Controversial movie opinions

[Serious Callers Only]

The way to make the star wars 3 prequel movie better is to watch the backstroke of the west version!

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"I was just made by the Presbyterian Church."

[Galactus]

Hmmm, I usually don't like sports movies, but going to have to agree with boxing.

Also, the only golf movie I've seen is "Den ofrivillige golfaren" and I doubt that counts.

[Zap Rowsdower]

Sylvester Stallone's movie Oscar is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

There's some peculiar about that movie. The first time I watched I thought it was horrible. But then years later I caught it on TV and I found myself enjoying it immensely. Then a few years later I watched it again and I found it hysterical, and I was loving every second of the film and seriously asking myself why Sly Stallone didn't do more comedy films.

The other other movie that has had a similar effect on me was Blues Brothers 2000 which I found increasingly funny on subsequent viewings.

I don't know how to really explain it. I've just put it down to my increasing dementia as I grow older.

[Not another Stark]

Sylvester Stallone's movie Oscar is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

It was a remake of one of the numerous cheesy French attempts at comedies that have been made in the 2nd half of 20th century.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly is the best western ever.

Quoted for truth

All movies based on Stephen King novels are total crap. (Somehow many of the short story ones are good, go figure)

Not Dead Zone - though often we get jokes like It and Tommyknockers.

[drawkcabi]

Nope, you're wrong. Clint Eastwood > Yul Brynner

No argument there, and I think the theme for TGTBATU is fantastic, all I'm saying is

Elmer Bernstein score > Ennio Morricone score

[Week]

I like very few Baseball movies I've seen and most are shite.

Major League and Bull Durham are great...For the love of the game is enjoyable but not quite in the same tier.

How about bowling movies? Kingpin is pure gold.

[Bazzlebane]

Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Cobourn ...... I'll take the Seven and kick the asses of you and any number of so-called badasses from ALL of those spaghetti westerns.

Except Charles Bronson was the badass in maybe the best spaghetti westerns...Once Upon a Time in the West.

Your tired dismissal of Italian westerns went out of date 30 years ago. Critics and historians now acknowledge they are among the greatest and most influential films in history.

[Ixodes]

2001 is a very, very boring movie. I never liked any movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Aliens is the greatest sci-fi movie ever.

The only thing I can add to this thread is that Clint Eastwood passes chunks of Yul Brenner is his stool. That's right. In his stool.

[maize]

If you are amazed by Breakfast at Tiffany's, you must have a fully-functioning Mickey Rooney filter. He spoils what would otherwise be a very enjoyable film.

But it is no Roman Holiday. Not even close.

I agree his role was extremely wrong, but seemingly everyone involved in the film regrets it, so I'll give it a pass. Sort of.

And I thought 'Roman Holiday' was one of the most boring 'classics' I ever watched. Hepburn looks like a dumb doe-eyed retard the entire movie. I guess that was the point though.

King Arthur had the longest, most drawn out, anti-climatic, lifeless, boring, and dumb action scenes I've ever seen in a major epic. Alexander had redeeming value. This didn't.

Yep. Near naked women slugging it out with brutish Scotsmen says it all.

The Island - I don't see all the Michael Bay hate. Sure his signature shots stand out and the explosions are big, but these are the movies where you sit with a bowl of popcorn and grin. Brain is optional. There are plenty of other heavier themed movies to make you think.

All I remember is that the theme song 'My name is Lincoln' was way too good to be wasted in that ending sequence. It is on par with the 'Gladiator' and LOTR theme songs IMO.

Other thoughts that come to mind.

• May I never have to sit through 'When Harry met Sally' ever again. I guess most guys agree as well though.
  

• Never understood the hype for 'Requiem for a Dream'. That movie was painful and boring to watch.
  

• And what exactly is that great about 'Pulp Fiction'? Other than that Samuel L. Jackson restaurant scene, and the Uma/Travolta twist, the whole movie was mindless weirdness.
  

[SwordoftheMorning]

Driving the hearse to the cemetary was like watching armadillos fuck ie, something Id rather not watch. Ever.

Showing that you have no taste for the building up of tension and plot isnt a positive.

Tuco was a dirty fuck, and superior in character. You can't even remember the name of the villain in the Seven.

His name was Calvara (sp.) and no, I didn't have to goggle it.

Fuck that blacksploitation shit! Might as well tell me that Foxy Brown has the best casting ever.

As Tarantino proved in Jackie Brown, Pam Grier was, is and alway will be a goddess.

And Shaft was PRE-Blaxplotation. It was in fact the major release that save United Artists from bankruptcy at the time. That Hollywood jumped on the bandwagon and pumped out dozens of shit movies over then next few years doesn't detract from it, and the pure genius of Issac Hayes's music.

[drawkcabi]

You're still wrong.

Whatever. Indiana Jones has the best theme music of all time in any case.

[maize]

The ending of Return of the King was not too long, in fact it was too short.

Blasphemy. A truly controversial opinion.

[EHK for Darwin]

No, this movie was the quintessential classic of this millennium.

I'm looking for a sarcasm tag somewhere on this. King Kong was 150% excess and pure sensory overload. Just a bloated behemoth of unnecessary action sequences, monster after giant monster, and drawn out filler. PJ showed these tendencies as early as the Twin Towers (added the warg scene not because it was essential to the story, appeared in the book, or because it was thematically effective...but because he had this cool idea for the look of wargs) and its only gotten worse in later films. King Kong is a PRIME example of why its not always a good idea to give talented people all the freedom they want.

Were some sequences pretty damned good? Sure. But it was just too damned much. Super-raptors? ok. Stampede of supersized brontosaurus's? Why not. Super-raptors attacking the giant brontos, driving them down a cliff where they tumble into a GINORMOUS mass of gelatinous cellulite, thousands of tons of blubber cascading all over itself as the tiny lil humans desperately scurry away, evading pancakedom by mere luck every 2 seconds of the mass CGI orgie? Just a tad much.

Add in a 3 hour runtime for a remake of an 80 minute film and you have AT LEAST an hour of extremely over the top, unnecessary, gratuitous Cgi porn.

[EHK for Darwin]

ETA: EHK, I was definitely kidding. That movie made me throw up in my mouth.

Bah...dick. You made me write all that for nothing!! Its on bitch!

[koudoulis]

ET is the most boring movie ever .

i pathologically hate Samuel Jackson.

Owen Wilson is the funniest hollywood actor presently.

[Greywolf2375]

Will Ferrell should never be allowed to lead a movie, bit parts like in Austin Powers he is good at, but leading man he is atrocious

(disclaimer - i do not watch movies to think, I watch them to be entertained, though there are exceptions like Memento)

I enjoyed the SW prequels, but the hokie trying to tie everything we ever saw in the original three into these was too much. And casting Jake Lloyd as the first Anakin was an abortion of intellect.

aside from the comic book movies, the Ran/Kurosawa comment & LOTR trliogy, what Sword said pretty much...atleast for those movies...

[SwordoftheMorning]

And if it was Pam Grier and Liv Tyler, which would you pick?

ummmm, dude, think about who you are asking this question too ....

I beat off to Pam Grier's pics more times than you could count as a horny teenager, who many times have you beat off to Liv Tyler ? none, thats what I thought. LOL

Liv Tyler is a cute chick and she was damn hot in One Night at McCool's but she will never be a goddess.

No Damn negotiating. That you would even offer proves that you are recognizing the weakness of your position ...... (damn, I think I'd starting to sound like a certain member whose initials are OS").

I'm right, you are wrong. Admit it and netflix The Magnificent Seven to watch in the proper venue. Thats either alone while the wife is out shopping or with a group of buds so you can enjoy the movie as its suppose to be viewed!

ETA: The greatest speech in the history of film was delivered by the president as they loaded on to the shuttles to go blow up the killer asteroid in ......... yes. Armageddon!"

[naz]

Adding to my list:

• I hate John Wayne and all his movies
  
• I didn't see what was the big deal with V for Vendetta. I hated it. And I was shocked in the ensuing weeks when I saw people whose opinion I otherwise respected say they loved it. Why? I can't understand it... because it had some cool alliteration? It sucked. Also, Natalie Portman should never have a non-American accent in any movie anywhere. Period.
  

What suprises me about this thread (on this board in particular) is how much it's become like a typical IMBD board. "You're wrong!" "This movie blows!" "That movie was a steaming pile of turds!" Jeez, people... lighten up.

[SwordoftheMorning]

Adding to my list:

• I hate John Wayne and all his movies
  
• I didn't see what was the big deal with V for Vendetta. I hated it. And I was shocked in the ensuing weeks when I saw people whose opinion I otherwise respected say they loved it. Why? I can't understand it... because it had some cool alliteration? It sucked. Also, Natalie Portman should never have a non-American accent in any movie anywhere. Period.
  

What suprises me about this thread (on this board in particular) is how much it's become like a typical IMBD board. "You're wrong!" "This movie blows!" "That movie was a steaming pile of turds!" Jeez, people... lighten up.

We don't actually do this often Naz, But its getting damn funny in here at the moment. The difference on the IMDB boards is those people are really really serious. While Coco is dead wrong on ALL his assertions, we are still keeping it light. LOL

[EHK for Darwin]

The Royal Tenenbaums made me want to kill myself.

Seems that there's room for common ground with everyone these days. Truth.

Jackie Brown was another abomination of excess with an otherwise talented director being given WAY too much of a free hand. In Quentin's case, we'll add the super-inflated ego that no doubt rushed to his head in the aftermath of Pulp Fiction's success. Needed fishhooks in my eyelids and constant eyedrops, Clockwork Orange Style, to keep watching this mess. Same scenes from different perspectives, cool idea. We do not need to see the ENTIRE scene reshot. And it might help if those differing perspectives actually show us anything interesting. Easily an hour longer than it needed to be. And without a doubt the most forgettable film Tarrantino ever made.

Love em or hate em, people still talk about various scenes, characters, and dialog from Resevoir, Pulp, Kill Bill (not sure on the newest ones, too recent)...noone talks about Jackie Brown.