### was as terrible and for the reasons stated. Complete garbage. 

 
#18 74pts

You still stammered on the 'W'.

Well, I had to throw in a few so they knew it was me.

Crap

Booooring storyline. Hard to keep awake as it was so boring and predictable. It really is hard to understand how this can receive so many nominations. I've ticked that it contains spoilers but it really isn't hard to know what happens: Man has a stutter, gets help, succeeds. The end. There really is nothing more to it. The best part of it is when his daughter says, "splendid papa, just splendid".

The acting was good but not to the extent that people are raving on about!

I would not recommend anyone to watch this, especially not at the movies. Save your money and watch the Black Swan instead! Best movie ever!!

THE BLACK SWAN
I'm guessing this is a The King's Speech review, unless this was the year of the stutter, and there was some stuttering in the Black Swan that I'm forgetting.

ETA: Just noticed the quote is from The King's Speech too.  So, I'm not sure what was intended where.

 
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I'm guessing this is a The King's Speech review, unless this was the year of the stutter, and there was some stuttering in the Black Swan that I'm forgetting.

ETA: Just noticed the quote is from The King's Speech too.  So, I'm not sure what was intended where.
:lol:

Yep, I guess I got tied up with the reference to Black Swan at the end.  

 

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