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

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. 
..except the part where they say school shooting will continue because of movies like that.  

I like the movie, but get what people are saying about cringing a bit b/c of the kid factor.  Chloe Grace did some ####ed up movies when she was a teenager - Kick ### 1 and 2, Let Me In, Carrie.  It's not like it was the 90210 thing where we had 30 year olds playing High Schoolers.  

 
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.
that was her move - the stutter. some use the pinch, others the inverted swirl. Black Swan stammered on the ol' W and dance was never the same, baby!

 
What a weak choice for Best Picture. I liked Kings Speech. It was a nice film and the performances were all very good, but it just wasn't Best Picture quality. In 30 years, people will be looking back at that wondering, "What was the Kings Speech?" Like younger people do must wonder about "Terms of Endearment" or "Out of Africa". 

 
#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


Lighten up Francis.

 
What a weak choice for Best Picture. I liked Kings Speech. It was a nice film and the performances were all very good, but it just wasn't Best Picture quality. In 30 years, people will be looking back at that wondering, "What was the Kings Speech?" Like younger people do must wonder about "Terms of Endearment" or "Out of Africa". 
Agreed it was so so, but still better than The Artist, 12 Years a  Slave and that godawful Birdman.

 
Agreed it was so so, but still better than The Artist, 12 Years a  Slave and that godawful Birdman.
Haven’t seen 12YaS but spoiler for future polls, Birdman and The Artist will get the highest points I award.

or at least close to

 
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#15  89pts

Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

Contrived and unconvincing

Easy A has received so many positive reviews I was astonished at how bad it was. From the beginning it was difficult to suspend disbelief that a 17-year-old girl would stand out from the crowd for losing her virginity. And how much more difficult to suspend disbelief when the actress playing the character is 22.

It would have been worth the effort if the writing shone, but aside from some clever quips it was painful. The characters behaved in unbelievable ways. The movie has been compared to the works of John Hughes, but Molly Ringwald made a much more convincing outsider than Emma Stone. Stone is very charming and eye-catching, but is miscast for the part if we are to believe this attractive intelligent self-confident and funny woman is an invisible wall-flower who can only gain attention by pretending promiscuity.

Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci and Malcolm MacDowell were a pleasure to watch, as usual, but they were peripheral to the action of the film.With the praise it has received I was expecting a Juno or a Clueless, but this film had less to say than American Pie.

EASY A

 
#14  96pts

Are you mental?

Dull

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

Seriously, this was so dull.

Harry and co teleport to new place. They get found. They wave wands at each other. Harry and co teleport to new place. They get found. They wave wands at each other...

... for nearly 3 hours! Pretty much nothing happens and anything that does happen either makes no sense or doesn't bloody get shown.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1

 
I basically agree with that review of HP.  I am a big fan of the series in general, but thought the last book was one of the weakest, and by chopping it in half they created a movie were they just sit in a tent and/or ##### at each other for 1/2 the movie.   I also thought it was a weird choice to make a bigger deal out of an elf dying than the main character at the end of 6.  :shrug:

 
#14  96pts

Are you mental?

Dull

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

Seriously, this was so dull.

Harry and co teleport to new place. They get found. They wave wands at each other. Harry and co teleport to new place. They get found. They wave wands at each other...

... for nearly 3 hours! Pretty much nothing happens and anything that does happen either makes no sense or doesn't bloody get shown.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1
This is true in context.  The mistake of the final Harry Potter movies was making 2 movies out of Deathly Hallows, but only 1 for Half Blood Prince which was the deepest story.

The better movie breakup would have been to make Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 3 movies like they did, but extending HBP into a second movie that merged into the start of Deathly Hallows, with the third movie starting in the middle of DH.

Yes, I've given thought to this.

 
:unsure:

I'm surprised we disagree so much, I agreed with most of your 2010 list.
Well I love old movies and Golden Hollywood history so The Artist was in my wheelhouse. I enjoyed Birdman a lot- it was weird, dark and funny as hell. I actually liked it more the 2nd time. There’s a lot to it.

 
I basically agree with that review of HP.  I am a big fan of the series in general, but thought the last book was one of the weakest, and by chopping it in half they created a movie were they just sit in a tent and/or ##### at each other for 1/2 the movie.   I also thought it was a weird choice to make a bigger deal out of an elf dying than the main character at the end of 6.  :shrug:
But it was Dobby you heartless jerk!

 
#13  120pts

Todd Ingram, you're under arrest for Veganity Violation Code Number 827: imbibing of half-and-half.

But-But this is only my first offense. Don't I get three strikes? I mean...

Take it.

12:47 on February 1st: You knowingly ingested gelato.

 Gelato isn't vegan?

It's milk and eggs, #####.

Big special effects to cover a crappy 5 minute story and annoying actors.

This is a film for 20-something years olds living with their moms who still play Pokemon and drooling over manga. This movie has the intelligence level of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers and the maturity level of Spongebob Squarepants. It's really only a fifteen minute movie that repeats well over five times for two frikin hours. Sometimes less is more and when a movie is the equivalent to watching someone play Soul Calibur, 112 minutes is 90 minutes too long. It has all the terrible dialog from a Dragonball-Z cartoon with the same over exaggerated fight sequences that have the fighters spending more time screaming at each other as they fly through the air then they do actually fighting. The whole "Video game style" fighting over a girl would have been OK if it just happened once. But re-hashing the same damn fight four more times was just driving an idea into the ground all the way back to Japan.

Michael Cera needs acting lessons. I'm sick of seeing this guy play the same person in every damn movie he does. HE SUCKS! I'm sick of seeing him being a little stuttering, meakling who's afraid of his own shadow again and again. It's so old it's not funny.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

 
#12  122pts

"Three little kittens love to play. They had fun in the sun all day. Then their mother came out and said, 'Time for kittens to go to bed'."

Wow, this is garbage. You actually like this?

Despicable waste of money!

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME, TALENT, AND MONEY!

How in the world is this really, really lame movie getting such good reviews?

1. Boring, old, and overused story line.

2. Saturday morning cartoon like plot and animation.

3. Really bad voice overs (come on.. can't we do a better join of reading from the script into a microphone? how about a little emotion, voice inflection, or originality?).

4. Reuse of characters (the villain looks exactly like a character used in "The Incredibles" and the middle aged girl looks like the boy at the beginning of "Up").

5. Compared to "Toy Story 3" and "Shrek" this summer animation is a way, way distant 3rd place (not even close).

6. (and this is the worst) This movie is really just NOT all that funny. In fact, if it wasn't for the site gags by the minions the number of time the audience laughed for this movie in the theater I was in (an almost full Cinemark 3D Xtreme theater) could be counted on one hand!

So.. ignore all the planted and unrealistically high reviews in here created by paid reviewers (I just love those giving a rating of 9 or 10 to this piece of junk and claiming that they are a real reviewer and not paid off), save your hard earned money, and rent it on DVD for a dollar or two when it comes out around Thanksgiving (if not sooner).

I feel really ripped off by this one....

DESPICABLE ME

 
#13  120pts

Todd Ingram, you're under arrest for Veganity Violation Code Number 827: imbibing of half-and-half.

But-But this is only my first offense. Don't I get three strikes? I mean...

Take it.

12:47 on February 1st: You knowingly ingested gelato.

 Gelato isn't vegan?

It's milk and eggs, #####.

Big special effects to cover a crappy 5 minute story and annoying actors.

This is a film for 20-something years olds living with their moms who still play Pokemon and drooling over manga. This movie has the intelligence level of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers and the maturity level of Spongebob Squarepants. It's really only a fifteen minute movie that repeats well over five times for two frikin hours. Sometimes less is more and when a movie is the equivalent to watching someone play Soul Calibur, 112 minutes is 90 minutes too long. It has all the terrible dialog from a Dragonball-Z cartoon with the same over exaggerated fight sequences that have the fighters spending more time screaming at each other as they fly through the air then they do actually fighting. The whole "Video game style" fighting over a girl would have been OK if it just happened once. But re-hashing the same damn fight four more times was just driving an idea into the ground all the way back to Japan.

Michael Cera needs acting lessons. I'm sick of seeing this guy play the same person in every damn movie he does. HE SUCKS! I'm sick of seeing him being a little stuttering, meakling who's afraid of his own shadow again and again. It's so old it's not funny.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
Way too effing low. That vegan scene is one of the funniest scenes in movie history.

 
Wow I never realized how bad 2010 was for movies.  Very little that even rises to the level of 'good' so far.

 
#11  124pts

When we crack this mountain open, all hell is going to break loose.

In my undies. Good thing I brought extras

Review: How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon offers no practical dragon training information. NONE. Zero stars.

To be honest I am not impressed.

The title clearly suggests that instructions would be provided on how I can train my dragon.

Clearly this was just marketing hype and false advertising. I am surprised that others have given a positive review. Surely I'm not the only person who thinks that a book titled "How to Train Your Dragon" would over at least SOME practical training information?

Terribly disappointed.

I would like my money back.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

 
#11  124pts

When we crack this mountain open, all hell is going to break loose.

In my undies. Good thing I brought extras

Review: How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon offers no practical dragon training information. NONE. Zero stars.

To be honest I am not impressed.

The title clearly suggests that instructions would be provided on how I can train my dragon.

Clearly this was just marketing hype and false advertising. I am surprised that others have given a positive review. Surely I'm not the only person who thinks that a book titled "How to Train Your Dragon" would over at least SOME practical training information?

Terribly disappointed.

I would like my money back.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Trying to determine if this is funnier being serious or joke. 

 
#12  122pts

"Three little kittens love to play. They had fun in the sun all day. Then their mother came out and said, 'Time for kittens to go to bed'."

Wow, this is garbage. You actually like this?

Despicable waste of money!

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME, TALENT, AND MONEY!

How in the world is this really, really lame movie getting such good reviews?

1. Boring, old, and overused story line.

2. Saturday morning cartoon like plot and animation.

3. Really bad voice overs (come on.. can't we do a better join of reading from the script into a microphone? how about a little emotion, voice inflection, or originality?).

4. Reuse of characters (the villain looks exactly like a character used in "The Incredibles" and the middle aged girl looks like the boy at the beginning of "Up").

5. Compared to "Toy Story 3" and "Shrek" this summer animation is a way, way distant 3rd place (not even close).

6. (and this is the worst) This movie is really just NOT all that funny. In fact, if it wasn't for the site gags by the minions the number of time the audience laughed for this movie in the theater I was in (an almost full Cinemark 3D Xtreme theater) could be counted on one hand!

So.. ignore all the planted and unrealistically high reviews in here created by paid reviewers (I just love those giving a rating of 9 or 10 to this piece of junk and claiming that they are a real reviewer and not paid off), save your hard earned money, and rent it on DVD for a dollar or two when it comes out around Thanksgiving (if not sooner).

I feel really ripped off by this one....

DESPICABLE ME
If I'd have been able to get my list in, this one would have gotten 30 points from me. Possibly my favorite kids movie ever.

 
Scott pilgrim not getting the respect it deserves...as expected. 

Must be all the old farts.

 
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Do I have to have children to enjoy movies like “how to train your dragon”...I don’t get the love for it and other movies intended for children.

 
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Do I have to have children to enjoy movies like “how to train your dragon”.
Nope, you just have to have a soul and a heart.  ;)

Yes, I am sure it helps.  It seems like there are several comments in here about people's kids being the right age to watch these movies over and over.  It adds to it when you can share in their love of a movie for sure.  

 
#10  155pts

You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.

What a let down!

I was very excited to go see this film with my husband as we both love westerns. To both our horror this film was very slow and too manicured and staged to even be halfway believable. The acting was stiff and I felt the lines were awkward and unrealistic for the times. The cast just did not work well together and were simply reading their lines and had no feeling or expression in the presentation. The film went on and on and on and never did pick-up. Wow....I wish we could get back to the great westerns with awesome actors that can really give you a heart pounding performance and keep you entertained throughout the entire story. If you love a true western that really makes you believe & feel involved and interested in the story then I would highly suggest you skip this film, it is by far the worst western I and my husband have every seen!Our friends also saw this film and found it terrible!

TRUE GRIT

 
#9  161pts

That was *me* seducing you, when it needs to be the other way around.

self-indulgent, excruciating; maybe 15 beautiful seconds

My family almost walked out. My grown daughter said, "I'm going to remember this director's name and avoid his flicks. And as for Natalie ... it's going to take me awhile to forgive her."

Too many excruciating scenes to list. The fingernail business was inexcusable.

The emblematic black/white swan idea was missing and/or completely muffed. I assume the director just didn't get it. There are so many movies that get the metaphor right. There simply was no white swan here.

We know and are friends with dancers, serious ones -- maybe not New York types, and maybe that's the problem. There's no reason the portrayal has to be so raw and wretched.

This movie has done a serious disservice to the Dance. If you love ballet, skip it.

BLACK SWAN

 
Why are you not posting number of votes along with total points?
You would notice that.  :bag:

Honestly, it's because I think I ####ed it up and I wasn't confident enough in my tallies to post them this time.  I could give an idea within one or two, but not exact.  The pts are right though. 

 
You would notice that.  :bag:

Honestly, it's because I think I ####ed it up and I wasn't confident enough in my tallies to post them this time.  I could give an idea within one or two, but not exact.  The pts are right though. 
I need the data

 
#8  170pts

9/2

Yeah, I was faced with that terrible thing, when somebody shows you their work and everything about it is ####... so... you don't really know where to start.

Pretentious Bull****

Thierry Guetta runs a vintage clothing shop in Los Angeles and is obsessed with photographing everything he sees. When he visits his native country, France, and finds a cousin who is a street artist named Invader, his blood takes him on a tour where he meets other unorthodox graffiti painters on their controversial rounds, mostly at night, in order to avoid the law.

Guetta meets the most notorious guerrilla artist of them all, a Brit who uses the name Banksy. They become good friends and the underground Englishman has managed to keep is identity a secret, even after becoming a financial success. So far, so good. The problem comes up when Guetta starts painting and somehow, with no apparent talent, becomes the toast of the Los Angeles art community with a show, followed by fame and fortune. The man is an insufferable ###****. By the end of the documentary, I hated the guy. Stay away from this pretentious bull****.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

 
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#8  170pts

9/2

Yeah, I was faced with that terrible thing, when somebody shows you their work and everything about it is ####... so... you don't really know where to start.

Pretentious Bull****

Thierry Guetta runs a vintage clothing shop in Los Angeles and is obsessed with photographing everything he sees. When he visits his native country, France, and finds a cousin who is a street artist named Invader, his blood takes him on a tour where he meets other unorthodox graffiti painters on their controversial rounds, mostly at night, in order to avoid the law.

Guetta meets the most notorious guerrilla artist of them all, a Brit who uses the name Banksy. They become good friends and the underground Englishman has managed to keep is identity a secret, even after becoming a financial success. So far, so good. The problem comes up when Guetta starts painting and somehow, with no apparent talent, becomes the toast of the Los Angeles art community with a show, followed by fame and fortune. The man is an insufferable ###****. By the end of the documentary, I hated the guy. Stay away from this pretentious bull****.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
:lmao:     someone didn't get the joke

 
#7  178pts

11/-

If we get jammed up, we're holding court on the street.

A Well Polished Turd

Many people seem to love Ben Affleck's The Town. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised by that. I mean we do live in a society in which almost all our popular culture is fake. Fake "reality" shows flood our current television channels, the music business is full of fake posturing and overly manufactured acts, and Hollywood keeps filming the same old stories with bad writing, big star names, and lots of glitzy glamour. All flash and very little substance seems to be the trend of the day, or should I say decade? Well The Town is not much different, it too is a well polished turd. A turd that lacks pretty much any originality at all. The dialogue and overall quality of writing in this film should easily be surpassed by the average tenth grade student if challenged. Seriously, is there a single stretch of 10 minutes in this film that actually seemed like it could, or might be able to happen in reality? I've been around. From the big house to the white picket fence to the bad side of town and I'm telling you that no, there is nothing real. Nor is there anything meaningful here. This basically seemed like a badly written cartoon made into an even worse film. None of the characters who are given time to develop are anything more than cartoon like. Has the majority of people these days lost all perspective on what is realistic, and what is a total sham? It certainly seems so.

THE TOWN

 
@The Dreaded Marco was responsible for Blue Valentine in the countdown, but also responsible for knocking this out of the top 5...

#6  181pts

9/4

Oh hidy ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

A huge let down

When I first saw the rating this movie had gotten here at IMDb I was feeling pretty good about it. Then I started watching it, watched a bit more and then I was amazed by how deceiving the rating had been. I am not a librarian who never laughs and has dust on his shoulders, far from it, but I'm being honest when I say that I didn't laugh a single time during this movie. It was like watching Scary Movie 4 again but with even less funny jokes, it was that bad. If you feel like you have nothing to do and you are planning on watching this movie, don't. Instead you should just stare at your ceiling since it is much more enjoyable and it doesn't make your brain rot.

TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL

 
#5  196pts

9/2

You didn't give a #### if I got killed by Mungin; now, all of a sudden, you're worried Sanchez is gonna hurt me? Why? I mean, come on, ****. 'Cause you're stuck in here and can't be the center of attention no more?

Seriously?

Wahlberg plays an aging boxer trying to catch a break and finally win an important match in an attempt to boost his career. In between the repetitive scenes showing him train, the audience is treated to a rambling screenplay (consisting primarily of totally dense individuals bickering and shouting) and the most irritating characters in film known to man. No cliché is left untouched; the white trash family members (E.T.), the love interest from the local bar (A space Odyssey) and of course the poorly shot boxing sequences (Groundhog Day, et al).

Words fail me to describe my perplexity as I try to make sense of the 7.8 rating this parody of film making has somehow garnered. I gave up on the reliability of this website's movie scores long ago, but people really need to get some perspective, it's becoming embarrassing..

THE FIGHTER

 
@The Dreaded Marco was responsible for Blue Valentine in the countdown, but also responsible for knocking this out of the top 5...

#6  181pts

9/4

Oh hidy ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

A huge let down

When I first saw the rating this movie had gotten here at IMDb I was feeling pretty good about it. Then I started watching it, watched a bit more and then I was amazed by how deceiving the rating had been. I am not a librarian who never laughs and has dust on his shoulders, far from it, but I'm being honest when I say that I didn't laugh a single time during this movie. It was like watching Scary Movie 4 again but with even less funny jokes, it was that bad. If you feel like you have nothing to do and you are planning on watching this movie, don't. Instead you should just stare at your ceiling since it is much more enjoyable and it doesn't make your brain rot.

TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL
Dude?  WTF?

Not sure why I’m being singled out for either of these facts. 

But I’ll proudly take responsibility for both. 

 
#4  208pts

9/3

Now Woody, he's been my pal for as long as I can remember. He's brave, like a cowboy should be. And kind, and smart. But the thing that makes Woody special, is he'll never give up on you... ever. He'll be there for you, no matter what.

Why does this get so much praise?

Okay this is Toy Story 3. The film everyone says that they liked, they say it was the Citizen Kane of animated films. And I'm just going to say, I don't get it. The main problem with the movie is it's just unpleasant. How did this get a G rating. I'd love to get somebody, anybody, from the MPAA to say maybe, just maybe, we should have given it PG! I mean that there is no fun in this film. But my review will be in obvious contrast to the others because I think it's bad. Well, it is. Granted it some good moments but it was just dark and unpleasant. Cars 2 get's hated while I like it. This get's liked while I hate it. Cars 2 get's hated because they say it was so much darker than the 1st. But this is twice as violent. Granted the last 2 films weren't all whimsical but in the last two did you see the toys getting tortured?! No! This simply does not happen! When did "You've got a friend in me," turn into "Burn alive, burn until you rot in hell!" When did that happen?! Is there something I missed in the last 2? Do I have an abridged DVD? Somebody tell me when the last 2 films were as dark as this! I'm sorry but this film is horrible! I still don't understand why so many people liked it. The last part of the movie with Andy playing with his toys for the last time was the only bit of the movie that I found good. That is my review.

TOY STORY 3

 
Dude?  WTF?

Not sure why I’m being singled out for either of these facts. 

But I’ll proudly take responsibility for both. 
####, maybe it was Floppo.   I confuse you two.  One of you was the last list I entered, so I am putting the blame on that person (but could also be blaming the wrong person).

 

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