That damn Blair Witch Project just becuse i had a damn feeling it was all freaking fake...everyone dragged me to see it...i sat there bored all night during the movie...jumped one time cuase my girlfriend squeezed me all hard cause she was scared...just a freaking waste.
I fully expected "Mars Attacks!" to be a comedy classic. There were a couple funny parts, i guess. Episode I and Matrix 2 were both big downers. I figured "Mystic River" was going to be way better than it was, as i'm a big Clint fan. "Independence Day" was so bad it actually angered me.
I thought Harold and Kumar was pretty good. Dude where's my car on the other hand... Will Smith movies usually let me down. The Ring also sucked IMO... my friends were building it up for me but I didn't think it was scary at all.
There was a line for Aliens 3? Blair Witch Project was the most over-hyped biggest pile of crap I've ever seen.
close encounters of the 3rd kind. finally saw it about 5 years ago after hearing how great it was for so long. remember "simon says", that big plastic toy from the 80's with the colored buttons that would light up with the melody it played and you would have to replay the melody? it would add a note each time? sat thru that whole movie just to get to the ending, which was a total cop-out. i wanted menacing alien attacks and an epic struggle of man vs. alien. i wanted violence, but instead we got a crappy simon says love fest. RICHARD DREYFUS VS. ALIEN - WITNESS THE EPIC STRUGGLE TO SEE WHO HAS BETTER MEMORY RETENTION!
With all of the big names that movie had in it, you would have thought it would have been at least decent.
"Magnolia." This movie sucked the life out of me. I'll never get those 7 hours back. I thought "Boogie Nights" was a good movie even if it did rip off Scorsese a bit too much, so I was really looking forward to this one. "Magnolia" ripped off another great movie called "Short Cuts" by Robert Altman, but that wasn't the problem. The problem is that it was the most pretentious, hysterical and drop-dead stupid movie I have ever seen. The whole movie was a giant "look at me...I'm IMPORTANT" wank-fest for its director Paul Thomas Anderson. This desperate need by Thomas for the audience to notice his direction of the film actually got to be absurd. A simple scene of a person answering a phone would be given a totally irrelevant and meaningless series of tracking shots and zooms like "get your shinebox" scene in "Goodfellas." The movie pissed me off because it wasted a great cast on completely unbelievable characters advancing a plot that had more holes in it than a police station in Bagdhad. What killed me about this movie was that it would make these really cliched observations and act like they were really profound. I'll stop ranting now, Other big disappointments: "Natural Born Killers" "Nixon" ( I swear there was a crying Indian in this one, too! Let go of the Doors, Oliver!) "Babe" "Great Balls of Fire"
Aww man... you thought Babe was a disappointment? That was one of my favorite movies ever. That little pig was so cute I even gave up eating pork after watching that movie.
I don't see how Harold and Kumar sucked, it wasn't expected to be a "good movie" and I think it greatly exceeded expectations. The whole future sequence between Kumar and the "bag" was one of the funniest things ever.
Sort of off the the topic, but I'm going to see a movie tonight: The Aviator OR Sideways -- Which one should I see?
I thought that the Aviator looked great and had some nice moments, but, in the end, didn't have any feeling. And Sideways is just the opposite-- subtle and quiet, but it will hit you in the gut. I'd see Sideways.
I seem to be of a very small minority that actually loved Matrix 2 and 3... yeah the first was the best... but Reloaded and Revolutions were really good in their own respect. Honestly I think if they had just melded those two movies together it wouldve been good. Reloaded had a lot of exposition and Revolutions had a lot of action. I think one of the reasons I wasn't dissapointed by 3 though was that I knew going in that most of it was gonna take place outside of the Matrix. But Hellboy.... Hellboy..... that was the biggest piece of sh** I have ever scene. Way disappointed in that especially after it got like an 86 or something on rottentomatoes. I just dont understand the love fest with that movie at all.
I liked Aviator. I think it's a good movie. But no, I wouldn't put it up there with First Tier Scorsese.
Napolean Dynamite After all the hype it received from this board, it turned out to be a series of funny one-liners but a horrible movie.
No...I loved the "Babe" about the pig. I hated the one about the baseball player....I want to clarify that.
