Films you're not allowed not to like.

[sstein]

Can I add as well The Departed.

Thought it was quite dull and didn't deserve the Oscar praise it got.

-

Stuart

[otolith]

I think good films tend to come out of a refusal to compromise to keep everyone happy, so it's no surprise that there are really acclaimed films that some people don't like. LOTR is criticised for being too slavishly geeky in trying to replicate the feel of the book, to the detriment of the pace people expect from modern storytelling - I don't mind that, I loved the book. I thought I Am Legend sucked mightily, but then I disliked it mostly for discarding the ideas of the book and spinning its own inferior strand of Hollywood Will Smith hokum. I suspect that a version truer to the book would have played poorly to much of the audience who weren't fans of the book. So you decide which way to take it, and will be damned either way.

I think there's also a question of genre - I thought 28 days later was very well executed, but I mostly just found it unpleasant to watch. Same goes for those Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes - it's not a reflection of the quality of the film making, I just don't like them.

[KP328]

2001 A space odyssey has been on the telly three times and all three times i have fallen asleep watching it, so overrated.

[sstein]

Rambo films
Rocky films

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

All James Bond Films

[wobert]

Plotloss said:

Ikemi said:

The Original Star Wars films - Great as a child, but watching them now at 23 years old they seem a little ... unfulfilling? Boring?

Edited by Ikemi on Tuesday 17th March 16:00

Out, now.

Don't be bringing criticism of the holy trilogy to this parish.

No sir, not here, we dont be needing your blasphemous talk.

I can genuinely say that I've not seen any of the Star Wars films.....no inclination to either....sorry

[Fittster]

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

[sstein]

Fittster said:

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

Cop Land was awful!

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Stuart

[BeerForBreakfast]

Dirty Dancing.

[grim_d]

Scarface
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Lord of the Rings
Harry potter
Rambo
Rocky

all garbage imo.

Edited by grim_d on Tuesday 17th March 20:40

[TimJMS]

sstein said:

Fittster said:

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

Cop Land was awful!

-

Stuart

As was Escape To Victory. Another one they all did to pay the mortgages.

[Sisyphus]

Last Tango in Paris.
At 17 it held so much promise, tits, bum, fanny, the lot.
Turned out to be a bag of ste.

[Fittster]

TimJMS said:

sstein said:

Fittster said:

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

Cop Land was awful!

-

Stuart

As was Escape To Victory. Another one they all did to pay the mortgages.

Name a film featuring more world cup winners!

[PhantomHumper]

sstein said:

Pirates of the Carribean. I can not understand what ANYONE sees in this film. Johnny Depps performance isn't awful!.

Other crap films that are unfathombly popular:

Lock Stock
Braveheart
Layer Cake
The Sixth Sense
Actually, anything by M NIght Shymalalalalalan
Gone in 60 seconds.
Saving Private Ryan
The Matrix
The Saw Movies
Alien
Terminator
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Anything with Will Smith (Apart from Pursuit of Happyness)

Edited by sstein on Tuesday 17th March 18:58

What films DO you like?

[swamp]

BeerForBreakfast said:

Dirty Dancing.

I saw Dirty Dancing the other day...


...and it really wasn't that bad!



But for some blasphemy: Alien is a bit boring.

[thebluebus]

Fittster said:

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

You want Cliffhanger then.

[Fittster]

thebluebus said:

Fittster said:

sstein said:

I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Cop Land
Death Race 2000
Escape to Victory - any film with John Wark is a classic

You want Cliffhanger then.

Not enough Ipswich players for me.

[swamp]

sstein said:

Rambo films
I'm struggling to think of anything good with Sylvester Stallone.

Rambo 1: First Blood is a good film. I saw it a couple of days ago and it was great. The other Rambos aren't worth the celluloid, but Rambo 1 is very good, if a little dated in places now.

[tamore]

blimey, the whole contrary population of PH all posting in one thread!

[Coq au Vin]

Sisyphus said:

Last Tango in Paris.
At 17 it held so much promise, tits, bum, fanny, the lot.
Turned out to be a bag of ste.

That really was a rubbish movie.

Apparantly did wonders for sales of Lurpack at the time though...

[sstein]

Spiderman and X-Men films. I don't see what appeal they have to anyone except the die-hard comic book fans. There are comics I enjoy, but the films did nothing for me.

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Stuart