Movies we're supposed to say are good

Greyfox

kunst nugget wrote: »

Titanic and Avatar were tripe. Well made spectacles with good effects but utterly facile. I'm not a huge fan of T2 truth be told. The Edward Furlong character is a pain in the hoop.

T2 is the best action film ever made, the story was amazing and its a non stop action rollacoster. Titanic and Avatar both had excellent special effects and deserved there massive success. Both films don't have anything wrong with them and ticked the usual blockbuster boxes, storywise there grand and both build to a satisfying conclusion. Yes Titanics good love story is no Casablanca and Avatar copies the plot from other films but thats life, there both very entertaining first time round.

Hector Bellend

Ardent wrote: »

Wtf? She's possibly the greatest actress of all time.

Great Actress but she is a c**t

Ken.

Star wars, All of them. Finally watched them about a year ago and there is about 22 hours of my life I'll never get back.

rtron

Andy du Fraine

tylercheribini

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Great Actress but she is a c**t

Im sure the majority of "Hollyweird" are quite insufferable in reality, I wouldn't begrudge them a great film performance for it though.

bazz26

Gandhi..

Greyfox

The exorcist and Psycho, both boring films that have not aged well

Duckworth_Luas

Snatch

The only time I've walked out of a cinema.


The Van

I wanted to walk out but was hoping someone would punch Brendan O'Carroll in the face.

Greyfox

Putinbot wrote: »

Star wars, All of them. Finally watched them about a year ago and there is about 22 hours of my life I'll never get back.

Why did you watch them all then? SW the empire strikes back is masterpiece, in 200 years people will still be talking about how great the film is

Sardine

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Things To Do In Vegas when You're Dead.

Except no one ever said that was good. It was sh*te.

dr.fuzzenstein

You people are monsters!
WTF do you like?
I bet everyone on here is a raging Fast and Furious fan.

Sardine

Ardent wrote: »

Wtf? She's possibly the greatest actress of all time.

Can't think of even one film with her in it I've liked

Ken.

Greyfox wrote: »

Why did you watch them all then? SW the empire strikes back is masterpiece, in 200 years people will still be talking about how great the film is

I watched them to watch them finally. I'm pig headed like that. Once I started I suffered on through them all.

tylercheribini

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You people are monsters!
WTF do you like?
I bet everyone on here is a raging Fast and Furious fan.

No doubt fiends for the ever expanding Marvel Universe.

Duckworth_Luas

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You people are monsters!
WTF do you like?
I bet everyone on here is a raging Fast and Furious fan.

I've haven't seen it but I'm sure it's better than Star Wars and that abomination with Richard E Grant.

verycool

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You people are monsters!
WTF do you like?
I bet everyone on here is a raging Fast and Furious fan.

I'm not!


But I do dislike Christopher Nolan movies. Find them quite pretentious... Interstellar, Inception and all his Batman films.



OK, except for Mememto. That was fantastic.

Collie D

The name completely escapes me right now but the one about the Indian guy winning Who Wants to be a Millionaire that won about 400 Oscars.

In its defence I was extremely hungover and just wanted to watch stuff blow up rather than watch a movie that involved any kind of effort or thinking.

Duckworth_Luas

Collie D wrote: »

The name completely escapes me right now but the one about the Indian guy winning Who Wants to be a Millionaire that won about 400 Oscars.

In its defence I was extremely hungover and just wanted to watch stuff blow up rather than watch a movie that involved any kind of effort or thinking.

Was it the one with Richard E Grant, because that was rubbish!

aaronjumper

Good Will Hunting.

appledrop

riemann wrote: »

Schindler's List

So boring.

Fell asleep.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

This is one of the all time best film every made. I watched it about 20 times.

Next you will be saying saying Shawshank Redemption is boring.

Collie D

valoren wrote: »

Titanic.

Particularly as to how James Cameron himself felt compelled to write a piece for the LA Times/throw his toys out of the pram because in-house film critic Kenneth Turan, get this, had the temerity to criticise Titanic.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/28/entertainment/ca-33428

Clearly Turan was just stating the obvious i.e. Titanic was an absolutely terrible film and what sweet vindication it must have been to witness Cameron throwing a narcissistic, hissy fit and inadvertently vindicating Turan's criticisms.

Per him, "it almost makes you weep in frustration" - "lowest common denominator screenplays that condescend to their audience." - "Cameron is not someone to be trusted anywhere near a word processor"

He isn't wrong but Cameron sure didn't like the Titanic bubble getting pricked.

"Titanic" is not a film that is sucking people in with flashy hype and spitting them out onto the street feeling let down and ripped off. They are returning again and again to repeat an experience that is taking a 3-hour and 14-minute chunk out of their lives, and dragging others with them, so they can share the emotion.



So don't ever tell James "I'm the King of the World" Cameron that you think Titanic is crap. You, like the critics, are supposed to say it's good.

When Paul Newman died one of his obituaries wrote that his first film was so bad that he took out newspaper ads begging the public not to see it.

Not sure if it's a Hollywood urban legend but a big risk to take for a guy starting his career and would have no doubt pissed off the producers but for me it enhanced his already likeable persona. I hope it's true.

Sardine

appledrop wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

This is one of the all time best film every made. I watched it about 20 times.

Also thought it was sh*te!

appledrop

All Star Wars films

All woody Allen films

All Quentin Tarantino

You catch my drift certain genre are not my thing.

Revenant-Biggest load of crap + let down ever. I love Leo + 99% of his films. I was so looking forward to this. Silence for most of film apart from his screaming. No thanks.

appledrop

xalot wrote: »

Love Actually, ok not critically acclaimed or anything but people bloody love it. With the exception of Emma Thompson it's a smug fest.

And I'm sorry, the placard scene is not romantic, he's hitting on his best friend's fiance. That's just bad form.

Ah stop love this. Always watch it a few times every year in December in run up to Christmas. So Christmassy!!!!

Greyfox

Collie D wrote: »

The name completely escapes me right now but the one about the Indian guy winning Who Wants to be a Millionaire that won about 400 Oscars.

Yeah Slumdog millionaire, your right it was shi*e

Mister Vain

Yeah slumdog was ****e. So was 12 years of stares.

Akrasia

ET the Extra Terrestrial

It's an oversized dildo on rollerskates

Earleybird

aaronjumper wrote: »

Good Will Hunting.

Get out

Sycamore Tree

Sharknado

Hammer89

Akrasia wrote: »

ET the Extra Terrestrial

It's an oversized dildo on rollerskates

It was a bike.

Greyfox

Sardine wrote: »

Also thought it was sh*te!

Shindlers list is definitely one of the best films ever made and easily the most powerful. It's a film everyone on the planet needs to watch as a lesson on what human beings are capable off, it's so much more than just a film, I reckon this film should be shown to every student in secondary school

verycool

Earleybird wrote: »

Get out

Yeah, didn't really like that either. I mean the premise was great, I think it was just over hyped.

Badly Drunk Boy

appledrop wrote: »

All Star Wars films

All woody Allen films

All Quentin Tarantino

You catch my drift certain genre are not my thing.

Yeah, because Star Wars, Woody Allen films, and Tarantino films are almost identical. :rolleyes:

By the way, I love sci-fi but I never got into Star Wars, although I've only seen the original. Tarantino is very hit-and-miss (usually miss), but Woody Allen's early stuff (especially) was great. But then...

Sardine

Greyfox wrote: »

Shindlers list is definitely one of the best films ever made and easily the most powerful. It's a film everyone on the planet needs to watch as a lesson on what human beings are capable off, it's so much more than just a film, I reckon this film should be shown to every student in secondary school

Yeah well that's just like your opinion man. I thought it was sh*te and I've read enough about history and the Holocaust to know what we're capable of!

Danonino.

Loads of Tom Cruise hate, I’m not a massive fan but recently seen American made and was expecting to hate it. It was very good. Really enjoyed it.

Sycamore Tree

Greyfox wrote: »

Sardine wrote: »

Also thought it was sh*te!

Shindlers list is definitely one of the best films ever made and easily the most powerful. It's a film everyone on the planet needs to watch as a lesson on what human beings are capable off, it's so much more than just a film, I reckon this film should be shown to every student in secondary school

Yep excellent movie. The only colour used was the red coat on the little girl that eventually got killed. Genius.

tylercheribini

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Yep excellent movie. The only colour used was the red coat on the little girl that eventually got killed. Genius.

"Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler’s List’' is about 600 who don’t. Anything else?"

Stanley Kubrick

Greyfox

appledrop wrote: »

All Quentin Tarantino

When it comes to writing film dialogue there's nobody on the planet better than Tarrantino. I've watched Pulp fiction about 100 times and will watch it another 50 times before I die, it really is that good. Samuel L Jackson has been in plenty of bad films and gets away with all these due to how amazing he is in this 1 film. Django unchained is excellent and Kill Bill vol 1 is a masterpiece, the 1 person v 80people fight at the end is the greatest martial arts scene of all time.

MuffinTop86

Don’t know if we’re supposed to like Red Sparrow but it was a creepy, drawn-out, all about nothing mess. Good performance by J-Law though.

Peatys

Danonino. wrote: »

Loads of Tom Cruise hate, I’m not a massive fan but recently seen American made and was expecting to hate it. It was very good. Really enjoyed it.

Really? Flicked past it a few times and couldn't see how they'd make a decent film out of it, but I'll give it a go, cheers.

Firblog

Killing them softly
A place beyond the pines
Drive

tylercheribini

Greyfox wrote: »

When it comes to writing film dialogue there's nobody on the planet better than Tarrantino. I've watched Pulp fiction about 100 times and will watch it another 50 times before I die, it really is that good. Samuel L Jackson has been in plenty of bad films and gets away with all these due to how amazing he is in this 1 film. Django unchained is excellent and Kill Bill vol 1 is a masterpiece, the 1 person v 80people fight at the end is the greatest martial arts scene of all time.

Pulp Fiction was co written with Roger Avary.

Autosport

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You people are monsters!
WTF do you like?
I bet everyone on here is a raging Fast and Furious fan.

I'm a raging Fast and Furious fan so don't be putting them down :P I'll come after you Dr

Greyfox

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Yep excellent movie. The only colour used was the red coat on the little girl that eventually got killed. Genius.

Yeah amazing scene, theres so much going on around the girl. The actress who played the little girl promised to wait till she was 18 before watching the film, she didnt wait and was traumatised from watching the film but she watched the film again years later and then she fully appreciated what a great scene it was

Greyfox

tylercheribini wrote: »

"Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler’s List’' is about 600 who don’t. Anything else?"

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley sounds like a jealous man

Danonino.

Peatys wrote: »

Really? Flicked past it a few times and couldn't see how they'd make a decent film out of it, but I'll give it a go, cheers.

If you hate it, it wasn’t me ha ha
It was surprisingly good though.

Greyfox

tylercheribini wrote: »

Pulp Fiction was co written with Roger Avary.

Yep, thats correct, sadly I always forget to give him any credit

tylercheribini

Greyfox wrote: »

Stanley sounds like a jealous man

They arent even in the same league as each other, watch or read any of Spielbergs thoughts on Kubrick to confirm this.

Let's resurrect that great film guessing thread! Remember the one from about two years ago? That was great craic. Must have a search for it.

dresden8

quickbeam wrote: »

You need to see Dog Day Afternoon.

There's quiet thoughtful Pacino and loud as fnck and annoying Pacino.

Quiet and thoughtful Pacino is a fncking superstar.

Loud as fnck and annoying Pacino is just annoying.