fillums you cannot stand and feel a few hours of your life have been wasted
(edit) but others adore:
The Big Lebowski
Pillow Book (okay, that's a give)
Phonebooth
Being John Malkovitch
Moulin Rouge
Total Recall (CGI was in its infancy)
anything by Derek Jarman
Dazed and Confused
over to you...
Marmiteâ„¢ Movies - Donnie Drecko etc.
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The Big Lebowski???
You disappoint us, big man. The rest we are in total agreement with, but........
You disappoint us, big man. The rest we are in total agreement with, but........
The Lord of the Rings
The Blues Brothers
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Have not bothered with the Third
Batman Returns
Solaris (anything by Tarkovsky)
Jules et Jim (anything by Truffaut)
The Shipping News
Anything by Pedro Almodovar
Etc Etc
The Blues Brothers
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Have not bothered with the Third
Batman Returns
Solaris (anything by Tarkovsky)
Jules et Jim (anything by Truffaut)
The Shipping News
Anything by Pedro Almodovar
Etc Etc
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abridged wrote:The Lord of the Rings
The Blues Brothers
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Have not bothered with the Third
Batman Returns
Solaris (anything by Tarkovsky)
Jules et Jim (anything by Truffaut)
The Shipping News
Anything by Pedro Almodovar
Etc Etc
I'd add all of those as well minus Godfathers and first LOTR
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hence the Marmiteâ„¢ bit of the title, I've yet to meet someone who quite likes/hates it25men wrote:The Big Lebowski???
I just find it dull and unresolved
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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The Big etc is just silly. And now that I remember Withnail and I should be added...
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"I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze"
how can a person deny a fillum with a line like that in it?
further proof:
"We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now"
I really could go on but I'll let fiendy take up the cudgle
how can a person deny a fillum with a line like that in it?
further proof:
"We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now"
I really could go on but I'll let fiendy take up the cudgle
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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I'm probably stepping out of a closet here, but I have to say The Matrix.
Yes yes, I know, the special effects were pretty neat-o (leaving aside the way bullets fired from a handgun were seen to be spinning in a very un-handgun-bullet-like way, but I'm a bit of a nerd like that), but the story, the acting, the plot, and generally pretty much everything was utter utter pish.
Also Closure (aka Straighhtheads) - Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer (him out of Human Traffic), more total and unadulterated pony.
Give My Regards to Broad Street was lifted only by being double-billed with Rupert and the Frog Song - both films complete and utter w@nk, but at least in Rupert you only had to hear Macca's voice rather than seeing his face.
Yes yes, I know, the special effects were pretty neat-o (leaving aside the way bullets fired from a handgun were seen to be spinning in a very un-handgun-bullet-like way, but I'm a bit of a nerd like that), but the story, the acting, the plot, and generally pretty much everything was utter utter pish.
Also Closure (aka Straighhtheads) - Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer (him out of Human Traffic), more total and unadulterated pony.
Give My Regards to Broad Street was lifted only by being double-billed with Rupert and the Frog Song - both films complete and utter w@nk, but at least in Rupert you only had to hear Macca's voice rather than seeing his face.
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Just like most of our lives.James Blast wrote:hence the Marmiteâ„¢ bit of the title, I've yet to meet someone who quite likes/hates it25men wrote:The Big Lebowski???
I just find it dull and unresolved
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I suspect you have to be American to truly appreciate this flick...25men wrote:Just like most of our lives.James Blast wrote:hence the Marmiteâ„¢ bit of the title, I've yet to meet someone who quite likes/hates it25men wrote:The Big Lebowski???
I just find it dull and unresolved
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Raging Bullsh*t.
Anything Woody Allen.
Also not too fond of Mafia/gangster movies, but Once Upon A Time In America remains sheer genius.
Anything Woody Allen.
Also not too fond of Mafia/gangster movies, but Once Upon A Time In America remains sheer genius.
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The Royal Tennenbaums. Depressing as all hell. Why would someone find that funny? It's just very, very sad.
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The first one that comes to mind is Dirty Dancing All my female friends were aghast that I hadn't seen this "film" So I resolved to watch it and see what all the fuss was about. I wish I hadn't bothered. Utterly dull and Patrick Swayze's face freaks me out. He's just...wrong.
I caused a similar shocked reaction at work today by revealing that I haven't seen a single Rocky film.
I caused a similar shocked reaction at work today by revealing that I haven't seen a single Rocky film.
Captain Ahab rushed in, his craziness all unzipped......
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Let's go for the other side of Marmite too, eh? I'm quite shamelessly fond of Judge Dredd. Utter nonsense and a travestry so far as the source material is concerned, but enjoyable enough hokum all the same.
Waterworld's another I like. (I'm shallow like that - badoom-tssshhhh)
Waterworld's another I like. (I'm shallow like that - badoom-tssshhhh)
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Oooooooohhh yeah - one of my all-time favourites as well.Nadia81 wrote:Flipside-I was the only person in the theatre laughing at the William of Orange jokes in The Draughtsmans Contract .Brilliant film.
As for rubbish: Branagh's Henry V. I realise I might not have a lot of company in my opinion, but I thought it reeked.
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Batman & Robin
The Hours
Judge Dread
Jaws 2 through to however many tripe sequels they have churned out thus far.
The remake of The Italian Job
Omen IV
The Hours
Judge Dread
Jaws 2 through to however many tripe sequels they have churned out thus far.
The remake of The Italian Job
Omen IV
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"There will be blood" - The most tedious film in the history of the universe.
Oh, and... "The man who cried". Hated it. A lot.
Oh, and... "The man who cried". Hated it. A lot.
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I also quite liked the Dredd movie (rumour has it another one is in the pipeline) but the backlash against the film almost put the comic out of business apparently.
I was one of maybe 17 people in the world that saw Ishtar at the cinema. And enjoyed it .
I'll agree that The Matrix was overhyped tosh.
Withnail is a pure piece of cinematic genius, anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. Fact.
Edit: Oh and mrs fiend shares your opinion of Dirty Dancing Honeythorn. Personally, I think Swayze's character was lucky not to be done as a kiddie-fiddler
I was one of maybe 17 people in the world that saw Ishtar at the cinema. And enjoyed it .
I'll agree that The Matrix was overhyped tosh.
Withnail is a pure piece of cinematic genius, anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. Fact.
Edit: Oh and mrs fiend shares your opinion of Dirty Dancing Honeythorn. Personally, I think Swayze's character was lucky not to be done as a kiddie-fiddler
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I liked Space Balls. (walk of shame.....)
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Nope. Have to stick to me guns. Withnail is drivel no matter how many times it's given away in the Sunday papers. Pistols at Dawn?!
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