Bad Films I watched this weekend
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Gravity. Just got round to watching it on Sky3d. Oh I so wish I hadn't. It did provide some enjoyment for me and the wife in a kind of spot the plot hole/physics gaff/general stupidness of the whole thing. I can only assume that someone found some ideas for a £5 PC game from the nineties and decided to turn it into a movie. The one thing that could have redeemed this stinking pile of colonic evacuation was if a tiger had jumped on her at the end when she climbed out of the lake. Apparently it got five stars in both the Grauniad and the telegraph, the reviewers must have severe learning difficulties.
Just got back from "Before I Go To Sleep". Pretty slow to get going and I know it's based on a book, but the ending was so frustrating. After she discovers that "Ben" isn't Ben, I wished they'd left it with him deleting the photos and her waking up in the house as usual. To me, that would've been deeply disturbing and a better ending instead of the soppy crap we got.
hyperblue said:
Just got back from "Before I Go To Sleep". Pretty slow to get going and I know it's based on a book, but the ending was so frustrating. After she discovers that "Ben" isn't Ben, I wished they'd left it with him deleting the photos and her waking up in the house as usual. To me, that would've been deeply disturbing and a better ending instead of the soppy crap we got.
Don't know the film but thanks for the spoiler!Pommygranite said:
hyperblue said:
Just got back from "Before I Go To Sleep". Pretty slow to get going and I know it's based on a book, but the ending was so frustrating. After she discovers that "Ben" isn't Ben, I wished they'd left it with him deleting the photos and her waking up in the house as usual. To me, that would've been deeply disturbing and a better ending instead of the soppy crap we got.
Don't know the film but thanks for the spoiler!
As a kid (I'm now 40), I never managed to see Blazing Saddles. Everyone that I knew that had seen it said it was brilliant. Well I recorded it recently off Sky and got round to watching it last weekend.
Well that was a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. Some funny bits, but mainly crap.
Well that was a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. Some funny bits, but mainly crap.
northwest monkey said:
As a kid (I'm now 40), I never managed to see Blazing Saddles. Everyone that I knew that had seen it said it was brilliant. Well I recorded it recently off Sky and got round to watching it last weekend.
Well that was a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. Some funny bits, but mainly crap.
This is possibly the most heartbreaking thing I've read on the Internet lately.Well that was a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. Some funny bits, but mainly crap.
Halmyre said:
This is possibly the most heartbreaking thing I've read on the Internet lately.
I was honestly gutted. Maybe because for 30 years I've imagined it to be miles better than it was - I wish I'd kept it in the "movies I've never seen" category then I'd still be thinking how good it would be to watch!Trancendesnscenendnse
Sure it has been mentioned above but boy what a mess
some good ideas but plot gets very silly, it tells you the ending at the start so there is zero tension, Morgan Freeman is wasted, corny ending and Johnny Depp has morphed from a creditable indie actor to a crap actor who only plays parodies of himself or Jack Sparrow
2/10
Sure it has been mentioned above but boy what a mess
some good ideas but plot gets very silly, it tells you the ending at the start so there is zero tension, Morgan Freeman is wasted, corny ending and Johnny Depp has morphed from a creditable indie actor to a crap actor who only plays parodies of himself or Jack Sparrow
2/10
Edited by Adam B on Sunday 7th September 23:27
Gravity.
Countless plot holes, ridiculously lax astonauts.
Instead of being 'along for the ride' with Sandra Bullock, I just kept thinking "how did this mentally unstable, panicky idiot manage to fool NASA into sending her to the ISS?".
Oh, and the minutes-long shots from inside helmets I found unreasonably annoying. Like, itchy teeth annoying.
The above are also examples of why I failed as a film critic.
Countless plot holes, ridiculously lax astonauts.
Instead of being 'along for the ride' with Sandra Bullock, I just kept thinking "how did this mentally unstable, panicky idiot manage to fool NASA into sending her to the ISS?".
Oh, and the minutes-long shots from inside helmets I found unreasonably annoying. Like, itchy teeth annoying.
The above are also examples of why I failed as a film critic.
Another vote for the Inbetweeners 2 (made even more disappointing as I love both the series and the 1st film).
BUT it is easily eclipsed by "Sex Tape"; I had the misfortune of seeing this pile of trash yesterday. So bad was it that not even a scantily clad Cameron Diaz could improve it. My other half (who suggested the film) was even more disappointed as from a female perspective the male lead did not even offer some consolatory eye candy.
It's review scores on RottenTomatoes etc are generous!
BUT it is easily eclipsed by "Sex Tape"; I had the misfortune of seeing this pile of trash yesterday. So bad was it that not even a scantily clad Cameron Diaz could improve it. My other half (who suggested the film) was even more disappointed as from a female perspective the male lead did not even offer some consolatory eye candy.
It's review scores on RottenTomatoes etc are generous!
As a sweeping generalisation, I'm at that point where I'll turn off a film if it employs "shaky cam" effect - It's not "edgy", it's bloody annoying - Sometimes it's needed, but when it's used ALL the time it's just s
t.
Not to mention any film that seems to think that keeping the whole movie in the dark is a good idea: Like Doom. I hate to admit this, but I love that film, it's so bad it's brilliant, but most of it is in the dark, to the point where I have to adjust my TVs brightness to compensate.
t.Not to mention any film that seems to think that keeping the whole movie in the dark is a good idea: Like Doom. I hate to admit this, but I love that film, it's so bad it's brilliant, but most of it is in the dark, to the point where I have to adjust my TVs brightness to compensate.
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