The Energon Pub

We all have had these moments in our mvoie loving lives where we happen to be alone in dislking a feature that many just adore to death. That being said, I made this thread.

I'll go first( obviously...)-
First, I'm going to say perhaps the biggest fish in the pond...The Godfather. I had heard many many many wonderful things about that movie and for years I wanted to check it out but got busy and didn't see it. When I did see it I was expecting the greatest mvoie ever here as countless others had called it...Didn't get it. I was bored in under 20 minutes of that movie, heck, 5 minutes actually and soon I immediatley changed the channel and not for a personal choice channel and random channel. Nothing baout it engaged me the least, I've tried many times to get through the whole thing and by almost to the time I decide to change the channel I'm halfway asleep. Other than finding it boring I thought it was overrated at best. Some masterpeice and trust me I wasn't expecting any "explosions" or "car chases" in it. So before one calls me MTV generated I will disprove them. Unless you count enjoying Beavis and Butt-Head and a few music videos as MTV generated then I guess I may be but that's oo far from topic. I swear the best thing about that movie I cna honestly say was the cinematogrpahy which still had that new and fresh feeling, the cast was well thought out, and the msuci was good that was it there. And yes, I understood the point of it all. The sequels weren't my cup of tea either. Give me The Departed and Goodfellas!

And the sort the rest in line...

-Live Free Or Die Hard( Someone tell me why this was the best summer action movie of 2007? Becuase TF and Bourne hold that title...)
-Over The Hedge( Perhaps, the most overhyped animated movie I have ever seen, it so it isn't worth the hype whatsoever).
-Corpse Bride( Compared to Nightmare Before Christmas it isn't better nor equal)
-Batman Returns
-The Jacket
-Brokeback Mountain Just couldn't get into it)
-The English Patient
-David Cronenberg's eXistenZ
-Narnia( 2005)
-Harry Potter series( sorry but I';m no much a fantasy lover)
-Titanic( the character introductions were good and I felt the whole love story idea wasn't a bad cocnept for a movie but the deliverence to the dialog when it came to that felt a little weak other than that, a little overrated here and there).
-King Kong( Jackson's 2005 version; talk about being overrated.)
-Little Miss Sunshine
-The Simpsons Movie

To make msyelf more clear with my movie tastes guys, I need to be entertained and engaged by a film because it has great direction, "good" acting, and has an interesting plot and large ammounts of character development, etc. doesn't mean I will deem it good, it has to entertain me or it has failed.

You?

SUPERBAD, I can see how it was funny, and it did have it's moments, but realy it did nothing for me.

Same goes for Orange County.

Thelma and Louise

Brokeback Mountian

2 movies you could never get me to watch

It's not that I don't like them, it's that I never, ever, ever want to watch Accepted (Where the kid makes his own college) or Borat. (Which I just don't want to watch period)

Pan's Labyrinth, the reviews let this look like an awesome fantasy story but in the end it was nothing like in all the magazines, it was nothing more then a stupid war movie.

"Moulin Rouge"
"Romeo + Juliet" (Baz Luhrman's version)
"Halloween" (and the sequels)
"Scream" (and the sequels)

And, to go off a little, I can't bloody stand "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Doctor Who".

Wild Things. No amount of Denise Richards and Neve Campbell making out could ever budge this movie from the number 2 spot in my all-time most hated movies list. I can't even manage to hang on to the greatness that was Bill Murray in that movie. The whole thing was just awful. It had about seven different endings. It just wouldn't stop! Then, after all that crap, they had the audacity to actually explain what happened during the credits, as if I hadn't figured everything out 15 minutes in. I have a couple of friends who enjoy slipping this movie into any movie related discussion that pops up when I'm around because they get some kind of perverse pleasure from watching me rant about it. I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!


Wow, it was really hard for me to keep that rant free of offensive language.

Most of my friends love the movie Airplane!, but I can't stand it. Or rather, there *are* a few unique funny moments, but then they're ruined by being used several dozen more times in minor variations so they get old really fast. Plus I'm not fond of random humor.

Don't understand all the accolades for Blade Runner, either. Again, some of the individual scenes were good - mainly the ones with Roy Batty - but unfortunately they're IMHO badly edited together into a huge confusing mess. (I saw the "Director's Cut", if anyone's curious...)

I hate Dumb and Dumber....do not ask me why because I have no idea on why I hate that movie.

The Departed. Sorry but I thought it was ass in a bottle. Hey look! Mark Wahlberg is using a fake accent and is swearing a lot. Oh hey! So is everyone else!

Wow.

And No Country for Old Men. There were good parts, don't get me wrong. But overall it just left a bad taste in my mouth. The fact that the main character gets KILLED OFF SCREEN pissed me off to no end. And for that I cannot forgive the Cohen's.

Pretty much any movie that wins an Academy Award for Best Picture, ends up sucking in my mind.

Godfather.

Don't kill me.

I despise Monty Python.

"The Departed"...yeah as said above phony accents and then here's an over simplified way to get out of a major plot twisting around and around itself and that was just to have all the remaining characters shoot each other in the head, bang your dead and that's the end of the plot...Best picture ? no, good movie meh but way too easy of an out for me at the end of it!

"Rent" I know, based on a play hence singing and musical numbers but too damn much singing and most of the voices were just like hearing a cat screeching at 3 am

"Unforgiven" basically a revenge movie from what I can recall, again this won best picture ? hell no...it was a two hour or longer build up at a SNAILS pace just to kill someone.

"Kill Bill volume 2" pretty much the same as my "review" for Unforgiven with sporadic scenes of action thrown in and the climactic battle with Bill was just retarded! I heard they actually want to make a third film based around the little girl who's mom got killed but wait 15 years in REAL TIME, who's going to remember or care 15 years from now...retarded idea!!

The entire first have of the star wars saga:

episode 1: The Phantom Menace

episode 2: attack of the clones

episode 3: revenge of sith

I here from people all time how misunderstood these films are all I can think to myself when here this is they should have a george lucas cut out in the front lobby of theater with slot were you could put the money you were going to spend to see these films. At least then you could have done something more constructive with you wasted at these films like biding on some amazing transformers on e-bay.

Savage wrote:I despise Monty Python.

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I could never get into the American Pie series, and Titanic was one you couldn't force me to watch.

-Star Wars; I hate it all
-Pretty much everything Steven Segal's in
-South Park

Finding Nemo - all of my mates rant and rave about it, but it sucks

I also thought The Lives Of Others (film about the Stasi) wasn't that great.

Wait, I just got another one:

Kill Bill. I spent maybe twenty minutes on the first movie, and thought it was too cheesy and over-the-top.

The 2000 Re-Make of Gone in 60 Seconds.

Any movie with ANY ex-SNL actor, with the exception of Adam Sandler (even he has made a few big-time stinkers though).

The last 3 Star Wars movies. One word explains all: HORRID!

ALL kung-fu movies...EVEN Bruce Lee sucks, IMHO.

The Crow. Eww! It was STUPID!

Pyrostrata wrote:Any movie with ANY ex-SNL actor, with the exception of Adam Sandler (even he has made a few big-time stinkers though).

Are you trying to tell me you don't like "Ghostbusters", "The Blues Brothers", "Animal House", "Wayne's World", or, arguably, "The Deer Hunter" and "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead"?
Wow.

I can't believe I forgot this one:
Titanic, I spent what seemed like 3 hours just to find out I was watching just 30 mins of it, I then just put the VHS out and put JP back in, not you JP I mean the JP that starts with Jurassic and ends with Park.

I can't stand Ron Burgundy. That movie was just retarded there were some silly moments, but otherwise it's just lame.

Also Dodge Ball. The only funny part in that movie was Lance Armstrong saying "Yeah, it's okay if you quit" to Vince Vaughn. That was classic all around.


Kill Bill is something I have never seen but it just looks stupid. The only people who can convince me to try it are people who also like extremely intellectual foreign films. That's how smart they have to be with movies before I will bother with Kill Bill.

I also think the Crow is overrated maudlin crap.


Blade Runner to me is also kind of boring. Every time I watch it, I keep wanting it to be all futuristic and cool in a subdued kind of way, but the only cool parts are the soundtrack, that line Edward James Olmos says at the end that I love but can never remember, and the replicant Zora talking to Decard with nothing on her breasts but glitter, and I could be wrong about that even being in the movie. (It should be in it.)

I can get the same experience of Blade Runner just standing around in a dark alley in the rain and humming the song during the credits and then going home and shining a light through a fan set to slow.


Oh, and another movie I don't really like is the new Transformers movie.

knocked up so dumb !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeep! wrote:

Pyrostrata wrote:Any movie with ANY ex-SNL actor, with the exception of Adam Sandler (even he has made a few big-time stinkers though).

Are you trying to tell me you don't like "Ghostbusters", "The Blues Brothers", "Animal House", "Wayne's World", or, arguably, "The Deer Hunter" and "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead"?
Wow.

Don't forget This Is Spinal Tap. (Christopher Guest and Michael McKean were both SNL cast members for a time) And you'd hate the upcoming Iron Man movie. (Robert Downey Jr. was a cast member in the Bad Years)

That would also include an movie with anyone on this list.